Recommended Reading

I was speaking with a friend recently, and she pointed out that I have a tendency to recommend books for every topic and situation, but she forgets the titles and could I not... like... write them down somewhere?

So here you go - arranged by topic (roughly), books that have helped me, opened my eyes, or changed my world in ways small or large. Please let me know if you've read them, what you think, and which books you would recommend. I'll try to keep this list updated with new things as I come across them, so feel free to bookmark it if you're interested.

Clothes, Style, Shopping and Stuff

Spark Joy by Marie Kondo

How To Break Up With Fast Fashion by Lauren Bravo

To Buy Or Not To Buy by April Lane Benson

Shop Your Wardrobe by Jill Chivers

More Than Enough by Miranda Anderson

Loved Clothes Last by Orsola de Castro 

Make, Thrift, Mend by Katrina Rodabaugh

Consumed: The need for collective change; colonialism, climate change & consumerism by Aja Barber

Mend! by Kate Sekules

Technology

How To Break Up With Your Phone by Catherine Price

Why Social Media Is Ruining Your Life by Katherine Ormerod

Simplicity, Frugality and Freedom

The Moneyless Man by Mark Boyle

How To Be Free by Tom Hodgkinson

Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity From A Consumer Culture by Shannon Hayes

Timeless Simplicity by John Lane

Your Money Or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez

Escape Everything! by Robert Wringham

How I Lived A Year On Just A Pound A Day by Kath Kelly

Make Your Place: Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills by Raleigh Briggs 

Real Life Money by Claire Seal 

The Art of Frugal Hedonism by Annie Raser-Rowland and Adam Grubb

Rewilding the Urban Soul by Claire Dunn

Beauty and Feminism

The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

Beyond Beautiful by Anuschka Rees

No More Dirty Looks by Siobhan O'Connor and Alexandra Spunt

Wild Beauty by Jana Blankenship

Radical Self-Love by Gala Darling

Just Eat It by Laura Thomas PhD 

The Fuck It Diet by Caroline Dooner

You Are Not A Before Picture by Alex Light

Body and Soul by Anita Roddick

Sustainability/Environment

There Is No Planet B by Mike Berners-Lee

The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard 

Zero Waste Home by Bea Johnson 

The Day The World Stops Shopping by J B MacKinnon 

Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel 

The Forager's Garden by Anna Locke 

The Way Home by Mark Boyle

Going Zero by Kate Hughes

Sustainable Minimalism by Stephanie Marie Seferian

The Guide to Eco-Anxiety by Anouchka Grose

Sustainable Badass by Gittemarie Johansen

The Less Waste No Fuss Kitchen by Lindsay Miles

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Creativity

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Enchanted Life by Sharon Blackie

The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer

The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

Travel/Memoir 

Faery Tale by Signe Pike

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Free: Adventures on the Margins of a Wasteful Society by Katharine Hibbert

Afloat by Danie Couchman

Homesick by Catrina Davies

The Outrun by Amy Liptrot

Wild by Jay Griffiths

Zero Altitude by Helen Coffey

On Gallows Down by Nicola Chester

Druidry, Re-Enchantment and Nature Spirituality 

The Path of Druidry by Penny Billington

A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett (in fact the whole Tiffany Aching sequence - The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight and The Shepherd's Crown. I'm not going to justify or apologise for including fiction books in my spirituality section.) 

Five Principles of Green Witchcraft by Asa West 

A Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer by Alley Valkyrie and Rhyd Wildermuth 

Urban Faery Magick by Tara Sanchez 

A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again by Emma Howarth 

Druidry and the Future by Nimue Brown  

Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Sometimes A Wild God by Tom Hirons

Druidcraft by Phillip Carr-Gomm

Ground & Centre by Katherine Genet

The Wood Wife by Terri Windling

Practically Pagan: An Alternative Guide To Planet-Friendly Living by Mabh Savage

Other

The Way Back Almanac by Melinda Salisbury

Pip Pip by Jay Griffiths

Kith by Jay Griffiths

Tatterdemalion by Sylvia V Linsteadt and Rima Staines