August Book to Live By

by on August 5, 2026

Inheritance

by Dani Shapiro

In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her beloved deceased father was not her biological father. Over the course of a single day, her entire history—the life she had lived—crumbled beneath her.  Inheritance is a book about secrets and about the extraordinary moment we live in where science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover. Part mystery, part real-time investigation, part rumination on the ineffable combination of memory, history, biology, and experience, Inheritance is a devastating and haunting interrogation of the meaning of kinship and identity.

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June Book to Live By

by on June 1, 2026

Strangers

by Belle Burden

In March 2020, Belle Burden was safe and secure with her family navigating the early days of the pandemic together—Then, without warning or explanation, her husband of 20 years announced that he was leaving. Overnight, her partner became a man she hardly recognized. In Strangers, Burden revisits her marriage, searching for clues. As she begins to see through a new lens, she reckons with the lessons about how a woman is expected to behave in the face of betrayal and transforms from a discreet, compliant woman to someone braver, and determined to use her voice.

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May Book to Live By

by on May 7, 2026

UP! The Playbook for Every Woman on the Rise

by Kelly and Katy Mooney

UP! is the book to catapult your career no matter the stage. If you are new to the work world and want a strong foundation, or need help being seen, heard, and valued, look inside for a jump start to the next level. Navigating a male-dominated culture? This book will help. If work is taking over your personal life, you feel anxious and unsure of your next move, or even if you are on a roll and aiming for something bigger, these are the tools you need to create the career and life you deserve. Providing expert insights, proven strategies, real life scripts, and step-by-step actions, UP! leaves out “shoulds” because there isn’t one path or pace that works for everyone.

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March Book to Live By

by on March 3, 2026

The Comfort Book

by Matt Haig

THE COMFORT BOOK is a collection of notes, lists, and stories written over a span of several years that originally served as reminders to the author’s future self that things are not always as dark as they seem. Incorporating a diverse array of sources from across the world, history, science, and his own experiences, Haig offers warmth and reassurance, reminding us to slow down and appreciate the beauty and unpredictability of existence.

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January Book to Live By

by on January 6, 2026

A Year of Self-Care

by Dr. Zoe Shaw

A Year of Self-Care will jump-start your self-care practice in just fifteen minutes every morning helping you to feel stronger, happier, and healthier. The full year of research backed exercises inspire gratitude, positive thinking and self-love. Discover a fresh outlook on life and improve your confidence and well-being with this guided journal and spend 2026 focusing on what matters- YOU!

And for some additional self care strategies: https://bit.ly/4ahiwid

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August Book to Live By

by on August 1, 2025

Mind Your Body

by Nicole Sachs

Do you suffer from chronic pain? Have medical treatments proved disappointing? Psychotherapist Nicole Sachs offers another way to tackle chronic pain by nurturing the mind-body connection. Based on the work of Dr. John Sarno, she believes pain is an invitation to explore our emotional depths by acknowledging common traumas such as shame, grief, suppressed emotions and unresolved issues. Using practical tools, journal prompts and self-inquiry, she offers deeply healing ways to truly understand our body-mind connection and to get to the bottom of chronic conditions in order to live life to the fullest.

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June Book to Live By

by on June 3, 2025

The Stress RX

By Trupti Gokani, MD

Neurologist (and Woman on Fire) Dr. Trupti Gokani wants you to know that how your brain perceives stress causes 80 to 90 percent of your struggles. Most people have no idea stress is the culprit that has thrown their lives off-balance. The Stress Rx will show you how to use the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda and Dr. Gokani’s Three Brain Model(TM) to find true, holistic health, reduce your risk of disease and improve your longevity far more than any dietary change, pill, or exercise routine.

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April Book to Live By

by on April 2, 2025

Get Good with Money

10 Steps to Becoming Financially Whole

By Tiffany Aliche

Tiffany Aliche was a successful pre-school teacher with a healthy nest egg when a recession and advice from a shady advisor put her out of a job and into a huge financial hole. Get Good with Money reveals her practical steps to financial recovery and introduces the powerful concept of building wealth through financial wholeness: an alternative to get-rich-quick and over-complicated money management systems. With helpful checklists, worksheets, and a tool kit of resources, this book gets crystal clear on the short-term actions that lead to long-term goals, including:

•A simple technique to determine your baseline or “noodle budget,” examine and systemize your expenses, and lay out a plan that allows you to say yes to your dreams.
•An assessment tool that helps you understand whether you have a “don’t make enough” problem or a “spend too much” issue—as well as ways to fix both.
•Best practices for saving for a rainy day (aka job loss), a big-ticket item (a house, a trip, a car), and money that can be invested for your future.
•Detailed advice and action steps for taking charge of your credit score, maximizing bill-paying automation, savings and investing, and calculating your life, disability, and property insurance needs.
•Ways to protect your beneficiaries’ future, and ensure that your financial wishes will stand the test of time.
 
A NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, this book provides a plan for finding peace, safety, and harmony with your money—no matter how big or small your goals and no matter how rocky the market might be. Find it wherever you buy books!

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December Book to Live By

by on December 4, 2024

7 Secrets to the Perfect Personal Essay

by Nancy Slonim Aronie

Women on Fire favorite Nancy Aronie celebrates her lifelong mission to help people tell their stories in her latest book. Filled with warmth and humor, Nancy’s prompts, inspiration, and hard-won wisdom empower you to write an unforgettable narrative. You’ll begin with an irresistible hook, employ compelling direct quotes, add drama, and use self-reflection to get readers into your corner. In a culture increasingly inundated with generic AI-generated text, a well-crafted personal narrative is more important than ever. Use Nancy’s secrets to stand out from the crowd to put your one-of-a-kind story onto the page.

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May Book to Live By

by on May 3, 2024

The Perfectionist Guide to Losing Control

by Katherine Morgan Schafler

This book is an invitation to challenge the way you look at perfectionism. As psychotherapist and former on-site therapist at Google, Katherine Morgan Schafler explains we’ve been looking at perfectionism all wrong. You don’t have to stop being a perfectionist to be healthy. After a quiz to determine which type of perfectionist you are, you’ll go on to learn how to make your perfectionism work for you, not against you. Brimming with humor, empathy, and depth, this book is a love letter to the ambitious, high achieving, and full-of-life women who dare to want more without feeling greedy or ungrateful.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Women on Fire is committed to offering strategies for you to be your best self, but ultimately it is your decision to choose resources that work for you. This book recommendation is not medical advice.

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