2025 Reading List

  1. The Invention of Air

  2. Energize your workplace

  3. The Infernal Machine

  4. The World of Ice and Fire

  5. The Resilience Factor

  6. Chatter

  7. Wonderworks

  8. 7 1/2 Lessons about the Brain

  9. The Referable Speaker

  10. Art as Therapy

  11. Character Strengths Interventions

  12. Extra Life

  13. Enemy of All Mankind

  14. The Demon of Unrest

  15. Team of Rivals

  16. The Psychology of Passion

  17. The Glorious Cause

  18. Empire of Liberty

  19. What Hath God Wrought

  20. Battle Cry of Freedom

  21. The Republic for Which It Stands

  22. Rebirth of a Nation

  23. Freedom from Fear

  24. Grand Expectations

  25. Permission to Feel

  26. Emotional Agility

2024 Reading List

  1. The Wager

  2. Budapest

  3. Freezing Order

  4. The House of God

  5. The Emerald Mile

  6. The Body

  7. Code Talker

  8. Fight Right

  9. The Habsburgs

  10. Harlem Shuffle

  11. What Doesn’t Kill Us

  12. Happy Together

  13. Why We Swim

  14. Running Rewired

  15. No Bad Parts

  16. The Song of the Cell

  17. Palo Alto

  18. How to Change Your Mind

  19. 1177 B.C.

  20. Last Boat Out of Shanghai

  21. Green Island

  22. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

  23. Elon Musk

  24. Positivity

  25. Learned Optimism

  26. The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy

  27. Gangsters of Capitalism

  28. A Primer in Positive Psychology

  29. Magic Pill

  30. The Hope Circuit

  31. Startup Life

  32. Project Hail Mary

  33. The Hold Me Tight Program

  34. Hold Me Tight

  35. Wired for Love

  36. Positive Psychotherapy: Clinician Manual

  37. Flourish

  38. Tomorrowmind

  39. Authentic Happiness

  40. Table for Two

  41. The Anxious Generation

  42. The Power of Meaning

  43. The How of Happiness

  44. Rethinking Positive Thinking

  45. Good Habits, Bad Habits

  46. Succeed

  47. The Paradox of Choice

  48. Spark

  49. How People Matter

  50. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together

  51. For Better or for Work

  52. Start Love Repeat

  53. Tandem: The Married Entrepreneurs’ Guide for Greater Work-Life Balance

  54. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store

  55. Dopamine Nation

  56. Fair Play

  57. The Little Prince

  58. Couples that Work

  59. The boy, the mole, the fox, and the horse

  60. Opening up by writing it down

  61. Love 2.0

  62. Grit

  63. Eastbound

  64. The All-or-Nothing Marriage

  65. Focusing

  66. ADHD 2.0

  67. Go Wild

  68. The Postcard

  69. Dead Wake

  70. Wittgenstein’s Poker

  71. The Generalissimo

  72. The Lady Tasting Tea

  73. The Silmarillion

  74. Children of Húrin

  75. Beren and Lúthien

  76. Lost City of the Monkey God

  77. Lost City of Z

  78. Farsighted 

  79. How we got to now

  80. 7 ½ lessons about the brain

  81. Fire and Blood

  82. The Eternal Flame

  83. Light and Shadow

2023 Reading List

  1. Open

  2. The Premonition

  3. Net Gains

  4. The Nickel Boys

  5. Chatter

  6. The Mother Tongue

  7. Why We Get Sick

  8. You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train

  9. Finding the Mother Tree

  10. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

  11. Positive Discipline

  12. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  13. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  14. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  15. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  16. Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince

  17. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  18. Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child

  19. The Overstory

  20. The Hunger Games

  21. Catching Fire

  22. MockingJay

  23. Banking on a Human Scale

  24. Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking

  25. The Whole-Brain Child

  26. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

  27. Parable of the Sower

  28. We All Have Parts

  29. It Didn’t Start with You

  30. The Science of Couples and Family Therapy

  31. A Concise History of Buddhism

  32. Attachment Theory in Practice

  33. Parable of the Talents

  34. The Science of Trust

  35. When Men Batter Women

  36. Flowers of Fire

  37. Lessons in Chemistry

  38. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

  39. The Mistress of Bhatia House

  40. A Killer’s Game

  41. The Making of Asian America

  42. Good for a Girl

  43. The Complete Guide to Fasting

  44. Made in America

  45. Solito

  46. Kim Jiyoung, Born in 1982

  47. In the Garden of Beasts

  48. 10 Principles for Doing Effective Couples Therapy

  49. The Seven Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa

  50. The Mothers

  51. The New Rules of Marriage

  52. An Amerikan Family

  53. Norse Mythology

  54. The Family Firm

  55. The Vanishing Half

  56. The Myth of Normal

  57. And Then There Were None

  58. The Kinship of Secrets

  59. The Court Dancer

  60. Time’s Echo

  61. The Stonewall Reader

  62. Inverting the Pyramid

  63. She Said

  64. Please Look After Mom

  65. Outlive

2022 Reading List

  1. Deep

  2. The Oxygen Advantage

  3. Mozart: The Reign of Love

  4. Crying in H Mart

  5. The Widows of Malabar Hill

  6. The Vanishing

  7. The Surrender Experiment

  8. The Moonstone of Satapur

  9. The Bombay Prince

  10. The Ministry for the Future

  11. Metabolical

  12. Good Talk

  13. The Sun My Heart

  14. Salt Sugar Fat

  15. The Places In Between

  16. Eat Fat Get Thin

  17. The 10-Day Detox Diet

  18. Why Fish Don’t Exist

  19. The Splendid and the Vile

  20. Lifespan

  21. Wolf Hall

  22. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

  23. Little Fires Everywhere

  24. Breathe, You Are Alive!

  25. There There

  26. Thirty Million Words

  27. The Emotional Life of the Toddler

  28. Oh Crap!

  29. Feeling Great

  30. CEO, China

  31. The Hours

  32. The Great Passion

  33. The Lincoln Highway

  34. A Long Petal of the Sea

  35. The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching

  36. The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh

  37. Attached

  38. Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids

  39. Rules of Civility

  40. On Grief and Grieving

  41. Why Buddhism is True

  42. Transitions

  43. How Plants Work

  44. Beloved

  45. Pacific Northwest Month-by-month Gardening

  46. The Song of Achilles

  47. The Silmarillion

  48. Circe

  49. Spoonbenders

  50. How to Break Up with Your Phone

  51. The Witches of Moonshyne Manor

  52. Harlem Shuffle

  53. The Biography of JRR Tolkien

  54. The Children of Hurin

  55. How to Hide an Empire

  56. NOT “Just Friends”

  57. Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

  58. Dangerous Rhythms

  59. Station Eleven

  60. In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts

  61. My Stroke of Insight

  62. Treating Addiction

  63. The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice

  64. Addiction 101

  65. The Last White Man

  66. Exit West

2021 Reading List

  1. The God of Small Things

  2. Catfish and Mandala

  3. Why Buddhism is True

  4. Being Peace

  5. The Coddling of the American Mind

  6. The Reluctant Fundamentalist

  7. The Dhammapada

  8. Cubano Be, Cubano Bop

  9. How to Be an Antiracist

  10. Learning True Love

  11. Marathon

  12. 80/80 Marriage

  13. Angle of Repose

  14. Making Mondragón

  15. All the Rage

  16. Operating Instructions

  17. Everything for Everyone

  18. For A Future To Be Possible

  19. Open Borders

  20. Running Rewired

  21. The Fire Next Time

  22. iGen

  23. The Color of Money

  24. Transformation and Healing

  25. The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

  26. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

  27. Coming of Age in Mississippi

  28. The Girl Who Played with Fire

  29. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

  30. Dhammapada

  31. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

  32. All The Light We Cannot See

  33. The 4 Foundations of Mindfulness in Plain English

  34. Breath

  35. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy

  36. The Honourable Schoolboy

  37. Smiley’s Men

  38. 7 Principles of Making Marriage Work

  39. The Art and Science of Love

  40. The Normal Bar

  41. Facing the Mountain

  42. Behold the Dreamers

  43. The 5 People You Will Meet in Heaven

  44. Digital Cash

  45. The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh

  46. Mindfulness in Plain English

  47. Cryptoassets

  48. Shutdown

  49. Blockchain Revolution

  50. 8 Mindful Steps to Happiness

  51. How to Sit

  52. Mozart’s Starling

  53. The Body Keeps The Score

  54. Uncanny Valley

  55. Fragrant Palm Leaves

  56. Neuromancer

  57. Why We Sleep

  58. Loving-Kindness in Plain English

  59. Enjoying the Ultimate

  60. A Gentleman in Moscow

  61. The Color of Water

  62. Breathe! You Are Alive

  63. Our Appointment with Life

  64. Martin Marten

  65. The Art of Somatic Coaching

  66. Don’t Shoot the Dog

  67. The Other End of the Leash

  68. True Love

  69. 8 Mindful Steps to Happiness

  70. Sapiens: Volume 1

  71. Sapiens: Volume 2

2020 Reading List

  1. The Underground Railroad

  2. Mirrors

  3. Mindful Birthing

  4. Strangers in Their Own Land

  5. Of Donkeys and Dragons

  6. The Second Mountain

  7. On Trails

  8. The Vintage Guide to Classical Music

  9. The Advantage

  10. The Language of the Spirit

  11. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

  12. Man’s Search for Meaning

  13. Automating Inequality

  14. Eight Dates

  15. 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

  16. The Uninhabitable Earth

  17. Leadership and Self Deception

  18. The Anatomy of Peace

  19. Marriage 3.0

  20. Babywise

  21. The China Diet

  22. The Age of Revolution

  23. Cribsheet

  24. 12 Hours of Sleep in 12 Weeks

  25. Bad Blood

  26. This Time Is Different

  27. Authentic Happiness

  28. The Age of Capital

  29. Mozart

  30. The Allergy Book

  31. Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph

  32. Red Notice

  33. Norse Mythology

  34. Mozart: A Life

  35. Bringing up Bebe

  36. Tuesdays with Morrie

  37. Stop Walking on Eggshells

  38. The Whole-Brain Child

  39. Technically Wrong

  40. The Happiest Baby on the Block

  41. Born a Crime

  42. The World Without Us

  43. This Isn’t What I Expected

  44. Beneath a Scarlet Sky

  45. That’s Not What I meant!

  46. The Sympathizer

  47. Johannes Brahms: A Biography

  48. A Thousand Miles to Freedom

  49. Ants Among Elephants

  50. The Color of Law

  51. Slaughterhouse Five

  52. Lucky Boy

  53. Room to Grow

  54. The Unbanking of America

  55. Cutting for Stone

  56. The Glass Palace

  57. Desert Solitaire

  58. Educated

  59. Engine of Impact

  60. The German Genius

  61. Robinson Crusoe

  62. In an Antique Land

  63. Groupthink

  64. Crucial Conversations

  65. The Reawakening

  66. What It Is Like To Go To War

  67. We Were The Lucky Ones

  68. Down and Out in Paris and London

  69. The Elements of Style

  70. Big Little Lies

  71. How to Break Up With Your Phone

  72. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

  73. Peace is Every Step

  74. The Boundless Sea

  75. Immigration Outside The Law

  76. Old Path White Clouds

  77. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

  78. Middle Passage

  79. Mozart: The Reign of Love

  80. Mating in Captivity

  81. Our Appointment with Life

2019 Reading List

  1. The River of Doubt

  2. The Feeling Good Handbook

  3. True Love

  4. The Big Burn

  5. An Anthropologist on Mars

  6. The Cartoon History of the Universe, Vol. 1

  7. Predictable Success

  8. The Cartoon History of the Universe, Vol. 2

  9. The Cartoon History of the Universe, Vol. 3

  10. Bitter Fruit

  11. Traction

  12. The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Vol. 1

  13. Expecting Better

  14. The Crusades of Cesar Chavez

  15. The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Vol. 2

  16. Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice

  17. The Cartoon History of the Environment

  18. Musicophilia

  19. Barbarian Days

  20. Ego is the Enemy

  21. Misbehaving

  22. All You Can Ever Know

  23. The Ramayana

  24. The Long Way Home

  25. Blue like Jazz

  26. The Gene

  27. Lost City of the Incas

  28. The Last Lecture

  29. Nonviolent Communication

  30. Pete Seeger’s Storytelling Book

  31. The Known World

  32. The Silk Roads

  33. The Lost Heart of Asia

  34. The Fifth Agreement

  35. And Baby Makes Three

  36. The Small BIG

  37. Chasing the Sea

  38. The Power of a Positive No

  39. The Big Leap

  40. Real American

  41. Speak Peace in a World of Conflict

  42. The Panic of 1907

  43. Hold Me Tight

  44. The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work

  45. The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh

  46. The Color Purple

  47. The Great Depression: A Diary

  48. All the Wild that Remains

  49. If You’re in My Office, It’s Already Too Late

  50. Tales of Two Americas

  51. The Man’s Guide to Women

  52. Inside of a Dog

  53. Confessions of the Pricing Man

  54. The Invention of the Jewish People

  55. No Death, No Fear

  56. How to Fight

  57. The Refugees

  58. Owning our Future

  59. Food Rules

  60. Advice on Dying

  61. Another America: The Story of Liberia

  62. The Age of Lincoln

  63. The Obstacle is the Way

  64. The Richest Man in Babylon

  65. Fear

  66. Between the World and Me

  67. Reinventing Organizations – the illustrated version!

  68. The New Jim Crow

  69. The Art of Power

  70. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

  71. Snow Falling on Cedars

  72. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

  73. How to Eat

  74. Life Together

  75. Opening the Heart of the Cosmos

  76. The Happiness Hypothesis

  77. Happiness, Love and Liberation

  78. The Boudoir Bible

  79. What Makes Love Last?

  80. Mediterranean Winter

  81. Just Mercy

  82. Cradle to Cradle

  83. The Hunchback of Notre Dame

  84. Teachings on Love

  85. A Path with Heart

  86. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

  87. On Guard and On Point

  88. The Unwomanly Face of War

  89. The 47 Ronin Story

  90. Being the Change

  91. Ill Fares the Land

  92. The History of Western Art

  93. When They Call You a Terrorist

  94. Homage to Catalonia

  95. The Dip

  96. The Broken Spears

  97. The Cartoon History of Physics

  98. Classic Feynman

  99. East of Eden

  100. The Namesake

  101. Bury the Chains

  102. The Morality of Spin

  103. Charles Darwin: Voyaging

  104. Charles Darwin: The Power of Place

  105. Thanks for the Feedback

  106. Dancing at the Edge of Death

  107. Blindspot

  108. 10 Principles for Doing Effective Couples Therapy

  109. Getting the Love You Want

  110. To End All Wars

  111. Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child

  112. The World According to Garp

  113. Survival in Auschwitz

  114. Why Marriages Succeed or Fail

  115. Companies We Keep

  116. Mating in Captivity

  117. White Fragility

  118. The Templars

  119. How to Change Your Mind

  120. When Breath Becomes Air

2018 Reading List

  1. Your Money or Your Life

  2. Prisoners of Geography

  3. Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers

  4. Women & Power

  5. At the Gates of Europe

  6. The Goal

  7. Critical Chain

  8. Home Deus

  9. Stasiland

  10. Homegoing

  11. Transformation & Healing

  12. October 1917

  13. Feeling Good

  14. A Thousand Splendid Suns

  15. The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down

  16. Lean In

  17. The Four Agreements

  18. The Kite Runner

  19. No Future without Forgiveness

  20. The Home That Was Our Country

  21. The 4 Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive

  22. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team

  23. The Ideal Team Player

  24. Traction

  25. Jungle of Stone

  26. The River Between

  27. Buddha’s Brain

  28. Get a Grip

  29. 1493

  30. The 5 Temptations of a CEO

  31. 1491

  32. Conscious Loving

  33. City of Thorns

  34. City of Fortune

  35. Galapagos

  36. The 7 Principles for Making Marriage Work

  37. Our Appointment with Life

  38. Present Moment, Wonderful Moment

  39. What the Heck is EOS?

  40. Breathe, You Are Alive!

  41. Being Peace

  42. How to Be a Great Boss

  43. The Other Shore

  44. Stepping into Freedom

  45. Old Path White Clouds

  46. The Islamic Enlightenment

  47. For a Future to Be Possible

  48. The Miracle of Mindfulness

  49. A River Sutra

  50. Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire

  51. Death by Meeting

  52. How to Walk

  53. Living Buddha, Living Christ

  54. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

  55. The Trench

  56. A Bittersweet Season

  57. How to Sit

  58. Alexander Hamilton

  59. The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears

  60. South Sea Vagabonds

  61. Beyond the Beautiful Forevers

  62. 40 Autumns

  63. Variations on Night and Day

  64. The Mastery of Love

  65. Jonathan Livingston Seagull

  66. Nomadland

  67. Spain in our Hearts

  68. Burmese Days

  69. Being Mortal

  70. How to Relax

  71. The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh

  72. On Tyranny

  73. The Stranger

  74. Wave

  75. This Divided Island

  76. The Island of a Thousand Mirrors

  77. Feeling Good Together

  78. The Boys in the Boat

  79. A Concise History of Buddhism

  80. Factfulness

2017 Reading List

  1. Darkness Visible

  2. Why We Do What We Do

  3. Lost City of the Monkey God

  4. The Romanovs

  5. Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix It

  6. SPQR

  7. Crucial Conversations

  8. Maverick

  9. Grunt

  10. The Great Game

  11. The Oregon Trail

  12. The Soul of an Octopus

  13. The Ghost Map

  14. The Connector’s Way

  15. The Emperor of All Maladies

  16. Lords of the Atlas

  17. The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching

  18. Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

  19. The Wages of Guilt

  20. All The Wild That Remains

  21. Empires of the Sea

  22. The World’s Most Dangerous Place

  23. Credit Union 2.0

  24. The Business of Expertise

  25. King Leopold’s Ghost

  26. The Silk Roads

  27. Untouchable

  28. Hillbilly Elegy

  29. Persepolis

  30. The Man without a Face

  31. After the Prophet

  32. Black Rain

  33. The End of Average

  34. The Undoing Project

  35. Predictable Success

  36. Hero: The Life & Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

  37. They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky

  38. The Last Storytellers

  39. The Forest Unseen

  40. Metro Equity Baseline Report

  41. How to Cure a Fanatic

  42. The 5 Levels of Leadership

  43. The Power of Memoir

  44. In the Time of Madness

  45. Future Crimes

  46. Krakatoa

  47. This Earth of Mankind

  48. House of Glass

  49. Footsteps

  50. Child of All Nations

  51. The Cello Suites

  52. Being Mortal

  53. The Almost Nearly Perfect People

  54. Love Does

  55. The Prophet

  56. The Enchiridion

  57. Madagascar: The Eighth Continent

  58. Nature’s Nether Regions

  59. The Power of Full Engagement

  60. The Book of Joy

  61. The Aye-Aye and I

  62. Sapiens

  63. The Swerve