My Favorite Books

I find reading broadens my perspective on the world allowing me to see life through many different lenses. I love a good book recommendation. Here are my favorites. Enjoy!

Leadership

• Critical Conversations by Kerry Patterson
• Change Your Questions Change Your Life by Marilee Adams. Ph.D.
• Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte
• David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
• Language and the Pursuit of Happiness by Chalmers Brothers
• Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Quiet Leadership by David Rock
• The Contemporary Servant Leader by Kent Keith
• The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly
• The Great Work of Your Life by Stephen Cope
• The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner
• The Servant as Leader by Robert Greenleaf

Non-Fiction

• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
• Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
• Deep Run Roots — Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South by Vivian Howard
• Issac Newton by James Gleick
• Kitchen Table Wisdom by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
• Let Your Life Speak by Parker J. Palmer
• New and Selected Poems — Volume One by Mary Oliver
• Poems and Prose by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Return to the Sea by Anne M. Johnson
• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
• The Gift of Years by Joan Chittister
• The Language of God by Francis Collins
• The Pioneers by David McCullough
• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
• The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
• When Paris Went Dark by Ronald C. Rosbottom
• Women Rowing North by Mary Pipher

Fiction

• A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles
• Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
• Cutting Stone by Abraham Verghese
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
• Hunter’s Horn by Harriette Simpson Arnow
• Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell
• Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
• Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis

Spiritual

• Anam Cara — A Book of Celtic Wisdom by John O’Donohue
• Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
• Heaven Is for Real by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent
• Sabbath by Wayne Mueller
• The Holy Longing by Ronald Rolheiser
• Poem of the Man-God — Volumes 1–5 by Maria Valtorta
• The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich
• The Pursuit of Happiness — God’s Way by Servais Pinckaers, OP
• When the Heart Waits by Sue Monk Kidd
• When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
• With Open Hands by Henri Nouwen