“If you make the choice of reading classic literature every day for a year, rather than reading the news, by the end of that time period you’ll have a more honed sensitivity for recognizing greatness from the books than from the media. This applies to every choice we make. Not just with art, but with friends we choose, the conversations we have, even the thoughts we reflect on. All of these aspects affect our ability to distinguish good from very good, very good from great. They help us determine what’s worthy of our time and attention.”
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Over the last year as I’ve listened to podcasts and researched books that have similar themes to the ones I am writing, I have noted the titles and decided to compile a list in case you have similar reading taste to me.
I’ve made it my goal to intentionally work my way through the list this year (or at least make a dent in it).
I use my Libby App a lot for audio books, but I am also ordering hard copies as I can from Amazon and Thrift Books.
Thrift Books has great deals on used books and gives perks to Teachers. If you aren’t a teacher, they also have a rewards program that I earn free books with all of the time. You can sign up and if you make a qualifying purchase using this link, we both get a free book.
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Happy Reading!
Emily
**Currently Reading
Parenting
• Age of Opportunity
Writing Craft Books
• Blue Print for a Memoir
• First 5 Pages
• What About Baby?
• Save the Cat YA
• Anatomy of Story
• Jab Jab Right Hook
Art Books
• Monet’s Garden Through the Seasons
• Ways of Seeing
• Hockney a Chronology
• Art for the Soul
• Let There Be Art
Personal Growth
• Wabi Sabi, Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
• Hidden Potential
• The Pivot Year
• Peace as a Practice **
• Wired to Create
• Mini Habits
• Atomic Habits
• 101 Essays that Will Change the Way You Think **
• The Tools
• Quiet
• The Comfort Book
• Wintering
Research for My Fiction Novel (Reading to learn to write dialogue)
• Firefly Lane
• Someday, Someday Maybe
• Baby and Solo
• Meant to Be
• Romantic Comedy
• Five Star Weekend
• Best Summer Ever
•Georgie All Along
•Waiting on Tom Hanks **
• Beach Read
• Happy Place
• Coyote Sunrise
• The Startup Wife
• Maybe Next Time **
• August and Everything After
• Love the One You’re With
• Paperback Crush
• 1996
• Whimsy, a Novella
• This Could Be Everything
• Big Girl, a Novel
• Finding Dorothy
• Love Unscripted
• Just My Type
• Not Like the Movies **
Research for Memoir
• Have I Told You This Already?
• Our Town
• Mother’s Guide to the Meaning of Life
• Grief is Love
• This Homeward Ache
• Films of Endearment
• The Stories We Live
Create Everyday 
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