My Favorite Things

Always a work in progress!

Books

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
• Girl With the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
• White Oleander by Janet Fitch
• The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Sphere by Michael Crichton

Movies

• Lars and the Real Girl
• Black Swan
• Gravity
• The Station Agent
• The Visitor
• Lost in Translation
• Igby Goes Down
• Independence Day
• Elephant

Non-fiction

• Smart Moves by Carla Hannaford
• When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön
• Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
• Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality by Brad Warner
• The Reluctant Empath by Bety Comerford & Steven P. Wilson
• Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
• *Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
• **Blue Jean Buddha: Voices of Young Buddhists by Sumi Loundon (ed.)

*I love anything Anne Lamott writes. She has yet to disappoint me.

**This book was given to me by my Godmother when I was going through a Rough Time. I didn’t read it right away, but when I finally did, it was life-changing.