“You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. It’s hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written…”
—

Stephen King

2025

• Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
• The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch
• The Pathless Path – Paul Millerd
• The Productivity Diet – Mike Vardy
• Playing in the Dark – Toni Morrison
• Black Fortunes – Shomari Wills
• Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement – Crenshaw
• The Managerial Revolution – James Burnham
• Near the Bone – Christina Henry

2024 (37)

• Die with Zero – Bill Perkins
• Read this Before Our Next Meeting – Al Pittampala
• The PARA Method – Tiago Forte
• The Song of Significance – Seth Godin
• Slow Productivity – Cal Newport
• Dear Zealots – Amos Oz
• The Courage to be Disliked – Ichiro Kishimi
• Smart Brevity – Jim Vandehel
• Weaponized Lies – Daniel J. Levitin
• Excellent Sheep – William Deresiewicz
• Social Justice Fallacies – Thomas Sowell
• The End of Race Politics – Coleman Hughes
• The Anxious Generation – Jonathan Haidt
• Right Thing Right Now – Ryan Holiday
• I’ll be Gone in the Dark – Michelle McNamara
• The Truth we Hold – Kamala Harris
• The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
• Jaws – Peter Benchley
• The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
• Horror Movie – Paul Tremblay
• Needful Things – Stephen King
• Mister B. Gone – Clive Barker
• Passing on the Right – Jon A. Shields
• We’ve Got Issues – Philip C. McGraw
• Why We Are Polarized – Ezra Kelin Chosen
• Battle Cry of Freedom – James M. McPherson
• The Great Believers – Rebecca Makkai
• Hester Skelter – Vincent J. Bugliosi
• Identity Development – Jane Kroger
• Titan – Ron Chernow
• Coming Apart – Charles Murray
• The Great Upheaval – Arther Levin
• Clown in a Cornfield – Adam Cesare
• Indian Givers – Jack Weatherford
• 1776 – David McCullough
• The Righteous Mind – Jonathan Haidt
• Feel Good Productivity – Ali Abdaal

2023 (8)

• How to Fight Antisemitism – Bari Weiss 
• Basic Economics – Thomas Sowell
• Jerusalem – Simon Sebastian Montefiore
• The Housemaid – Freida McFadden
• Building a Second Brain – Tiago Forte
• Reprieve – James Han Mattson
• The Spite House – Johnny Compton
• How to Sell a Haunted House – Grady Hendrix

2022 (28)

• Educational Politics for Social Justice – Catherine Marshall
• Discipline is Destiny – Ryan Holiday  
• How to be a Dean – Justice  
• How to be an Antirascist – Ibram X. Kendi  
• Leadership – Peter Northouse  
• Braving the Wilderness – Brene Brown  
• Explaining Postmodernism – Stephen Hicks  
• The Promise of Giants – John Amaechi  
• Black Campus Life – Antar A. Tichavakunda  
• The Extended Mind – Annie Murphy Paul  
• Hex – Thomas Olde Heuvelt  
• Slewfoot – Brom  
• The Final Girl Support Group – Grady Hendrix  
• The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires – Grady Hendrix  
• My Best Friend’s Exorcism – Grady Hendrix  
• Hocus Pocus – The All-New Sequel  
• Trick or Treat – Lisa Morton  
• Salem’s Lot – Stephen King  
• Dark Harvest – Norman Partridge  
• Walden – Henry David Thoreau  
• The Fran Lebowitz Reader – Fran Lebowitz  
• Stalin – Edward Radzinsky  
• The Vision of the Anointed – Thomas Sowell  
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain  
• The Strange Career of Jim Crow – C. Vann Woodward  
• 1984 – George Orwell  
• Fredrick Douglass – David W. Blight  
• Courage is Calling – Ryan Holiday  

2021 (17)

• Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life – Jordan Peterson
• Postmodern Narrative Theory  – Mark Currie
• Yours Cruelly, Elvira – Elvira
• Dream Wraith – Jay Bower
• A Season With the Witch – J.W. Ocker 
• Appreciative Advising Revolution – Jenny Bloom
• The Hollow Ones – Guillermo Del Toro  
• Hell House – Richard Matheson  
• Extreme Ownership – Jock Willink
• American Slavery, American Freedom – Edmund S. Morgan
• Critical Race Theory – Richard Delgado   
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Paulo Friere 
• Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx  
• White Guilt – Shelby Steele  
• Hillbilly Elegy – JD Vance  
• Heart-Shaped Box – Joe Hill  
• The House that Fell From the Sky – Patrick Delaney

2020 (10)

• Save the Cat Writes a Novel – Jessica Brody
• Home Before Dark  – Riley Sager
• Negative Self Talk and How to Change It – Shad Helmstetter
• 12 Rules for Life  – Jordan Peterson
• Saturday Night Ghost Club – Craig Davidson
• Dare to Lead – Brene Brown
• The Halloween Tree – Ray Bradbury
• The House Next Door –  Anne Rivers Siddons
• White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo 
• Mortality – Christopher Hitchens

2019 (2)

• Anna Dressed in Blood – Kendare Blake
• Newsletter Ninja – Tammi Labrecque

2018 (4)

• Become a Successful Indie Author – Craig Martelle
• Take Off Your Pants  Libbie Hawker
• The Art of Asking – Amanda Palmer
• At Home with Monsters – Guillermo Del Toro