Can you believe we are halfway through 2014 already? I can’t, but then maybe because I’ve had my nose in a book the whole time. Here is my reading list for the year thus far. I highly recommend The Boys in the Boat for human interest, The Bully Pulpit for history, Soul Keeping for spiritual development, Asia’s Cauldron for current events, Street Smarts for business, It Happened in Wisconsin for a fun summer read, and Their Eyes Were Watching God for the sheer beauty of a brilliant novel.
The list below is in the chronological order of how I read them (oldest at the bottom). Several are links to reviews on my blog, others are links to where you can buy them on amazon.com. Either way, take a look and figure out what’s best for you this summer!
Wild and Wonderful: Tourism, Faith, and Communities, by Stan LeQuire
An Invisible Thread, by Laura Schroff
Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, by Bo Burlingham
The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown
The Jewels of Paradise, by Donna Leon
Think Like A Freak, by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy, by Pietra Rivoli
Soul Keeping, by John Ortberg
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana’s Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon, by Buddy Levy
A History of the English People, by Paul Johnson
The Spirit of Food, by Leslie Leyland Fields
American Nations, by Colin Woodard
Asia’s Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific, by Robert Kaplan
War Front to Store Front, by Paul Brinkley
Street Smarts, by Norm Brodsky
The Up Side of Down, by Megan McArdle
Drawing Conclusions, by Donna Leon
A Question of Belief, by Donna Leon
APE: How to Publish a Book, by Guy Kawasaki
It Happened in Wisconsin, by Ken Moraff
Everest 1953, by Mick Conefrey
Jesus: A Biography, by Paul Johnson
The Myth of America’s Decline, by Josef Joffe
Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome, by Robert Harris
The Girl of His Dreams, by Donna Leon
Socrates: A Man for Our Times, by Paul Johnson
Suffer the Little Children, by Donna Leon
A Delicate Truth, by John Le Carre
The Summer of Beer and Whiskey, by Edward Achorn
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, by James Thurber
An Unhurried Life, by Alan Fadling
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
Through a Glass, Darkly, by Donna Leon
The Bully Pulpit, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
George Washington: The Founding Father, by Paul Johnson
Aston Martin Centenary Yearbook
Top 10 Singapore, by Jennifer Eveland
Museums Matter: In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum, by James Cuno
Top Gear’s Midlife Crisis Cars, by Matt Master
Intentional Golf, by David Balbi
Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know, by David Steinberg
