Rachel Baila
Rachel Baila

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Books!

Here are some of my favorites in various categories. Anything I’ve listed here, I fully stand behind and have read at some point in the past few years.

creativity:

  • around the writer’s block (Roseanne Bane)

  • art & fear (David Bayles & Ted Orland)

  • writing down the bones (Natalie Goldberg)

  • bird by bird (Ann lamott)

  • the artist’s way (Julia cameron)

  • big magic (elizabeth gilbert)

  • steal like an artist (austin kleon)

  • the poet’s companion (kim addonizio & dorianne laux)

  • the writing life (annie dilliard)

  • manage your day-to-day: build your routine, find your focus & sharpen your creative mind (99u)

  • the creative habit (TWYLA THARP)

  • find your artistic voice (LISA CONGDON)

  • Get Unstuck: creative block (danielle krysa)

  • Art, inc. (lisa congdon)

  • Brave intuitive painting (flora bowley)

  • creative revolution (flora bowley)

  • creative confidence (tom kelley & david kelley)

  • give yourself margin (stacie bloomfield)

self-help & spiritual:

  • way to god (MK Gahndi)

  • you are a badass (jen sincero)

  • perennial seller (ryan holliday)

  • do less (kate northrup)

  • mystical world, material girl (ruby warrington)

  • the reluctant healer (david elliott)

  • healing (david elliott)

  • shakti rising (Kavitha M chinnaiyan, md)

  • elemental energy (kristin petrovich)

  • whole beauty (shiva rose)

  • wtf is tarot (bakara wintner)

  • the creative tarot (jessa crispin)

  • THE ALCHEMIST (PABLO COELHO)

fiction:

  • the goldfinch (Donna Tartt)

  • the last witness (glenn meade)

  • bee season (myla goldberg)

  • the gilded chamber (rebecca kohn)

  • house of gold (natasha solomons)

  • beloved (toni morrison)

  • one hundred years of solitude (gabriel garcia marquez)

  • davita’s harp (chaim potok)

  • the handmaid’s tale (margaret atwood)

  • the time traveler’s wife (audrey niffenegger)

  • drown (junot diaz)

  • delilah (angela hunt)

  • z (therese ann fowler)

  • the witch of portobello (paulo coelho)

  • AMERICAN GODS (NEIL GAIMAN)

  • day after night (anita diamont)

  • the oracle of stamboul (michael david lukas)

  • the essex serpent (sarah perry)

non-fiction & memoir

  • traveling mercies (ann lamott)

  • bettyville (george hodgman)

  • all tomorrow’s parties (george spillman)

  • playground: a childhood lost inside the playboy mansion (jennifer saginor)

  • jesus land (julia scheeres)

  • letters to my daughter (maya angelou)

  • savage inequalities: children in america’s schools (jonathan kozol)

  • lies my teacher told me (james loewen)

  • tiny beautiful things (cheryl strayed)

  • on tyranny (timothy snyder)

  • reckless (chrissie hynde)

poetry & short story collections

  • what matters most is how well you walk through the fire (charles bukowski)

  • bone (yrsa daley-ward)

  • uncollected poems (rainer maria rilke)

  • after (jane hirshfield)

  • salt (nayyirah waheed)

  • 100 selected poems (ee cummings)

  • the colossus (sylvia plath)

  • selected poetry of yehuda amachi

  • prophecies of love (kahlil gibram)

  • BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2019