Anyone else having a hard time nowadays reading fiction? I used to love it and read nothing else. The past few years, I have gotten much more into reading non-fiction. I think for me it’s everything going on in this world and the fact that there’s so much to learn. It feels like wasting time to read fiction when there is so much more I need to learn to live a fulfilling, responsible, and informed life. Fiction simply doesn’t offer the same level of satisfaction it used to. I believe a lot of it has to do with depression. I have a hard time, in general, feeling pleasure anymore. Most things I used to enjoy now feel like a chore. Just wanted to check in to see if anyone else is experiencing the same thing.
Tag: non-fiction
Books I Read and Loved in 2018 and 2019 *Updated December 2019*
Fiction:
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories by Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert
Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (my favorite author!)
1984 by George Orwell
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes by Lyndsay Faye
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Non-fiction:
Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir by Beth Kephart
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying by Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness by Daniel G. Amen
The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes — and Why by Amanda Ripley
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence by Rachel Sherman
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence by Gavin de Becker
The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life by Anu Partanen
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brene Brown
No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process by Colin Beavan
Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein
Essentialism by Greg Mckeown
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B Crawford
