This page will include lists, and hopefully reviews, of books that I have read and loved! The content will vary from poetry collections, memoirs, novels, essays, and fiction.
“I have hated words, and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
Poetry Collections (!!!)
Spring and All by William Carlos Williams
A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
Dog Songs by Mary Oliver
Forever Words by Johnny Cash
Cape Verdean Blues by Shauna Barbosa
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Basho
Urban Tumbleweeds by Harryette Mullen
Collected Poems by Robert Lowell
Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters by Morgan Harper Nichols
Bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Memoirs / Biographies / Nonfiction Books
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan
The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Tweak by Nic Sheff
Going Solo by Roald Dahl
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
A Prayer Journal by Flannery O’Connor