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Below is my Top 10 List of my favorite books (with a few honorable mentions)
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
The Coddling of the American Mind - Jonathon Haidt and Greg Lukianoff
Muscle and Shovel - Michael Shank
Thursday Murder Club (Series) - Richard Osman
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
The American Spirit - David McCullough
Church of Cowards - Matt Walsh
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
On Faith - Antonin Scalia
The Trail and Death of Jesus Christ - James Stalker
Honorable Mention:
How Do You Kill 11 Million People - Andy Andrews
Conflicted - Ian Leslie
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life - Russ Roberts
The Boomerang - Robert Bailey
Destiny of the Republic - Candice Millard
Starting in 2017 I began to keep track of all the books I read/listened to (audiobook) each year. Perhaps if you are looking for something to add to your "to read" list, you can find one here. Feel free to ask me about any of these. I certainly enjoyed some more than others.
Books Read in 2017
1. The Last Full Measure
2. Chasing Excellence
3. Play The Man
4. Rise to Rebellion
5. The Glorious Cause
6. The Preacher and the Presidents
7. What's So Great About America
8. E Pluribus One
Books Read in 2018
1. 12 Strong
2. The Travelers Gift
3. Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up
4. The Matheny Manifesto
5. Chop Wood Carry Water
6. How to Lead When You're Not in Charge
7. Rebel Yell
8. Speal
9. The American Spirit
10. The Soul of America
11. How Children Succeed
12. The Coddling of the American Mind
13. Andrew Jackson and the Miracle at New Orleans
14. On Tyranny
15. The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
16. Reasons to Believe
17. Them
Books Read in 2019
1. 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do
2. One Nation Under God
3. American Nations
4. The Dichotomy of Leadership
5. The Right Side of History
6. Teammates Matter
7. Founding Brothers
8. Movement Over Maxes
9. Suicide of the West
10. On Faith
11. Economic Facts and Fallacies
12. Thirteen American Arguements
13. The Boy Crisis
14. A Republic, If You Can Keep It
15. The Total Money Makeover
16. Is Christianity Logical
17. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
18. The Case Against Single Payer
Books Read in 2020
1) The Three Languages of Politics
2) Capital Gaines
3) Cant Hurt Me
4) God's Hand on America
5) Revel Knox
6) The American Miracle
7) Church of Cowards
8) What it Takes
9) Leadership Strategy and Tactics
10) Fierce Patriot
11) George H. W. Bush
12) With All Due Respect
13) 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You
14) Game Change
15) The Abolition of Man
16) The Great Divorce
17) The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ
18) The Hope of Glory
19) Hillbilly Elegy
20) The Four Loves
21) The Matriarch
22) Everybody Lies
23) Mere Christianity
24) Why We're Polarized
25) It's There in Black and White
26) The Hardest Job in the World
27) Divided We Fall
28) Stars of Alabama
29) Will the Circle be Unbroken
30) Chasing Lincoln's Killer
31) Killing Jesus
32) The Art of War
33) Anthem
34) How to Educate a Citizen
Books Read in 2021
1) Thou Shalt Not be a Jerk
2) The Parasitic Mind
3) A Time to Build
4) How to Read the Constitution and Why
5) The Happiness Hypothesis
6) American Dialogue
7) How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
8) Extreme Ownership
9) Freakonomics
10) Talking to Strangers
11) The Constitution: An Introduction
12) The Incredible Winston Brown
13) Becoming Better Grown-ups
14) The Gift of Failure
15) You're Not Enough (And That's Okay)
16) The Screwtape Letters
17) The Problem of Pain
18) Liberal Fascism
19) Think Again
20) Breath
21) The Glory of Their Times
22) Under Our Skin
23) The Noticer
24) Killers of the Flower Moon
25) The White Darkness
26) A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century
27) Free Range Kids
28) The Splendid and the Vile
29) Conflicted
30) Batman and Philosophy
31) The Wim Hof Method
32) Clouded by Emotion
33) Transformed
34) Under This Roof
35) The Day the World Came to Town
Books Read in 2022
1) The Dad Difference
2) Peace Talks
3) Blood and Treasure
4) Never Enough
5) Electric City
6) Fault Lines
7) Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution
8) The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
9) Strange New World
10) How to Talk to Anyone
11) The Man Who Ran Washington
12) Seculosity
13) Endure
14) Scars and Stripes
15) The Crowded Hour
16) The Oxygen Advantage
17) Destiny of the Republic
18) David and Goliath
19) Hero of the Empire
20) The Last Lincoln Republican
21) Dopamine Nation
22) Cynical Theories
23) The Devil in the White City
24) Of Boys and Men
25) Love Kindness
26) Mama Bear Apologetics
27) The Hill to Die On
28) Fight House
Books Read in 2023
1) The River of Doubt
2) Five Presidents
3) The Thursday Murder Club
4) The Man Who Died Twice
5) Heads Up Baseball
6) The Bullet That Missed
7) The Conscience of a Conservative
8) The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
9) Theodore Rex
10) How the Nations Rage
11) Cold Case Christianity
12) The Old Lion
13) How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life (reread)
14) Wild Problems
15) The Last Devil to Die
16) My Share of the Task
17) The War on Men
18) President Garfield
19) Meditations
20) The Ever-Loving Truth
Books Read in 2024
1) The Stranger in the Lifeboat
2) Outlive
3) Why We Love Baseball
4) Sixty Feet, Six Inches
5) Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
6) Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
7) The Anxious Generation
8) Don't Follow Your Heart
9) Leaders: Myths and Reality
10) Supercommunicators
11) The Deconstruction of Christianity
12) Courage is Calling
13) Lifespan
14) Surprised By Joy
15) Stuck in the Present
16) Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
17) Topical Bible Studies
18) How Not to Age
19) A Fragile Stone
20) Simon Peter
Books Read in 2025
1) The Obstacle is the Way
2) Caffeine
3) Let Them Be Kids
4) 1984
5) On the Shortness of Life
6) Don't Hang Up
7) Calico Joe
8) 10 Rules for the Perfect Murder
9) A Debt Against the Living
10) Go Home for Dinner
11) The President is Missing
12) American Covenant
13) James
14) The Mysterious Affair at Styles
15) The Boys in the Boat
16) The Warrior Poet Way
17) The First Wave
18) Shoeless Joe
19) The Comfort Crisis
20) Endure
21) Embrace Discomfort
22) Scarcity Brain
23) The Bill of Obligations
24) Do Hard Things
25) Expository Apologetics
26) The Good Gut
27) Magpie Murders
28) How to Speak/How to Listen
29) How to Be A Leader
30) Win the Inside Game
31) The Life of Jesus Christ
32) The Boomerang
33) The Age-Proof Brain
34) The Day Death Died
35) The Impossible Fortune
36) The Game of Nines
37) The Liberator
38) Rich Blood
39) Toxic Empathy
40) Moonflower Murders
41) Listening to the Law
42) Rich Waters
43) To Rescue the Constitution
44) Rich Justice
45) History Matters
46) Approaching Christian Scripture Faithfully