Amy Suto's Blog: Writing, Substack Growth & Travel Guides

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.

My review of The Millionaire Next Door: the data-heavy classic on why income and wealth are different things, what freelancers should take from it, and the parts that aged.

My review of The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business by Elaine Pofeldt: the book that told me a company of one could get big, read weeks after my writers’ room closed.

My review of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: permissionless leverage, happiness as a trainable skill, and the ideas that became the spine of my writing business.

My review of The Pathless Path by Paul Millerd: the best book I’ve read for anyone afraid to leave the default path, from a former digital nomad who made the leap in 2020.

My review of $100M Money Models: Alex Hormozi’s most technical book, explained simply. What it says about why I priced my own book at $0.99, and who should read the trilogy in order.