Every bookshelf tells a story.
Some are filled with classics. Others with forgotten gems. Some hold books that changed the way we think, while others simply made a rainy afternoon a little more enjoyable.
Mikey’s Bookshelf isn’t sponsored, and no money changes hands for the books you’ll find here. They’re simply titles that Mikey has read and enjoyed enough to recommend to others.
Welcome to Mikey’s personal bookshelf—a growing collection of books that have informed, inspired, entertained or simply earned a permanent place on the shelf. What You’ll Find on the Shelf
- Sometimes they’ll be classics.
- Sometimes they’ll be unexpected discoveries.
- Sometimes they’ll be books you’ve never heard of.
- If you’re searching for your next good read, perhaps you’ll find one here.
- And if you’ve read a book that has stayed with you long after the final page, Mikey would love to hear about it.
- After all… a good bookshelf should always have room for one more recommendation.
Currently Featured
Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road by Neil Peart
A remarkable memoir of grief, healing, motorcycles, and the long road back. Following is an excerpt from the publisher’s description of this marvelous book:
Within a ten-month period, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. This memoir tells of the sense of personal devastation that led him on a 55,000-mile journey by motorcycle across much of North America, down through Mexico to Belize, and back again—Ghost Rider is a brilliantly written and ultimately triumphant narrative memoir from a gifted writer and the drummer and lyricist of the legendary rock band Rush.
There would be no peace for me, no life for me, until I learned to forgive life for what it had done to me, forgive others for still being alive, and eventually, forgive myself for being alive.
The only reason I am not dead is because I am alive.
Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.
The shelf is never finished.
Check back from time to time. Mikey is always reading something.