Life Composition

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Nerissa Recommends:

WRITING

Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

NOVELS

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Feodor Dostoyevski, The Brothers Karamazov

Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

Wallace Stegner, All the Little Live Things

Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Marilynn Robinson, Gilead

Arundhati Roy, The God Of Small Things

MEMOIR AND OTHER NON-FICTION

Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty

Bob Dylan, Chronicles

SPIRITUAL

Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace is Every Step

Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are

JK-Z, Full Catastrophe Living

Marcus Borg, The God We Never Knew

Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies

Arinna Weisman, The Beginner's Guide to Insight Meditation

Jack Kornfield, A Path With Heart

LIFE COACH-Y

Martha Beck, Finding Your North Star

Martha Beck, The Joy Diet

David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity

Byron Katie, Loving What Is

Cheri Huber, Be the Person You Want to Find

Steven Forrest, The Inner Sky (astrology)