2017 Books I've Read
changed my life.
PS Before I move on to the list, I would be remiss if I did not repeat an ongoing request to any and all to suggest book titles I might like. In reviewing my reads, consider also if I am missing any major types of books or authors; I would welcome using my reading time to shore up any holes in absorbing different perspectives and stories.
PS Before I move on to the list, I would be remiss if I did not repeat an ongoing request to any and all to suggest book titles I might like. In reviewing my reads, consider also if I am missing any major types of books or authors; I would welcome using my reading time to shore up any holes in absorbing different perspectives and stories.
1 Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for
Women Worldwide (Kristof) 4
Reclaiming Adoption: Missional Living Through the
Rediscovery of Abba Father (Culver) 4
Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
(Grant) 4
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest
Challenges (Cuddy) 4
Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in
Life and Business (Duhigg) 3
Between the World and Me (Coates) 3
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books
and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Prose) 3
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Rovelli) 3
Marco Polo: The Journey that Changed the World (Man) 3
10 Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of
Innovation (Johnson) 4
The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim
Valvano, and an Epic College Basketball Rivalry (Feinstein) 3
Fearless (Lucado) 3
The Hiding Place (ten Boom) 3
The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to
Creating Success on Your Own Terms (LaPorte) 2
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief (Naipaul)
2
In Other Words (Lahiri) 4
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the
American West (Brown) 2
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the
Non-Believer (Hitchens) 3
You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the
Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television (Michaels) 3
20 Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Eagleman) 4
Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and
the Hidden Powers of the Mind (Stone) 3
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
(Sagan) 3
The Chicago School: How the University of Chicago
Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business (Van
Overtveldt) 3
The Road to Character (Brooks) 4
Langston Hughes Collection 3
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Lewis) 3
Now, Discover Your Strengths (Buckingham) 3
The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small
Island (Bryson) 3
The Gospel According to Jesus (MacArthur) 4
30 The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder,
and the Birth of the American Mafia (Dash) 3
The Power of Myth (Campbell) 2
The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk,
Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street (Fox) 3
Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of
Organizing and Tidying Up (Kondo) 2
The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night
at a Time (Huffington) 3
Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy
Inside the Mind of a Manager (Bissinger) 3
Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone
Else Zags (Rottenberg) 2
Every Day I Fight: Making a Difference, Kicking Cancer's
Ass (Scott) 3
Fire Shut Up in My Bones (Blow) 4
But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As
If It Were the Past (Klosterman) 4
40 Men We Reaped: A Memoir (Ward) 4
What the Dog Knows: The Science and Wonder of Working
Dogs (Warren) 3
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Packer) 2
Good Morning, Beautiful Business: The Unexpected Journey
of an Activist Entrepreneur and Local-Economy Pioneer (Wicks) 3
1776 (McCullough) 3
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (Roach) 3
Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy (Love) 3
Shaken: Discovering Your True Identity in the Midst of
Life's Storms (Tebow) 3
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Olson) 3
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American
Revolution, 1783-1789 (Ellis) 3
50 Settle for More (Kelly) 3
Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In (Sanders) 3
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal
Sniper in U.S. Military History (Kyle) 3
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the
Universe Itself (Carroll) 3
The Last Lecture (Pausch) 3
God Help the Child (Morrison) 3
A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century (Buckley)
3
The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age
Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance (Sasse) 3
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet
Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are (Stephens-Davidowitz) 4
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (Gay) 4
60 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the
Crematory (Doughty) 3
Black Boy (Wright) 4
Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying And Caring (Nouwen)
2
If Beale Street Could Talk (Baldwin) 3
The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the
American Dream (Cowen) 2
Half of a Yellow Sun (Adichie) 3
The Blood of Emmett Till (Tyson) 4
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They
Communicate—Discoveries From a Secret World (Wohlleben) 3
The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults (Jen sen) 4
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