It’s not too late to start a new book, and if you’re Utah State Auditor John “Frugal” Dougall, you’ve started at least three in the time it takes to read this post. If you need a reading suggestion or two, here are a few that Utah’s politicos are reading. This is the twelfth in a series on what Utah’s politicians have on their summer reading lists.
Utah State Auditor John Dougall lives in Highland, Utah and getting his summer reading list up was a constantly moving target. Where most politicians shared what they intend to read this summer, Dougall had finished his entire list, and several more books, in the period between when I asked and when I scheduled this post. And, likely, he’ll have finished several more books by the time you finish what ever book you’re reading now.
The man is truly a prodigious reader.
How does he do it? HECK IF I KNOW. He’s a machine.
John Dougall’s Summer Reading
Usually, I’d include the Amazon summaries, but because this is going to take too long, I’m just going to give you the Dougall list of books complete since Memorial Day 2014:
- The Lincoln Lawyer
by Michael Connelly
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
- The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
by
- The Kennedy Brothers: The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby
by Richard D. Mahoney
- The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
by William Manchester
- Animal Farm
by George Orwell
- Double Down: Game Change 2012
by
- The Heist: A Novel (Gabriel Allon)
by
- The Hunger Games Trilogy
(The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay) by
- The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI
by
- Act of War
by Brad Thor
- Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
by
- Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America
by Peter Andreas
- The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government
by
- Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion
by
- Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
by
- Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
by
- The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
by
- Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father–and How We Can Fix It
by
- George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
by
- The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
by
- Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Fixing Health Care
by
- Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
by
- The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business
by
- Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America’s Most Powerful and Private Dynasty
by
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by
- The Brass Verdict (A Lincoln Lawyer Novel)
by Michael Connelly
- Life of Pi
by Yann Martell
- The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
by
- Boards That Deliver: Advancing Corporate Governance From Compliance to Competitive Advantage
by
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