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

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