recommended reading

I've always loved reading, and always hated reading non-fiction.  20 years ago my husband tried to increase my exposure to non-fiction (or foist an appreciation of non-fiction on me) by making me read Primo Levi, John McFee, Bill Bryson and Joseph Mitchell.  And it's not that I didn't enjoy them - but they didn't engage me the way novels do, and after I finished Up in the Old Hotel (which was over 1,000 pages long) I'd had enough of non-fiction for awhile.  But more recently I've started listening to audio books while I'm driving, and I've come across several non-fiction books that have interested, challenged, and in a few cases, profoundly changed me.  Here are a few of them:

Hold On to Your Kids by Gordon Neufeld, PhD and Gabor Mate, MD

Regeneration by Sayer Ji

Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier

Good Energy by Casey Means, MD    

Introduction to Swedenborg's Religious Thought by John Spaulding

Revelation by Russel Brand 

Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

A Letter to Liberals by RFK Jr.  

How to Break Up with your Phone by Catherine Price 

Thrilled to Death by Archibald D. Hart, Dennis Kleinman and Thomas Nelson 

The Case Against Socialism by Rand Paul

Recovery by Russel Brand  

Non Obvious Thinking: How to See What Others Miss by Rohit Bhargava and Ben duPont 

The Let them Theory by Mel Robbins 

I'm currently wrestling with We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson.  I started it on Audible, but found that it's too dense for casual listening. It's brilliant and complex, and I want to be able to stop and go back over certain concepts as I go.