2025 Reads

• A Leader’s Destiny: Why Psychology, Personality, and Character Make All the Difference by Elias Aboujaoude
• Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization by Brad Wilcox
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
• The Woke Salaryman Crash Course on Capitalism & Money by The Woke Salaryman
• Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
• Winning the Week by Carey Bentley and Demir Bentley
• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
• Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect by Will Guidara
• Black Psychedelic Revolution by Nicholas Powers
• Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs by Pearl Cleage
• History of Tea by Laura C. Martin
• There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension Hanif Abdurraqib

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2020 – 2024//favorite reads

1. Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect by Will Guidara
2. Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
3. The Heat Will Kill You First by Jeff Goodell
4. Journey to the Shadow Self: What Psychology, Goddess Worship, & Plant Medicine Can Teach Us by Dr. Marie Loper PhD
5. Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur by James A. Randel
6. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
7. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
8. communion by bell hooks
9. salvation: black people and love by bell hooks
10. all about love by bell hooks
11. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
12. dub: finding ceremony by alexis pauline gumbs
13. Holistic Tarot by Benebell Wen
14. undrowned: lessons from marine mammals by alexis pauline gumbs
15. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center by Rhaina Cohen
16. Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
17. The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell
18. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
19. Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
20. Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
21. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
22. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
23. Quilting by Lucille Clifton
24. Assata: An Autobiography
25. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
26. Blood In My Eye by George Jackson
27. A Broken People’s Playlist by Chimeka Garricks
28. How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm by Mei-Ling Hopgood
29. Deep Work by Cal Newport
30. This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
31. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
32. End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration Peter Turchin
33. The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
34. Secret Stairs: A Walking Guide of Berkeley and Oakland by Charles Fleming
35. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris
36. The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul by Danielle LaPorte
37. Influence by Robert Cialdini
38. Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex Sophia Giovannitti
39. Sex at Dawn by Cacilda Jethá and Christopher Ryan
40. More Than Two by Eve Rickert and Franklin Veaux
41. The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy
42. The Psychology of Money by Morgan House
43. Tarot for Change by Jessica Dore
44. Women who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
45. The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
46. The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
47. The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
48. Patternmaster by Octavia Butler
49. Mind of My Mind by Octavia Butler
50. Wild Seed by Octavia Butler
51. Clay’s Ark by Octavia Butler
52. Dawn by Octavia Butler
53. Adulthood Rites by Octavia Butler
54. Imago by Octavia Butler
55. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
56. Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
57. Kindred by Octavia Butler
58. Fledgling by Octavia Butler
59. Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler

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