Current reading list

Since I last reported on my reading in April I have read fifty-one books. The topics represent a range of interests beyond sport. I find myself reading more history going back to my roots as a social science major. Here are some that stood out for me:

• Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film by Don Graham
• The Performance Cortex: How Neuroscience Is Redefining Athletic Genius by Zach Schonbrun
• The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life by James Martin
• Masters of Modern Soccer: How the World’s Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game by Grant Wahl
• Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
• The Hope Circuit: A Psychologist’s Journey from Helplessness to Optimism by Martin E. P. Seligman
• Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World by Chris Lowney
• On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Ronnlund
• Human Movement – An Integrated Approach by Joseph R. Higgins
• The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles by Gary Kirst
• The Comeback: Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France by Daniel De Vise’
• Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrow
• Sevens Heaven: The Beautiful Chaos of Fiji’s Olympic Dream by Ben Ryan
• Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America’s Fifty-Year Fall–and Those Fighting to Reverse It by Steven Brill
• The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Nial Ferguson
• Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past by David Reich
• Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr
• The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s by William I. Hitchcock
• Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life by Robert Dallek
• Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America by James and Deborah Fallows