In light of President Obama sharing his favorite books of 2019, the second New Year’s Resolution I want to share is that I want to read one book per week.
Ever since graduating from college, I have not read for leisure as much as I should so I want to remedy that by taking down 52 books in 2020.
Here is a breakdown of titles I have been thinking about (listed in no particular order):
- “Grant” (Ron Chernow)
- “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power” (Shoshana Zuboff)
- “Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee” (Casey Cep)
- “Tools of Titans” (Tim Ferriss)
- “Tribe of Mentors” (Tim Ferriss)
- “Confederate Bushwacker” (Jerome Loving)
- “Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds” (David Goggins)
- “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” (Stephen R. Covey)
- “The Orphan Master’s Son” (Adam Johnson)
- “Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever” (Bill O’Reilly)
- “Leadership in Turbulent Times” (Doris Kearns Goodwin)
- “Single and Loathing It” (Michael Dennis)
- “Talking to Strangers” (Malcolm Gladwell)
- “Becoming” (Michelle Obama)
- “Outlander” (Diana Gabaldon)
- “Bad Blood” (Lorna Sage)
- “Hell or High Water” (Anne Mather)
- “Everything that Remains: A Memoir by the Minimalists” (Joshua Fields Millburn)
- “Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Missions to Explore America’s Wild Frontier” (Stephen E. Ambrose)
- “D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for Normandy Beaches” (Stephen E. Ambrose)
- “Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69” (Stephen E. Ambrose)
- “Eisenhower: Soldier and President” (Stephen E. Ambrose)
- “Crazy Horse and Custer” (Stephen E. Ambrose)
- “Pegasus Bridge” (Stephen E. Ambrose)
- “Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles” (Anthony Swofford)
- “Handmaid’s Tale” (Margaret Atwood)
- “The Testaments” (Margaret Atwood)
- “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Reveled” (Lori Gottlieb)
- “Everything is F*****” (Mark Manson)
- “Permanent Record” (Edward Snowden)
- “Midnight in Chernobyl” (Adam Higginbotham)
- “Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World” (Cal Newport)
- “Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity” (Jamie Metzl)
- “I Think You’re Wrong (But I’m Listening): A Guide to Grace-Filled Political Conversations” (Sarah Stewart Holland)
- “The Book Thief” (Markus Zusak)
- “The Fault in Our Stars” (John Green)
- “The Road” (Cormac McCarthy)
- “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” (Hunter S. Thompson)
- “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values” (Robert M. Pirsig)
- “The Art of War” (Sun Tzu)
- “The War of Art” (Steven Pressfield)
- “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” (Stephen King)
- “The Stress Effect” (Dick Thompson)
- “Hard-core: Life of My Own” (Harley Flanagan)
- “The Dharma Bums” (Jack Kerouac)
- “Steve Jobs” (Walter Isaacson)
- “A Man Called Ove” (Fredrik Backman)
- “Gandhi: An Autobiography” (Mahatma Gandhi)
- “Dark Matter” (Blake Crouch)
- “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” (Doris Kearns Goodwin)
- “The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism” (Doris Kearns Goodwin)
- “No Ordinary Time: Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II” (Doris Kearns Goodwin)
Are there any recommendations out there?
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