Depression and Anxiety

“I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression.” - Terry Real

“The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time.” - Alex Korb

“Afraid: Understanding the Purpose Fear and Harnessing the Power of Anxiety.” - Arash Javanbakht

“The Stoicism Workbook: How the Wisdom of Socrates Can Help You Build Resilience and Overcome Anything Life Throws at You.” - Scott Waltman, R. Trent Codd III, Kasey Pierce

“The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self.” - Alice Miller

Identity, Race, Gender, & Sexuality

“All About Love: New Visions.” - bell hooks

“The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love.” - bell hooks

“The Fire Next Time.” - James Baldwin

“Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood.” - Frederick Joseph

“Men Explain Things to Me.” - Rebecca Solnit

“Who’s Afraid of Gender?” - Judith Butler

“The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man’s World.” - Alan Downs

“Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life.” - Karen E. Fields & Barbara J. Fields

“How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America.” - Karen Brodkin

“How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective.” - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

“There Are Trans People Here.” - H. Melt

Trauma

“The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma.” Bessel van der Kolk

“Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair.” - Sarah Schulman

“My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.” - Resmaa Menakem

“On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel.” - Ocean Vuong

Grief & Mortality

“On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy, and Their Own Families.” - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss.” - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross & David Kessler

“A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death.” - BJ Miller & Shoshana Berger

“It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand.” - Megan Devine

“Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.” - Atul Gawande

“Man’s Search for Meaning.” - Viktor E. Frankl

“A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe.” - Todd May

“A Fragile Life: Accepting Our Vulnerability.” - Todd May

“Death (The Art of Living).” - Todd May

“From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death.” - Caitlin Doughty

For Fellow Psychotherapists

“The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients.” - Irvin Yalom

“On Being a Therapist.” - Jeffrey A. Kottler

“Existential Psychotherapy.” - Irvin Yalom

“Man and His Symbols.” - Carl G. Jung

“Pedagogy of the Oppressed.” - Paulo Freire

“Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends.” - Michael White & David Epston

“Love, Hate, and Reparation.” - Melanie Klein & Joan Riviere

“Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others.” Laura van Dernoot Lipsky & Connie Burk

Fiction and Non-Fiction

“The Dispossessed.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

“The Left Hand of Darkness.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

“The Message.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays).” - Rebecca Solnit

“The Wretched of the Earth.” - Frantz Fanon

“Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation.” - Silvia Federici

“The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism.” - Edward E. Baptist

“The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky.” - N. K. Jemisin

“The Way of Kings: Book One of the Stormlight Archive.” - Brandon Sanderson

“Piranesi.” - Susanna Clarke

“Sophie’s World.” - Jostein Gaarder

“Shame.” - Salman Rushdie

“The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.” - Haruki Murakami

“Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.” - Haruki Murakami