So lately, I’ve taken to reading a lot. I always have enjoyed reading books, but recently my interest and time spent doing it has increased significantly. Don’t be concerned, I’m not an addict. Please don’t call my Mom.

Of course, being as ADHD as I am (officially actually, as of my childhood anyway), I can’t just read one book, so I’m in the middle of several. Here they are, in no particular order:

• Inception and Philosophy: Because It’s Never Just a Dream by David Kyle Johnson
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan Peterson
• Knowing God by J.I. Packer
• The Bible by God (It might take me a while to review this one, there’s a lot going on here)

No, I’m not actually going to review the Bible. Who am I to do that anyway, that’s almost blasphemous just to think about.

And Here is my Master book list. All the books I want to read. It’s growing quite a bit. Some of the books are novels, others are non-fiction/philosophy, and others are a bit of the educational/self-help variety. Some of the novels are classics, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and some of them are just for fun.

Some of these books are pretty hard reads. Until recently it seems, most novels had a TON of description, with lots of flowery language. I like myself a well constructed sentence, but when it’s so long I have to struggle to remember the beginning of it, that’s a bit much. I’m exaggerating a bit here, and since your mind is like a muscle I hope to get better at all this, but just in case for now, I will occasionally supplement my reading with SparkNotes or something similar, to make sure I don’t get lost. This isn’t cheating, it’s using your resources, as they say. Who are the they anyway?

Master Book List

Last updated: Feb 5, 2018

Classic Novels

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury*
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Animal Farm by Gorge Orwell
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen**
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde

Theology/Philosophy

• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis*
• The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
• Miracles by C.S. Lewis
• The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
• The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
• Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Education, Self-Help, & Science

• The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
• The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport
• Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J Ratey
• The Motivation Hacker by Nick Winter
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey
• Brain Rules by John Medina
• The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey
• Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey
• Steal the Show by Michael Port

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novels

• Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card*
• Star Wars: Thrawn by Timothy Zahn
• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Neuromancer by William Gibson

Other

• The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
• The Horse,the Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony

* Books I’ve already read, I just want to re-read them ** Books I’ve partially read, and for whatever reason stopped

Please give me suggestions if there’s something that you think should be on this list! Not saying I’ll put it here for sure, but I definitely like ideas.