2022's Reads
2022's book's read! Last year I didn't watch ANY tv/streaming/news as a rule (even on international flights!) and deleted social from my phone among other disciplines. Apparently media consumption eats up an average of 8 hours a day for most Americans. If interested, there's a list, broken down by genre, in the link. I'm journaling on these books and why I chose them this year, so if you're interested in keeping up with courageous commentary and my evolution of thinking (and/or confusion), it'd be an honor if you subscribed at the bottom of the journal page to get the updates in your inbox,
Biographies:
Shoe Dog, Phil Knight
Will, Will Smith
Leadership:
Beyond Order, Jordan Peterson
12 Rules for Life, Jordan Peterson
The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene
The Human Operating System, Jack Nicholson & Rob Murray
Untethered: Sini Ninkovic
A Field Guide for The Hero’s Journey, Acton Institute
Hero on A Mission, Donald Miller
Courage is Calling, Ryan Holiday
Discipline is Destiny, Ryan Holiday
Composed, The Heart and Science of Leading Under Pressure, Rob McKenna
Tribes, Seth Godin
Fiction:
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Iron John, Robert Bly
Animal Farm, George Orwell
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, Robin Sharma
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkein
The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkein
Spiritual:
What is the Bible, Rob Bell
How to Think About God, Mortimer Adler
A Work of Heart, Reggie McNeal
Reenacting the Way of Jesus, Paul T. Penley
The Book of Joy, Dali Lama, Desmund Tutu
Jesus The Great Philosopher, Jonathan Pennington
The New Testament, Holy Bible
Economics:
Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell
Defending the Free Market, Robert Sirico
The Economics of the Parables, Robert Sirico
From Subsistence to Exchange, Peter Baur
Economic Analysis and Policies in Underdeveloped Countries: Peter Baur
From Aid to Trade, Daniel Jean Louis
Money, Greed, and God, Jay Richards
Doing Good Better, William MaCaskill
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: C. K. Prahalad
The Mystery of Capital, Fernando de Soto
Africa Unchained, George Ayittey
The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
The Myth of the Entrepreneurial State, Deirdre McCloskey
The Prosperity Paradox, Clayton Christensen, Efoso Ojoma, Karen Dillon
Business, Management, Sales, NonProfit
Sell Well Do Good, Whitten and Roy
Decision Intelligence Selling, Whitten and Roy
The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen
The Everyday Philanthropist, Dan Palotta
Your World Class Assistant, Michael Hyatt
Philosophy
Fragments, Heraclitus
Anger, Mercy, Revenge: Seneca
Hardship and Happiness, Seneca
On Benefits, Seneca
Natural Questions, Seneca
The Five Dialogues, Plato
Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius (4 times)
The Complete Works, Epictetus
Essays, Michel de Montagne
Designing the Mind, Ryan Bush
The Book of Self Mastery, Ryan Bush
Stoicism and the Art of Happiness, Donald Robertson
The Gift, Marcel Mauss
As a Man Thinketh, James Allan
A.H. Maslow, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
A.H. Maslow, A Theory of Human Motivation
Mythology/Anthropology
Jordan Peterson, Maps of Meaning
Steve Stewart-Williams, The Ape that Understood the Universe
The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell