Books

I have realised it’s pretty hard to suggest a book to someone. Some books I have been given in the past I have retired midway or not even started; only to realise a few months down the line, the time is suddenly perfect for me to pick it up, and it becomes my latest page turner. 

For me to consider a book a success or a good read, it has to be that, a page turner. I need to look forward to reading it, and to map out time in my day or week to dedicate to reading. 

(And if you knew me during school, university, or my 20s, you’d know this was literally never the case!) I guess I just hadn’t found the “right” books back then. 

Here are some of things that I have read lately that I have enjoyed. 

2024

• Stolen Focus - Johann Hari

• The Gift - Edith Eger (re-read)

• The Coaching Habit - Michael Bungay Stanier

• Jog On: How running saved My Life - Bella Mackie

• Spare - Prince Harry

• Be The Miracle - Regina Brett

• The Body Code - Bradley Nelson (audio)

• Widen The Window - Elizabeth Stanley (audio)

• Jonathon Livingston Seagul - Richard Bach

• Belonging - Owen Eastwood

• Keep on Running: The highs and lows a of marathon addict - Phil Hewitt

• Everything Hurts and Everything is Beautiful - Josie Shapiro

• The Book of Joy - Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu

• Meb For Mortals - Meb Keflezighi

• The Five Resets - Dr Aditi Nerurkar

• The Core. Better Life, Better Performance - by Saari Oskari (Author), Hintsa Aki (Author)

• What I Talk about When I Talk about Running: A Memoir - Haruki Murakami (re-read)

• Peak Performance - Brad Stulberg (Author), Steve Magness (Author)

• Mindfulness Plain and Simple - Oli Doyle

• 26.2 Miles to Happiness - Paul Tonkinson

• Runner - Lizzy Hawker 

• The Untethered Soul - Michael A Singer (re-read)

• Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever - by Bungay Michael Stainer (re-read)

• When Breath Becomes Air - by Paul Kalanithi

• Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi

• The Wealth Money Can’t Buy - Robin Sharma

• The Cancer Ladies’ Running Club - Josie Lloyd

2023

• The Secret - Rhonda Byrne 

• Never Finished - David Goggins (audio) 

• Out of Thin Air - Michael Crawley

• Awaken the Giant Within - Anthony Robins

• Open an Autobiography - Andre Agassi

• We A Manifesto for Women Everywhere - Gillian Anderson and Jennifer Nadel

• The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel Van Der Kolk (audio)

• InsideOut Coaching - Joe Ehrmann

• Jessica Ennis: Unbelievable - Jessica Ennis

• It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be - Paul Arden

• God Explained in a Taxi Ride - Paul Arden

• Up to Speed - Christine Yu

• Serious - John McEnroe

• Good for a Girl - Lauren Fleshman (audio)

• The Inner Game of Tennis - W. Timothy Gallwey

• Do Hard Things - Steve Magness

• Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman

• Breath - James Nestor

• Truth & Repair - Judith Herman (audio)

• Let Your Mind Run - Deena Kastor

• Rebound - Cindy Kuzma & Carrie Jackson Cheadle

• When the Body Says No - Gabor Maté (audio)

• Run for the Love of Life - Erica Terblanche

• Start at the End - Dan Bigham

• How She Did It - Molly Huddle & Sara Slattery

2022

• The Gift - Edith Eger

• Think Again - Adam Grant

• Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve it - Richard Koch

• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami

• The Genius of Athletes - Noel Brick & Scott Douglas

• Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor E Frankl

• Many Lives, Many Masters - Dr Brian Weiss

• Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before - Dr Julie Smith

• Lost Connections - Johann Hari

• The Untethered Soul - Michael A Singer

• Atomic Habits - James Clear

• A Million Little Pieces - James Fray

• 90 Seconds to a Life you Love - Joan Rosenburg

• Who not How - Dan Sullivan / Dr Benjamin Hardy

• 13 Things People with Mental Toughness Don’t Do - Amy Morin

• The Choice - Edith Eger

• The Comeback Quotient - Matt Fitzgerald 

• The Expectation Effect: David Robson

2021

• The Lost Art of Running - Shane Benzie

• Running with the Kenyans - Adharanand Finn

Maybe you will find something that sparks your interest! 

Enjoy!