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