Jen’s Bookshelf

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Listed in alphabetical order by title, these are some of the books I have read and found interesting and/or valuable enough to become part of my permanent collection. This is the subset I consider particularly recommendable.

These books were, to the best of my knowledge, written by verifiable humans and experts in their fields without the use of generative-AI. Inclusion on this list does not imply my full agreement with, or endorsement of, any author or work.

Older works in particular may include outdated or problematic content that must be taken in the context of the place and time it was written. I do not support discarding entire bodies of work in the case of deceased authors and artists who are no longer alive to profit from the work and/or reevaluate their beliefs.

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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy by Lawrence Wallace
Connecting With the Autism Spectrum by Casey “Remrov” Vormer
Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha by Thomas Byrom
Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
Don’t Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Facing Codependence by Pia Mellody
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
How to Know a Person by David Brooks
I Don’t Want to Talk About It by Terrence Real
Letting Go of Shame by Ronald and Patricia Potter-Efron
Making Great Relationships by Rick Hanson PhD
Man and His Symbols by Carl G. Jung and Others
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Penguin Classics)
No One Understands You and What to Do About It by Heidi Grant Halvorson
Nothing’s Wrong by David Kundtz
Teachings of the Buddha by Jack Kornfield
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Science of Evil by Simon Baron-Cohen
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fu*k by Mark Manson
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud