Books I Recommend
RITES OF PASSAGE
The Roaring of The Sacred River, Steven Foster and Meredith Little
Soulcraft, Bill Plotkin
Nature and the Human Soul, Bill Plotkin
The World’s a Waiting Lover, Trebbe Johnson
The Rites of Passage, Arnold van Gennep
NATURE WRITINGS
A Story Like the Wind, Laurens van der Post (a novel)
The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You, Dorothy Bryan (a novel)
Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams
Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert, Terry Tempest Williams
An Unspoken Hunger, Terry Tempest Williams
When Women Were Birds, Terry Tempest Williams
Finding Beauty in A Broken World, Terry Tempest Williams
The Wild Places, Robert Macfarlane
Dream of The Earth, Thomas Berry
The Fruitful Darkness, Joan Halifax
A Language Older Than Words, Derrick Jensen
Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
The poetry of Mary Oliver
The poetry of David Whyte
SOLITUDE
Journal of a Solitude, May Sarton
Solitude: A Return to the Self, Anthony Storr
An Unknown Woman, Alice Koller
The Stations of Solitude, Alice Koller
Migrations to Solitude, Sue Halpern
COUNCIL AND STORYTELLING
The Way of Council, Jack Zimmerman and Virginia Coyle
The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair, Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea
Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power & Practice of Story, Christina Baldwin
Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture, Christina Baldwin
BUDDHISM
A Path with a Heart, Jack Kornfield
Wise Heart, Jack Kornfield
Faith, Sharon Salzberg
When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron
Breath by Breath, Larry Rosenberg
Dancing with Life, Phillip Moffitt
Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist, Stephen Batchelor
How to Be Sick, Toni Bernhard
THE SECOND HALF OF L IFE
The Middle Passage: from Misery to Meaning, James Hollis
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, James Hollis
The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom, Angeles Arrien
Living in Gratitude, Angeles Arrien
Conscious Living, Conscious Aging: Embrace and Savor Your Next Chapter, Ron Pevny
Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble, Stephen Jenkinson
CHRONIC ILLNESS AND AGING
Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
My Mother, Your Mother, Dennis McCullough, M.D.
Aging for Beginners, Ezra Bayda with Elizabeth Hamilton
END OF LIFE
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (a novel)
One True Thing, Anna Quindlen (a novel)
On Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Healing into Life and Death, Stephen Levine
A Year to Live, Stephen Levine
Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche
A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death, Bruce Miller & Shoshana Berger
When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
How We Die, Sherwin Nuland
Gratitude, Oliver Sacks
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
GRIEF & LOSS
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief, Francis Weller
The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss, George Bonanno
Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief, Joanne Cacciatore
The Roaring of The Sacred River, Steven Foster and Meredith Little
Soulcraft, Bill Plotkin
Nature and the Human Soul, Bill Plotkin
The World’s a Waiting Lover, Trebbe Johnson
The Rites of Passage, Arnold van Gennep
NATURE WRITINGS
A Story Like the Wind, Laurens van der Post (a novel)
The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You, Dorothy Bryan (a novel)
Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams
Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert, Terry Tempest Williams
An Unspoken Hunger, Terry Tempest Williams
When Women Were Birds, Terry Tempest Williams
Finding Beauty in A Broken World, Terry Tempest Williams
The Wild Places, Robert Macfarlane
Dream of The Earth, Thomas Berry
The Fruitful Darkness, Joan Halifax
A Language Older Than Words, Derrick Jensen
Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
The poetry of Mary Oliver
The poetry of David Whyte
SOLITUDE
Journal of a Solitude, May Sarton
Solitude: A Return to the Self, Anthony Storr
An Unknown Woman, Alice Koller
The Stations of Solitude, Alice Koller
Migrations to Solitude, Sue Halpern
COUNCIL AND STORYTELLING
The Way of Council, Jack Zimmerman and Virginia Coyle
The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair, Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea
Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power & Practice of Story, Christina Baldwin
Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture, Christina Baldwin
BUDDHISM
A Path with a Heart, Jack Kornfield
Wise Heart, Jack Kornfield
Faith, Sharon Salzberg
When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron
Breath by Breath, Larry Rosenberg
Dancing with Life, Phillip Moffitt
Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist, Stephen Batchelor
How to Be Sick, Toni Bernhard
THE SECOND HALF OF L IFE
The Middle Passage: from Misery to Meaning, James Hollis
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, James Hollis
The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom, Angeles Arrien
Living in Gratitude, Angeles Arrien
Conscious Living, Conscious Aging: Embrace and Savor Your Next Chapter, Ron Pevny
Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble, Stephen Jenkinson
CHRONIC ILLNESS AND AGING
Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
My Mother, Your Mother, Dennis McCullough, M.D.
Aging for Beginners, Ezra Bayda with Elizabeth Hamilton
END OF LIFE
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (a novel)
One True Thing, Anna Quindlen (a novel)
On Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Healing into Life and Death, Stephen Levine
A Year to Live, Stephen Levine
Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche
A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death, Bruce Miller & Shoshana Berger
When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
How We Die, Sherwin Nuland
Gratitude, Oliver Sacks
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
GRIEF & LOSS
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief, Francis Weller
The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss, George Bonanno
Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief, Joanne Cacciatore