Reading/Audio Books*
2023
The Joy Luck Club. Amy Tan
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer. Fredrik Backman
Stumbling on Happiness. Daniel Gilbert*
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. Lori Gottlieb*
After: The Obligation of Beauty. Mindy Weisel
What Happened to You: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing. Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfery
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaim Yourself. Nedra Tawwab*
On Transience. Sigmund Freud. (Short essay)
The Power of Vulnerability. Brené Brown*
2022
The Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband. Oscar Wilde
Crying in H Mart. Michelle Zauner
Another Brooklyn. Jacqueline Woodson
Life. Lu Yao
Sundays in August: A Novel. Patrick Modiano
Crying in H Mart. Michelle Zauner
Somebody's Daughter. Ashley C. Ford
2021
The Gifts of Imperfection. Brene Brown
Beautiful World, Where are you. Sally Rooney
Hillbilly Elegy. J. D. Vance
The Audacity of Hope. Barack Obama
Red at the Bone. Jacqueline Woodson
Writers & Lovers. Lily King
The Deal of a Lifetime. Fredrik Backman
The Midnight Library. Matt Haig
People we Meet on Vacation. Emily Henry
Head over Heels. Hannah Orenstein
Beach Read. Emily Henry
2020
Educated. Tara Westover
The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
Persuasion. Jane Austen
Conversations with Friends. Sally Rooney
Normal People. Sally Rooney
2019
碎片 青山七惠
一个人的好天气 青山七惠
鸫 吉本芭娜娜
The Five People you Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World. Melinda Gates
Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose. Joe Biden
Becoming. Michelle Obama
2018 and prior
The Traveling Cat Chronicles. Hiro Arikawa
The Alchemist. Paulo Coelho
The Namesake. Jhumpa Lahiri
Miguel Street. V. S. Naipaul
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood. Trevor Noah
The House on Mango Street. Sandra Cisneros
A Man Called Ove. Fredrik Backman
The Best American Travel Writing 2011. Sloane Crosley (ed.)
The Best American Travel Writing 2015. Elizabeth Gilbert (ed.)
Everything I Never Told You. Celeste Ng
Night. Dawn. Day. Elie Wiesel
Amusing Ourselves to Death. Neil Postman
The Year of Magical Thinking. Joan Didion
When Breath Becomes Air. Paul Kalanithi
Stories of Your Life and Others. Ted Chiang
The Elegance of the Hedgehog. Muriel Barbery
Little Bee. Chris Cleave
The Hunger Games. Catching Frie. Mocking jay. Suzanne Collins
All the Light we Cannot See. Anthony Doerr
The Signature of All Things. Elizabeth Gilbert
84, Charing Cross Road. Helene Hanff
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage. Elizabeth Gilbert
Tuesdays with Morrie. Mitch Albom
Eat, Pray, Love. Elizabeth Gilbert
Stardust. Neil Gaiman
House of Cards. To Play the King. The Final Cut. Michael Cobbs
To Live. Yu Hua
A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary. Alain de Botton
Memoirs of a Geisha. Arthur Golden
The Little Prince. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Fault in our Stars. John Green
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