Shelf Staples

Discover the books that have had a profound impact on me and explore my recommendations for your next great read.

From heart-pounding thrillers to whimsical fantasies, and thought-provoking non-fiction to heartwarming romances, my recommended reads cover a wide range of genres and themes. Discover new worlds, meet unforgettable characters, and lose yourself in the magic of storytelling. Whether you're seeking escapism, enlightenment, or simply a good old-fashioned page-turner, there's something for everyone on my bookshelf.

Fiction

Non-Fiction

Historical Fiction:

• Pillars of the Earth - Andrew Follet

• Silence - Sushaki Endo

• Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky

• Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

• The Other Boleyn Girl - Phillipa Gregory

Mystery & Thriller:

• Frankenstein - Mary Shelly

• And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson

Romance:

• Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson

• The Fever Series - Karen Marie Moning

• Outlander - Diana Gabaldon

Science Fiction & Fantasy:

• Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling

• The Hobbit, Lord of The Rings - J.R. Tolkien

• Animal Farm, 1984 - George Orwell

• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Psychology:

• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; An Anthropologist on Mars - Oliver Sacks

• Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

• Women Who Run with Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estes

• The Boy Who Raised as a Dog - Bruce D. Perry

• The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk

• Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning - Brown, Roediger & McDaniel

• Behave; Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers- Robert Sapolsky

• Cognitive Neuroscience - Michael Gazzaniga

• How Emotions are Made - Lisa Feldman Barrett

History/ Bios:

• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich -

• When Women Ruled the World - Kara Cooney

• Cleopatra - Stacy Schiff

• A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah

• Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind

• King, A Life - Jonathon Eig

• Becoming - Michelle Obama

• The Diary of A Young Girl - Ann Frank

Personal Development:

• Daring Greatly & The Gifts of Imperfection- Brene Brown

• The Dance of Anger - Harriet Lerner

• The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg

• The Subtle Are of Not Giving a F**K - Mark Manson

• When Things Fall Apart - Pema Chodron

• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

• The Happiness Trap - Russ Harris

Classics:

• Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

• Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

• East of Eden - John Steinbeck

• Ana Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

• The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller

• The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri

• Paradise Lost - John Milton

• The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

• Republic - Plato

Poetry:

• A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare

• Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare

• Rumi

• Rupi Kaur

• The Iliad & Odyssey - Homer