A comment from a friend that made me smile: “That’s a lot of books.”
Indeed, 2012 was a good year for my reading habits. Or listening habits, since so many were audiobooks. A record for me: 124 full books completed.
Here’s the list:
Thomas Jefferson, by Jon Meacham
Common Prayer, by Shane Claiborne
Tattoos on the Heart, by Gregory Boyle
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo
Stop Walking on Eggshells, by Paul Mason and Randi Kreger
Red Letter Revolution, by Shane Claiborne and Tony Campolo
Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality, by Jacob Tomsky
The Great Pearl Heist, by Molly Caldwell Crosby
The Revenge of Geography, by Robert Kaplan
Crucial Conversations, by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, and Switzler
How to Deliver a TED Talk, by Jeremey Donovan
John Quincy Adams, by Harlow Unger
The Hatfields and the McCoys, by Otis Rice
StrengthsFinder 2.0, by Tom Rath
The Fundraiser’s Guide to Irresistible Communications, by Jeff Brooks
Doctored Evidence, by Donna Leon
The Rebel Entrepreneur, by Jonathan Moules
The Meaning of Marriage, by Tim Keller
Thinking Small, by Andrea Hiott
1215: The Year of the Magna Carta, by Danny Danziger and John Gillingham
Prayers for a Privileged People, by Walter Brueggemann
The Rise of Rome, by Anthony Everitt
To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings, by John O’Donohue
Extra Virginity, by Tom Mueller
The Great Sea, by David Abulafia
The Bourne Legacy, by Eric Van Lustbader
Do the Work, by Steven Pressfield
Old Man And The Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
Anything You Want, by Derek Sivers
The Lemon Tree, by Sandy Tolan
1066: The Year of Conquest, by David Howarth
George F. Kennan, by John Lewis Gaddis
American Icon, by Bryce Hoffman
The Righteous Mind, by Jonathan Haidt
The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership, by Gary Convis and Jeffrey Liker
The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries
The Notorious Benedict Arnold, by Steve Sheinkin
Death and Judgment, by Donna Leon
Judge Sewall’s Apology, by Richard Francis
How Rome Fell, by Adrian Goldsworthy
What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, by Laura Vanderkam
Midnight Rising, by Tony Horwitz
The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield
The Man in the White Suit, by Ben Collins
The New Shape of World Christianity, by Mark Noll
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblat
The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg
What Money Can’t Buy, by Michael J. Sandel
The Statues That Walked, by Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo
The World America Made, by Robert Kagan
What Every Body Is Saying, by Joe Navarro
Great by Choice, by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen
Dressed for Death, by Donna Leon
Engines of Change, by Paul Ingrassia
All Things Shining, by Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly
Until Tuesday, by Luis Carlos Montalvan
Culture Making, by Andy Crouch
The Dictators Handbook, by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith
When Helping Hurts, by Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett
From Foreign to Familiar, by Sarah Lanier
The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything, by James Martin
Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
Turn Right at Machu Picchu, by Mark Adams
On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca
The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli
Momentum: What God Starts, Never Ends
Why I Am So Wise, by Friedrich Nietzsche
Shiloh, 1862, by Winston Groom
The Mighty and the Almighty, by Madeleine Albright
The Next Convergence, by Michael Spence
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla by Marc Seifer
The End of Illness, by David Agus
Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency, by Mark Updegrove
On Pilgrimage, by Jennifer Lash
Start With Why, by Simon Sinek
Good Strategy Bad Strategy, by Richard Rumelt
The Barbarian Conversion, by Richard Fletcher
The Price of Civilization, by Jeffrey Sachs
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, by Roy Baumeister and John Tierney
The Arab-Israeli Conflict, by Ian J. Bickerton
Eisenhower in War and Peace, by Jean Edward Smith
Longitude, by Dava Sobel and William Andrewes
You Are Not So Smart, by David McRaney
Coming Apart, by Charles Murray
Istanbul: Memories and the City, by Orhan Pamuk
Code Talker, by Judith Avila and Chester Nez
What Matters Now, by Gary Hamel
Don’t Get Me Wrong!, by Judith Reker and Julia Grosse
Jerusalem: The Biography, by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Strategic Vision, by Zbigniew Brezezinski
The Shaping of an Effective Leader, by Gayle Beebe
Poustinia, by Catherine Doherty
Explorers of the Nile, by Tim Jeal
Keynes Hayek, by Nicholas Wapshott
The Next Decade, by George Friedman
Lost Kingdom, by Julia Flynn Siler
Loving Our Religious Neighbors, by Josh Daneshforooz