Hi friends! It’s hard to believe that 2021 is right around the corner… I have recently rekindled my love for my kindle ;) and am motivated to go into 2021 more well-read than ever.

I got to a point this year where I was looking for tv shows to watch and got to an extremely sad realization that I had already watched ALL of the shows recommended to me by friends and you guys. It was kind of a wake-up call for me and a bell went off in my head *ding ding ding* that I was wasting literally HOURS of my life on TV. All of those hours sitting around mindlessly watching TV. There’s nothing wrong with watching TV but I’d had enough.

I wanted something that would invigorate my mind, open up my brain to new ideas, explore new worlds, and really get my imagination going. The perfect answer was to read books. And since then, I have already ravenously finished 4 book. It’s funny because once I get into something I really do go ALL IN.

Books will serve as my inspiration, my mentor, and my escape in 2021. And so, I’ve come up with a list of books that really spark my interest. I’m not making a promise to read all of them this year but I’m excited to have a list to pick from. I wanted to share them with you guys because once I got to reading, I really craved reading recommendations from the people I admired. Hopefully, this will help you with getting together a reading list that you’d like to get through this year! So without further ado, I have categorized the books I want to read by Faith, Sales, Productivity, Finance, and Pleasure and below is a brief synoposis of each book for you!

Faith

• Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together // Nancy Leigh DeMoss – principles of Titus 2 according to mentoring and building friendships
  
• The Lifegiving Table // Sally Clarkson – how to make your table a place where your friends and family long to be- where they will find rest, renewal, and a welcome full of love.
  
• The Common Rule // Justin Witmel Earley – offers 4 daily and 4 weekly habits designed to help us create new routines and transform frazzled days into lives of love for God and neighbor
  
• 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You // Tony Reinke – exploring the devastation to the human mind and soul due to devotion to technology
  
• Idols of the Heart: Learning to Live for God Alone // Elyse Fitzpatrick – learning how to place our anxieties, struggles, and imperfect desires before God
  
• Every Good Endeavor // Tim Keller – God’s plan for work, our problems with work, and the Gospel and work
  
• Meaning of Marriage // Tim Keller – Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
  
• Knowing God // J.J. Packer – knowing about God and knowing God through the context of a close relationship with the person of Jesus Christ
  
• Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches // Russell D. Moore – biblical foundations for adoption and identifies adoption as a Great Commission priority

Sales Books

• The Art of War// Sun Tzu – ancient Chinese military treatise. 13 chapters devoted to an aspect of warfare and how it applies to military strategies and tactics.
  
• Start With Why // Simon Sinek – shows how the leaders who’ve had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way
  
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People // Stephen Covey – legendary book always recommended for people who seek to live a highly effective life (I’ve already this multiple times but it’s a book worth going through many times)
  
• Rejection Proof // Jia Jiang – examination of how to overcome fear and dare to live more boldly
  
• How to Win Friends and Influence People // Dale Carnegie – over 30 million copies sold and one of the top 100 Most Influential Books (I’ve read this multiple times as well!)
  
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck // Mark Mason – Mason argues that life’s struggles give it meaning, and that the mindless positivity of typical self-help books is neither practical nor helpful
  
• The Challenger Sale // Brent Adamson and Matthew Dixon – argues that relationship-building is no longer the best sales method

• 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think // Laura Vanderkam – where the time really goes, and how we can all use it better (reading this now!)
  
• The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry // John Mark Comer – How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive
  
• Digital Minimalism // Cal Newport – practical guide to cutting back on screen time
  
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone // Lori Gottlieb – a memoir where Gottlieb portrays a difficult time in her professional and personal life
  
• Atomic Habits // James Clear – transform your life with tiny changes in behaviour
  
• Who Will Cry When You Die / Robin Sharma – how small habits can influence big things in life
• The Secrets of Happy Families // Bruce Feiler – a new approach to family dynamics
  
• Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less-And Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined // Scott Sonenshein – groundbreaking approach to succeeding in business and life, using the science of resourcefulness

Finances

• God and Money: How We Discovered True Riches at Harvard Business School // Gregory Baumer – 2 young Harvard MBAs on the fast track to wealth and success tell their story of God’s transforming power and how Scripture brought them to the startling conclusions that they should give the majority of their money away to those in need.
  
• The Farm // Joanne Ramos – focused on class and privilege, highlighted by the various decisions different characters make
  
• The Geometry of Wealth: How to Shape a Life of Money and Meaning // Brian Portnoy – an inspired answer on the idea that wealth, truly defined, is funded contentment. The ability to underwrite a meaningful life.

Pleasure

• The Kingsbridge Series // Ken Follet – treacherous world of powerful monarchs, intrigue, murder, and treason.
  
• Where the Crawdads Sing // Delia Owens – exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder
  
• The Great Alone // Kristin Hannah – a desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human nature
  
• Long Bright River // Liz Moore – heart-pounding and heart-wrenching: a gripping suspense novel that is also a moving story of sisters, addiction, and the formidable ties that persist between place, family, and fate
  
• It Ends With Us // Colleen Hoover – an unforgettable tale of love that comes at the ultimate price
  
• 28 Summers // Elin Hilderbrand – explores the agony and romance of a one-weekend-per-year affair and the dramatic ways this relationship complicates and enriches their lives, and the lives of the people they love
  
• The Glass Hotel // Emily St. John Mandel – follows the aftermath of a disturbing graffiti incident at a hotel on Vancouver Island and the collapse of an international Ponzi scheme
  
• Americanah // Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university
  
• The Sound of Gravel // Ruth Wariner – true story of one girl’s coming-of-age in a polygamist family
  
• A Gentleman in Moscow // Amor Towles – the story of Count Alexander Rostov, who is sentenced to live out the rest of his life on “house arrest” in the Metropol hotel, following his “conviction” by a Bolshevik tribunal
  
• Behold the Dreamers // Imbolo Mbue – details the experiences of two New York City families during the 2008 financial crisis: an immigrant family from Cameroon, the Jonga family, and their wealthy employers, the Edwards family
  
• Pretty Girls // Karin Slaughter – More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss–a devastating wound that’s cruelly ripped open when Claire’s husband is killed. The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? Forming a wary truce, the surviving sisters look to the past to find the truth, unearthing the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago … and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it
  
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo // Taylor Jenkins – the story of the fictional Old Hollywood star Evelyn Hugo, who at the age of 79 decides to give a final interview to an unknown journalist, Monique Grant
  
• All the Light We Cannot See // Anthony Doerr – war novel written by American author Anthony Doerr, published by Scribner on May 6, 2014. It won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
  
• The Silent Patient // Alex Michaelides – shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband
  
• Ask Again, Yes // Mary Beth Keane – ells a story about the fragility of happiness, the violence lurking beneath everyday life, and, ultimately, the power of love
  
• There’s a Word for that // Sloane Tanen – comic ode to surviving the people closest to us, navigating the perils of success, and taking one last look in the rearview mirror before mapping out the road ahead
  
• The care and feeding of ravenously Hungry Girls // Anissa Gray – follows a family dealing with the fallout after a sister/mother and her husband are convicted and subsequently sent to prison for stealing money from a charity they created