Bibliography & influences
(constantly under construction)
This is a list of books I have felt have helped me in different areas of my life – and at different times, so they made be dated. I’ve organized them by theme even though some may fit more than one category. I do have books that I’ve forgotten or not read yet and so this is a work in progress. Have a book, documentary or website recommendation? I’d love to check it out. Leave it in the comments.
Frugality & Simple Living
The Complete Tightwad Gazette by Amy Dacyzyn
The Simple Living Guide by Janet Luhrs
Walden: or life in the woods by HD Thoreau
The Year of Less by Cait Flanders
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping by Judith Levine
Finance and Financial Independence
The Wealthy Barber by David Chilton
Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin
Getting a Life by Jaqueline Blix and David Heitmiller
Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund Fisker
The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J Stanley
The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins
Pathfinders: extraordinary stories of people like you on the quest for Financial Independence — and how to join them by JL Collins (yes, I am in this book)
Why Swim With the Sharks? By Diana Dembicki & Henry Salomaa
How to Survive Without a Salary: Learning How to Live the Conserver Lifestyle by Charles K. Long
Saving For School: Understand RESPs, Take Control of Your Savings, Minimize Student Debt
by Gail Vaz-Oxlade
All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan by Elizabeth Warren & Amelia Warren Tyagi
Family and Children
Grit by Angela Duckworth
The Creative Family Amanda Soule
Mrs. Sharp’s Traditions: Reviving Victorian Family Celebrations of Comfort & Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach
The Family Dinner by Laurie David
Buy, buy baby: how consumer culture manipulates parents and harms young minds by SG Thomas
Alternative living
The Moneyless Man by Mark Boyle
The Way Home: tales from a life without technology by Mark Boyle
The Man Who Quit Money by Mark Sundeen
How to be Free by Tom Hodgkinson
How to be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson
Homemaking & homesteading
The Good Life by Scott and Helen Nearing
Loving and Leaving the Good Life by Scott and Helen Nearing
Good Life Lab: Radical Experiments in Hands-On Living by Wendy Tremayne
All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew
Animal, vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
The Urban Homestead by Kelly Coyne & Erik Knutzen
Art and crafts
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Art Before Breakfast by Danny Gregory
Craeft by Alexander Langlands
Big Magic: creative living beyond fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
Environment & sustainable living
Happy city by Charles Montgomery
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
No Impact Man by Colin Beavan
The rat race
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts