Reading List

2020

1. Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
2. The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour
3. Chaos is a Friend of Mine: The Life and Crimes of Conor McGregor by Ewan MacKenna
4. The Year of Less by Cait Flanders
5. Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction by Chuck Klosterman
6. Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commandments for a Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff
7. McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality by Ronald E Purser
8. Kettlebell Simple & Sinister: Revised and Updated Edition by Pavel Tsatsouline
9. Range: Why Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World by David Epstein
10. Essential: Essays by The Minimalists by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus (also known as The Minimalists)
11. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
12. Simplicity: Essays by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus (also known as The Minimalists)
13. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
14. Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal
15. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell
16. American War by Omar El Akkad
17. If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie by Christopher Ingraham
18. This Sporting Life by David Storey
19. The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Robert Iger
20. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
21. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
22. Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot

2019

1. Astrophysics For People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
2. Digital Vertigo by Andrew Keen
3. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
4. Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain by Fintan O’Toole
5. How to Get Run Over by a Truck by Katie McKenna
6. We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
7. The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
8. The Coming Storm by Michael Lewis
9. Nothing Is True And Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev
10. The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
11. Coming Home: One man’s return to the Irish Language by Michael McCaughan
12. Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association by Terry Pluto
13. THEM: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
14. Release by Patrick Ness
15. Very Good Lives by J.K. Rowling
16. Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity by Douglas Rushkoff
17. Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated by Shea Serrano
18. In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum
19. And The Ocean Was Our Sky by Patrick Ness
20. Gaeilge: A Radical Revolution by Caoimhín De Barra
21. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
22. A Wrinkle In Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L’Engle; adapted & illustrated by Hope Larson
23. City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
24. Fox 8 by George Saunders
25. Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World by Michael Harris
26. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
27. The Revenge Of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter by David Sax (Website)
28. The Barcelona Legacy: Guardiola, Mourinho and the Fight For Football’s Soul by Jonathan Wilson
29. Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions by Russell Brand
30. Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff
31. I Found My Tribe by Ruth Fitzmaurice
32. The Thing About December by Donal Ryan
33. Astroball by Ben Reiter
34. Fit2Fat2Fit: The Unexpected Lessons from Gaining and Losing 75 lbs on Purpose by Drew Manning with Brad Pierce
35. Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail by Jonathan Chait
36. Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable For The Rest Of Us by Dan Lyons
37. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
38. Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life by Richard Ben Cramer
39. Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
40. The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics by Diarmaid Ferriter
41. How To Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness That Helps the World by Colin Beavan
42. Dracula: BBC Radio Dramatization by Bram Stoker (Adapted by Liz Lockhead)
43. Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped by Russell Brand
44. Next Level Strength: The Ultimate Rings and Parallettes Program by Al Kavadlo and Danny Kavadlo
45. Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod
46. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
47. The Way Home: Tales From a Life Without Technology by Mark Boyle
48. Grief is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter (Twitter)
49. The Half-God of Rainfall by Inua Ellams
50. Winners Take All - The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
51. The Three Dimensions of Freedom by Billy Bragg
52. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
53. Breaking Through Power: It’s Easier Than We Think by Ralph Nader
54. Snowpiercer: The Escape Vol.1 by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette
55. Live While You Can by Fr. Tony Coote
56. Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination by Alexandra Minna Stern
57. Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work That Matters by Ryan Singer
58. A Teacher’s Life: A When’s it Hometime Collection by Colm Cuffe
59. Trust Me I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday
60. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
61. The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life by James Martin, SJ
62. Shortest Way Home: One mayor’s challenge and a model for America’s future by Pete Buttigieg
63. Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee
64. Becoming by Michelle Obama
65. The Miracle of Castel di Sangro by Joe McGinniss
66. Anseo by Úna-Minh Kavanagh
67. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
68. Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine by Hannah Fry
69. Don’t Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech by Rana Foroohar
70. A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader Edited by Maria Popova and Claudia Bedrick
71. Provided You Don’t Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough by Duncan Hamilton
72. Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals by Ken Follett

2018

• An Buntáiste Breise by Marcas Mac Ruairí

• Art Matters by Neil Gaiman

• On The Seventh Day: Thirty Years Of Great Sports Writing From The Sunday Independent Edited by John Greene

• The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns

• Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back by Matthew D’Ancona

• Basketball: A Love Story by Jackie MacMullan, Rafe Bartholomew and Dan Klores

• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas J. Cox

• Notorious: The Life and Fights of Conor McGregor by Jack Slack

• Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times by Mark Leibovich

• Becoming Who You Are: Insights on the True Self from Thomas Merton and Other Saints by James Martin, SJ

• How To Be Right … in a world gone wrong by James O’Brien

• The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30) by Mark Bauerlein

• Football for a Buck, The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL by Jeff Pearlman

• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, Will Damron (Narrator)

• The Billionaires Club: The Unstoppable Rise of Football’s Super-Rich Owners by James Montague

• It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

• Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language by Darach Ó Séaghdha

• The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist by Dorothy Day

• The Winter King: The Warlord Chronicles, Book 1 by Bernard Cornwell

• The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing by Bronnie Ware

• No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey

• Cú 1: Cosantóir by Paul Bolger, Barry Devlin

• The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes

• Nanjing: The Burning City by Ethan Young

• War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence by Ronan Farrow

• The People Vs Tech: How the Internet Is Killing Democracy (and How We Save It) by Jamie Bartlett

• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson, Norman Doidge (Forward), Ethan Van Sciver (Illustrator)

• Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made by Jason Schreier, Ray Chase (Narrator)

• Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs and the Greatest Wealth in History by Ben Mezrich

• Alien: Sea of Sorrows by James A. Moore

• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

• Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig

• The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living by Mark Boyle

• Golden Days: West’s Lakers, Steph’s Warriors, and the California Dreamers Who Reinvented Basketball by Jack McCallum

• The Blueprint: Lebron James, Cleveland’s Deliverance, and the Making of the Modern NBA by Jason Lloyd

• Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein

• It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston

• Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right by Angela Nagle

• I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin, Raoul Peck (Editor)

• MLK on “The Other America” and “Black Power” by Martin Luther King Jr.

• 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works by Dan Harris

• World Without Mind by Franklin Foer

• The King of Big Air by Joseph Babcock

• Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum

• Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons

• Fantasy Man: A Former NFL Player’s Descent into the Brutality of Fantasy Football by Nate Jackson

• Sorted! by John McGuire

• Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice by Colum McCann

• Lock In (Lock In #1) by John Scalzi

• Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones

2017

• The Choice by Philly McMahon, Niall Kelly
• Boy Wonder: Tales from the Sidelines of an Irish Childhood by Dave Hannigan
• Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a Not So Dead Language by Darach Ó Séaghdha
• The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter by David Sax
• Artemis by Andy Weir, Rosario Dawson (Narrator)
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
• In America: Tales from Trump Country by Caitriona Perry
• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams
• No Hunger In Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream by Michael Calvin
• Win or Learn: MMA, Conor McGregor and Me: A Trainer’s Journey by John Kavanagh
• Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter
• The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
• Bill Belichick vs. the NFL: The Case for the NFL’s Greatest Coach by Erik Frenz
• Master The Kettlebell: How To Develop High-Level Skills In Movement, Power Generation And Strength–Using The World’s Single Best Tool For The Job by Max Shank
• Get Strong: The Ultimate 16-Week Transformation Program For Gaining Muscle and Strength–Using The Power Of Progressive Calisthenics by Al Kavadlo, Danny Kavadlo, Mark Sisson (Foreword)
• Watching the Wheels: My Autobiography by Damon Hill
• Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Alien: River of Pain (Canonical Alien Trilogy #3) by Christopher Golden, Dirk Maggs (Director)
• Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the American Circus by Matt Taibbi
• Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer
• Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
• The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest by Dan Buettner
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli, Simon Carnell (Translator), Erica Segre (Translator)
• Tomorrow is Now by Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Black (Introduction), Bill Clinton (Foreword)
• The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World’s Healthiest People by Dan Buettner
• Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
• Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives by Anna Kessel
• Thrown by Kerry Howley

2016

• Dub Sub Confidential: A Goalkeeper’s Life with – and without – the Dubs by John Leonard
• Surviving Ireland by Colm Tobin
• Asking For It by Louise O’Neill
• The Secret Footballer’s Guide to the Modern Game: Tips and Tactics from the Ultimate Insider by The Secret Footballer
• Kettlebell - Simple & Sinister by Pavel Tsatsouline
• Monster 1983: An Audible Original Drama by Ivar Leon Menger, Anette Strohmeyer, Raimon Weber
• The Elephant in the Room by Jon Ronson
• The Road to Croker by Eamonn Sweeney
• There’s Only One Red Army by Eamonn Sweeney
• Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
• iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It by Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith
• World Gone By (Coughlin #3) by Dennis Lehane
• The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon #3) by Dan Brown
• Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken