DR KEITH'S READING LIST

Dr. Keith's 50 Recent Reads

1. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

2. Superhero by Design: Simple Ways to Transform Your Life and Change the World by Matthew Ace Hagerty

3. Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work by Timothy Keller

4. Only the Dead: A Thriller (Terminal List, Book 6) by Jack Carr

5. The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell: A Novel by Robert Dungoni

6. More Than a Carpenter (His Story Might Change Yours) by Josh D. McDowell

7. Life Force by Tony Robbins

8. The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer by Steven Kotler

9. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

10. Principles for Dealing with The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail by Ray Dalio

11. The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch

12. Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul by John Eldredge

13. Why Jesus?: Rediscovering His Truth in an Age of Mass Marketed Spirituality by Ravi Zacharias

14. Raising a Modern-Day Knight: A Father’s Role in Guiding His Son to Authentic Manhood by Robert Lewis

15. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John M. Gottman, PH.D.

16. Captivating Expanded Edition: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman’s Soul by Stasi Eldredge

17. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.

18. The 4:8 Principle by Tommy Newberry

19. Positive Intelligence: by Shirzad Chamine

20. Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

21. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

22. The Molecule of More by Daniel Z. Lieberman, M.D.

23. Managing Transitions: Making the Most of the Change by William Bridges

24. The Power of a Praying Husband by Stormie Omartian

25. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore

26. The Water Keeper by Charles Martin

27. Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing by Jay Stringer
28. The Road Less Stupid by Keith J Cunningham
29. In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton

30. The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, M.D.
31.  Beyond Order by Jordan B. Peterson
32. Ikiagai, The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia
33. The Shack, Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity by Wm. Paul Young
34. Marcus Aurelius “Meditations” by Gegory Hays
35. Preaching, Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller
36. Living Life Backward by David Gibson
37. Your Designed Body by Steve Laufmann & Howard Glicksman, MD
38. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
39. EvangelPreneur by Josh Tolley
40. LEADing a Legacy, Leadership Executives of Agricultural Education and FFA Development by Tom Ziglar
41. Proof of Heaven, A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife by Eben Alexander, MD
42. Seeing the Unseen, Preparing Yourself for Spiritual Warfare by Joe Beam
43. The Moral Compass by William J. Bennett
44. What Kids Wish Parents Knew about Parenting by Joe White
45. Aesthetics of Change by Bradford P. Keeney
46. Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawk
47. Power vs Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior by David R Hawkins
    
48.  Abundance by Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler
49. Bold, How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact The World by Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler
50. Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T Kiyosaki

Philosophy & Literature

1. Beyle, Marie-Henri (Stendhal): The Charterhouse of Parma
2. Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
3. Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margarita
4. Cary, Joyce: The Horse’s Mouth
5. Chandler, Raymond: The Big Sleep
6. Chandler, Raymond: The Long Goodbye
7. Dalyrmple, Theodore: Our Culture, What’s Left of It
8. Dalrymple, Theodore: Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
9. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
10. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Notes from Underground
11. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov
12. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Demons
13. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
14. Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
15. Graves, Robert: I, Claudius
16. Hammet, Dashiel: The Maltese Falcon
17. Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell To Arms
18. Hemingway, Ernest: For Whom the Bell Tolls
19. Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea
20. Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
21. Huxley, Aldous: Island
22. Huxley, Aldous: Point Counterpoint
23. Kazantzakis, Nikos: The Fratricides
24. Kazantzakis, Nikos: Zorba the Greek
25. Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
26. Kesey, Ken: Sometimes a Great Notion
27. Keyes, Daniel: Flowers for Algernon
28. Laurence, Margaret: The Stone Angel
29. Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
30. Nietzsche, Friedrich: Beyond Good and Evil
31. Nietzsche, Friedrich: On the Genealogy of Morals
32. Nietzsche, Friedrich: The Antichrist
33. Nietzsche, Friedrich: The Gay Science
34. Nietzsche, Friedrich: The Will to Power
35. Orwell, George: 1984
36. Orwell, George: Animal Farm
37. Orwell, George: Road to Wigan Pier
38. Pirsig, Robert: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
39. Shem, Samuel: The House of God
40. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: Cancer Ward
41. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: The First Circle
42. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: The Gulag Archipelago: Vol. 1; Vol. 2; Vol. 3. (alternatively, all three volumes abridged into one)
43. Steinbeck, John: East of Eden
44. Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
45. Steinbeck, John: Of Mice and Men
46. Stendhal: The Red and the Black
47. Thompson, Hunter S: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
48. Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
49. Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
50. Troyat, Henri: Tolstoy
51. Wolfe, Tom: The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test

Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry

1. Becker, Ernest: The Denial of Death
2. Ellenberger, Henri: The Discovery of the Unconscious
3. Eysenck, Hans: Genius
4. Frankl, Viktor: Man’s Search for Meaning
5. Freud, Sigmund: An Outline of Psychoanalysis
6. Freud, Sigmund: The Interpretation of Dreams
7. Jung, Carl: Aion
8. Jung, Carl: Answer to Job
9. Jung, Carl: Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious
10. Jung, Carl: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
11. Jung, Carl: Mysterium Coniunctionis (Difficult; read the last half)
12. Jung, Carl: Psychology and Alchemy
13. Jung, Carl: Psychology: East and West
14. Jung, Carl: Psychology of Religion: East and West
15. Jung, Carl: Symbols of Transformation
16. Jung, Carl: The Symbolic Life
17. Jung, Carl: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
18. May, Rollo. Angel, Ernest & Ellenberger, Henri: Existence: A new dimension in psychiatry and psychology
19. Neumann, Erich: The Origins and History of Consciousness
20. Neumann, Erich: The Great Mother
21. Piaget, Jean: Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood
22. Piaget, Jean: The Moral Judgment of the Child
23. Rogers, Carl: A Way of Being
24. Rogers, Carl: On Becoming a Person

Neuroscience

1. Gibson, James J: An Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
2. Goldberg, Elkhonon: The New Executive Brain
3. Gray, Jeffrey and Neil McNaughton: The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
4. LeDoux, Joseph: The Emotional Brain
5. Panksepp, Jaak: Affective Neuroscience
6. Sacks, Oliver: The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
7. Sacks, Oliver: Awakenings
8. Sacks, Oliver: An Anthropologist on Mars
9. Swanson, Larry: Brain Architecture: Understanding the Basic Plan

Religion and Religious History

1. Burton Russell, Jeffrey: Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World
2. Eliade, Mircea: A History of Religious Ideas (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3)
3. Eliade, Mircea: Myth and Reality
4. Eliade, Mircea: Myths, Dreams and Mysteries
5. Eliade, Mircea: Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
6. Eliade, Mircea: The Forge and the Crucible
7. Eliade, Mircea: The Sacred and the Profane
8. Frye, Northrop: The Great Code
9. Frye, Northrop: Words with Power
10. Lewis, Bernard: The Crisis of Islam
11. Smith, Huston: (introductory): The World’s Religions
12. The Bible: Designed to be Read as Living Literature

History/Systems Analysis

1. de Solla Price, Derek J: Little Science, Big Science
2. De Soto, Hernando: The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
3. Gall, John: Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
4. Porter, Theodore M: The Rise of Statistical Thinking 1820-1900
5. Radzinsky, Edvard: Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia’s Secret Archives
6. Shirer, William L: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

The State of the World: A 21st Century Update

1. Deaton, Angus: The Great Escape
2. Lomborg, Bjorn: How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
3. Norberg, Johan: Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
4. Pinker, Steven: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
5. Ridley, Matt: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
6. Rosling, Hans: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
7. Grinspoon, David: Earth in Human Hands