For this weekend before Labor Day, here are my favorite 20 books I’ve read so far this year.
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
- Deep Work: Rules for focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
- Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman
- James by Percival Everett
- Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
- How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
- The 50th Law by 50 Cent and Robert Greene
- Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell
- Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler
- Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
- What Do You Care What Other People Think: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
- Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises by Lesley M.M. Blume
- Trust by Hernan Diaz
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
- Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most by Greg McKeown
- The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
- The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozek
- Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam M. Grant
- Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zin
- Mastery by Robert Green
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
Let’s do this.
-Shaun