Here is the list of the 50 books I read in 2011. I ranked these in order of the positive effect they had on my life. Whether they were instructional, biographical, or fictional, I found there was something to learn from all of them... Except for numbers 49 and 50, they were both pretty stupid.
Top 50 books read in 2011
1. The Social Animal - David Brooks
2. Poor Charlie’s Almanac - Charlie Munger
3. Nudge - Richard Thaler
4. Effective Interviewing and Interrogation - Nathan Gordon and William Fleisher
5. The Singularity is Near - Ray Kurzweil
6. Thinking in Systems - Donella Meadows
7. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller - Ron Chernow
8. Truman - David Mccullough
9. Fiasco - Frank Partnoy
10. Living Within Limits - Garrett Hardin
11. Making Sense of People - Samuel Barondes
12. The Moral Animal - Robert Wright
13. Power: Why some people have it and others don’t - Jeffrey Pfeffer
14. A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
15. Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
16. The Most Important Thing Is - Howard Marks
17. Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
18. 1984 - George Orwell
19. Getting Things Done - David Allen
20. The Checklist Manifesto - A Surgeon
21. Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How it Changes Everything - John Mauldin
22. Save The Cat -
23. The Warren Buffett Portfolio - Robert G. Hagstrom
24. Wooden on Leadership - John Wooden
25. Only The Paranoid Survive - Andy Grove
26. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
27. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
28. The Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
29. Man’s Search For Meaning - Viktor Frankl
30. Getting to Yes Without Giving In - William Ury
31. Gang Leader For A Day - Sudhir Venkatesh
32. Who: The A Method For Hiring - Randy Street and Geoff Smart
33. Drive - Daniel Pink
34. King of Capital - David Carey
35. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
36. The Drunkard’s Walk - Leonard Mlodinow
37. Moonwalking With Einstein - Joshua Foer
38. The Art of Asking - Terry Fadem
39. My Horizontal Life - Chelsea Handler
40. The 50th Law - Robert Greene
41. Living the 80/20 Way - Richard Koch
42. Rubies in the Orchard - Chick from Philly
43. Decision Points - George Dubbya
44. Liespotting - Pamela Myer
45. How to Connect With Anyone - Leil Lowndes
46. The Four Hour Body - Tim Ferris
47. How to Become Smarter - Some Smart Russian Dude
48. Rework -
49. Lies That Chelsea Told Me - A bunch of assholes.
50. Poke The Box - Seth Godin
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I do not intend to write chapter by chapter summaries, nor do I intend for my reviews to be novels in and of themselves. Just like a 140 character tweet forces a succinct sentence, a 140 word review forces a succinct thought.
I love to read, and I think that we would be better off as a society if we did more reading and less tv watching. Here I plan to feature books that have inspired me to broaden my mental horizons and, in turn, I hope to inspire you to broaden yours.
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read.” |
 - Mark Twain |
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