2024 Reading List
I've been mentored by the successes and failures of hundreds of people I've never met. I've been challenged to enter into worlds quite different than my personal culture, worldview and ideology by reading stories and platforms of diverse people. I like to think about reading similar to cross-training for physical fitness - deliberate diversity of content to stretch and strengthen me. After a fruitful 2023 Reading Journey, here's my outlook on 2024 titles.
2023 Reading List:
The Bible
Living Life Backwards (Gibson)
Twelve Ordinary Men (MacArthur)
The Lausanne Legacy (Cameron)
Super Immunity (Fuhrman)
Polycentric Mission Leadership (Handley)
Full Time (Bahnsen)
The Spiritual Art of Business (Rowan)
The Advantage (Lencioni)
The Wright Brothers (McCullough)
Servant Selling (Brown)
The Anxious Generation (Haidt)
Case for Christ (Strobel)
Threads (Freeman)
Super Habits (Abela)
No Free Lunch (Bahnsen)
The Five Tasks (Graves)
Elon Musk (Isaacson)
Joan of Arc (Mark Twain)
Lead on Mission (Spradlin)
Peace Index (Kubicek)
Super Habits (Abela)
The Heart of Work (Lee)
Compelling Reason (CS Lewis)
Seamless Leadership Transition (Kricher)
Failure of Nerve (Friedman)
Lead with Prayer (Greer/Skogg/Doolittle)
Age of Opportunity (Tripp)
...TBD!
What are your top reads from last year you'd recommend (and why) or what titles you're engaging in 2024 you'd invite others to join you in?
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3wImmunity to Change, by Kegan is a book I always recommend and was recently reminded when someone was looking for alignment. Integrity, by Sr Henry Cloud, still turning these pages and loving it
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3wGreat list! Would love to know your top 3 from the list. And would like to recommend Sage by Chris Bruno.
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9moMike Sharrow I enjoyed Gibson's Living Life Backward so much that I also picked up his book Radically Whole, which I'm reading now. One other great read from last year was the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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9mogreat list Mike Sharrow. I'd like to recommend two books (I read last year) that help us deepen our intentionality for the "second half" of our life: "Half Time: Moving from Success to Significance" (Bob Buford); From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose (Arthur Brooks). These two books complement one another nicely.