One thing i like to do in the new year is look back on the books i read (and listened to) for the last year and see when they meant to me.
so here they are. books in orange are the ones that really meant a lot to me and i would suggest:
- The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria.
- Lucky or Smart? : Secrets to an Entrepreneurial Life by BO PEABODY
- The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations by James Surowiecki
- The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
- Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
- The Making of Modern Economics by Mark Skousen
- The Moral Animal : Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
- Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
- The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World by James Shreeve
- Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald
- A World Lit Only by Fire : The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age by William Manchester
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Anecdotal by J. Brooks Dann
- The Virtual Handshake by David Teten and Scott Allen
- Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
- The World Is Flat : A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas Friedman
- Trading Up: The New American Luxury - by Michael Silverstein and Neil Fiske
- The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny & Terror by Natan Sharansky
- All Marketers are Liars by Seth Godin
- Crimes Against Logic by Jamie Whyte
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat : And Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks - Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
- Call of the Mall : The Geography of Shopping by Paco Underhill
- Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
- The World's Banker : A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations by by Sebastian Mallaby
- Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
- On Dialogue by David Bohm
- PayPal Wars by Eric Jackson
- Ugly Americans by Ben Mezrich
- Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile
- Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot: Unleashing Your Brain's Potential by Richard M. Restak
- The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman
- Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership : Executive Lessons from the Bully Pulpit by James Strock
that's 38 books: read 17 and listened to 21. of those, i would highly recommend 10 of them.