Here's what I've been feasting on this year. Recommendations are always welcome.
2012
Good to Great by Jim Collins
*Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky
Spunk and Bite by Arthur Plotnik
Leading Change by John Kotter
*Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin
*Talent is Overrated by Geoffrey Colvin
Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
The Forest for the Trees by Betsy Lerner
The Charge by Brendan Burchard
*Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Tales From the Yoga Studio by Rain Mitchell
Buy In by John Kotter
Some Assembly Required by Anne Lamott and Sam Lamott
Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Plot and Structure by James Scott Bell
*Find Your Strongest Life by Marcus Buckingham
Paris I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down by Rosecrans Baldwin
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
The Now Habit by Neil Fiore
*Bringing Up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman
*The Accidental Creative by Todd Henry
Tribes by Seth Godin
Londoners by Craig Taylor
MWF Seeking BFF by Rachel Bertsche
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Paris, My Sweet by Amy Thomas
Still by Lauren Winner
Live Raw by Mimi Kirk
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
*The Education of Millionaires by Michael Ellsberg
Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut by Jill Kargman
Planting Dandelions by Kyran Pittman
My Korean Deli by Ben Ryder Howe
My Year With Eleanor by Noelle Hancock
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Crazy, Sexy Diet by Kris Carr
*The E-Myth Revisted by Michael Gerber
Brandraising by Sarah Durham
Super Natural Everyday by Heidi Swanson
Mandie and her Missing Kin by Lois Glady Leppard
Rest by Keri Wyatt Kent
2011
Surprised by Oxford by Carolyn Weber
Big in China by Alan Paul
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The Raw Food Detox Diet by Natalia Rose
Boundaries by Henry Cloud
Lucid Food by Louisa Shafia
Clean by Alejandro Junger
Eating for Beginners: An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid
Unclutter Your Life in One Week by Erin Rooney Doland
Making All Things New by Henri Nouwen
Accidental Genius by Mark Levy
Tout Sweet by Karen Wheeler
My Father's Daughter by Gwyneth Paltrow
Ani's Raw Food Essentials by Ani Phyo
Ignore Everyone And 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod
The Autobiographer's Handbook: The 826 National Guide to Writing Your Memoir edited by Jennifer Traig
How to Love and American Man by Kristine Gasbarre
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Raised Right by Alyssa Harris
Sol Stein's Reference Book for Writers by Sol Stein
How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley
Poser: My Life In Twenty-Three Yoga Poses by Claire Dederer
Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas and Found Happiness by Dominique Browning
Japan Took the J.A.P. Out of Me by Lisa Fineberg Cook (It's better than the title suggests, I swear)
This Is Not The Story You Think It Is by Laura Munson
Forgetting English by Midge Raymond
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
It Sucked and Then I Cried by Heather B. Armstrong
Jesus Freak by Sara Miles
I Love Yous are for White People by Lac Su
The Weekend Novelist by Robert Ray
The World is Bigger Now by Euna Lee
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Mentor by Tom Grimes
Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
A Secret Gift by Ted Gup
The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
The Butcher and the Vegetarian by Tara Austin Weaver
Almost French by Sarah Turnbull
Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House by Meghan Daum
The Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British by Sarah Lyall
The Art of Non-Conformity by Chris Guillebeau
The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke by Suze Orman
The Power of Less by Leo Babauta
Financial Peace Revisited by Dave Ramsey
Fair Shares for All by John Haney
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
2010
Memoir
I'm Down by Mishna Wolff
Down & Out in Paris & London by George Orwell
Secret Histories: Finding George Orwell in a Burmese Teashop by Emma Larkin
Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
Among Flowers by Jamaica Kincaid
Under the Osakan Sun by Hamish Beaton
Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Don Miller
Evolving in Monkey Town by Rachel Held Evans
Lunch in Paris by Elizabeth Bard
Bittersweet by Shauna Niequist
At Home in Japan by Rebecca Otowa
The Motion of the Ocean by Janna Cawrse Esarey
The Lost Girls by Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett and Amanda Pressner
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Essay collections
I Was Told There'd be Cake by Sloane Crossley
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Fiction
Inside the Whale by Jennie Roonie
May Day by F.Scott Fitzgerald
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Short, Short Stories by Dave Eggers
Writing
Inventing the Truth: The Art & Craft of Memoir edited by William Zinsser
On Writing by Steven King
Writing Your Life by Patti Miller
The Memoir Book by Patti Miller
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
Thunder & Lightning by Natalie Goldberg
Ernest Hemingway on Writing by Larry Phillips
The Situation and the Story by Vivian Gornick
The Creative Process
The War of Art by Stephen Pressfield
Other non-fiction
Coffee with Hemingway
The English People by George Orwell
George Orwell: A Literary Life by Peter Davison
The Hemingways in Paris by Michael Reynolds
Message From An Unknown Chinese Mother by Xinran
My So-Called Freelance Life by Michelle Goodman
Food Rules by Michael Pollan
He Loves Me by Wayne Jacobson
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