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


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