Below are some books I’ve read in the last few years, minus the books I’ve read for grad school. If you’re interested in what I’m currently reading, you can find it on my About page.
The Odyssey
by Homer
You Are What You Read: A Practical Guide to Reading Well (Skills for Scholars)
by Robert DiYanni
What Are People For?
by Wendell Berry
The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
by Alan Jacobs
Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party
by Jonathan Karl
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
by Marshall McLuhan
Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People
by G. Richard Shell
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Reimagined Worlds: Narrative Placemaking for People, Play, and Purpose
by Margaret Chandra Kerrison
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas
by Robert H. Frank
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture
by Johan Huizinga
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
by Christopher Lasch
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
by Richard V. Reeves
The Practice of Management
by Peter F. Drucker
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by Liu Cixin
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by Richard H. Thaler
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by Stephen King
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
by Theodor W. Adorno
Waiting for God
by Simone Weil
On Disobedience and Other Essays
by Erich Fromm
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Woman Destroyed
by Simone de Beauvoir
Kierkegaard's Muse: The Mystery of Regine Olsen
by Joakim Garff
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
Gravity and Grace
by Simone Weil
The Psychology of Money
by Morgan Housel
Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
Presence in the Modern World: A New Translation
by Jacques Ellul
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel van der Kolk
What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
by Sara Hendren
Images of Organization
by Gareth Morgan
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
by Cal Newport
Wisdom's Wonder: Character, Creation, and Crisis in the Bible's Wisdom Literature
by William P. Brown
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by Robert Jordan
Challenging Coaching: Going Beyond Traditional Coaching to Face the FACTS
by John Blakey
Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World
by Margaret J. Wheatley
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
by Charles Bukowski
Bioenergetics: The Revolutionary Therapy That Uses the Language of the Body to Heal the Problems of the Mind
by Alexander Lowen
Games People Play
by Eric Berne
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
by Søren Kierkegaard
Orthodoxy
by G.K. Chesterton
The Poetry of Robert Frost
by Robert Frost
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
by C.G. Jung
ABC of Reading
by Ezra Pound
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
The Wisdom Commentary: Volume 1
by mike-murdock
The Curse of the Father: A Tale of Life After Loss
by Chad Daniel
Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
by Frederic Laloux
Fear and Trembling
by Søren Kierkegaard
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
by Ryan Holiday
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
by Michel Foucault
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
by Miyamoto Musashi
The Anti-Christ
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
by Mircea Eliade
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
Man and His Symbols
by C.G. Jung
Who Rules the World? (American Empire Project)
by Noam Chomsky
Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: Spiritual Preparation for the Office of Confession
by Søren Kierkegaard
Theaetetus
by Plato
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
1984
by George Orwell
The Cross and the Switchblade
by David Wilkerson
Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
The Prophetic Imagination
by Walter Brueggemann
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Dune (Dune, #1)
by Frank Herbert
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
Translating God: Hearing God's Voice For Yourself And The World Around You
by Shawn Bolz
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
by Cal Newport
The Training of the Twelve
by Alexander Balmain Bruce
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
by Wassily Kandinsky
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
by Cal Newport
When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community From Emotional and Spiritual Abuse
by Chuck DeGroat
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo
Managing the Unknowable
by Ralph D. Stacey
Tree of Life, 3rd ed.: An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature
by Roland Edmund Murphy
Inner Gold: Understanding Psychological Projection
by Robert A. Johnson
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
How to Befriend Your Shadow: Welcoming Your Unloved Side by Monbourquette, John (2001) Paperback
by Jean Monbourquette
The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity
by Steven Kessler
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dialogue: The Art Of Thinking Together
by William Isaacs
A Little Book on the Human Shadow: A Poetic Journey into the Dark Side of the Human Personality, Shadow Work, and the Importance of Confronting Our Hidden Self
by Robert Bly
Imagine Church: Releasing Dynamic Everyday Disciples
by Neil Hudson
Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Externally Focused Quest: Becoming the Best Church for the Community
by Eric Swanson
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
by Robert T. Kiyosaki
Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
by Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by Frank Herbert
The Prophets
by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Christian Discourses, etc: The Lilies of the Field and the Birds of the Air and Three Discourses At the Communion on Fridays
by Søren Kierkegaard
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World
by Andy Crouch
The Flowers of Evil
by Charles Baudelaire
The Rivers North of the Future: The Testament of Ivan Illich
by David Cayley
In Praise of Shadows
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
by Pablo Neruda
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
by Geoffrey B. West
The Medium is the Massage
by Marshall McLuhan
The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
by Merve Emre
Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution
by Ivan Illich
Design: The Invention of Desire
by Jessica Helfand
A Short Life of Kierkegaard
by Walter Lowrie
To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
by Erich Fromm
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
by Herbert Marcuse
In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon
by Ivan Illich
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
by Charles Dickens
The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization
by Peter F. Drucker
Tools for Conviviality
by Ivan Illich
The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional Enemies
by Ivan Illich
How to Make Sense of Any Mess
by Abby Covert
The Street Photographer's Manual
by David Gibson
The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories
by Arthur Machen
The Luxury Strategy: Break the Rules of Marketing to Build Luxury Brands
by Jean-Noël Kapferer
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
by Robert I. Sutton
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
by Hunter S. Thompson
