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2024
My Year in Books
37,726
pages read
Chris
128
books read
Chris
Multisite Church Pitfalls by David D'Angelo
Shortest Book
63
pages
The Holy Bible, ESV by Anonymous
Longest Book
1,846
pages
Average book length in 2024
294
pages
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Runner's Complete Guide to Training 2015 by John Howells
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Chris’s average rating for 2024
4.3
4.3
The Holy Bible, ESV by Anonymous
Highest Rated on ŷ
4.94 average
How to Mediate Like a Pro by Mary Greenwood

Chris’s first review of the year

it was amazing
Terrific primer on mediation best practices. A lot of the content is self reinforcing/strategically redundant in the book. Appreciated its short length and helpful appendices.
’S 2024 BOOKS
Logos Bible Study by Bill Creasy
it was amazing
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
How to Mediate Like a Pro by Mary Greenwood
Being Human by Robert M. Sapolsky
Spare by Prince Harry
Draw to Win by Dan Roam
Your World-Class Assistant by Michael Hyatt
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
Working Together by Michael D. Eisner
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
it was amazing
The Great Dechurching by Jim Davis
How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Maximize by Nelson Searcy
Remote by David Heinemeier Hansson
The Wealthy Barber by David Chilton
The Great Employee Handbook by Quint Studer
Feel-Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal
Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennett Jr.
it was amazing
Breaking Free From Broke by George Kamel
Getting Things Done by David Allen
The Carrot Principle by Adrian Gostick
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Red State Christians by Angela Denker
The Coming Jobs War by Jim Clifton
Wellbeing by Tom Rath
Outlive by Peter Attia
The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
Made to Stick by Chip Heath
it was amazing
Just Listen by Mark Goulston
Van Gogh by Steven Naifeh
The Wonder Years by Rick Rickman
Live No Lies by John Mark Comer
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Coaching for Performance by John Whitmore
Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier
The Thing Beneath the Thing by Steve Carter
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
it was amazing
Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
All It Takes Is a Goal by Jon Acuff
Full-Time by David L. Bahnsen
One-to-One Bible Reading by David R. Helm
The Brand You 50 (Reinventing Work) by Tom Peters
How to Know a Person by David Brooks
The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney
it was amazing
Mastery by George Leonard
The End of the Alphabet by Isabel Brown
Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen
Uptime by Laura Mae Martin
Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The PreHistory of The Far Side by Gary Larson
The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede
How The Mighty Fall by Jim Collins
ReLeader by Jon Chasteen
The Holy Bible, ESV by Anonymous
it was amazing
The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Extra Mile by Pam Reed
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
The Quarry Girls by Jess Lourey
Lead Small by Reggie Joiner
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Set for Life by Scott Trench
it was amazing
The Watchmaker's Daughter by Larry Loftis
Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson
Runner's Complete Guide to Training 2015 by John Howells
Tramp for the Lord by Corrie ten Boom
Shōgun by James Clavell
7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis by Bill George
Ready for Anything by David Allen
12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
it was amazing
Hell's Princess by Harold Schechter
The Great Mental Models by Shane Parrish
When Life's Not Working by Bob Merritt
Storycraft by Walter Wangerin
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Practicing the Way by John Mark Comer
The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin
Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey
The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman
it was amazing
Twin Tracks by Roger Bannister
A Dab of Dickens & A Touch of Twain by Elliot Engel
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
The Expectation Gap by Steve Cuss
The Pathless Path by Paul Millerd
The Wheel of Fortune by Susan Howatch
Coach Builder by Donald Miller
By William R. Cook St. Augustine's Confessions (The Great Cou... by William R. Cook
Saint Augustine Confessions by Augustine of Hippo
it was amazing
Into the Great Emptiness by David Roberts
Mentor Like Jesus by Regi Campbell
Wisdom from Lyle E. Schaller by Lyle E. Schaller
Mental Resilience by Kamal Sarma
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
During School Hours by Joel Penton
7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis by Bill George

Chris’s last review of the year

really liked it
Bill George, former CEO of Medtronic, writes a short book of dealing with crisis and setbacks. In the book he outlines seven principles:

1) Face reality. Jim Collins says that before a leaders makes any critical decision, it's necessary to confront the brutal facts. George concurs. "Until you acknowledge that you are facing a serious problem, including your role in creating it, you cannot move forward to solve it."

"It is important to publicly expr ...more
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