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My Ultimate TBR List: Books I Can't Wait to Read
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items Welcome to my TBR (To Be Read) list—a curated collection of books focused on personal growth, mindset, wealth building, self-discovery, wellness, spirituality, and living a more intentional life. Whether you're looking for inspiring nonfiction, trans...
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Books for Women
Healing and Rest
Books for Women
I added this because it offers a clear, accessible look at how gender inequality affects everyday life. It feels like a great introduction to feminism for anyone who wants to understand why equality benefits all of us.
We Should All Be Feminists
Angela Davis examines how race, gender, and economic class shape women’s experiences differently. I want to read this because conversations about feminism feel incomplete when they ignore racism, labor, and the lives of working-class women.
Women, Race & Class
This collection connects women’s rights to politics, culture, racism, economic inequality, and social change. I’m interested in Angela Davis’s perspective on why women’s liberation must be connected to the liberation of entire communities.
Women, Culture & Politics
I added this because I’m fascinated by the power words have to shape identity, cause harm, and influence what society considers acceptable. It looks like a thought-provoking exploration of language, censorship, and who gets to speak.
Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative
This book explores feminism, international solidarity, and Palestinian liberation through a perspective that challenges mainstream feminist narratives. I’m interested in how it connects women’s freedom with larger struggles against oppression and dis...
Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine
I want to read this because it asks whether feminism can truly be liberating if it only serves women who already have privilege. It challenges the polished, marketable version of feminism and brings the focus back to collective freedom and real struc...
Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
Audre Lorde’s writing on race, womanhood, anger, silence, identity, and power still feels incredibly relevant. I added this because I want to explore what happens when women stop shrinking their truth to make other people comfortable.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Commemorative Edition)
This book challenges a version of feminism that discusses empowerment while ignoring hunger, housing, education, healthcare, safety, and poverty. I appreciate its reminder that these everyday survival issues are women’s issues too.
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
I added this because it examines how white womanhood has historically been protected while women of color are stereotyped, silenced, or expected to absorb the consequences. It looks like an uncomfortable but necessary conversation about race, gender,...
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
This feels essential for understanding how racism and sexism have shaped the lives of Black women. bell hooks challenges both racist ideas within feminism and sexism within racial-justice movements, placing Black women’s experiences at the center.
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
I remember the era when music videos helped define beauty, status, and hip-hop culture. This memoir offers a woman’s perspective on what was happening behind those glamorous images—and the personal cost that often remained hidden.
Confessions of a Video Vixen (20th Anniversary Edition)
I’m drawn to Inanna because her ancient stories explore feminine power, desire, transformation, loss, and descent into the underworld. This feels like a fascinating way to connect with one of history’s oldest known goddesses.
Inanna - The Queen of Heaven and Earth
I added this for Anaïs Nin’s raw exploration of desire, creativity, love, and the contradictions within a woman’s inner life. Her uncensored diary feels intimate, complicated, and refreshingly unwilling to make womanhood look neat or easily explained...
Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937
I’m interested in the parts of feminine identity that women are often taught to suppress—anger, sensuality, intuition, ambition, mystery, and power. These stories feel like an invitation to meet those hidden parts without judging or fearing them.
Tales of the Dark Feminine: Inspirational Stories of the World's Fiercest Goddesses
This is on my list because I want to explore the Wild Woman archetype and reconnect with the instinctive, creative, intuitive parts of myself. The myths and stories seem perfect for women who are ready to stop abandoning themselves to fit other peopl...
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Healing and Rest
I added this because I’m unlearning the belief that I must constantly produce, achieve, or care for everyone else to deserve rest. This book reframes rest as a way to reclaim my body, time, imagination, and humanity from grind culture.
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Sometimes removing the stressor does not mean the stress has left your body. I want to better understand the stress cycle and learn practical ways to release the physical and emotional exhaustion that can build up over time.
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
I’m interested in how racial trauma can be carried not only through our thoughts, but also through our bodies and across generations. This book offers a body-centered approach to understanding that pain and beginning the work of healing.
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
bell hooks explores what love could mean for Black people in a society that has repeatedly tried to deny our humanity. I added this because healing requires more than survival—we also deserve tenderness, connection, and love that helps us become whol...
Salvation: Black People and Love
This book asks women to examine what we have been taught to accept, sacrifice, and lose in the search for love. I’m interested in learning how to choose relationships without abandoning myself in the process.
Communion: The Female Search for Love
I added this memoir because it offers an honest look at complex trauma and what healing can actually require. I’m especially interested in the connection between memory, the nervous system, cultural identity, and the ways trauma can remain in the bod...
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
This feels like a book for anyone who became disconnected from themselves while learning how to survive. I want to explore how healing old wounds can help me return to the person I was before fear, expectations, and other people’s needs took over.
Homecoming: Healing Trauma to Reclaim Your Authentic Self
I added this because I’m curious about creating a morning routine that gives me time for myself before the demands of the day begin. I’m less interested in joining the hustle Olympics and more interested in using quiet mornings for reflection, moveme...
The 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
This is on my list because creativity can get buried beneath responsibility, perfectionism, and everyday life. I want to use the exercises, especially morning pages, to quiet my inner critic and reconnect with my own creative voice.
The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
I’m drawn to this guide because it approaches healing through the feminine body, spirituality, ancestral wisdom, and intentional self-care. It feels like an invitation for women to reconnect with themselves physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind, and Spirit
I added this because I’m interested in the womb as more than a physical organ—it can also represent creativity, intuition, memory, and feminine power. I want to explore practices that help women reconnect with this part of themselves in a more consci...
Womb Wisdom: Awakening the Creative and Forgotten Powers of the Feminine
This is on my TBR because I’m fascinated by the connection between womb wisdom, feminine spirituality, creation, and manifestation. I want to explore its teachings on sacred womb consciousness and reclaiming the creative power held within the feminin...
Womb Awakening: Initiatory Wisdom from the Creatrix of All Life