Reading List

2024

The Portrait of a Mirror by A. Natasha Joukovsky
The Personal Assistant by Kimberly Belle
How to Fall Out of Love Madly by Jana Casale

2023

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
Cover Story by Susan Rigetti
Money for Beginners: An Illustrated Guide by L. Randall Wray
The Vacationers by Emma Straub
Propaganda by Edward Bernays
Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith

2022

Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope by Carmelo Anthony with D. Watkins
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
I’d Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays by Tom Segura
The 7 Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy by Warren Mosler
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy by Stephanie Kelton
Problems With Modern Monetary Theory: A Comment on Stephanie Kelton’s “The Deficit Myth” by Robert Wenzel
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman
The Other Me by Sarah Zachrich Jeng

2021

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber
Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet by Tim Hwang
I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined) by Chuck Klosterman
Can’t Knock the Hustle: Inside the Season of Protest, Pandemic, and Progress with the Brooklyn Nets’ Superstars of Tomorrow by Matt Sullivan
A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

2020

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Will to Die by Joe Pulizzi
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
But What If We’re Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past by Chuck Klosterman
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
On Drinking by Charles Bukowski
On Love by Charles Bukowski
Hollywood by Charles Bukowski
101 Contrarian Ideas About Advertising by Bob Hoffman
Lebron Inc.: The Making of a Billion-Dollar Athlete by Brian Windhorst
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
How To Be Black by Baratunde Thurston
The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech by William Deresiewicz

2019

This Is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See by Seth Godin
The Power of Simplicity by Jack Trout with Steve Rivkin
Native Enough by Nina O’Leary
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
The Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
Management Challenges for the 21st Century by Peter F. Drucker
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Disclaimer by Renée Knight
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

2018

The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Crushing It by Gary Vaynerchuk
Blood Sisters by Jane Corry
Choosing My Religion by Stephen J. Dubner
The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins
Into The Water by Paula Hawkins
Paris For One & Other Stories by Jojo Moyes
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
White Lead by Susan Daitch
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Pushing Into Joy by Hannah Ruth Grimley
The Passenger by Lisa Lutz
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland
The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz, translated by George Goulding
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz, translated by George Goulding
How to Argue with a Cat: A Human’s Guide to the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
When To Rob A Bank by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt
The Silent Wife by A. S. A. Harrison
The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World by Rand Fishkin

2017

Absolute: Biography of a Bottle by Carl Hamilton
On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Crisis, Issues and Reputation Management by Andrew Griffin
Drink Talking: 100 Years of Alcohol Advertising by Penny Dade
Roar: Get Heard In The Sales And Marketing Jungle by Kevin Duam with Daniel A. Turner
The Smart Marketers Guide To Google Adwords by Noa Eshed and Uri Bishansky
The Naked Pint by Christina Perozzi and Hallie Beaune
Cult(ure) by Tony Seigh
The Alcoholic Republic by W.R. Rorabaugh
Killing Marketing by Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose
The PR Masterclass by Alex Singleton
Absolut Book: The Absolut Vodka Advertising Story by Richard W. Lewis
Absolut Sequel. by Richard W. Lewis
Modern Rhetorical Criticism by Roderick P. Hart and Suzanne Daughton
My Husband’s Wife by Jane Corry
Think Like A Freak by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Your Ad Ignored Here by Tom Fishburne

2016

A Professional and Practitioner’s Guide to Public Relations Research, Measurement, and Evaluation by Don Stacks and David Michaelson
Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini
Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith by Michael Reeves
Rejoicing in Christ by Michael Reeves
Small Faith, Great God by N.T. Wright
Everybody Writes by Ann Handley
Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works by Janice Redish
Public Relations Writing by Doug Newsom and Jim Haynes
Public Relations: A Values Driven Approach by Charles Marsh and David W. Guth
Reputation Management: The Key to Successful Public Relations and Corporate Communication by John Doorley and Helio Fred Garcia
Marketing: The Core by Roger A. Kerin and Steven W. Hartley

2015

Applying Communication Theory for Professional Life: A Practical Introduction by Elaine D. Zelley and Marianne Dainton
Thank You For Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs
Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing – The Marketing of Culture by John Seabrook
Shake: A New Perspective on Cocktails by Eric Prum and Josh Williams
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
The Logic of His Love by by Francois Du Toit
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
The Zimzum of Love: A New Way of Understanding Marriage by Rob Bell
A Medieval Heresy and Inquisition by Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane
The Modernist God State: A Literary Study of the Nazis’ Christian Reich by Michael Lackey
The Third Peacock: The Problem of God and Evil by Robert Farrar Capon
Hunting the Divine Fox: An Introduction to the Language of Theology by Robert Farrar Capon
Between Noon and Three: A Parable of Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace by Robert Farrar Capon
An Offering of Uncles: The Priesthood of Adam and the Shape of the World by Robert Farrar Capon
Tales from the Couch: Memoirs of a Drunk Monk by Dave Vaughn
The Humanity of God by Karl Barth
Dogmatics in Outline by Karl Barth
Behold the Spirit by Alan W. Watts
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It by Peter Enns
Ring of Truth: A Translator’s Testimony by J.B. Phillips
The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture: Considering Mediated Texts by Deanna D. Sellnow
Chosen for Paradise: The Inclusion of Humanity in the Saving Act of Christ by John Crowder
Seven Spirits Burning: The Christocentric Operation of the Seven Spirits of God by John Crowder
V for Vendetta by Steve Moore
The Beast in the Jungle and Other Stories by Henry James
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger
Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir by Donna M. Johnson
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas

2014

Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is by N.T. Wright
The Shack by William P. Young
It is Finished: Why You Can Quit Religion and Trust in Jesus by Blaise Forêt
Jesus and the Undoing of Adam by C. Baxter Kruger
The Happy Atheist by PZ Myers
Cosmos Reborn: Happy Theology on the New Creation by John Crowder
Mystical Union: Stuff They Never Told You About the Finished Work of the Cross by John Crowder
The New Mystics: How to Become Part of the Supernatural Generation by John Crowder
Kingdom, Grace, Judgement: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus by Robert Farrar Capon
On the Incarnation by Saint by Athanasius of Alexandria