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