Amy Suto

My Goodreads review of Nickel and Dimed is exactly one sentence long: this book should be required reading for every American. Six years later, I’m not softening it.

Jonathan Haidt's case about phones and childhood is important, a little academic, and worth the discourse. My review of The Anxious Generation.

I read Anna Wiener's memoir of 2010s San Francisco tech while a Waymo rolled past my window. My honest review of Uncanny Valley.

A Survivor fan and working memoir ghostwriter reviews Nice Girls Don't Win by Parvati Shallow: real drama, real charm, and the craft gap that kept it at three stars.

A memoir ghostwriter reviews the internet's most notorious self-published memoir. Scammer by Caroline Calloway is alive, messy, and flecked with real poetry.

I read the Yoga Sutras before my 200-hour yoga teacher training. Some of it went into my teaching, some of it I argued with. An honest 3-star review.

Joe Dispenza's mind-body deep end, read during my healing year: what earned five stars, what to hold loosely, and why mantras were the soundtrack and not the surgery.

Nobel-backed longevity science I read four months before my rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis, which gave the whole book stakes. My review of The Telomere Effect.

The most readable, most heavily-cited nutrition book I own. My review of How Not to Die by Dr. Michael Greger, read deep in my healing year.

Brooke Goldner's raw-vegetable protocol brought serious hope to my autoimmune healing year. My honest review of Goodbye Autoimmune Disease, one production flaw included.

My review of The Immune System Recovery Plan by Dr. Susan Blum: the four-step autoimmune program that gave my healing year structure, hope, and a lot of self-assessment quizzes.

The book I read one month after my rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis, and the one I still hand to people five years and one remission later. My spoiler-free review of Healing Arthritis by Susan Blum.

My honest Everything Is Figureoutable review: Marie Forleo’s mantra genuinely inspires, and I kept waiting for the strategy. A sweet pick-me-up — 3 stars.

My honest Stress Less, Accomplish More review: great meditation concepts for high achievers, buried under plugs for the author’s programs. 3 stars, with caveats.

My Waking Up review: Sam Harris argues spirituality belongs to skeptics too. One beautiful thesis, some dry stretches — 4 stars and a reading-order tip.

My honest Power of Now review: real gems on presence, a structure that wanders, and the two mindfulness books I’d hand you before this one. 3 stars.

My Wintering review: Katherine May on the seasons when life forces you to rest. I read it the year rest became a prescription for me — a warm 4 stars.

My review of Man’s Search for Meaning: Viktor Frankl’s memoir and meditation on meaning is one of the most impactful books I’ve ever read. A book everyone should read.

My honest Deep Work review: real gems about focus and social media, wrapped in corporate prose. Why the ideas earned my respect and the writing kept my score at 3 stars.

My Essentialism review: one of the two best career books I’ve ever read. Doing less to accomplish more sounds counterintuitive right up until it rebuilds your calendar.

My Burnout review: Emily and Amelia Nagoski’s research on completing the stress cycle is stress advice I’ve found nowhere else. A 5-star must-read, especially for women.

My Goodreads review of The Untethered Soul was one sentence long. Here’s the longer version — why Michael Singer’s simple advice is the mindfulness book I recommend first.

If you want to change your life, read this book. My review of Brianna Wiest’s The Mountain Is You — some of the best advice I’ve ever gotten, and the one thing it asks of you first.

My Atomic Habits review: the habit book that beat every other habit book I’ve read. Fresh advice, a simple system, zero 5am worship — 5 out of 5 stars.

My review of Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller: a screenwriter’s verdict on the SB7 framework, the guide-not-hero move, and one honest gripe.

My review of The Dip by Seth Godin: strategic quitting in about an hour, the dip-versus-dead-end question the book leaves open, and my own 2020 answer to it.

My review of Zero to One by Peter Thiel: read critically, argued with in the margins, and mined for the handful of ideas writers can actually use.

My review of Good to Great by Jim Collins: where my freelancing flywheel came from, radical honesty as a business tool, and what to do with the corporate case studies.