Book Library (for reference)
A simple, honest list of the books on my shelves — shared for reference, not as a reading challenge.
All books
This library exists purely as a reference: books I own, books I've read, and books I dip into when I need a specific idea. Use the filters to slice by status, shelf, or search by title and author.
| Title | Author | Shelf | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rich Dad Poor Dad | Robert T. Kiyosaki | Business & Psychology | Currently reading |
| Beyond Good and Evil | Friedrich Nietzsche | Philosophy & Wisdom | Currently reading |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | Philosophy & Wisdom | Currently reading |
| 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think | Brianna Wiest | Personal Development & Self-Help | Currently reading |
| Recovery from Gaslighting & Narcissistic Abuse | Don Barlow | Relationships & Trauma Recovery | Currently reading |
| Modern Software Engineering | David Farley | Tech & Engineering | Currently reading |
| Atlas of the Heart | Brené Brown | Relationships & Trauma Recovery | Currently reading |
| Stuff Good Players Should Know | Dick DeVenzio | Sports & Coaching | Currently reading |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | Personal Development & Self-Help | Read |
| 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos | Jordan B. Peterson | Personal Development & Self-Help | Read |
| Emotional Intelligence 2.0 | Travis Bradberry | Personal Development & Self-Help | Read |
| The 48 Laws of Power | Robert Greene | Personal Development & Self-Help | Read |
| Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents | Lindsay C. Gibson | Personal Development & Self-Help | Read |
| No-Drama Discipline | Daniel J. Siegel | Personal Development & Self-Help | Read |
| Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames | Thich Nhat Hanh | Personal Development & Self-Help | Read |
| Anger: Taming the Beast | Reneau Z. Peurifoy | Personal Development & Self-Help | Read |
| Atomic Habits | James Clear | Personal Development & Self-Help | Read |
| Journey to the Heart | Melody Beattie | Personal Development & Self-Help | Read |
| The Obstacle Is the Way | Ryan Holiday | Personal Development & Self-Help | Read |
| Your Erroneous Zones | Wayne W. Dyer | Personal Development & Self-Help | Read |
| Everything Is F*cked | Mark Manson | Personal Development & Self-Help | Read |
| Allies in Healing | Laura Davis | Personal Development & Self-Help | Read |
| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen R. Covey | Personal Development & Self-Help | Read |
| Gong Baths: A Guide to Sound Healing | Stephen Hill | Personal Development & Self-Help | Read |
| The Grown-Up's Guide to Teenage Humans | Josh Shipp | Personal Development & Self-Help | Read |
| A Calendar of Wisdom | Leo Tolstoy | Personal Development & Self-Help | Read |
| JavaScript: The Definitive Guide | David Flanagan | Technology & Programming | Read |
| The Book of CSS3 | Peter Gasston | Technology & Programming | Read |
| High Performance JavaScript | Nicholas C. Zakas | Technology & Programming | Read |
| JavaScript Patterns | Stoyan Stefanov | Technology & Programming | Read |
| Professional JavaScript for Web Developers | Nicholas C. Zakas | Technology & Programming | Read |
| Effective JavaScript | David Herman | Technology & Programming | Read |
| HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites | Jon Duckett | Technology & Programming | Read |
| Version Control with Git | Jon Loeliger | Technology & Programming | Read |
| PHP Object-Oriented Solutions | David Powers | Technology & Programming | Read |
| High Performance MySQL | Baron Schwartz | Technology & Programming | Read |
| The Web Designer's Idea Book, Vol. 2 | Patrick McNeil | Technology & Programming | Read |
| What is HTML 5? | Brett McLaughlin | Technology & Programming | Read |
| Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL | Hugh E. Williams | Technology & Programming | Read |
| AJAX and PHP | Cristian Darie | Technology & Programming | Read |
| The Manager's Path | Camille Fournier | Leadership & Management | Read |
| High Output Management | Andrew S. Grove | Leadership & Management | Read |
| The Art of Leadership | Michael Lopp | Leadership & Management | Read |
| The Professional Product Owner | Don McGreal | Leadership & Management | Read |
| Building Evolutionary Architectures | Neal Ford | Leadership & Management | Read |
| Hacking Growth | Sean Ellis | Leadership & Management | Read |
| The Daily Stoic | Ryan Holiday | Leadership & Management | Read |
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | Leadership & Management | Read |
| Freakonomics | Steven D. Levitt | Leadership & Management | Read |
| The Couple's Workbook | The School of Life | Relationships & Trauma Recovery | Read |
| Saboreando Salud | Lydibel Porrata | Relationships & Trauma Recovery | Read |
| Why Does He Do That? | Lundy Bancroft | Relationships & Trauma Recovery | Read |
| Attached | Amir Levine | Relationships & Trauma Recovery | Read |
| The Five Love Languages | Gary Chapman | Relationships & Trauma Recovery | Read |
| The Whole-Brain Child | Daniel J. Siegel | Relationships & Trauma Recovery | Read |
| Nonviolent Communication | Marshall B. Rosenberg | Relationships & Trauma Recovery | Read |
| The Way of the Superior Man | David Deida | Relationships & Trauma Recovery | Read |
| No More Mr. Nice Guy | Robert A. Glover | Relationships & Trauma Recovery | Read |
| Feeling Good | David D. Burns | Relationships & Trauma Recovery | Read |
| Print Handwriting Workbook for Adults | Sujatha Lalgudi | Relationships & Trauma Recovery | Read |
| Bringing Up Girls | James C. Dobson | Relationships & Trauma Recovery | Read |
| Ruined by Design | Mike Monteiro | Creative & Design | Read |
| The Dore Gallery: His 120 Greatest Illustrations | Gustave Doré | Creative & Design | Read |
| Happily Ever After: The Artwork of Jeremy Fish | Jeremy Fish | Creative & Design | Read |
| The Complete Calvin and Hobbes | Bill Watterson | Art & Literature | Read |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | Art & Literature | Read |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | Art & Literature | Read |
| The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | Art & Literature | Read |
| El principito | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Art & Literature | Read |
| Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook | Illyanna Maisonet | Food & Cooking | Read |
| Cocina criolla | Empresas Cucuye Inc. | Food & Cooking | Read |
| Database Management Systems | Raghu Ramakrishnan | Reference & Educational | Read |
| Operating System Concepts | Abraham Silberschatz | Reference & Educational | Read |
| A Beginner's Guide to Discrete Mathematics | W.D. Wallis | Reference & Educational | Read |
| Human Anatomy in Full Color | John Green | Reference & Educational | Read |
| The China Study | T. Colin Campbell | Reference & Educational | Read |
| Programming Languages: Design and Implementation | Terrence W. Pratt | Reference & Educational | Read |
| We're Pregnant! The First Time Dad's Pregnancy Handbook | Adrian Kulp | Parenting & Life | Read |
| How to Cook Everything | Mark Bittman | Parenting & Life | Read |
| Cyanide and Happiness | Kris Wilson | Comics & Humor | Read |
| Thing Explainer | Randall Munroe | Other | Read |
| Infection & Immunity | John H.L. Playton | Other | Read |
| The Creative Act: A Way of Being | Rick Rubin | Spirituality & Personal Growth | Reference / not read completely |
| The War of Art | Steven Pressfield | Spirituality & Personal Growth | Reference / not read completely |
| Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect With the Present, and Expand the Future | Yung Pueblo | Spirituality & Personal Growth | Reference / not read completely |
| Starry Messenger | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Spirituality & Personal Growth | Reference / not read completely |
| Untamed | Glennon Doyle | Spirituality & Personal Growth | Reference / not read completely |
| Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs | Scott Cunningham | Spirituality & Personal Growth | Reference / not read completely |
| Thus spake Zarathustra | Friedrich Nietzsche | Spirituality & Personal Growth | Reference / not read completely |
| You Are Your Child's First Teacher | Rahima Baldwin Dancy | Spirituality & Personal Growth | Reference / not read completely |
| The Courage to Heal | Ellen Bass | Spirituality & Personal Growth | Reference / not read completely |
| Mujeres que corren con los Lobos | Clarissa Pinkola Estés | Spirituality & Personal Growth | Reference / not read completely |
| Psychic Empath | Kimberly Moon | Spirituality & Personal Growth | Reference / not read completely |
| Yoga Nidra Scripts | Tamara Skyhawk | Spirituality & Personal Growth | Reference / not read completely |
| Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving | Pete Walker | Spirituality & Personal Growth | Reference / not read completely |
| Me and White Supremacy | Layla F. Saad | Spirituality & Personal Growth | Reference / not read completely |
| You Can Heal Your Life | Louise L. Hay | Spirituality & Personal Growth | Reference / not read completely |
| Una vida con Ángeles | Tania Karam | Spirituality & Personal Growth | Reference / not read completely |
| Veneración a los ancestros | Mari Silva | Spiritual Guides & Angels | Reference / not read completely |
| Arcángeles: Una guía espiritual | Mari Silva | Spiritual Guides & Angels | Reference / not read completely |
| Guías espirituales animales | Mari Silva | Spiritual Guides & Angels | Reference / not read completely |
| Soul Cleansing and Energetic Protection | Eva Márquez | Spiritual Guides & Angels | Reference / not read completely |
| Medical Medium Cleanse to Heal | Anthony William | Healing & Wellness | Reference / not read completely |
| Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation | Suzette Boon | Healing & Wellness | Reference / not read completely |
| Healing Your Wounded Inner Child | Maria Clarke | Healing & Wellness | Reference / not read completely |
| Empath and Psychic Abilities | Ellen J. Cure | Healing & Wellness | Reference / not read completely |
| Fundamentals of Software Architecture | Mark Richards | Tech & Engineering | Reference / not read completely |
| User Story Mapping | Jeff Patton | Tech & Engineering | Reference / not read completely |
| This Is How We Come Back Stronger | Feminist Book Society | Tech & Engineering | Reference / not read completely |
| The Wisdom of the Enneagram | Don Richard Riso | Philosophy & Wisdom | Reference / not read completely |
| High Performance Habits | Brendon Burchard | Philosophy & Wisdom | Reference / not read completely |
| Of Human Freedom | Epictetus | Philosophy & Wisdom | Read |
| The Bhagavad Gita | Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa | Philosophy & Wisdom | Reference / not read completely |
| The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers | Gary Chapman | Parenting & Child Development | Reference / not read completely |
| Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents | Lindsay C. Gibson | Parenting & Child Development | Reference / not read completely |
| Practical Guide to the Montessori Method at Home | Julia Palmarola | Parenting & Child Development | Reference / not read completely |
| Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali | Satchidananda | Yoga & Meditation | Reference / not read completely |
| The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali | Satchidananda | Yoga & Meditation | Reference / not read completely |
| Basic Art of Adjustments: A Beginning Guide to Yoga | Alanna Kaivalya | Yoga & Meditation | Reference / not read completely |
| Kanban | David J. Anderson | Business & Psychology | Reference / not read completely |
| Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives | Deepak Chopra | Business & Psychology | Reference / not read completely |
| The Tipping Point | Malcolm Gladwell | Business & Psychology | Reference / not read completely |
| Methods of Persuasion | Nick Kolenda | Business & Psychology | Reference / not read completely |
| Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents | Lindsay C. Gibson | Personal Development | Reference / not read completely |
| Feeling Good Together | David D. Burns | Personal Development | Reference / not read completely |
| The Power of Positive Thinking | Norman Vincent Peale | Personal Development | Reference / not read completely |
| Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | Literature | Reference / not read completely |
| Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson | Literature | Reference / not read completely |
| The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution | Founding Fathers | Literature | Reference / not read completely |
| Mark Ryden. Pinxit | Amanda Erlanson | Art & Design | Reference / not read completely |
| Improve Your Handwriting | Rosemary Sassoon | Art & Design | Reference / not read completely |
| Calm the Chaos Cards | Nicola Ries Taggart | Miscellaneous | Reference / not read completely |
| Guitar Fretboard | Guitar Head | Miscellaneous | Reference / not read completely |
| Bring Up Girls | James C. Dobson | Miscellaneous | Reference / not read completely |
| 14,000 Things to Be Happy About | Barbara Ann Kipfer | Miscellaneous | Reference / not read completely |
| 10-Minute Life Lessons for Kids | Jamie C. Miller | Miscellaneous | Reference / not read completely |
| The Book of Virtues for Young People | William J. Bennett | Miscellaneous | Reference / not read completely |