FICTION:
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Anxious People by Fredrick Backman
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Hope for the Flowers by Trina Paulus
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
NON-FICTION:
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Smile by Sarah Ruhl
Start with Why by Simon Sinek
The Person You Mean to Be by Dolly Chugh
The Book of Joy by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat and Wendy McNaughton
Patti Lupone, A Memoir
books
The Long and the Short of It
We Can Do Hard Things
The Dreaded Question
The Happiness Lab
Positive Creativity Podcast
On Being
A Bit of Optimism with Simon Sinek
Revisionist History
RadioLab
Home Cooking
Unlocking Us with Brene Brown
How to Save a Planet
Simple Ideas Taken Seriously
Design Matters
Brews with Broads
PODCASTS
A Doll's House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath
Slave Play by Jeremy O'Harris
The Oldest Boy by Sarah Ruhl
Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan MacMillan
Pipeline by Dominique Morrisseau
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard
FUTURE CLASSICS
Bisa Butler
Sammi Cannold
Billy Bustamante
Amanda Gorman
Ari Axelrod
Jen Waldman (JWS)
Joanna Carpenter (86 the Barrier)
Sarah Kleist
Carly Valancy (Reach Out Party)
Kari Cotone (Words for Voices)
Alec Stephens III
Priya Mahendra
Lili Torre (The Dreaded Question)
Tuan Malinowski
Lisa Graye (Little Graye Bakery)
Dakota Mackey-McGee
Hannah Kiem
Maria Maloney
Margie Gilland
Jenna Pastuszek
Christina Peña
