BOOKS to read while at home
Here are some books you might want to read while you are locked down and/or on spring break - some for fun, some for growth, and really in the end, all are “good for you”. Just READ! And enjoy!
Classics:
Okay a big nod to the Odyssey and Iliad are key- and The History (of the Peloponnesian War) by Thucydides, for speech and history buffs
Anything by Shakespeare but I like Hamlet best
Anything by Dickens and Tolstoy and Jane Austen
Adding Willa Cather to the list for Americans, she is phenomenal
And Steinbeck, though all of the post WW1 writers are worth reading.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez
Isabelle Allende, just about anything
Chinua Achebe
Dystopian/Sci-Fi:
Orwell and Huxley
Asimov and Bradbury
Le Guin (sort of Fantasy, too)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
And my cousin Eleanor Glewwe’s books
And my nephew Dean Edstrom has also written a book, too
Third Culture and Immigrant Books:
Amy Tan, just about anything
Monica Ali and Jhumpa Lahirii
Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
I want to buy a Vowel by John Welter
Feel Good/light reading books:
Alexander McCall Smith books
Anne Tyler books
Jon Hassler books
The Painted House by John Grisham
The Narnian Chronicals
Everything by Tolkein except the Silmarillon (it’s good for fantasy geeks, but not very easy to read)
Others (that are not so light):
Tuesdays with Morrie
Catch-22
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Business and other great books to develop your business and economic sense:
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
The Power of Habit
The Fifth Discipline
Good to Great
Super Leadership
Leading Change by John Kotter
Scaling Lean
And the Eric Ries books
Christian:
The Bible
The Practice of the Presence of God (Lawrence)
Timothy Keller Books
Eugene Peterson books
Jan Johnson books
Dallas Willard books
Richard Foster Books
Marva Dawn books
And there are oh so many many more - there are a world of books to enjoy and explore. Enjoy and have fun – and grow!
Patricia Jehle patricia@jehle-coaching.com
