2022 Book List

Here is the long awaited 2022 book lists! My wife and I started a competition with who could read/listen to more books in the year. It has created wonderful conversations around these books. I started this year wanting to read what the Founding Fathers read to understand their philosophies and how it influenced the making of our government. This has lead me to discover a lot of excellent new authors and deepen my understanding in epistemology. Here is my reading list for the year:

January

  • Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, by Ray Dalio

  • Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens, by Andrew Beahrs

  • The Death of the Banker, by Ron Chernow

  • Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams, by Joseph J. Ellis

  • Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes, by Paul Strathern

  • Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle

    February

  • Symposium, by Plato, 340 BCE

  • Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, by Immanuel Kant, 1785

  • Introduction to Metaphysics, by Heni Bergson

  • The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, 1776

  • After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre

  • Radicalized, by Peter R. Neumann

  • The Doors of Perception, by Aldous Huxley

  • The Social Contract, by Jean-Jacque Rousseau, 1762

  • The Republic, by Plato, 375 BCE

  • The Apology, by Plato, 399 BCE

  • The Allegory of the Cave, by Plato, 375 CE (re-read)

  • The Art of War, by Sun Tzu, 5th Century

  • Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius, 161-180 CE

  • Murder-Bears, Moonshine, and Mayhem, by Luke Harrington

  • Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?, by Thomas Sowell

  • A Vindication of the Rights of Men, by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1790

  • A Vindication of the Rights of Women, by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792

  • Reflections on the French Revolution, Edmond Burke, 1790

  • Two Treatise of Government, by John Locke, 1698

  • Rights of Man, by Thomas Paine, 1791

  • The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx, 1848

  • A Criticism of Hegelian Philosophy of Right, by Karl Marx, 1844

  • On the King of Prussia and Social Reform, by Karl Marx, 1844

  • Moralizing Criticism and Critical Morality: A Polemic Against Karl Heinzen, by Karl Marx,

  • Proudhon, by Karl Marx

  • French Materialism, by Karl Marx

  • The English Revolution, by Karl Marx

  • The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek, 1944

March

  • Candide, by Voltaire

  • Game Theory, by Ken Binmore

  • Gratitude, by Oliver Sacks

  • The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander

  • A Higher Loyalty: Truth, lies, and Leadership, by James Comey

  • Putin’s People, by Catherine Belton

  • Tribe, by Sebastian Junger

  • Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men, by Jean-Jacque Rousseau

  • Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes, 1651

  • A Letter Concerning Toleration, by John Locke, 1689

  • Thomas Paine, by Craig Nelson

  • Pacific, by Simon Winchester

  • The Hope of Glory, John Meacham

  • The Field of Fight, by Michael Flynn

  • Educated, by Tara Westover

    April

  • The Name of God is Mercy, by Pope Francis

  • Seven Brief Lessons in Physics, by Carlo Rovelli

  • Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust, by James Comey

  • The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers, by Maxwell King

  • Casino Royale, By Ian Fleming

  • The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • Rich Dad, Poor Dad, by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter

  • Warlords, by Simon Berthon and Joanna Potts

  • Outliers, by Malcom Gladwell

  • Bogle on Mutual Funds, by John C. Bogle

  • 32 Yolks, by Eric Ripert

  • The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future, by Steve Case

  • The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell

    May

  • Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell

  • Common Sense on Mutual Funds, by John C. Bogle

  • The Little Book of Common Sense Investing, by John C. Bogle

  • Enough, by John C. Bogle

  • Grit, The Power of Passion and Perseverance, by Angela Duckworth

  • Stewardship, by John G. Taft

  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah

  • Supermoney, by Adam Smith

  • Marxism: Philosophy and Economics, by Thomas Sowell

  • The Rise and Fall of Nations, by Ruchir Sharma

  • The Odyssey, by Homer 725BCE

  • The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

  • The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, By Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

    June

  • The Art of Start 2.0, by Guy Kawasaki

  • Security Analysis, by Benjamin Graham

  • Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill

  • The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

  • Smarter Faster Better, by Charles Duhigg

  • 1984, by George Orwell

  • Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

  • Venus Plus X, by Theodore Sturgeon

    July

  • Here, Right Matters, by Alexander Vindman

  • The Industries of the Future, By Alec Ross

  • The Innovator’s Dilemma, by Clayton Christensen

  • The Last Empire, by Serhii Plokhy

  • Salt, by Mark Kurlansky

  • Cultish, by Amanda Montell

    August

  • A Spiritual Biography Martin Luther, by Herman Selderhuis

  • The Confessions of Saint Augustine, by Saint Augustine

  • The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage | Volume 1, by Will Durant

  • The Story of Civilization: The Life of Greece | Volume 2, by Will Durant

    September

  • The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ | Volume 3, by Will Durant

  • The Story of Civilization: The Age of Faith | Volume 4, by Will Durant

October

  • The Story of Civilization: The Renaissance | Volume 5, by Will Durant

    November

  • The Story of Civilization: The Reformation | Volume 6, by Will Durant

  • The Story of Civilization: The Age of Reason Begins | Volume 7, by Will Durant

  • Julie and Julia, by Julia Powell

December

  • The Story of Civilization: The Age of Louis XIV | Volume 8, by Will Durant

  • The Story of Civilization: The Age of Voltaire | Volume 9, by Will Durant

  • The Story of Civilization: Rousseau and the Revolution | Volume 10, by Will Durant