2024 Books:
Brief Flashings in the Phenomenal World: Zen and the Art of Running Free by Katie Arnold
The Making of a Therapist: A Practical Guide for the Inner Journey by Louis Cozolino
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang
2023 Books:
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence by Gavin Francis
Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate
Sure I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford
While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger
The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano by Donna Freitas
Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel by Bonnie Garmus
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From A State Hospital Attic by Darby Penny & Peter Stastny
You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith
That Good Night: Life and Medicine in The Eleventh Hour by Sunita Puri
The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine by Ricardo Neil
Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Anxious Age by Katherine May
Everybody Just Breathe: A COVID Nurse Memoir of Stamina and Swear Words by Amanda V. Peterson
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom
The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain by Haider Warraich
The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in A Chicago ER by Thomas Fisher
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and The Anatomy of Injustice by Rupa Maya & Raj Patel
Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice Wong
2022 Books:
Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) by Nora McInerny
Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul by Evette Dionne
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Grief is Love: Living With Loss by Marisa Renee Lee
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex PTSD by Stephanie Foo
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain
Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
In A New York Minute by Kate Spencer
Widowland by Rachel Brougham
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’Rourke
Is Rape a Crime? A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto by Michelle Bowdler
Where the Deer Dream by Sarah Bamford Seidelmann
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
Broken Horses: A Memoir by Brandi Carlile
2021 Books:
What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape by Sohaila Abdulali
Going There by Katie Couric
Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change by Maggie Smith
The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery by Ross Douthat
Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls by Carrie Goldberg
No One Tells You This: A Memoir by Glynnis MacNicol
Thanks for Waiting: The Joy (& Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer by Doree Shafrir
Why Therapy Works: Using Our Minds to Change Our Brains by Louis Cozolino
An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way In a World That Expects Exceptional by Rainesford Stauffer
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein
The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness by Emily Anthes
Girl In Pieces: A Novel by Kathleen Glasgow
What Doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness — Lessons from a Body in Revolt
Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman
2020 Books:
Building A Life Worth Living by Marsha Linehan
Give A Girl A Knife by Amy Thielen
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Huntress: A Novel by Kate Quinn
Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was A Girl by Jeannie Vanasco
2019 Books:
The Hot Young Widows Club by Nora McInerny
The First Time She Drowned by Kerry Kletter
Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up by Koshin Paley Ellison
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Sick A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour
I Miss You When I Blink By Mary Laura Philpott
Things That Join The Sea And The Sky: Field Notes On Living by Mark Nepo
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
The Queen of Hearts by Kimberly Martin
No Happy Endings: A Memoir by Nora McInerny
How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship by Eva Hagberg Fisher
JELL-O Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom
Say It Out Loud: Revealing and Healing the Scars of Sexual Abuse by Roberta Dolan
2018 Books:
Simple Matters: Living with Less and Ending Up with More by Erin Boyle
I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t): Making the Journey from “What Will People Think?” to “Am I Enough” by Brene Brown
Never Tell: Recovering from Childhood Sexual Abuse by Catherine McCall
Into the Wild by John Krakauer
Journey Through Trauma: A Trail Guide to the 5-Phase Cycle of Healing Repeated Trauma by Gretchen Schmelzer PhD
Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety by Andrea Petersen
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest To Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain by Abby Norman
Kicking Sick: Your Go-To Guide for Thriving with Chronic Health Conditions by Amy Kurtz
It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand by Megan Devine
2017 Books:
Swimming with Elephants by Sarah Bamford Seidelmann
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief by Joanne Cacciatore
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Better by Atul Gawande
10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works—A True Story by Dan Harris
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
Locally Laid by Lucie B. Amudsen
The Unhealthy Truth by Robyn O'Brien
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
2016 Books:
Think Like A Freak by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress Related Diseases, and Coping (2nd Edition) by Robert M. Sapolsky
Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet by Amy Bentley
Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction by Elizabeth Vargas
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists
It's Okay to Laugh (Crying Is Cool Too): A Memoir by Nora McInerny Purmort
Me Before You by JoJo Moyes
Hillsider: Snapshots of a Curious Political Journey by Don Ness
Wide Awake & Dreaming: A Memoir of Narcolepsy by Julie Flygare
The Good House: A Novel by Ann Leary
2015 Books:
Speed Shrinking by Susan Shapiro
The One Good Thing by Kevin Alan Milne
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Roberta Skloot
2014 Books:
Ordinary Grace: A Novel by William Kent Krueger
Sick Girl by Amy Silverstein
Sweet Misfortune: A Novel by Kevin Alan Milne
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman
Where'd you go Bernadette by Maria Semple
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
Out of Joint: A Private & Public Story of Arthritis by Mary Felstiner
2013 Books:
The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband by David Finch
In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America by Laurie Edwards
Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness by Scott Jurek and Steve Friedman
Foodist: Using Real Food and Real Science to Lose Weight Without Dieting by Darya Pino Rose
2012 Books:
Footprints of Courage: Our Family's Struggle for Justice-Inside the Chris Jenkins Murder Investigation by Jan Jenkins
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis by Lisa Sanders
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
Wheat Belly by William Davis M.D.
Half A Life: A Memoir by Darin Strauss
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Down Among The Dead Men: A Year In The Life Of A Mortuary Technician by Michelle Williams
Calico Joe by John Grisham
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed