Welcome to being’s reference list. Here you’ll find an up-to-date, chronologically ordered record of all of the books, articles, podcasts, songs, and albums that have been mentioned (even very briefly) in the zine.
Non-Fiction
A Week at the Airport — Alain de Botton
Modern Tarot — Michelle Tea
Walden — Henry David Thoreau
Stuffocation — James Wallman
Wintering — Katherine May
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running — Haruki Murakami
“Why We Secretly Love Bad News” — The School of Life (The School of Life)
“How to Read Fewer Books” — The School of Life (The School of Life)
Notes on a Nervous Planet — Matt Haig
Aromatherapy — Louise Robinson
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop — Ronald Rice
The Library Book — Susan Orlean
84, Charing Cross Road — Helene Hanff
Stories of the Sahara — Sanmao
Silence: In the Age of Noise — Erling Kagge
“The Hard Work of Being Lazy” — The School of Life (The School of Life)
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life — Héctor García & Francesc Miralles
Happy Readings e-newsletter (Penguin)
The Artist’s Way — Julia Cameron
Ten Percent Happier — Dan Harris
The Hidden Life of Trees — Peter Wohlleben
Around the World in 80 Trees — Jonathan Drori
The Song of Trees — David George Haskell
Prisoners of Geography — Tim Marshall
Letters of Note — Shaun Usher
The Idle Traveller — Dan Kieran
Travels with Epicurus — Daniel A. Klein
Lost Connections — Johann Hari
A Journey Around My Room — Xavier de Maistre
“The Tyranny of Convenience” — Tim Wu (New York Times)
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold — Stephen Fry
Braiding Sweetgrass — Robin Wall Kimmerer
Four Thousand Weeks — Oliver Burkeman
Atlas of the Heart — Brene Brown
Colour: Travels through the Paintbox — Victoria Finlay
“Don’t Follow Your Passion, It’s What’s Holding You Back” — Ryan Holiday (Thought Catalog)
Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
The Daily Stoic — Ryan Holiday
Gratitude — Oliver Sacks
Dishoom — Shamil Thakrar, Kavi Thakrar, Naved Nasir
Small Pleasures — The School of Life
Pandora’s Jar — Natalie Haynes
Fiction
Sharks in the Time of Saviors — Kawai Strong Washburn
Bonjour Tristesse — Francoise Sagan
Rebecca — Daphne du Maurier
Iliad — Homer
Circe — Madeline Miller
The Overstory — Richard Power
A Dance with Dragons — George R.R. Martin
Heartburn — Nora Ephron
There There — Tommy Orange
Ceremony — Leslie Marmon Silko
Hot Milk — Deborah Levy
Catching Fire — Suzanne Collins
Galatea — Madeline Miller
Reward System — Jem Calder
Cárcel de Amor — Diego de San Pedro
Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister — Aphra Behn
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society — Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Bridget Jones’ Diary — Helen Fielding
Boy Meets Girl — Meg Cabot
The Princess Diaries — Meg Cabot
Dear Committee Members — Julie Schumacher
Music
The Definitive Collection — Stevie Wonder
Gold-Diggers Sound — Leon Bridges
Golden Hour — Kacey Musgraves
Ventura — Anderson. Paak
One Foot in Front of the Other — Griff
Van Weezer — Weezer
Selling Things — Brian Dunne
Sawayama — Rina Sawayama
“Springtime” — Linying (from There Could Be Wreckage Here)
The Marfa Tapes — Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, and Jon Randall
The Desired Effect — Brandon Flowers
Heard It in a Past Life — Maggie Rogers
The Writing’s on the Wall — Destiny’s Child
“This Hell” — Rina Sawayama (from Hold The Girl)
Waiting on a Song — Dan Auerbach
American Teen — Khalid
Tracy Chapman — Tracy Chapman
Volume Two — She & Him
Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays — Nat King Cole and George Shearing
five seconds flat — Lizzy McAlpine
Legacy: The Greatest Hits Collection — Boyz II Men
MTV Unplugged — Bleachers
Podcasts
Ologies
Everything is Alive
CodeSwitch
The Allusionist
Answer Me This!
Song Exploder
Book Exploder