My Reading List of 2014
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” –Henry David Thoreau
This year I put an extra effort to read as much as I could and I was handsomely rewarded by the insights and experiences these authors shared with me.
I can not encourage reading enough. If you have trouble picking up the habit of reading every night, get any of these books and put it on your bedside counter. I can promise that you won’t be able to put it down.
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
by Daniel Yergin
by Michael Crichton
by John Grisham
by Marcus Aurelius
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
by John Jackson Miller
by Erin Morgenstern
Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising
by Ryan Holiday
by Jeremy Rifkin
Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect
by Mark Greaney
by Edward Wilson
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol Dweck
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
by Tim Brown
The Wise Man’s Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
by Patrick Rothfuss
by Max Brooks
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
by Mason Currey
The Commanding Heights : The Battle for the World Economy
by Daniel Yergin
by James Allen
Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less
by Sam Carpenter
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
by Michio Kaku
Wherever You Go, There You Are
by Jon Kabat-Zinn
by Neal Stephenson
Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success
by Shane Snow
Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco
by Gary Kamiya
by James Altucher
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
by Matt Ridley
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
by R. J. Palacio
by Donna Tartt
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas Piketty
by Michael Lewis
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
by Ryan Holiday
by David J. Schwartz
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
by Geoffrey Miller
The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months
by Brian P. Moran
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
by Seth Godin
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Michael Lewis
by Justin Halpern
by Steven Pressfield
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
by Steven Gary Blank
The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
by Steve Blank
A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888–1889
by Frederic Morton
Star Wars Volume 1: In the Shadow of Yavin
by Brian Wood
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
by Michael J. LEWIS
by Robert Greene
by Dashiell Hammett
A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition
by Bill Bryson
by David Benioff
by Sun Tzu
Life’s Operating Manual: With the Fear and Truth Dialogues
by Tom Shadyac
by A. J. Jacobs
by Daniel Kahneman
Next Generation Democracy: What the Open-Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics, and Change
by Jared Duval
by Adam Smiley Poswolsky
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
by Tom Reiss
Contagious: Why Things Catch On
by Jonah Berger
What books do you recommend that I add for 2015?
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