Top 10 Reading of 2022

Now that the year is coming to an end, I’ve taken some time to go through the reading I’ve done. I feel like I’ve covered a lot of intellectual ground. I finally got to explore subjects and books that have been sitting on my shelf for a few years now. And these books did not disappoint, there are some real treasures in this list. Enjoy.

1.      The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, by Peter Berger

2.      The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve, by Steve Williams

3.      Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind, by Mark Pagel

4.      The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, by Jonathan Haidt

5.      The Decline of the West (Vols 1 &2), by Oswald Spengler

6.      The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, by David Anthony

7.      The Ancient City, by Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

8.      The Aeneid, by Virgil (Translator W. F. Jackson Knight)

9.      Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy, by William Barrett

10.   “Characteristics” (in the Harvard Classics set), by Thomas Carlyle