O magazine's editor at large recommends an inspiring story on how curiosity can change your life. Plus, she shares the books that made her think and promote kindness, as well as the page-turner she stayed up all night reading.
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40 Books To Read Before Turning 40
"Mom & Me & Mom" By Maya Angelou(01 of40)
"Dear Life" By Alice Munro (02 of40)
"The Complete Poems, 1927 - 1979" By Elizabeth Bishop (03 of40)
"Bossypants" By Tina Fey (04 of40)
"The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals" By Michael Pollan (05 of40)
"Personal History" By Katharine Graham (06 of40)
"Salvage the Bones" By Jesmyn Ward (07 of40)
"Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar" By Cheryl Strayed (08 of40)
"State of Wonder" By Ann Patchett (09 of40)
"Lit" By Mary Karr (10 of40)
"The House of Mirth" By Edith Wharton (11 of40)
"Oak: One Tree, Three Years, Fifty Paintings" By Stephen Taylor (12 of40)
"Song of Solomon" By Toni Morrison (13 of40)
"The Fault in Our Stars" By John Green (14 of40)
"A New Earth" By Eckhart Tolle (15 of40)
"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" By Carson McCullers(16 of40)
"Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" By Susan Cain (17 of40)
"The Portrait of A Lady" By Henry James (18 of40)
"The Feminine Mystique (50th Anniversary Edition)" By Betty Friedan(19 of40)
"Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead" By Sheryl Sandberg (20 of40)
"The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson" By Emily Dickinson (21 of40)
"Great Expectations" By Charles Dickens (22 of40)
"Say You're One of Them" By Uwem Akpan (23 of40)
"Blue Nights" By Joan Didion (24 of40)
"Swimming Studies" By Leanne Shapton (25 of40)
"Daring Greatly" By Bren Brown, PhD (26 of40)
"Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book, 5th Edition" By Susan M. Love, MD, and Karen Lindsey (27 of40)
"A Long Way Gone" By Ishmael Beah (28 of40)
"Mastering the Art of French Cooking" By Julia Child(29 of40)
"NW" By Zadie Smith (30 of40)
"Bird by Bird" By Anne Lamott (31 of40)
"Saint Maybe" By Anne Tyler (32 of40)
"Just Kids" By Patti Smith (33 of40)
"The Middlesteins" By Jami Attenberg (34 of40)
"The Inheritance of Loss" By Kiran Desai (35 of40)
"The Museum of Innocence" By Orhan Pamuk (36 of40)
"Making Marriage Simple" By Harville Hendrix, PhD, and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD (37 of40)
Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety By Daniel Smith (38 of40)
"Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women" By Nora Ephron (39 of40)
"Beautiful Ruins" By Jess Walter (40 of40)