Illness: Cry of The Flesh, by Havi Carel
Spy of The First Person, Sam Shephard
The One Inside, Sam Shephard
2023 Nightstand Collective Book List
Daily Rituals Book, by Mason Currey
2021 Nightstand Collective Book List
A Cat, A Man and Two Women, Junichiro Tanizaki, Paul McCarthy
Amusing Ourselves To Death - Neil Postman
Art And Laughter, by Sheri Klein
Blood Child, by Octavia Butler
Dune, by Frank Herbert
Everybody: A Book About Freedom, by Olivia Laing
Fearing The Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, Sabrina Strings
Feminist Queer Crip, Alison Kafir
Ill Feelings, by Alice Hattrick
I’m Fine And Other Lies…, by Whitney Cummings
In Our Mad And Furious City, by Guy Gunarante
Life, I Swear, by Chloe Dulce Louvouezo
Mind of My Mind, by Octavia Butler
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Edited by Nisi Shawl
The Body Keeps The Score, by Bessel Van Der Kolk
The Lost Ones - Samuel Beckett
The Star and The Shamrock, by Jean Grainger
The Utopia Of Rules, by David Graeber
Visions and Longings: Medieval Women Mystics, by Monica Furlong
Top Ten Most Featured Books from Nightstand Collective
One of my favorite things about working on The Nightstand Collective is seeing all the books glide by, and what learning folks are diving into. What books folks are using to escape, bring joy or transport. Over the last four years there have been a number of books that show up again and again, so I thought a list featuring those might be helpful to some. So here you have it the top ten most featured books.
The Body Keeps The Score, by Bessel Van Der Kolk
Braving The Wilderness, by Brene Brown
How To Be Sick, by Toni Bernhard
The Seat of The Soul, by Gary Zukov
Proust Was a Neuroscientist, by Jonah Leher
The Art of Stillness, by Pico Iyer
When Things Fall Apart, by Pema Chodron
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, by Elizabeth Tova Bailey
Wild, by Cheryl Strayed
I Thought It Was Just Me, Brene Brown
2019 Nightstand Collective Book List
A Beautiful Disaster: Finding Hope in the Midst of Brokenness, by Marlena Graves
A Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Adventures in Criticism, by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Aimee Semple McPherson: Everybody's Sister, by Edith Blumhofer
Captive State, by George Monbiot
Collected Poems, by Theodore Roethke
Complete Poems, by Basil Bunting
Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time, by Joseph Frank
Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist, by Hee-Jin Kim
From Marx to Gramsci, by Paul Le Blanc
I’ll Be Gone In The Dark, by Michelle McNamara
Into the Silent Land: The Practice of Contemplation, Marin Laird
Jonathan Edwards: A Life, by George Marsden
Money, by Martin Amis
New Left Review, Jan-Feb 2005
New Left Review Nov-Dec 2006
Saint Therese of Lisieux, Kathryn Harrison
Selected Poems, by Thom Gunn
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Affluent Worker in the Class Structure, by John Goldthorpe
The Art of the Advocate, Richard Du Cann
The Book of Margery Kempe, by Margery Kempe
The Eight Gates of Zen: A Program of Zen Training, by John Daido Loori
The Sea and Poison, Shusaku Endo
Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying, by Stephen and Ondrea Levine
Why? Looking at God, Evil and Personal Suffering, by Sharon Dirckx
2018 Nightstand Collective Book List
A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara
Barking Up The Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success is Wrong, by Eric Barker
Be Here Now, by Ram Dass,
Big Red Dictionary- To look up big words in The New Yorker
Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of Drugs That Changed Our Minds, by Lauren Slater.
Braving The Wilderness, by Brene Brown
Celiac Disease A Hidden Epidemic, by Peter green M.D
Chronic Babe 101: How To Create an Incredible Life Beyond Illness,
by Jenni Grover
Collected Stories by Lydia Davis
Confabulations by John Berger
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within All of Us, by Tom Kelley and David Kelley
Each Day a New Beginning, by Alex Uwajeh
Fairies, by Brian Fround
Happiness in a Storm, by Wendy Schlessel Harpham, MD
Hope for Today, by Al Anon
How To Be Sick, by Toni Bernhard.
How To Live Well With Chronic Pain and Illness, by Toni Bernhard.
I Thought It Was Just Me, by Brene Brown
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
Irrational Man, by William Barrett
Language of Letting Go
Living With it Daily: Meditations for People with Chronic Pain, by Patricia D Nielsen
Making Friends With Your Mind, by Pema Chodron
Mrs. Fletcher, by Tom Perrotta
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
One True Thing, by Anna Quindlen.
Phenomenology of Perception, by Merleau-Ponty
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsey
Playing Dead, by Elizabeth Greenwood
Proust Was A Neuroscientist, by Jonah Lehrer
Secret of a Sun King by Emma Carroll
Sing, unburied, sing- By Jesmyn Ward
Stop Being Your Symptoms Start Being Yourself, by Arthur Barksy M.D, and Emily Deans M.D.
Surviving and Thriving With an Invisible Chronic Illness, by Ilana Jacqueline.
The Art of Stillness, by Pico Iyer
The Best Catbook Ever, by Kate Funk
The Body Keeps The Score, by Bessel Van Der Kolk
The Case for Faith by, Lee Strobel,
The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen
The Debutante and Other Stories by Leonora Carrington.
The Dharmmapada, by Gil Fronsdal
The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich
The Five Second Rule, by Mel Robbins
The Four, by Scott Galloway
The Gluten Free Diet, by Elizabeth Hasselbeck
The Handmaids Tale, by Margaret Atwood
The Hoarder by Jess Kidd
The Phenomenological Mind, by Shaun Gallagher
The Pocket Pema Chodron, by Pema Chodron.
The Seat of The Soul, by Gary Zukov, Aå
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, by Elizabeth Tova Bailey
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck: A Counter Intuitive Approach to Living A Good Life, by Mark Manson
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Utopia For Realists, by Rutger Bregman
We'Moon-Bound date book for recording health stuff.
Where Does it Hurt, by Johnathan Bush and Stephen Baker
Women Writers of The Provincetown Players, edited by Judith Barlow
‘winter’ and ‘autumn’ by Ali Smith