Crooked Reads

Hi! I'm Ashley Holstrom, a professional book person. No, really: production at an indie publisher, contributor at Book Riot, reviewer at Foreword Reviews, and occasional Bibliologist at TBR (Tailored Book Recommendations). 

 

These are some of my favorite books, along with the ones recommended in my monthly newsletter, Crooked Reads. 

Financial First Aid: Essential Tools for Confident, Secure Money Management
Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together
Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
The Fastest Way to Fall
The Deal
Snapped
The Valley of Amazement
The Anthill
Americanah
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America
Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
Everything Is Ok
Barely Functional Adult: It'll All Make Sense Eventually
In Love & Pajamas: A Collection of Comics about Being Yourself Together
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness
Brain on Fire (10th Anniversary Edition): My Month of Madness
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
The Crying Book
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression
Everything Is an Emergency: An Ocd Story in Words & Pictures
Everything Is Fine: A Memoir
Girl, Interrupted
Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir
Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love
Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life
Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
Hi, Anxiety: Life with a Bad Case of Nerves
100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future!
Log Off: Self-Help for the Extremely Online
Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
This Party's Dead: Grief, Joy and Spilled Rum at the World's Death Festivals
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death
Make Your Place: Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
An Almost Zero Waste Life: Learning How to Embrace Less to Live More
Plastic Free: The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy
Braced
Deenie
Life Is Trichy: Memoir of a Mental Health Therapist with a Mental Health Disorder
Doesn't It Hurt?: Confessions of Compulsive Hair Pullers
Still Waiting: Hope for When God Doesn't Give You What You Want
(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health
The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces
The Castle School (for Troubled Girls)