Bookshelf
I read a lot — mostly non-fiction, with the occasional novel that wrecks me emotionally. This page pulls from my Goodreads library.
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What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies — Tim Urban
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions — Johann Hari
Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6) — Pierce Brown
The Overstory — Richard Powers
Dark Age (Red Rising Saga #5) — Pierce Brown
The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt
Cathedral — Raymond Carver
Crypto Confidential: Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance — Nathaniel Eliason
Demon Copperhead — Barbara Kingsolver
Hannah Coulter — Wendell Berry
Liberties: Culture and Politics — Leon Wieseltier
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter — Brandon Sanderson
A Man Called Ove — Fredrik Backman
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals — Oliver Burkeman
Tress of the Emerald Sea — Brandon Sanderson
That Distant Land: The Collected Stories (Port William) — Wendell Berry
The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4) — Brandon Sanderson
Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4) — Brandon Sanderson
Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3) — Brandon Sanderson
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2) — Brandon Sanderson
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) — Brandon Sanderson
Warbreaker — Brandon Sanderson
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3) — Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1) — Brandon Sanderson
Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy — Andrew Yang
Dune (Dune, #1) — Frank Herbert
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction — Alan Jacobs
Jayber Crow — Wendell Berry
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) — Patrick Rothfuss
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption — Bryan Stevenson
Little, Big — John Crowley
A Confession and Other Religious Writings — Leo Tolstoy
You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit — James K.A. Smith
Gilead (Gilead, #1) — Marilynne Robinson
Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America — Chris Arnade
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church — Rachel Held Evans
Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical — Timothy J. Keller
A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart — Josef Pieper
The Great Divorce — C.S. Lewis
Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation — Josef Pieper
Manalive (Hilarious Stories) — G.K. Chesterton
Something Other than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It — Jennifer Fulwiler
Losing the War — Lee Sandlin
The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming — Henri J.M. Nouwen
Introduction to Christianity — Pope Benedict XVI
The Abolition of Man — C.S. Lewis
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics — Daniel James Brown
The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1) — Mary Doria Russell
How to Read a Book — Mortimer J. Adler
Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs — Leon R. Kass
God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition — Alasdair MacIntyre
Leisure: The Basis of Culture: Including the Philosophical Act — Josef Pieper
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare — G.K. Chesterton
Confessions (Works of Saint Augustine 1) — Augustine of Hippo
Spirit of Adventure: Eagle Scouts and the Making of America's Future — Alvin Townley
Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
East of Eden — John Steinbeck
Les Misérables — Victor Hugo
Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1) — Orson Scott Card
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life — David Foster Wallace
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1) — Brandon Sanderson
I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works — Ramit Sethi
Home (Gilead, #2) — Marilynne Robinson
The Power and the Glory — Graham Greene