Scenic Route Bookclub
Explore new ideas, one page at a time.
Discover the books recommended by my guest on the Scenic Route podcast.
Your Scenic Route Book recommendations
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📚 Novels
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
Normal People
Sally Rooney
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Lori Gottlieb
The Paris Apartment
Lucy Foley
Ghosts
Dolly Alderton
Queenie
Candice Carty-Williams
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
💻 Business and Entrepreneurship
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni
Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole
Tiffany the Budgetnista Aliche
Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change
William R. Miller
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Eric Jorgenson, Jack Butcher, and Tim Ferriss
The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
Gay Hendricks
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Priya Parker
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
Seth Godin
Value Proposition Design
Alex Osterwalder
🤑 Finance & Money
Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine
Mike Michalowicz
Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole
Tiffany the Budgetnista Aliche
Poor
Katriona O'Sullivan
💖 Mindset, healing and magic
The Happiness Trap How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT
Russ Harris
Boundary Boss: The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free
Terri Cole
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
Mia Birdsong
The Anatomy of Peace: How to Resolve the Heart of Conflict
The Arbinger Institute
Big Magic
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Power of Letting Go: How to drop everything that’s holding you back
John Purkiss
Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living
Glennon Doyle
Ice Cream for Breakfast: How rediscovering your inner child can make you calmer, happier, and solve your bullsh*t adult problems
Laura Jane Williams
Atomic Habits
James Clear
🌲 Nature & belonging
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Dark Skies
Tiffany Francis
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
Mia Birdsong
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Priya Parker
The Secret Life of Plants
Peter Tompkins
Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
John O'Donohue
🧑🏿 Memories & personal stories
Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming
Antonio Michael Downing
The Audacity
Katherine Ryan
Taste: My Life Through Food
Stanley Tucci
Poor
Katriona O'Sullivan
👩👩👧👦 Society, feminism & history
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
Angela Garbes
Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism
Laurie Penny
Invisible Women
Caroline Criado Perez
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
R.D. Laing
The Language of Music
Deryck Cooke
