It is with much excitement that I introduce to you my reading list for 2022. Many of these have carried over from 2021 because, to be frank, I had ambitious goals of reading last year and did not get through as much as I would have wanted. But, I believe a reading list should always be added to and am a BIG believer in being flexible and doing what you can. I’m very excited about these!!

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
• Meaning of Marriage // Tim Keller – Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
• Knowing God // Matt Chandler – 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
• When People Are Big and God is Small
• Idols of the Heart: Learning to Live for God Alone // Elyse Fitzpatrick – learning how to place our anxieties, struggles, and imperfect desires before God

SALES

• 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
• Rejection Proof // Jia Jiang – examination of how to overcome fear and dare to live more boldly
• 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
• Built To Sell // John Warrilow – To further my sales skills in the digital space

Self Improvement / Productivity

• Four Thousand Weeks – Time Management for Mortals // Oliver Burkeman – Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks.
• Digital Minimalism // Cal Newport – practical guide to cutting back on screen time
• 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
• The Gifts of Imperfection // Brene Brown – Through this self-help classic we find courage to overcome paralyzing fear and self-consciousness, strengthening our connection to the world and helping us to believe we are worthy of self-discovery, personal growth, and boundless love.
• The Coddling of the American Mind // Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt – This is a book for anyone who is confused by what is happening on college campuses today, or has children, or is concerned about the growing inability of Americans to live, work, and cooperate across party lines.
• 4 Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz – bestselling author don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.
• Crucial Conversations – The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for today’s workplace. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation – especially difficult ones – leads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, it teaches listeners how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person.
• The Mountain is You // Brianna Wiest – This is a book about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it—for good.
• 101 Essays That will Change the Way You Think // Brianna Wiest – Brianna Wiest explores pursuing purpose over passion, embracing negative thinking, seeing the wisdom in daily routine, and becoming aware of the cognitive biases that are creating the way you see your life.
• A Gentle Reminder // Bianca Sparacino – A gentle reminder, for the days you feel light in this world, and for the days in which the sun rises a little slower.
• Getting Things Done – David Allen
• An Organized Mind // Daniel J. Levitin – The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we’re expected to make more—and faster—decisions about our lives than ever before. No wonder, then, that the average American reports frequently losing car keys or reading glasses, missing appointments, and feeling worn out by the effort required just to keep up.
• The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth // John Maxwell –

FINANCES

• 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.
• Think Like a Billionaire // James Altucher – James Altucher interviewed some of the most successful people in the world and distilled their secrets into this audiobook. From Tyra Banks to Ev Williams, from Shark Tank investors to the CEO of Home Depot, these billionaires make it clear that money and success are natural byproducts of passion and effort.
• Think and Grow Rich // Napoleon Hill – Think and Grow Rich is the number-one inspirational and motivational classic for individuals who are interested in furthering their lives and reaching their goals by learning from important figures in history.

PLEASURE

• 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
• It Ends With Us // Colleen Hoover – an unforgettable tale of love that comes at the ultimate price
• 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
• 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
• Greenlights // Matthew McConaughey
• The Maid // Nita Prose
• The Midnight Library // Matt Haig – Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
• 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
• The Huntress // Kate Quinn
• The Alice Network // Kate Quinn
• Friends and Strangers // J. Courtney Sullivan
• Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
• The Rose Code // Kate Quinn