I have always loved reading but when faced with the most difficult challenge of my life, books became a lifeline for me. These are some of the books that helped guide me through that tumultuous first year of grief.
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach
E=mc2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis
Cracking the Apocalypse Code by Gerard Bodson
What Uncle Sam Really Wants by Noam Chomsky
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson
Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye
Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Myth, and Society by Northrop Frye
Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey by Jane Goodall with Phillip Berman
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit by Al Gore
A Widow for One Year by John Irving
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering our Place in Nature by David Suzuki with Amanda McConnell
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf