Courtney’s Reading List

Reading inspires my writing, fuels my creativity and sometimes helps me escape for a bit. What are you reading right now?

Currently Reading:  Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

 

Fiction

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond

No One You Know by Michelle Richmond

In Leah’s Wake by Terri Giuliano Long

While I Was Gone by Sue Miller

She’s Come Undone  by Wally Lamb

The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession by Paulo Coelho

Sarah’s Key  by Tatiana de Rosnay

Cross Roads by Wm Paul Young

 

Non-fiction

On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life by Priscilla Warner

Tiny Buddha, Simple Wisdom for Life’s Hard Questions by Lori Deschene

The Flinch by Julien Smith

The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction by David Sheff

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

Enjoy Every Sandwich: Living Each Day as If It Were Your Last by Lee Lipsenthal M.D.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield

Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance by Jonathan Fields

The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

Do the Work by Steven Pressfield

Miracle for Jen by Linda Barrick

Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas, and Found Happiness by Dominique Browning

Last Words by George Carlin

Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life by Gretchen Rubin

You Can Buy Happiness (and It’s Cheap): How One Woman Radically Simplified Her Life and How You Can Too by Tammy Strobel

No Place Like Home: A Memoir in 39 Apartments by Brooke Berman

 

 

My Books

Reading helps me write. Books give me ideas, teach me new words, and inform my writing. I wrote the following books and they are available on my website in different formats or through Amazon for Kindle. You don’t need a Kindle to read Kindle books. They can be read using the Free Kindle Reader App for your Web Browser, PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, or Android.

Simple Ways to Be more with Less

Living in the Land of Enough

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