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Hi, Diaundra here - field notes is where I share summaries of my favorite reads. Below is a list of the books I have read this year, with hyperlinks to the books that I have summarized.

2025 reads:

1. Mating in Captivity - Esther Perel

2. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

3. Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin

4. Zero to One - Peter Thiel

5. The Way of Integrity - Martha Beck

6. Artificial Intelligence - Melanie Mitchell

7. Memories, Dreams, Reflections - Carl Jung

8. A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle

2024 reads:

1. The Anxious Generation - Jonathan Haidt

2. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey

3. Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. On the Shortness of Life - Seneca

5. Think Again - Adam Grant

6. Essentialism - Greg McKeown

7. Nonviolent Communication - Marshall Rosenberg

8. Atlas of the Heart - Brené Brown

9. Breath - James Nestor

10. Shoe Dog - Phil Knight

11. Striking Thoughts - Bruce Lee

12. How To Be The Love You Seek - Dr. Nicole LePera

13. 8 Rules of Love - Jay Shetty

14. The Bhagavad Gita

15. The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle

16. Principles - Ray Dalio

17. The Mindbody Prescription - Dr. John Sorano

18. Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind - Shunryu Suzuki

19. Gifts from the Sea - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

20. Save the Cat - Blake Snyder

21. Peace is Every Step - Thich Nhat Hanh

22. The Will to Change - Bell Hooks

23. The Surrender Experiment - Michael A. Singer

24. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

25. The Unsold Mindset - Colin Coggins and Garrett Brown

26. Daring Greatly - Brené Brown

27. The Seat of the Soul - Gary Zukav

28. Greenlights - Matthew Mcconaughey

29. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison

30. Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki

31. All About Love- Bell Hooks

2023 reads:

1. Mindset - Carol Dweck

2. The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel 

3. I Will Teach You to Be Rich - Ramit Sethi

4. The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman 

5. Wherever You Go, There You Are - Jon Kabat-Zinn

6. The Untethered Soul - Michael Singer

7. The Art of Gathering - Priya Parker 

8. The Creative Act - Rick Rubin 

9. Never Finished - David Goggins

10. What You Do is Who You Are - Ben Horowitz

11. Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy - Sadhguru

12. The Cold Start Problem - Andrew Chen

13. Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda

14. Hit Makers - Derek Thompson

15. Steal Like an Artist - Austin Kleon

16. The Art of Learning - Josh Waitzkin

17. Outlive - Peter Attia

18. Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson

19. The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle

20. Ways of Seeing - John Berger

21. Atomic Habits - James Clear

22. The Inner Game of Tennis - W. Timothy Galley

23. How the World Works - Vaclav Smil

24. The Creation of Health - Carolyn Myss

25. clarity & connection - young pueblo

26. The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant - Eric Jorgenson

27. Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari

28. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

29. How to Know a Person - David Brooks

30. I Will Teach You To Be Rich - Ramit Seth

31. How Not To Die - Micheal Greger

32. Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself - Joe Dispenza

33. Rough Around the Edges - Jason Keaton

34. The Courage to be Disliked - Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi

I’d love to hear what you all are reading. DM me any book suggestions or reactions to the books above.

With love,

Diaundra