Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Life is unfair, and sometimes it helps to irrationally blame someone for it.
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
The relentless overload that’s wearing us down is generated by a belief that “good” work requires increasing busyness—faster responses to email and chats, more meetings, more tasks, more hours.
The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma by Soraya Chemaly
The key to using optimism to enhance resilience is in rejecting black-and-white, either/or thinking. Resilient people use both optimism and pessimism strategically to gain the critical insights and information they need to adjust to change.
Goddess of the River by Vaishnavi Patel
I did not know when humans pray for nature, they pray for something to control.
Daughter from the Dark by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
Creativity is only possible in an imperfect world. In a perfect, complete world it is not possible at all.
Cultures of Growth: How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations by Mary C. Murphy
Companies are often faced with a predicament about whether to play it safe and maximize their resources (known as exploitation) or look to new products, areas, or partnerships for growth (known as exploration).
Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Bad things happen when white people discover the gifts of brown women.
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. Listen to me. I am your echo. I would rather break the world than lose you.
The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson
The plot hadn’t really got going yet - a lot of backstory - but something exciting was going to happen soon. It had to: the title promised it.
The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings
My father told me once it wasn’t true that people get more conservative over time; he said they just get tired and it’s easy when you’re tired to be agreeable.
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel
Crime works best, he says, not with overpowering force but when nobody knows it’s being committed.
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
When something bad is actually happening, it's easy to underreact, because a part of you is wired to assume it isn't real. When you stop underreacting, the horror is unique because it is, unfortunately, endless.
The Forest Brims Over by Maru Ayase
Because it felt feminine to put emotion before rationality, to fall madly in love, to surrender one’s own existence to support a man.
The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell
We’re living in what they call the ‘information age,’ but life only seems to be making less sense. We’re isolated, listless, burnt out on screens, cutting loved ones out like tumors in the spirit of “boundaries,” failing to understand other people’s choices or even our own.
The Hemlock Queen by Hannah Whitten
Don’t let him make His own selfishness someone else’s burden to bear.
Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly
A “no-nonsense” woman is “cold,” “bitchy,” and disliked. If she expresses frustration or anger at being treated unfairly, or even asks for help, she is considered less competent and less deserving of pay or reward.
The Dragon Reborn (Wheel of Time Book 3) by Robert Jordan
The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.