Michael Shukis

2021 Books

2021 was a great reading year. Several of these books are now on my all-time favorite shelf. I hope you'll find one you like.

These were hard to pick. Here are my top five books of the year:

1. On Writing Well by William Zinsser
2. Legacy by James Kerr
3. Influence by Robert Cialdini
4. Call Sign Chaos by Jim Mattis
5. Corps Values by Zell Miller

Here's the full list, in the order I read them:

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
• Influence by Robert Cialdini
• The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
• The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• The Wim Hof Method by Wim Hof
• Legacy by James Kerr
• The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh
• Wooden on Leadership by John Wooden
• The Captain Class by Sam Walker
• Everyone's A Coach by Ken Blanchard and Don Shula
• Strength in Stillness by Bob Roth
• The Obstacle is The Way by Ryan Holiday
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Wooden by John Wooden
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• The Fasting Cure by Upton Sinclair
• You Are A Writer by Jeff Goins
• Becoming A Writer by Dorothea Brande
• On Strategy by Harvard Business Review
• Love and War by John Eldredge
• On Writing Well by William Zinsser
• Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan
• Are You Watching, Adolph Rupp? by Daniel Doyle
• How to Take Smart Notes by Sonke Ahrens
• An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster
• The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
• The Road to Character by David Brooks
• Goals! by Brian Tracy
• The Bulletproof Diet by Dave Asprey
• Body by Science by Doug McGuff
• Don't Sweat the Small Stuff by Richard Carlson
• Corps Values by Zell Miller
• Golf is Not a Game of Perfect by Bob Rotella
• Call Sign Chaos by Jim Mattis
• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
• Journal of a Novel by John Steinbeck
• Awareness by Anthony De Mello

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