Some of my favorite books

TOP TEN (or more) IN ALL CATEGORIES:

 Dumbing Us Down by Gatto (education)

12 Rules for LIfe by Peterson (self-help)

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer (philosophy)

Ishmael by Quinn (novel)

When Breath Becomes Air by Kalanithi (memoir)

Hillbilly Elegy by Vance (memoir)

The Black Swan by Taleb (philosophy)

Skin in the Game by Taleb (philosophy)

Boy’s Life by McCammon (sci-fi / coming of age novel)

The 4-Hour Workweek by Ferriss (business)

 The Underground History of American Education by Gatto (education)

Shop Class as Soulcraft by Crawford (education / philosophy)

The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives by Mlodinow (math / philosophy)

Trust Me I’m Lying by Ryan Holiday (memoir)- THE BEST BOOK EVER THAT MAKES YOU UNDERSTAND HOW THE MEDIA WORKS AND WHY YOU SHOULD IGNORE IT.

Memoirs

Hillbilly Elegy by Vance

When Breath Becomes Air by Kalanithi

The Pursuit of Happyness by Gardner

The Color of Water by McBride

The Other Wes Moore by Moore

Colors of the Mountain by Chen

The Red Scarf Girl (YA book)

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

American Pilgrim by Roosh V

Biography / Autobiography

Into the Wild by Krakauer

Open by Andre Agassi

A Walk in the Woods by Bryson

Education Books

Focus by Schmoker

Dumbing Us Down by Gatto 

The Underground History of American Education by Gatto

Weapons of Mass Instruction by Gatto

(every book written by John Taylor Gatto- I read them all.)

Getting What You Came For by Peters

Worthless by Clarey

Teachers Have It Easy by Eggers

Self-Help

12 Rules for LIfe by Peterson

Bachelor Pad Economics by Clarey

Philosophy and / or Religion

The Black Swan by Taleb (and pretty much everything else he wrote)

The True Believer by Hoffer (and pretty much everything else he wrote)

Shop Class as Soulcraft by Crawford (could also be filed under Education Books)

The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives by Mlodinow

The Spirit of Disobedience by White (and pretty much everything else he wrote- I haven’t read his novels)

Blue Like Jazz by Miller

Skin in the Game by Taleb

Novels

Ishmael by Quinn (I read all his novels and loved them all.)

Boy’s Life by McCammon 

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini

A Disgrace to the Profession by Kaufmann and Newton (could also be classified under “education”).

The Brothers K by James Duncan

Enon by Paul Harding

The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman

Business

The 4-Hour Workweek by Ferriss

Think and Grow Rich by Hill

Steal Like an Artist by Kleon

As a Man Thinketh

The Richest Man in Babylon

Essentialism

Other Nonfiction

Prisoners of Geography by Marshall

Quotable Hitchens (quotes of Hitchens)

Favorite Books to Read in English 9 and/or 10 Class

The Road

Of Mice and Men

Tuesdays with Morrie

The House on Mango Street

The Circuit

A Long Walk to Water