Looking for Something to Read?

Some people have recently asked me for book recommendations, and I made this list in response.  In the spirit of sharing, I thought I'd post this list of some great books that I've read recently (a few of them I haven't read but have come highly recommended by people I trust (and are high on my list to read)).  If I'm missing any from your must-read lists, please add them to the list through a comment.  In the meantime, grab a cup of coffee/tea/hot chocolate and open up one or more of these gems:


Leadership
Spiritual Leadership (Oswald Sanders)
Leadership Jazz (Max De Pree)
Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (John Wooden and Jay Carty)

Lincoln on Leadership (Donald Phillips)

Servant Leadership (Robert Greenleaf)

Quiet Strength (Tony Dungy)

Axiom (Bill Hybels)

Leading the Revolution (Gary Hamel)

Good to Great and the Social Sectors (Jim Collins)

Visioneering (Andy Stanley)

Leading with a Limp (Dan Allender)

Leadership and Self-Deception (The Arbinger Institute)

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership (John Maxwell)

Humility (Andrew Murray)

Amazing Faith: The Authorized Biography of Bill Bright (Richardson)

Better (Atul Gawande)


Communication

Made to Stick (Chip and Dan Heath)

The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell)

Orphan Care
Home Away from Home: The Forgotten History of Orphanages (Richard MacKenzie)
Toddler Adoption (Hopkins-Best)
The Lost Daughters of China (Karin Evans)

Orphanology (Merida and Morton)

The Connected Child (Karyn Purvis)

Fields of the Fatherless (Tom Davis)

Fatherless Generation (John Sowers)

Red Letters (Tom Davis)

Father Fiction (Donald Miller)

Missions and Ministry
When Helping Hurts (Fikkert and Corbett)
Toxic Charity (Robert D. Lupton)

White Man's Burden (William Easterly)

The Next Christendom (Philip Jenkins)

Good News About Injustice (Gary Haugen)

Terrify No More (Gary Haugen)

Just Courage (Gary Haugen)

Not for Sale (David Batstone)
Generous Justice (Tim Keller)

Crazy Love (Francis Chan)

Defending Your Faith (R.C. Sproul)

Renovation of the Church (Kent Carlson and Mike Lueken)

Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire)

Family and Marriage
How We Love (Yerkovich)
The Mystery of Marriage (Mike Mason)
What a Difference a Daddy Makes (Kevin Leman)
Sheet Music (Kevin Leman)
When Sinners Say "I Do": Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage (Dave Harvey)
The Silence of Adam (Larry Crabb)
Tender Warrior (Stu Weber)

Literature
Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett) 
False Witness (Randy Singer) (mystery fiction)

The Brothers Karamozov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick)

Any of the Great Books of the Western World

Gospel-Driven Christian Life
Desiring God (John Piper)
Don't Waste Your Life (John Piper)
The Prodigal God (Tim Keller)
The Reason for God (Tim Keller)
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Mark Noll)
Christless Christianity (Michael Horton)
Bonhoeffer (Eric Metaxas)
The Gospel-Driven Life (Michael Horton)
Fasting (Scot McKnight)

Sabbath (Dan Allender)

The Valley of Vision (Arthur Bennett)

Windows to the Soul (Ken Gire)

Jesus Among Other Gods (Ravi Zacharias)

Unveiled Hope (Scotty Smith)

The Day Metallica Came to Church (John van Sloten)
Book of Common Prayer (Shane Claiborne)

Anything by C.S. Lewis

Soccer
How Soccer Explains the World (Franklin Foer)
Fever Pitch (Nick Hornby)
Bloody Confused! (Chuck Culpepper)
Soccer Against the Enemy (Simon Kuper)
The Beckham Experiment (Grant Wahl)

Education
The Thomas Jefferson Education (Oliver DeMille)
Your Child's Strengths (Jennifer Fox)

Miscellaneous
Freakonomics
Super Freakonomics
Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell)

To be continued . . . (since I know that you have some great books, that I'm forgetting some and that there are many more to come in the future)