My book
Wood Is Good: A Memoir of Wild Connections (first edition, 2026). Hardcover. ISBN 979-8-9971043-0-6.
Oregon lumber, family land, and the people around Patrick Lumber, told as story.
Wood Is Good is available at Summer Beam Books, 1337 Main St, Philomath (summerbeambooks.com), or request a copy through Patrick Lumber at patlbr.com/book-request/.
Books I have read
- 1964 My Book About Me, Dr. Seuss
- 1965 Fox in Sox, Dr. Seuss
- 1966 Curious George, Rey
- 1967 Brown Bear, Brown Bear
- 1968 Ramona, Cleary
- 1969 Sounder, Armstrong
- 1970 Where the Sidewalk Ends
- 1971 Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Bach
- 1972 Watership Down, Adams
- 1973 The Hardy Boys
- 1974 Grandmaster Chess
- 1975 The Bible
- 1976 Dungeons & Dragons, a players handbook
- 1977 The National Stamp album
- 1978 The Hobbit
- 1979 Understanding Wood, Hoadley
- 1980 Louis L’Amour
- 1981 How I turned $1,000 into 5 million in Real Estate
- 1982 Business Law, Text and Cases
- 1983 In Search of Excellence
- 1984 Dean Koontz
- 1985 The Goal, Goldratt
- 1986 Carl Hiaasen
- 1987 Growing a Business, Hawken
- 1988 Changing the Game, Wilson
- 1989 A time to Kill, Grisham
- 1990 Animal Dreams, Kingsolver
- 1991 Men are from Mars, Women Venus
- 1992 The Gold Coast, DeMille
- 1993 Streets of Laredo, McMurtry
- 1994 Investment Biker, Rogers
- 1995 The Last Stand, Harris
- 1996 How to Fire Your Boss
- 1997 Harry Potter
- 1998 The Art of War, Sun Tzu
- 1999 Black Hawk Down, Bowden
- 2000 Undaunted Courage, Ambrose
- 2001 Fast Food Nation, Schlosser
- 2002 Running With Scissors, Burroughs
- 2003 Moneyball, Michael Lewis
- 2004 The Oil Factor, Leeb
- 2005 The Book Thief, Zusak
- 2006 The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Pollan
- 2007 Leading for Growth, Ray Davis
- 2008 The Hunger games, Collins
- 2009 The Big Short, Lewis
- 2010 The Snowball, Buffett
- 2011 American Nations, Woodard
- 2012 Onward, Howard Schultz
- 2013 Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Sloan
- 2014 The Four Hour Work Week, Ferriss
- 2015 Business is Good, Tim Locke
- 2016 Hillbilly Elegy, J.D.Vance
- 2017 Shoe Dog, Phil Knight
- 2018 The Airbnb Story, Gallagher
- 2019 Billion Dollar Whale, Tom Wright
- 2020 How I Built This, Guy Raz
- 2021 Forward, Andrew Yang
- 2022 Corvallis Trails, Powell
- 2023 Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr
- 2024 Good Energy, Means
- 2025 The Thinking Machine, Witt
- 2026 Eat Your Ice Cream, Emanuel