2022 Reading List

Posted on: 23 January 2022

I really want to be a person who dedicates time to reading more. Whether that transpires to be via audiobooks, e-books or good old analogue paper, this is the goal for 2022. This is a lofty list, and not something I expect to finish, but one I've compiled over the last 18 months. I hope to add add to as well as cross-off as the year progresses.

2023 Update: I have added a new list of books I want to read, accumulated over the course of 2022. These are now listed below, under the heading "Supplementary list (2023)".

Last updated: 23rd February, 2024

The original list

Malcolm Gladwell - Tipping point
Martin Dorey - No. More. Plastic
Matt Haig - Reasons to Stay Alive
Terry Laughlin - Total Immersion
Blake Crouch - Recursion
Simon Sinek - Start With Why
Bea Johnson - Zero Waste Home
Joseph R. Dominguez, Monique Tilford, and Vicki Robin - Your Money or your Life
Oliver Burkeman - Four Thousand Weeks
Matt Haig - The Midnight Library
Carol Dweck - Mindset: The New Psychology
Ramit Sethi - I Will Teach You to Be Rich
Jonathan Haidt - Happiness Hypothesis
Jabon Lund Fisker - Early Retirement Extreme
Dale Carnegie - How to win friends and influence people
Roger Fisher and William Ury - Getting to yes
Malcolm Gladwell - David and Goliath
Blake Crouch - Pines
Dr Steve Peters - The Chimp Paradox
Lynne Twist - The Soul of Money
Cal Newport - Deep Work
Alex Banayan - The Third Door
David Graeber - Bullshit Jobs
Mark Manson - The Subtle Art of not giving a fuck
Steven Pressfield - The war of art
Matthew Dicks - Storyworthy
Anna Codrea-Rado - You're the business
M. J. DeMarco - The Millionaire Fastlane
Marcus Buckingham - Nine Lies About Work
Bruce Hood - Possessed
Damon Zahariades - Fast Focus
Robin Waite - Take your shot
Morgan Housel - The psychology of money
Anne Lamott - Bird by Bird
Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky - Make Time
Susan Cain - Quiet
Leil Lowndes - How to talk to anyone
Ichiro Kishimi - The courage to be disliked

Supplementary list (2023)

Paul Hannam - The Wisdom of Groundhog Day
Greg McKeown - Essentialism
Eric Ries - The Lean Startup
Dr Karen Gurney - Mind the gap
Paul Millerd - The Pathless Path
Catherine Price - The Power of Fun: How To Feel Alive Again
Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad - I may be wrong
Jeff Haden - The Motivation Myth
Al Ries and Jack Trout - The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
Matthew Walker - Why we sleep
Bill Perkins - Die with Zero
Donald Miller - A million miles in a thousand years
Mihaly Csikszentmihaly - Flow
Katy Milkman - How to Change
David Brooks - The Second Mountain
Derek Sivers - How to Live
Roy H. Williams - The Wizard of Ads
M. J. Demarco - Unscripted
Paul Jarvis - Company of One
Celeste Headlee - Do Nothing
Michael A. Singer - The Untethered Soul
Blake Crouch - Upgrade
Matthew Dicks - Someday is Today
Nicholas Cole - The Art and Business of Online Writing
Stephen Covey - The 7 habits of highly effective people
Joe Keohane - The Power of Strangers

Supplementary list (2024)

Kelly McGonigal - The Upside of Stress
Julien Smith - The Flinch
Scott Trench - Set for life
Gary W. Keller and Jay Papasan - The One Thing
Tim Urban - What's our Problem?
Luke Burgis - Wanting
Amy Porterfield - Two Weeks Notice
Erin Lowry - Broke Millennial
Marie Kondo - The life changing magic of tidying up
Ryan Holiday - Ego is the Enemy
Max Dickins - Billy No Mates
Michael Easter - The Comfort Crisis
Adrian McKinty - The Island
Steven Bartlett - The Diary of a CEO
Shari Harley - How to Say Anything to Anyone
Aytekin Tank - Automate your Busywork
David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried - It doesn't have to be crazy at work
David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried - Rework
Nir Eyal - Hooked
Ali Abdaal - Feel Good Productivity
Cal Newport - So good they can't ignore you
Anne Helen Peterson - Can't even
Eric Orton - The Cool Impossible