Here are 14 books to help you get started or continue your journey on the path to healing trauma and learning more about yourself and your mental health.

Nowhere For Very Long: The Unexpected Road To An Unconventional Life was written by a woman on the run from her past, who chose the Utah desert as her oasis.

Published in 2021, Somebody’s Daughter is the forceful memoir of Ashley Ford, through the mundane and pivotal moments that collectively make up a childhood.

Reading about yoga is a great way to explore the history of yoga, connect with different methodology and approaches, and learn new layers of the practice.

Jazz runs smoothly and musically like its namesake. Written by author, Toni Morrison, Jazz is one of her most popular and artistic works of literature.

Throughout Little Fires Everywhere, she examines the dual nature of rules: how they exist to provide a moral construct and a clear division between right and wrong, but cannot at their core inherently do this.

Wild is the aptly-named true story of a young woman who solo traverses the famous Pacific Crest Trail, carrying the burden of an absurdly heavy backpack and an equally heavy psychological strain. Coming off the heels of a heartbreaking divorce, her beloved mother’s death, drug abuse, and the breaking apart of her family ties, Cheryl seeks out the Pacific Crest Trail as a monumental trial against her pain.

Housekeeping is a modern classic published in 1987, detailing a tale of deep loneliness, growth, loss, and transition. It follows two young sisters, Ruth and Lucille, who are orphaned at a young age and fall under the care of different relatives who aren’t able to provide the stable environment of home, love, and security that they so very evidently need and crave.

People We Meet On Vacation is a quintessential summer read. If you are looking for a top-notch rom-com in fictional literature form, this is a great pick for you. It is the perfect romantic novel for your free time, and to pass the time pleasantly wrapped up in a light, interesting story of romance.

A highly compelling and intriguing read, Where the Crawdads Sing is a wild and inspiring fictional novel that centers around an untamed, solitary, and lonely child of the earth.

The Help invites many questions surrounding the civil rights movement of the 1960s in America and explores the complications and idiosyncrasies of this tumultuous and tense time period between black and white people in the 1960s.

The Silent Patient is the story of a mute murderess and her obsessive therapist is one that you have never read before. This psychological thriller novel was published in 2019 by Alex Michaelides, and his debut novel ensnares its readers along its twisting, turning path into darkness, madness, and mystery.

A collection of sketches of different individuals living in the same white-walled, manicure-lawned, picket-fenced suburban neighborhood in the late 1970s in Toronto, That Time I Loved You is a fascinating read that will pick your brain. It is a series of short stories that examine the face of things, or rather what can lay under the outward face.

Set in 1951 in a small rural town of North Dakota, Peace Like a River is a story of bold resilience to faith, family, and hope. Jeremiah, a humble but iron-willed man, remains a source of inspiration and strength for his three children (and soon, the audience). He faces the world’s obstacles and his family’s own very unique set of challenges with wisdom and hope, doing his best to convey this to his children.

The setting of Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng is built to be assuredly unassuming: a quiet midwestern family living in suburban, uneventful Ohio in the 1970s. However, this story turns out to be anything but unassuming and quiet. Underneath the fine layer of routine and composure, the Lee family is being torn from within.

A story begins, catches your interest, and then right at the moment of resolution or climax, the chapter ends, disappears without a trace, and switches to the first chapter of an entirely different novel with a different setting, characters, and time.

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Death of a Salesman is a classic that is widely considered to be one of the greatest American dramas, and should still be heralded in American literature for years to come, as it deals with ever-present themes of complicated family dynamics, identity, ambition, self-denial, and more.

From self help books to romance to contemporary fiction, check out the books on this list to find a new read to kickstart your new habit.

Jane Eyre remains an eternally epic read, a narrative rife with deep-souled passionate romance, mania, jealousy, dark mystery, betrayal, triumph, revenge, and tragedy.