Nicole Stott Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet―And Our Mission to Protect It

– by Nicole Stott, previous podcast guest (episode 164)

Edited by Tatia Gordon-Troy and Multiple Authors, Women in Law: Discovering the True Meaning of Success

– includes contributing author Michelle Banks, previous podcast guest (episode 150)

Caryn Schenewerk, Steve Mirmina International Space Law and Space Laws of the United States

– by Caryn Schenewerk, previous podcast guest (episode 111)

Amy Impellizzeri How to Leave the Law

– by Amy Impellizzeri, previous podcast guest (episode 105)

Amy Impellizzeri Lawyer Interrupted: Successfully Transitioning from the Practice of Law--and Back Again

– by Amy Impellizzeri, previous podcast guest (episode 105)

Nilofer Merchant, The Power of Onlyness: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World

– Recommended by: Mary Card Mina (episode 58)

Lisa Kloppenberg The Best Beloved Thing is Justice: The Life of Dorothy Wright Nelson

– by Lisa Kloppenberg, previous podcast guest (episode 100)

Susan Oki Mollway, The First Fifteen: How Asian American Women Became Federal Judges

– Recommended by: David Lat, Above the Law & Original Jurisdiction (on Substack)

“John Green is amazing. He also has a great podcast and a book called The Anthropocene Reviewed, where he reviews things in the world. He is brilliant. It's a good place to start, but his books are great. ”

– Recommended by Jessica Aronoff, CEO of Cayton Children’s Museum

Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

– Recommended by Nancy Wieben Stock, retired Orange County Superior Court Judge, JAMS affiliated judge and mediator

Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World

– Recommended by Erin Giglia, cofounder of Montage Legal Group and Camila Lopez cofounder of People Clerk

Astrid Kohlmeier & Meera Klemola The Legal Design Book: Doing Law in the 21st Century

– by Astrid Kohlmeier, previous podcast guest (episode 117)

Jessica S. Henry Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened

– by Jessica S. Henry, previous podcast guest (episode 92)

Lauren Stiller Rikleen, Her Honor: Stories of Challenge and Triumph from Women Judges

– Recommended by: M.C. Sungaila

Evan Thomas, First: Sandra Day O'Connor

– Recommended by: M.C. Sungaila

“Brené Brown is my go-to, feed-my-soul, I'm-okay, type of thing. James Patterson is an escape like, get in the book, get into the character and forget about everything else.”

– Recommended by Amy Stewart, founder Stewart Law Group

“Fiction would be a boring answer but you’ve got to go with John Grisham. For nonfiction, I like David McCullough. He wrote, 1776 and some books about Teddy Roosevelt. I enjoy his writing. I am a much bigger nonfiction reader than I am in fiction. I never enjoyed fiction but if you would make me pick it out, it would be a Grisham novel.”

– Recommended by Amanda Paletz, The Joseph Project

Barbara Babcock, Fish Raincoats: A Woman Lawyer's Life (Journeys & Memoirs)

– Recommended by: M.C. Sungaila

Linda Hirshman, Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World

– Recommended by: M.C. Sungaila

Barbara Babcock, Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz

– Recommended by: M.C. Sungaila