A few months ago I participated in a posting challenge on BlueSky (it’s still going on too!) that asked you to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. You were supposed to post one book cover per day, no explanations, no review, just covers. You can find my posts here.

Here are my 20 books:

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Peterson

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Joy of Doing Just Enough by Jennifer McCartney

Awkward: The Science of Why We're Socially Awkward and Why That's Awesome by Ty Tashiro, PhD

The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Address Unknown by Kressmann Taylor

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body by Lesley Kinzel

Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us by Murray Carpenter

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What To Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World by Sharon Heller, PhD

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore

Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal

If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino

Divine Evil by Nora Roberts

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allen Poe

The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger