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📖 What I’m Reading & Loving
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items Books I’m reading and loving — from fiction and personal growth to art & design and quieter, more reflective reads that shape how I think and how I live.
Sections
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🧘 Zen
🌱 Personal Growth
🌿 Lifestyle
✨ Fiction
🧠 Biography
🎨 Art & Design
🧘 Zen
Calmer, more reflective books centred around mindfulness, simplicity, and approaching everyday life with a little more intention and balance.
A gentle, compassionate book about healing emotional wounds and reconnecting with yourself through mindfulness and self-understanding.
Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child - Thich Nhat Hanh
A calm, grounding book about mindfulness, compassion, and finding peace within everyday life through greater awareness and presence.
Being Peace - Thich Nhat Hanh
A calm, practical book connecting cleaning and daily routines with mindfulness, clarity, and a more intentional way of living.
A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind
🌱 Personal Growth
Books focused on mindset, habits, and emotional growth — thoughtful reads that offer perspective, clarity, and small shifts that carry into everyday life.
A thoughtful, surprisingly touching book using familiar characters to explore emotional wellbeing, self-awareness, and personal growth in an approachable way.
Counselling for Toads - Robert de Board
A classic personal development book centred around habits, mindset, and long-term effectiveness in both work and everyday life.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
A practical, easy-to-follow book about building better habits through small, consistent changes rather than dramatic overhauls.
Atomic Habits: Easy Way to Build & Break Habits
A sharp, engaging book about rethinking assumptions, staying open-minded, and becoming more comfortable changing your perspective.
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
A fascinating book exploring how different cultures shape the way people think, perceive, and approach the world around them.
The Geography of Thought: Asians vs Westerners
A thoughtful, practical workbook designed to help clarify career direction, strengths, and priorities through reflection rather than rigid productivity advice.
The Career Workbook
A widely read personal finance book exploring different perspectives on money, investing, and financial independence in a simple, accessible way.
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Kids
A mindset-focused business book about thinking bigger, simplifying priorities, and focusing energy on the things that create the most meaningful growth.
10x Is Easier Than 2x: How Entrepreneurs Achieve More
A thought-provoking book about balancing money, time, and life experiences — encouraging a more intentional approach to how we use both our wealth and our years.
Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Money
A playful but thoughtful book questioning conventional ideas of adulthood, success, and responsibility with humour and curiosity.
Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts
🌿 Lifestyle
Books centred around slower living, balance, and everyday wellbeing — thoughtful reads about routines, perspective, and creating a life that feels more intentional and fulfilling.
A calming lifestyle book centred around balance, simplicity, and creating a more thoughtful everyday life through small, sustainable habits and routines.
Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living
A calming, thoughtful book exploring the Japanese idea of finding purpose and meaning through everyday life, balance, and small daily routines.
Ikigai: Japanese Secret to Long Happy Life
✨ Fiction
Fiction that feels immersive, atmospheric, or emotionally reflective — the kind of books that stay in your mind long after finishing them.
A simple but reflective novel about purpose, intuition, and pursuing what feels meaningful — hopeful, symbolic, and easy to revisit at different stages of life.
The Alchemist: Modern Classic Fable of Dreams
A visually striking graphic novel exploring identity, relationships, and self-perception through clever storytelling and beautifully designed illustrations.
Asterios Polyp
A thoughtful, emotionally layered novel about friendship, creativity, ambition, and the complicated ways people grow together and apart over time.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
A refined, atmospheric collection of stories exploring beauty, desire, and isolation with a quieter, more introspective tone.
Death in Venice: 1912 Literary Classic (Annotated)
A beautifully written collection of fairy tales balancing beauty, melancholy, and social commentary in a way that feels timeless and surprisingly moving.
Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
A stylish, atmospheric classic exploring ambition, longing, and excess — sharp, elegant, and still strikingly relevant despite its age.
The Great Gatsby (Masterpiece Library Edition)
A quiet, reflective classic about perseverance, solitude, and dignity — simple in style but deeply atmospheric and emotionally lasting.
The Old Man and the Sea: Hemingway Edition
🧠 Biography
Stories of people, ideas, and lives that feel inspiring not because they’re perfect, but because they reveal creativity, resilience, and growth over time.
A detailed look into the life, ambition, and creative vision behind one of the most influential figures in modern technology and design.
Steve Jobs
A striking, deeply personal book blending fashion, photography, and reflections from Yohji Yamamoto’s creative world — dark, poetic, and visually compelling.
*CHINESE EDITION* Yohji Yamamoto: My Dear Bomb
🎨 Art & Design
Visually inspiring books exploring design, interiors, creativity, and the details that shape how we experience spaces and objects.
A thoughtful design book exploring the beauty of everyday objects and understated design — quiet, observant, and especially inspiring if you appreciate simplicity and functionality.
Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary
An encouraging creative guide about developing your own style and ideas — approachable, motivating, and especially useful for anyone navigating creative work or self-expression.
Find Your Artistic Voice: Essential Guide
A visually rich collection of myths and fantastical creatures drawn from ancient Chinese folklore — imaginative, atmospheric, and especially enjoyable if you’re interested in mythology, art, and storytelling.
Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas
A creative, unconventional book about originality and staying inspired — encouraging, slightly playful, and especially good for anyone working in creative fields.
Now Try Something Weirder: Creative Biz Guide
A warm, encouraging book about creativity and writing that feels more freeing than instructional — thoughtful, personal, and especially comforting for anyone trying to create more honestly.
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
A creative card deck filled with prompts and reflections designed to encourage freer, more intuitive writing and creative thinking.
Writing Down the Bones Deck: 60 Writing Cards