Since I last reported on my reading in April I have read fifty-one books. The topics represent a range of interests beyond sport. I find myself reading more history going back to my roots as a social science major. Here are some that stood out for me.
Giant – The Making of a Legendary American Film by Don Graham
The Performance Cortex – How Neuroscience is Refining Athletic Genius by Zach Schonbrun
The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything – A Spiritual Guide for Real Life by James Martin. SJ
Masters of Modern Soccer – How the World’s Best Play the Twenty-First Century Game by Grant Wahl
Jerusalem – The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Hope Circuit – A Psychologists Journey from Helplessness to Optimism by Martin E. P. Seligman
Heroic Leadership – Best Practices From a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World by Chris Lowney
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
Fact Fullness – Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World and Why Things are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Ronnlund
Human Movement – An Integrated Approach by Joseph R. Higgins
The Mirage Factory – Illusion, Imagination and the Invention of Los Angeles by Gary Kirst
The Comeback – Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling and The Legendary Tour de France by Daniel De Vise’
Boyd – The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram
Bad Blood – Secrets and Lies in Silicon Valley by John Carreyrow
Sevens Heaven – The Beautiful Chaos of Fiji’s Olympic Dream by Ben Ryan
TAILSPIN – The People and Forces Behind America’s Fifty Year Fall and Those Fighting to Reverse it by Steven Brill
The Square and the Tower – Networks and Power from the Freemasons to Facebook by Nial Ferguson
Who We Are and How We Got There – Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past by David Reich
Measure What Matters – OKRs The Simple Idea That Drives 10X Growth by John Doerr
The Age of Eisenhower – America and the World in the 1950’s by William I. Hitchcock
Franklin D. Roosevelt – A Political Life by Robert Dallek
Our Towns – A 100,000 Mile Journey into the Heart of America By James and Deborah Fallows