Book Recommendations

Self help/mental health

• Anything by Brene Brown

Parenting

• Screamfree Parenting by Hal Edward Runkel
• Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
• Heart of Parenting by John Gottman
• Cinderella ate my daughter by Peggy Orenstein

Men and boys

• I Don’t Want to Talk About It by Terrence Real
• The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
• Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Kindlon
• Boys and Sex by Peggy Orenstein

Feminist topics

• The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd
• Assertiveness guide for women by Julie de Azevedo Hanks
• The Mental Load by Emma

Sexuality, Eroticism, & Desire

• Come as you are by Emily Nagoski
• Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
• Passionate Marriage & Intimacy and Desire by David Schnarch

Consensual/Ethical Non-Monogamy & Polyamory

• Polyamory by Kauppi
• Polysecure by Fern
• Ethical slut by Hardy and Easton
• The jealousy workbook by Labriola
• Love in abundance by Labriola
• Jealousy survival guide by Chambliss
• Opening up by Taormino
• More than two by Veaux and Rickert
• It’s called polyamory by Pincus and Hiles
• A therapist’s guide to consensual nonmonogamy by Orion
• Sex at dawn by Ryan and Jetha
• Stories from the polycule by Sheff
• The polyamorist next door by Sheff

Social Justice, Intersectionality, & Privilege

• Where We Stand: Class Matters by bell hooks
• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
• Between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• White Fragility by Robin Diangelo

Religion, Mental Health, & LGBTQ intersections

• Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning by James W. Fowler
• Peculiar People: Mormons and Same-Sex Orientation by Ron Schow, Wayne Schow and Marybeth Raynes
• Gay Rights and the Mormon Church: Intended Actions, Unintended Consequences by Gregory A. Prince
• Sacred Wounds: A Path to Healing from Spiritual Trauma by Teresa B. Pasquale
• Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah
• Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion by Marlene Winell
• Navigating Mormon Faith Crisis: A Simple Developmental Map by Thomas Wirthlin McConkie

For clinicians

• Couples, Gender, and Power: Creating Change in Intimate Relationships by
  Carmen Knudson-Martin and Anne Rankin Mahoney
• LGBTQ clients in therapy by Joe Kort
• Soul Searching by William Doherty
• At Personal Risk by Marilyn Peterson
• Men in Therapy by David Wexler
• In the Room with Men by Englar-Carlson and Stevens