Books: Food for Thought and Growth

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Written By Tory McCagg

What I’ve been reading instead of the News (though I do read Heather Cox Richardson’s daily Letters from an American…and headlines just to keep my blood pressure up.)

Some of the Books that I have Read in 2022-2023:

  • Book of Life by Peter Kingsley

  • Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawkins

  • Tracks by Louise Erdrich

  • My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menaken

  • Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung et al.

  • ADHD 2.0 by Halloway and Ratey

  • Behaving as if the God in All LIfe Mattered by Maccelle Small Wright

  • Harry Potter Volumes 1,2,3,4 by J.K. Rowlings

  • Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton

  • Miss Buncle’s Book by D.E. Stevenson

  • No Bad Parts by Richard C. Schwartz, PhD

  • Practice Your Art No Matter What by Beth Pickens

  • The Women are Up to Something by Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb 

  • On Beauty by Zadie Smith

  • Still Life by Sarah Winman

Playwriting Books:

  • Playwriting: Brief and Brilliant by Julie Jensen

  • A More Perfect Ten by Gary Garrison

  • Poetics by Aristotle

  • The Dramatist’s Toolkit by Jeffrey Sweet

  • The Story Grid by Shawn Coyne

  • Harper Regan by Simon Stevens

Currently reading:

  • The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul by Anne Baring

  • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by To-ko-pa Turner

  • Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change by Sherri Mitchell

  • The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate with Daniel Mate

On my desk and list of “To Read If I Don’t Get Distracted by Other Books”:

  • On Animals by Susan Orleans

  • Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung (review/dip in again)

  • The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

  • Caste by Isable Wilkerson

  • Scattered Minds by Gabor Mate

  • Radical Regeneration: Sacred Activism and the Renewal of the World by Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker

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