Your summer reading list: Picks from the TED community

Summer: the season for cracking open a good book under the shade of a tree. Below, we’ve compiled about 70 stellar book recommendations from members of the TED community. Warning: not all of these books can be classified as beach reads. Picks from Elizabeth Gilbert, author The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman. Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror in Science by Richard Holmes. What Are You Optimistic About? Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. “ I find something incredibly soothing about the notion of a 2nd-century Roman emperor worrying about the same stuff I worry about—namely, how are we to be? Mixing Minds: The Power of Relationship in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism by Pilar Jennings. Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh. Want Not by Jonathan Miles. The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.

11 Books to Read When You’re Mega-Stressed Stress is a useful biological mechanism, because if we didn’t get stressed out, we would just be like, “F-it, who needs a job? Or love? Or emotional and financial success? NOT ME!” I don’t even know what would happen — I guess maybe we would just pour our life savings into a trip to the Netherlands and just live off the land or whatever. Whether it’s a job, our kids, our partners, our parents, or just the thought of our looming futures, stress and anxiety will be there, hovering as they wait for us to screw up, or take too much on. I know what you’re thinking — read a book while I’m stressed? 1. Pin it Any Sedaris book will do: When You’re Engulfed in Flames, Naked, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, etc. 2. Tortilla Flat is so unlike any of Steinbeck’s other works, it almost doesn’t feel like this is by the same author who wrote Grapes of Wrath or East of Eden. 3. I often think of J.D. 4. 5. I often flip through this collection of short stories just for a sense of belonging. 6.

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