Life changing one-day reads for the self-isolated
With many of us spending more time working from home and less time on projects, I thought I would list off some of my very favourite one-day-reads. These are books that can easily be read in one day, with a few brew breaks, and should – every one of them – change how we think.Please note that I’m not advocating for everything in them, but I am advocating for the effect they have on how we think.Some are <2hrs, others will take up to 8 (average reading speed). So, in no particular order:
Theology
Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing, Søren KierkegaardOn The Incarnation, St. AthanaisiusThe Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Director, Eugene H. PetersonThe Imitation of Christ, Thomas a KempisThe Reformed Pastor, Richard BaxterKnowing God, Jim PackerThe Difficult Doctrine Of The Love Of God, Don CarsonGod’s Empowering Presence, Gordon FeeGospel & Kingdom, Graham GoldsworthyThe Cost Of Discipleship, Dietrich BonhofferHoliness, J.C. RyleThe Wounded Healer, Henri NoumanThe Passion of Jesus Christ, John Piper.Holiness & Sexuality, David Peterson (ed.)
Politics, Philosophy and Society
The Republic, PlatoApology of Socrates, PlatoThe Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels and Karl MarxOn Liberty, John Stewart MillCommon Sense, Thomas PaineA Room of One's Own, Virginia WoolfIn the Shadow of Man, Jane GoodallMeditations on First Philosophy, René DescartesCandide or Optimism, VoltaireExistentialism and Humanism, Jean-Paul SartreThe Noonday Demon, Kathleen Norris
Psychology & Thinking
Syntactic Structures, Noam ChomskyThe Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Oliver SacksThe Happiness Hypothesis: Putting Ancient Wisdom to the Test of Modern Science, Jonathan HaidtThinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel KahnemanEmotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, Daniel GolemanAgainst Empathy, Paul Bloom
Fiction
1984, George OrwellCrime and Punishment, Fyodor DostoyevskyTo Kill a Mockingbird, Harper LeeThe Alchemist, Paulo CoelhoEnder's Game, Orson Scott CardMidnight's Children, Salman RushdieThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Lewis Stevenson Photo by freestocks on Unsplash