
Grief, Trauma and Post Trauma
- What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo *This book is fabulous, the first half describes intense abuse and may be triggering
- Crying In H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
- The Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
- What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry *A textbook style guide to trauma’s affect on mind and body
- No Happy Endings: A Memoir by Nora McInerny
- Bad Vibes Only: (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) by Nora McInerny
- My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay Gibson
- The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole by Arielle Schwartz
- Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations With a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley
LGBTQAI+
- Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
- Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
- Fun Home: A Family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Resilience and Inspiration
- The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Relationship
- The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert by John M. Gottman and Nan Silver
- Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship by Terrence Real
- Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child the Heart of Parenting by John Gottman and Joan Declaire
- Transforming the Difficult Child – The Nurtured Heart Approach and workbook by Howard Glasser and Jennifer Easley a really interesting book on parent-child interactions and how to transform them
Other
- The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships and Other Adventures by Janet W. Hardy
- Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships by Tristan Taormino
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin
- Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron
- How We Live Is How We Die by Pema Chodron
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