“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

“I still think To Kill a Mockingbird is the greatest American novel there is. I read it as a teenager and it's a great legal story. A lot of other things in there too, with a great legal story as well.

I’m a big Ernest Hemingway fan”

– Recommended by Chase Rogers, former Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court

“I love beautiful or interesting writing. It's different. I remember Wolf Hall and it's from a different perspective. I remember reading and it was extraordinary reading. I forget what the story is because it's all that great story about the Anne Boleyn period but the way it was written was interesting. If you'd stacked up my books, the highest stack is probably historical fiction.”

– Recommended by Ann Kappler, GC of Prudential Financial

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

Jane M. Friedman, America's First Woman Lawyer: The Biography of Myra Bradwell

– Recommended by: M.C. Sungaila

Hardie Grant Books, Pocket RBG Wisdom: Supreme Quotes and Inspired Musings from Ruth Bader Ginsburg

– Recommended by: M.C. Sungaila

Rebecca Shriver Davis, Justice Leah Ward Sears: Seizing Serendipity

Book about previous podcast guest Leah Ward Sears
– Recommended by: M.C. Sungaila

Lisa Sarnoff Gochman, At the Altar of the Appellate Gods: Arguing before the US Supreme Court

– Recommended by: M.C. Sungaila

Nina Totenberg, Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships

– Recommended by: M.C. Sungaila

by Clare Cushman, Supreme Court Decisions and Women′s Rights

– Recommended by: M.C. Sungaila

Simon Leys, The Hall of Uselessness

– Recommended by Paloma Ahmadi

Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius

–Recommended by Barbara Dawson, Snell & Wilmer

Sofia Segovia, The Murmur of the Bees

– Recommended by: Jennafer Wagner of FVAP

M. Margaret McKeown, Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas―Public Advocate and Conservation Champion

by Hon. M. Margaret McKeown, previous podcast guest (episode 90)

Patricia Hunt Holmes, Searching for Pilar

– by Patricia Hunt Holmes, previous podcast guest (episode 17)

Patricia Hunt Holmes, Crude Ambition: A Novel

– by Patricia Hunt Holmes, previous podcast guest (episode 17)

M.C. Sungaila Mother's Thoughts for the Day: Twenty-Five Years of Wisdom (1)

– by M.C. Sungaila, podcast host