Another year, another set of books read. In a way, this has been a strange year. I probably read the most I have ever read in any year this year but it’s also the year I read the least books. How? Good question. It’s because I wrote tons of articles — both personal and ghost articles for top media organizations — and five ghostwritten books. As any writer worth their salt would tell you, writing means you are reading a lot. The difference in this kind of reading is that you are not picking up books and reading them entirely for you to mark them as read. Instead, you are reading chapters, pages, and sometimes even paragraphs simply to pick up the ideas and thoughts you want to generate. After that, you put them down. So, can you say you have read that book?
But hey, reading 30 books from start to finish should still be able to motivate you. Here is my list for 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019. I also have the habit of announcing the books I plan to read in the year even though I always end up not reading all the books I put on the list because I get recommendations along the way, but people have told me how useful they find them, so why not. The list for 2024 will be out in a few days, but here are my lists for 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020.
My Best Books of the Year
Finding Me, a memoir by Viola Davis, blew me away. I love this book to bits. One of the best biographies you will ever read. Viola’s narrative delves into harrowing, deeply traumatic experiences, particularly in the early chapters that recount aspects of her childhood marked by abject poverty, violence, abuse, and racism. If you have the chance to experience it as an audiobook, I highly recommend doing so. I gained profound insights from her insider’s perspective on the theater industry, as well as the TV and movie sectors. You have to read it.
Finding Me, a memoir by Viola Davis, blew me away. I love this book to bits. One of the best biographies you will ever read. Viola’s narrative delves into harrowing, deeply traumatic experiences, particularly in the early chapters that recount aspects of her childhood marked by abject poverty, violence, abuse, and racism. If you have the chance to experience it as an audiobook, I highly recommend doing so. I gained profound insights from her insider perspective on the theater industry, as well as the TV and movie sectors. You have to read it.
Business / Finance / Economics
It was several months after I read Private Empire that the UN Climate Change Conference took place, and I could not help remembering ExxonMobil’s contribution to the oil industry and the ongoing conversation about climate change. The book is a penetrating, news-breaking study of how the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States influences American politics and foreign policy alike. As a Nigerian, it was eye-opening to see how the Niger Delta is part of a larger cast that includes… READ ALL
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