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Currently readingThe Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp
Accordian Crimes by E. Annie Proulx
A Postcard Memoir by Lawrence Sutin
His illegal self by Peter Carey
A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) by Christopher Alexander
Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences by Peter Levine
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life by Lynne Twist
How Fiction Works by James Wood
Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61) by Eckhart Tolle
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
The Uncomfortable Dead by Subcomandante Marcos
Sams Teach Yourself MySQL in 10 Minutes by Chris Newman
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
When the Body Becomes All Eyes: Paradigms, Discourses and Practices of Power in Kalarippayattu, a South Indian Martial Art by Phillip B. Zarrilli
The Beginners by Rebecca Wolff
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
Zazen by Vanessa Veselka
The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want by Sonja Lyubomirsky
Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body by Kate Harding
Financial Recovery: Developing a Healthy Relationship with Money by Karen McCall
Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga by Rolf Gates
How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One by Stanley Fish
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better by Sandra Blakeslee
Jamrach's Menagerie: A Novel by Carol Birch
History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life by Jill Bialosky
The Chronology of Water: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch
The Letters of Noel Coward by Noel Coward
Embassytown by China Mieville
Leviathan by Paul Auster
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
Collected Poems by Jack Gilbert
Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert
Legend Of Light (Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry) by Bob Hicok
The Sweet Relief of Missing Children: A Novel by Sarah Braunstein
A Monster's Notes by Laurie Sheck
Taking Ourselves Seriously and Getting It Right by Harry G. Frankfurt
Death of an Artist by Kate Wilhelm
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems by Joy Katz
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories by David Foster Wallace
Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace by Angel Kyodo Williams
On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
They Came Like Swallows (Modern Library) by William Maxwell
What is the What by Dave Eggers
This Year I Will...: How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution, or Make a Dream Come True by M.J. Ryan
The Invisible Ones by Stef Penney
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson
The City & The City (Random House Reader's Circle) by China Mieville
Wisdom & Metaphor by Jan Zwicky
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
The Essential Rumi by Jalal al-Din Rumi
Don't Bite the Hook: Finding Freedom from Anger, Resentment, and Other Destructive Emotions by Pema Chodron
The Dream of Doctor Bantam by Jeanne Thornton
The Hollow Man by Oliver Harris
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
The Best American Essays 2011 (Best American Series) by Edwidge Danticat
Mend It Better: Creative Patching, Darning, and Stitching by Kristin M. Roach
Recycled Home: Transform Your Home Using Salvaged Materials by Rebecca Proctor
Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds by Ping Fu
Linger (Wolves of Mercy Falls, Book 2) by Maggie Stiefvater
The Dead Path by Stephen M. Irwin
Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
A Million Heavens by John Brandon
Zen Under the Gun: Four Zen Masters from Turbulent Times by J.C. Cleary
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
Watching the Dark: An Inspector Banks Novel by Peter Robinson
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips
The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying and Start Making by Alana Chernila
Altar Your Space: A Guide to the Restorative Home by Jagatjoti Singh Khalsa
Earth Spirit Living: Bringing Heaven and Nature into Your Home by Ann Marie Holmes
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
Zen Interiors by Vinny Lee
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