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Maria Popova's Reading List

Writer and creator of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings); publishes annual "Favorite Books of the Year" round-ups.

Maria Popova — Favorite Books of 2024 (2024)

Annual year-end favorites from The Marginalian.

Source: www.themarginalian.org

Marie Howe: New and Selected Poems

Marie Howe · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

Something in the Woods Loves You

Jarod K. Anderson · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

Thank You, Everything

Icinori · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

Letters

Oliver Sacks · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

Weathering

Ruth Allen · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

The Other Significant Others

Rhaina Cohen · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

Consolations II

David Whyte · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

The Work of Art

Adam Moss · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

We Are Free to Change the World

Lyndsey Stonebridge · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

Something About the Sky

Rachel Carson and Nikki McClure · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

Flowers for Things I Don't Know How to Say

Tucker Nichols · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

On Giving Up

Adam Phillips · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

The Light Eaters

Zoë Schlanger · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

Life as No One Knows It

Sara Imari Walker · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

Cloudspotting for Beginners

Gavin Pretor-Pinney and William Grill · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

We Go to the Park

Sara Stridsberg and Beatrice Alemagna · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

The Miraculous from the Material

Alan Lightman · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

The Art of Crying

Pepita Sandwich · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

The Dictionary Story

Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

The Universe in Verse

Maria Popova · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

"Her own book — included in her year-end favorites round-up."

Books from Tim Ferriss: Jerry Seinfeld and Maria Popova (2024)

Extracted via LLM from auto-captions of Tim Ferriss (2024-06-18).

Source: www.youtube.com

Waking Up

Sam Harris · 2014 · Buy on Amazon

"an annotated reading of Waking Up which I found really impactful for me — it put words to a lot of vague feelings I'd had for a long time."

The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert

Richard Betts · 2013 · Buy on Amazon

"I wrote about it because it's lovely and sort of profound and challenges our existing ideas about sensory experience."

Books from Tim Ferriss: Insights from Tara Brach, Ryan Holiday, Maria Popova, and Cal Newport (2022)

Extracted via LLM from auto-captions of Tim Ferriss (2022-10-11).

Source: www.youtube.com

Radical Acceptance

Tara Brach · 2003 · Buy on Amazon

"She has changed my life perhaps more profoundly than anybody in my life so I highly recommend her."

Trusting the Gold

Tara Brach · 2021 · Buy on Amazon

"She has changed my life perhaps more profoundly than anybody in my life."

On the Shortness of Life

Seneca · Buy on Amazon

"Is this perhaps the best manifesto for our current struggle with productivity versus presence?"

Books from On Being: Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age (2019)

Extracted via LLM from auto-captions of On Being (2019-09-21).

Source: www.youtube.com

The Journal of Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau · 1906 · Buy on Amazon

"I use Thoreau's Journals as a kind of spiritual text that I reread over and over when I need to recenter."

A Writer's Diary

Virginia Woolf · 1953 · Buy on Amazon

"I was reading Virginia Woolf's diary and she says one can't write directly about the soul — looked at, it vanishes."

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