Looking back on 2004, i devoured 31 books (which is probably the most i have consumed in my adult life).   maybe that means i wasn’t working enough (though it probably has to do with the fact that i was frequently travelling overseas).   

Of the 31 books, exactly 20 where on paper.   The other 11 were audiobooks.  I have tried to find the time to listen to audiobooks while running, on safari, in the car, and even doing laundry around the house.   

I try to review/log each book that read (so i can remember later) — you can view them at http://summation.typepad.com/summation/books/index.html

Below are the books I read (books in bold were ones i actually read — the ones in non-bold were audio books).   I highlighted the really amazing books in (the ones that really made me think) in orange.

• Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
• Lexis and the Olive Tree by Tom Friedman
• Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
• The Fatal Shore : The epic of Australia’s founding by Robert Hughes
• How We Know What Isn’t So by Thomas Gilovich
• The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia By David Hoffman
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
• Colossus: The Price of America’s Empire by Niall Ferguson
• Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 by Thomas Friedman
• Emotional Intelligence : Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman
• Conversationally Speaking : Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness by Alan Garner
• Running On Empty : How The Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It by Pete Peterson
• How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
• The Anatomy of Buzz: How to Create Word-Of-Mouth Marketing by Emanuel Rosen
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t by Jim Collins
• John Adams, by David McCullough
• From Bush to Bush: The Lazlo Toth Letters by Don Novello
• The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World’s Most Astonishing Number by Mario Livio
• Why We Buy: The Science Of Shopping by Paco Underhill
• Just and Unjust Wars by Michael Walzer
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
• The Influentials: One American in Ten Tells the Other Nine How to Vote, Where to Eat, and What to Buy by Jon Berry and Ed Keller
• Out of the Madness by Jerrold Ladd
• Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority by John McWhorter
• Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Overcoming Reading Problems at Any Level by Sally Shaywitz
• Woodrow Wilson by Louis Auchincloss
• Stand-Up Comedy : The Book by Judy Carter
• Geronimo: A Biography by Alexander Adams
• I Love You, Ronnie by Nancy Reagan
• An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek