18 Books We Read for Pleasure

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Carving the time out can be a challenge, especially when you’re exhausted and your fav show releases a new season on Netflix! Minute for minute books still have tv binging beat on the health benefits. According to a Healthline study reading:

  • improves brain connectivity

  • increases your vocabulary and comprehension

  • empowers you to empathize with other people

  • aids in sleep readiness

  • reduces stress

  • lowers blood pressure and heart rate

  • fights depression symptoms

  • prevents cognitive decline as you age

  • and more…

Convinced but not sure what to read? Here are some of our new, and a few oldies but goodies, pleasure reads on our list. While your out picking up your newest read consider picking up an extra copy for a friend or neighbor or to donate to a local charity.

Biographies & Memoirs

  • Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

  • Becoming by Michelle Obama

  • Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

  • Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

  • Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

  • Life is So Good by George Dawson

Love, Romance & Relationships

  • The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

  • How to Love by Thich Nhat Hanh

  • Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

  • The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman

  • Attached by Amir Levine & Rachel S. F. Heller

Literature & Fiction

  • Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

  • Wonder by R. J. Palacio

  • Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Science & History (we like to nerd out too)

  • Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

  • Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

  • Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Psst… We love Audible for “reading” on the go. Maximize your (driving, biking, running) commute time by catching a few chapters using the app. We especially enjoy listening to books narrated by the authors it adds a lot to the experience.

Kalika Curry