054 - Best Books of 2018

In this episode, we give you our favorite books from this year. Want some good stuff to add to your reading list for next year? Let’s get into it…

Quick Resilience Boost suggested materials:

Best Books of 2018:

Most Interesting – The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood
-By William J. Bennett

Most Nostalgic: Lord of the Flies
-By William Golding

Best Short Read – Take Heart: Christian Courage in the Age of Unbelief
-By Matt Chandler

Most Fun – Slobberknocker: My Life in Wrestling
-By Jim Ross

Most Informative – Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body
-By Michael Matthews

Most Entertaining: Shoe Dog – A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
-By Phil Knight

Most Impactful – Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer
-By Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer

Most relevant – Way of the Wolf: Straight Line Selling: Master the Art of Persuasion, Influence, and Success
-By Jordan Belfort

Most Disappointing – When Violence is the Answer: Learning How to Do What it Takes When Your Life is at Stake
-By Tim Larkin

Favorite: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
-By Jordan B. Peterson
-https://www.amazon.com/12-Rules-Life-Antidote-Chaos/dp/

Books we’re interested in for 2019:

The Gulag Archipelago
-By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Ego is the Enemy
-By Ryan Holiday

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
-By Edmund Morris

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage
-By Alfred Lansing

Five Proofs of the Existence of God
-By Edward Feser

Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch
-By Jonathan Gottschall

The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win
-By Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

God and the Transgender Debate
-By Andrew T. Walker

Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ
-By John MacArthur

Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
-By David Goggins

The Gagging of God
-By D.A. Carson

The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
-By Francis Chan

The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
-By Alex Epstein

Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
-By Mark Levin

The Red Circle: My Life in the Navy SEAL Sniper Corps and How I Trained America’s Deadliest Marksmen
-By Brandon Webb

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
-By Chris Voss

Discrimination and Disparities
-By Thomas Sowell

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
-By Christopher R. Browning

A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness
-By Gene Edwards

Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
-By Leonard Sax

On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision
-By William Lane Craig

Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design
-By Stephen C. Meyer

The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
-Heather MacDonald

Iron John: A Book About Men
-By Robert Bly

Evidence that Demands a Verdict: Life-Changing Truth for a Skeptical World
-By Josh McDowell

Genesis and the Big Bang: The Discovery of Harmony Between Modern Science and the Bible
-By Gerald Schroeder

The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports
-By Jeff Passan

Understanding Gender Dysphoria: Navigating Transgender Issues in a Changing Culture
-By Mark A. Yarhouse

Martin Luther: The Man Who Resdiscovered God and Changed the World
-By Eric Metaxas

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, The Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
-By S.C. Gwynne

The Church in Babylon: Heeding the Call to Be a Light in the Darkness
-By Erwin W. Lutzer and Ed Stetzer

Unbelievable?: Why After Ten Years of Talking with Atheists, I’m Still a Christian
-By Justin Brierley

Seven Days That Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science
-By John Lennox

Jesus Among Secular Gods: The Countercultural Claims of Christ
-By Ravi Zacharias

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
-By Greg Lukianoff

Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism
-By John Piper

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