Books I Read in 2024: Finding Your Own North Star

Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live by Martha Beck was recommended to me by a friend. I liked this book. The author’s tone is casual and funny, and she delivers a lot of relatable anecdotes. Primarily, it’s about getting The Person You Think You Should Be out of the way of The Person You Really Are. This book got me thinking more about what I want to do, not what I think I’m supposed to do, and that’s a win in my book.

Books I Read in 2024: Victory Parade, I Hate Men, My Friend Dahmer, The Crying of Lot 49, Machines in the Head, Big Magic, The Valley, End of Active Service, An Honest Woman, The Money Shot, Atomic Habits, Finding Your Own North Star, Crazy Cock, Sigrid Rides, Your Money Or Your Life, The Big Sleep, Eventually Everything Connects, Smutcutter, Shine Shine Shine, A Serial Killer’s Daughter, Confessions of a Serial Killer

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Books I Read in 2024: Atomic Habits

My god, how did Atomic Habits by James Clear sell over 15 million copies? I really don’t like books like this. A bunch of research gleaned from other sources compiled together with a theory of how you can live your life better without going to therapy. If you think buying a book about habits will solve all your problems, you are sorely mistaken. Pretending humans are animals that can be trained, not intuitive beings, is pointless.

Books I Read in 2024: Victory Parade, I Hate Men, My Friend Dahmer, The Crying of Lot 49, Machines in the Head, Big Magic, The Valley, End of Active Service, An Honest Woman, The Money Shot, Atomic Habits, Finding Your Own North Star, Crazy Cock, Sigrid Rides, Your Money Or Your Life, The Big Sleep, Eventually Everything Connects, Smutcutter, Shine Shine Shine, A Serial Killer’s Daughter, Confessions of a Serial Killer

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Listen to an Interview with Me About Data Baby on ABC Radio National's All in the Mind podcast

I was interviewed about my memoir, Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment (read more about my book here) for a recent episode of ABC Radio National’s podcast about the human mind, “All in the Mind,” out of Australia. The episode is “Being a Human Lab Rat for 30 Years: What Happens Next.”

From the episode’s description:

“Researchers knew Susannah better than her own parents.

They may have even known her better than herself.

Today, how spending thirty years in a psychological study warped journalist Susannah Breslin's life.”

Listen to my conversation with host Sana Qadar here.

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Data Baby Is One of the Best Psychology Books of 2023

The Next Big Idea Club has named my new memoir, DATA BABY: My Life in a Psychological Experiment, one of “The Top 50 Psychology Books of 2023.” You can also read and listen to me talk to The Next Big Idea Club about “Lessons Learned From Growing Up as a Test Subject.” You can buy DATA BABY here.

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