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Ultimate List of Books to Bring to a Deserted Island

The books your speakers are bringing!

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Books by Brené Brown

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Any Book by David Sedaris

Any Book by Jodi Picoult

Any book by Elin Hilderbrand

Any book Lisa Scottoline

Any book by Liane Moriarty

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Awareness by Anthony De Mello

Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

Childhood favorite books: Golden Compass Series

Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Atomic Habits by James Clear

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Game of Throne series by George R. R. Martin 

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Anything by Chloe Liese or Tully Hebert

How to Read a Book by Kwame Alexander

Anything by Peggy Dean

Island Beneath the Sea by Isabelle Allende

100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain

Gilead - Marilynn Robinson

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

Figuring - Maria Popova

Nothing Special by Charlotte J. Beck

Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust 

Buildings by Chris Ware

One of the Harry Potter Books

Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

May Cause Miracles by Gabrielle Bernstein

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Ask by Ryan Levesque

NO B.S. Price Strategy by Dan Kennedy

Show Your Work by Austin Kleon

Full Time You by Meg Lewis

The Creative Career Path by Andy J Pizza

Freelance, and Business, and Stuff by Jen & Amy Hood

Fair Play by Eve Rodsky

Deep Work by Cal Newport

Burnout by Emily & Amelia Nagoski

Wintering by Katherine May

Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen

The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister 

East of Eden by John Steinbeck or some other sort of long book

Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

Tribes by Seth Godin

The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart

Lydia Davis - a complication of her essays

How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell