Books for Aries
Aries, you’re independent and courageous, and that’s how you like your heroines to be. The books for you follow the path of the hero’s journey, showcasing brave and wily characters who fight for what they love. Stories that explore identity, stories of soldiers, adventurers, and athletes who surpass what was previously thought possible. You want nonfiction that inspires you to be better and helps you win. Whatever the subject matter, it needs to be exciting! Astrologer Brittany Goss has some recommendations for books for Aries that will light you up.
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Add to BookshelfDetransition, Baby
by Torrey Peters
You’re a leader who is committed to doing what makes you happy, whether it’s considered “normal” or not, so I thought you might enjoy this novel about the formation of an unconventional family. Trans women Reese and Amy have a good relationship with each other. In fact, Reese thinks they have just about everything they want, except a child. But it all falls apart when Amy detransitions, becoming Ames, and they break up. Now they’re both unhappy without each other. When Ames’s lover/boss Katrina reveals that she’s pregnant with his baby (and feeling ambivalent about keeping it), Ames wonders if this could be his chance to get back together with Reese, and form a triad of parents to raise a baby together.
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To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
by Robin Coste Lewis
Aries, you’re an original and you like your art the same way. Enter Robin Coste Lewis’s genre-bending new book, a collection of poetry and photography that documents her family’s history. Lewis won the National Book Award for her first book of poetry, Voyage of the Sable Venus. She centers Blackness in her latest work as she creates what she calls “an origin myth for the future.” The family photographs she found after her grandmother passed twenty-five years ago depict the intimacy and joys of life, from special outings to back porch conversations.
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The Unsinkable Greta James
by Jennifer E. Smith
Aries, unsinkability is a quality you share with Greta. In this novel, Greta James is about to release her sophomore album when she has a breakdown on stage that goes viral, and she stops playing altogether. On a cruise in Alaska with her father — a trip that was supposed to be an anniversary celebration with her late mother — she faces old family wounds and finds her way through them.
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The Earned Life
by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter
World-renowned executive coach Marshall Goldsmith offers you a guide to living well. An earned life, he says, is one “where the choices, risks, and effort we make in each moment align with the overarching purpose in our lives, regardless of the eventual outcome.” Drawing on inspiration from Buddhism, Goldsmith will show you how to align your achievements with higher aspirations and live without regret.
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When Women Were Dragons
by Kelly Barnhill
Have you ever felt so mad you could almost swear you turned into a fire-breathing dragon? In Barnhill’s science fiction/fantasy novel, women actually do. In the Mass Dragoning of 1955, hundreds of thousands of women transformed into scaly, flying dragons and took to the air. Alex’s aunt Marla was one of them, but for unknown reasons, her mother was not. Forbidden from speaking about the event, Alex must navigate the consequences of the Dragoning with her mother and her cousin Bea.
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Malibu Rising: A Read with Jenna Pick
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
With a wild party, plenty of drama, and an epic fire, Malibu Rising is a hot beach read. The Riva family is famous, thanks to their father Mick Riva, a successful singer, and this is surfer/supermodel daughter Nina’s annual end-of-summer party. Her siblings, Jay, Hud, and Kit, are all known for their own accomplishments. But as well-known as the Rivas are, they all have their own secrets, and on this night, they are forced to reckon with them.
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Hell of a Book: National Book Award Winner
by Jason Mott
Hell of a Book is a hero’s journey with important consequences. A Black author goes on tour to promote his novel as another police shooting of a Black person is played out again and again on the news. The narrative also tells the story of a young boy named Soot, and a possibly imaginary child known to the author as The Kid. The plot twists and turns as Mott explores the urgent question of what it means to be Black in America.
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Acceptance
by Emi Nietfeld
Aries, Nietfeld’s story of overcoming homelessness to graduate from Harvard and become a software engineer at Google will interest you because of her resilience and her critique of our obsession with overcoming adversity. In Acceptance, she tells her stories of foster care, writing essays for Ivy League college applications in her car, the disappearance of one parent who came out as trans, struggles with mental health, and why her upward mobility to success was not necessarily the dream she thought it would be.
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Running While Black
by Alison Mariella DĂ©sir
Aries, you’ll appreciate this memoir from an athlete with grit and the heart of a leader. Alison Mariella Désir started running marathons as a way of providing herself with structure and improving her health. It didn’t take long for her to realize that although running seems like a simple and accessible sport, the culture was built for and by white people. She explores why long-distance running hasn’t been open to Black people, through history and her own experiences. An activist as well as an endurance athlete, Désir argues for an inclusive fitness culture that truly allows everyone to empower themselves through movement.
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