Another year has passed and we have completed season two with 24 amazing episodes and guests. So it only makes sense to see every single book in one list, all in order of episodes:
Jaspreet Kaur: Brown Girl Like Me: The Essential Guidebook and Manifesto for South Asian Girls and Women
Alice Wong: Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Michelle Tom: Ten Thousand Aftershocks: Family, Frontlines, Fallout
Scott Barry Kaufman: Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
Nikesh Shukla: The Good Immigrant
Mary-Frances Winters: Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
Piyali Bhattacharya: Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion
Ira Chaleff: Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You’re Told to Do Is Wrong
Frances Edmonds: Repotting Your Life: How to reframe your thinking, reset your purpose and rejuvenate yourself time and again
Tom Vanderbilt: Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
Adrian Webster and Dr Jack Lewis: Sort Your Brain Out: Boost Your Performance, Manage Stress and Achieve More
Bill Bryson: The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Professor Lewis R. Gordon: Fear of Black Consciousness
Jessamyn Conrad: What You Should Know About Politics . . . But Don’t – A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues That Matter
Sabrina Mahfouz: These Bodies of Water: Notes on the British Empire, the Middle East and Where We Meet
Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States
Jo Shaw, Ben Fletcher-Watson, and Abrisham Ahmadzade: Dangerous Women: Fifty reflections on women, power and identity
Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding: Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America
Gary Younge: Who Are We — And Should It Matter in the 21st Century?
Francis Fukuyama: Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
Simon Alexander Ong: Energize: Make the Most of Every Moment
Dr Amy Shah: I’m So Effing Tired: A Proven Plan to Beat Burnout, Boost Your Energy, and Reclaim Your Life
Drew Povey and Sam Draper, When the Clouds Come: Dealing with Difficulties, Facing Your Fears, and Overcoming Obstacles
Pema Chödrön: When Things Fall Apart
Gavin Oattes: Life Will See You Now: Quit Waiting for the Light at the End of the Tunnel and Light That F*cker Up for Yourself
Bob Goff: Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do about It
Symeon Brown: Get Rich Or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy
Jaron Lanier: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Dr Nerina Ramlakhan: Finding Inner Safety: The Key to Healing, Thriving, and Overcoming Burnout
Dr. Gabor Maté: When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
Charlotte Fox Weber: What We Want: A Journey Through Twelve of Our Deepest Desires
Luke Burgis: Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
Seth Godin: The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit
Coonoor Behal: I Quit! The Life Affirming Joy of Giving Up
Tessa McWatt: Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging
Sofie Hagen: Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You
Thijs Launspach: Crazy Busy: Keeping Sane in a Stressful World
Dr. Jacinta M Jimenez: The Burnout Fix: Overcome Overwhelm, Beat Busy, and Sustain Success in the New World of Work
Sadia Azmat: Sex Bomb: The Life and Loves of an Asian Babe
Alain De Botton: How To Think More About Sex
Simran Kaur: Girls That Invest: Your Guide to Financial Independence Through Shares and Stocks
Helaine Olen and Harold Pollack: The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated.
Dr Neil Fiore: The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play
Brian Tracy: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
Jim Steele: Unashamedly Superhuman: Harness Your Inner Power and Achieve Your Greatest Professional and Personal Goals
Deepak Chopra, M.D., Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential
Amber Lea Starfire: Journaling For Dummies
Dr Lucia Capacchione: The Creative Journal: The Art of Finding Yourself
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Why protest is important – with Pessimism is for Lightweights poet Salena Godden –
How To Be…Books Podcast
Welcome to the "How To Be Books Podcast", guiding you through life's tricky topics and skills by reading through the best books out there. Protest is an invaluable way to speak truth to power, which is why we spoke to award-winning poet Salena Godden, who wrote Pessimism is for Lightweights: 13 Pieces of Courage and Resistance.Please hit subscribe to hear the whole series on life skills and social change! It should be short and sweet. I look forward to journeying with you through this maze of hacks.Other amazing guests who took part:Puneet Singh is the founder of ssstart, an organization working towards a more inclusive and accessible society for people with disabilities. His life is an intersection of poverty, domestic violence, and multiple disabilities.Other books/articles looked at:Danny Schechter: Occupy: Dissecting Occupy Wall Street
Suswati Basu is a writer, journalist, producer and feminist activist residing in London. She has written for the Guardian, Huffington Post and the F-Word blogs, and has worked for various media outlets such as the BBC, Channel 4 and for ITV News/ITN. She currently is Head of Audience and Deputy Editor at NationalWorld.
