To Be Read Amid Life

Live your life as you like it—without the heroics. These books help me let go of the shoulds and the might-have-beens.

Gift from the Sea: 50th-Anniversary Edition

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

$14.00 $13.02

In Our Prime: How Older Women Are Reinventing the Road Ahead

Susan J Douglas

$25.95 $24.13

I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

Nora Ephron

$17.00 $15.81

The Gifts of Imperfection: 10th Anniversary Edition: Features a New Foreword and Brand-New Tools

Brené Brown

$16.95 $15.76

"...trading in your authenticity for approval. you stop believing in your worthiness and start hustling for it"

We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

$10.00 $9.30

"...the word feminist is so heavy with baggage, negative baggage: you hate men, you hate bras, you hate African culture, you think women should always be in charge, you don't wear make-up, you don't shave, you're always angry, you don't have a sense of humour, you don't use deodorant."

Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis

Ada Calhoun

$16.00 $14.88

"The last thing we need at this stage of life is self-help. ... What we need at this stage isn't more advice, but solace."

And You May Find Yourself...

Sari Botton

$18.50 $17.21

The New Female Antihero: The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century Us Television

Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman

$31.20

"And yet, what might look like feminist success stories are, on closer inspection, evidence of a system out of whack. These women get the job done, but only by going into hyperdrive, vanquishing their enemies through betrayal, manipulation, and homicide. Their goal is rarely justice; more often they’re chasing greed, pleasure, and self-promotion."

Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition

Rainer Maria Rilke

$20.00 $18.60

"Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. "

Plant Dreaming Deep

May Sarton

$19.95

"Everything in us presses toward decision, even toward the wrong decision, just to be free of the anxiety that precedes any big step in life."

Becoming

Michelle Obama

$34.00 $31.62

" In my blinding drive to excel, in my need to do things perfectly, I'd missed the signs and taken the wrong road."

The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker's Guide to Extraordinary Living

Stephen Cope

$20.00 $18.60

"In order to see clearly, to examine how things work, we will have to stop our lives, slow things down, look carefully --like the person who has suddenly discovered she has created the mother of all knots in the shoelace of her boot."