As 2022 begins, I’d like to share my recommendations for what to read and listen to this year. I would love to hear about your favourite books and podcasts, so please email me with your suggestions. Enjoy!
NON-FICTION
Universal Human: Creating Authentic Power and the New Consciousness by Gary Zukav
Universal Human offers new tools to grow spiritually and shows how to transform everyday experiences of hopelessness, emptiness, and pain into fulfillment, meaning, and joy.
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie
Loving What Is offers everything you need to learn and live Katie’s process called The Work, and to find happiness as what Katie calls “a lover of reality.”
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It’s the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world.
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
In The Power of Moments, the authors explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us—and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work.
The Salt Path: The Uplifting True Story by Raynor Winn
The Salt Path is an inspiring story of hope and the healing powers of the natural world, in one of the most talked about books of the decade.
“Indian” in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power by Jody Wilson-Raybould
A compelling political memoir of leadership and speaking truth to power by one of the most inspiring women of her generation.
Business
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard
In this newly revised 10th anniversary edition, Yvon Chouinard—legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and founder of Patagonia, Inc.—shares the persistence and courage that have gone into being head of one of the most respected and environmentally responsible companies on earth.
FICTION
The Madness of Crowds: A Novel by Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in Louise Penny’s latest spellbinding novel.
The Strangers by Katherena Vermette
A staggering intergenerational saga that explores how connected we are, even when we’re no longer together—even when we’re forced apart.
The Four Winds: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
A powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, when millions were out of work and even the land seemed to have turned against them.
PODCASTS
The White Saviors hosted by Olusola Adeogun
From CANADALAND, the news company that exposed it all, this is the exclusive story of a charity that did well when it was supposed to be doing good.
Stolen: The Search for Jermain hosted by Connie Walker
In 2018, a young Indigenous mother named Jermain Charlo left a bar in Missoula, Montana, and was never seen again. As they unravel this mystery, the show examines what it means to be an Indigenous woman in America.
Forever is a Long Time hosted by Ian Cross
Forever is a Long Time is a podcast and album about every marriage in Ian’s family that ended in divorce — which is most of them. To hear the stories along with the songs, just search for “Forever is a Long Time” wherever you listen to podcasts.
Suspect distributed by Wondery
An apartment complex hosts a big Halloween party with themed rooms and costumed partygoers. By the end of the night one of the party’s hosts is murdered. And the partygoers are the main suspects in the eyes of the police.
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