Six Books For Your 2023 Reading List

From my 2022 reading list to yours: Books about habits, nature, meditation, money, resilience, and overcoming

Each year I set out to read a dozen books. One per month. It is a modest goal and there are so many great books to read, it almost feels like nothing.

But it's not nothing! Reading any number of books is a transformative practice that certainly benefits me both professionally and personally. Among other things, I draw inspiration, courage, and wisdom from the books I read every year.

Here are six books that I read in 2022 in pursuit of my modest one-per-month goal, along with a short reason to consider each for your 2023 reading list.

1. Atomic Habits by James Clear

Like the experience of traveling in a foreign place, this book zooms you out to 30,000 feet to examine and question the why for everything that you do on a daily basis.

2. That Wild Country by Mark Kenyon

Kenyon weaves historical context into contemporary experiences through a conservative lens in this important consideration of the protection of America's public lands.

3. How To Sit by Thich Nhat Hanh

Part of a series, this daily devotional is a great aid for learning how to incorporate more stillness (and less busyness!) into your life.

4. I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi

Like James Clear, Ramit Sethi forces you to re-examine your financial thinking with the goals of (1) making money simpler, (2) making money automated, and (3) making money more fun.

5. Sisu: The Finnish Art of Resilience by Joanna Nylund

Sisu is the Finnish concept that there is a bedrock of courage, tenacity, and perseverance deep inside each and every one of us that is available to us whenever needed.

6. The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday

Holiday pumps out a number of these series-like books that inspire resilience within us that make for great daily devotional reading.

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