Reads of 2019
Chris Conard, MBA
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Chris Conard, MBA
Director, Eccles MBA | Relentless Learner | Strategy Activator | Addicted to Outcomes
I love books. I love all kinds of books and in 2019, I consumed more books than in any year prior. Here is my annual list of books that I explored in the past year:
- The Long Season | Jim Brosnan
- Educated | Tara Westover
- North | Scott Jurek
- The Subtle art of not giving a F*ck | Mark Manson
- Barking Up the Wrong Tree | Eric Barker
- Winners Take All*^ | Anand Giridharadas
- Uncommon Type | Tom Hanks
- Beastie Boys Book | Michael Diamond & Adam Horowitz
- The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers* | Maxwell King
- Desert Solitaire | Edward Abbey
- Born a Crime | Trevor Noah
- 26 Marathons | Meb Keflezighi
- Little Fires Everywhere | Celeste Ng
- Go Tell it on the Mountain | James Baldwin
- Moment of Lift^ | Melinda Gates
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World | David Epstein
- Destiny of the Republic* | Candice Millard
- The Book of Joy^ | 14th Dalai Lama & Archbishop Desmond Tutu
- The Nature Fix: Why Nature makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative | Florence Williams
- Let my People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Business Man^ | Yvon Chouinard
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles* | Haruki Murakami
- The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls
- The Nickel Boys | Colson Whitehead
- A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles
- There There | Tommy Orange
- The New Jim Crow^ | Michelle Alexander
- Becoming | Michelle Obama
- The Anatomy of Peace^ | The Arbinger Institute
- The Visible Man | Chuck Klosterman
- Let's Go (So we can get back) | Jeff Tweedy
- No Country for Old Men | Cormac McCarthy
- Talking to Strangers | Malcom Gladwell
- Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter | Tom Clavin
- We want to do more than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom | Bettina L. Love
- Where the Crawdads Sing* | Delia Owens
- Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World | Adam Grant
* - one of my favorites from the year
^- I think the world could be a better place if everyone read this
I am more than happy to discuss any of these with you. Just go ahead and comment or reach out to me directly and we can set-up a time to chat books.
Cheers to more books in 2020!
President at McKinnon-Mulherin Inc.
5 年Great list! I've been wanting to read There There, but with both a * and a ^ recommendation, I might have to check out Winners Take All first.
Supporting Private Enterprises and their Leaders - Senior Manager at EY Private
5 年That is a robust list! We shared about 3 reads in 2019. Would love to discuss Talking to Strangers with you sometime. A couple of these just got put on my Audible list.