Holiday Reading from

Ferguson Wellman and West Bearing

2020 brought challenges in an attempt to mitigate the spread of COVID to vulnerable populations. One bright spot is that being closer to home created greater opportunities to read and we hope you enjoy our recommended list from some of our colleagues. As a gift of gratitude, we have made contributions to the operating funds of libraries in communities where many of our clients reside.

1 Charissa Anderson, The Nightingale: A Novel, Kristin Hannah

2 Nathan Ayotte, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

3 Beth Brown, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

4 Lisa Brown, The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy, Thomas J. Stanley

5 Tim Carkin, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living..., Ryan Holiday

6 Casia Chappell, The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World, A. J. Baime

7 Scott Christianson, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE, Phil Knight

8 Chelsea Diamond, Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds, David Goggins

9 Blaine Dickason, Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival, Peter Stark

10 Dean Dordevic, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, Matthew Walker, PhD

11 Mary Faulkner, Let’s Bring Back..., Lesley M. M. Blume

12 Josh Frankel, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet, Jesse Itzler

13 Michael Garcia, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

14 Jake Gradwohl, Lone Survivor, Marcus Luttrell

15 Steve Holwerda, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Richard H. Thaler

16 Becky Horvat, Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens

17 George Hosfield, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE, Phil Knight

18 Brad Houle, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

19 Dinesh Kirpalani, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Atul Gawande

20 Ezra Kover, The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis

21 Mary Lago, The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook, America’s Test Kitchen

22 Natasche Legg, At Home: A Short History of Private Life, Bill Bryson

23 Shawn Narancich, In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors, Doug Stanton

24 Adam Nilsen, Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon’s Legendary Coach and Nike’s Cofounder, Kenny Moore

25 Jason Norris, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, Richard H. Thaler

26 Sammi Pahlow, The Richest Man in Babylon, George S. Clason

27 Don Rainer, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Daniel James Brown

28 Katherine Russell, Rules of Civility: A Novel, Amor Towles

29 Liz Swagerty Olsen, Eight Whopping Lies and Other Stories of Bruised Grace, Brian Doyle

30 Danielle White, Lagom: Not Too Little, Not Too Much: The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life, Niki Brantmark