Every year I review the books I have read and listened to. Here are 2005 and 2004.
In 2006, I read 48 books (I listened to 23 of them) somehow. Of the 25 I read … some of those books were so bad I couldn’t finish. Others were really short. And most of the reading was done on a plane or during my Sunday evening reading time I generally devote to myself. But one thing I did to keep reading going is that I have been reading 10 pages of a book before I go to bed every day. and while this isn’t much (only 10 minutes a day), it adds up to basically completing a book over 5-6 weeks.
Of the books in 2006, I’ve bolded the ones (12 of them) that I felt were particularly good and really had a profound impact on me.
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III by Bob Woodward
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Small is the New Big by Seth Godin
Our Final Hour: A Scientist’s warning : How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind’s Future in This Century–On Earth and Beyond by Martin J. Rees
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 by Niall Ferguson
Bang! Getting Your Message Heard in A Noisy World by Linda Kaplan Thaler
The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense by Michael Shermer
The Commanding Heights : The Battle for the World Economy by Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw
Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
China Inc: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World Ted Fishman
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East Michael B. Oren
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S. Collins
The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
Paul Volcker: The Making of a Financial Legend by Joseph B. Treaster
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
The Complete Adventures of Curious George by H. A. Rey and H.A. Rey
A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
Co-Leaders: The Power of Great Partnerships by David A. Heenan and Warren Bennis
Burn Before Reading by Stansfield Turner
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
Bla Bla: 600 Incredibly Useless Facts: Something to Talk About When You Have Nothing to Talk About
Bell Labs: Life in the Crown Jewel by Narain Gehani
The Starfish and the Spider by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Joe Trippi
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the New Economy by Pekka Himanen, Linus Torvalds and Manuel Castells
Science Friction : Where the Known Meets the Unknown by Michael Shermer
Charlemagne by Richard Winston
Get Back in the Box : Innovation from the Inside Out by Douglas Rushkoff
Takedown : The Fall of the Last Mafia Empire by Rick Cowan
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
I Didn’t Do It for You : How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation by Michela Wrong
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA’s War on Terror by Robert Baer
How to use Google
The 8th Habit by Stephen Covey
End of Faith by Sam Harris
Why Do Men Have Nipples : Hundreds of Questions You’d Only Ask a Doctor after Your Third Martini by Mark Leynet and Billy Goldberg
Executive Intelligence by Justin Menkes
On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
Juice: The Creative Fuel That Drives World-Class Inventors by Evan Schwartz
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
DisneyWar by James Stewart
Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy
The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitcick
The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
For someone who read this much books, I’m surprised how your writing is full of errors, which can be very confusing to the reader and certainly doesn’t make for a smooth reading. However, the content is quite refreshing. Happy New Year!
Whoww, this is a very broad variety of books. You certainly read more than the average person. Does ‘reading’ – actually listening to – audiobooks make a difference? I find that by using time that I could not previously use to read, because it’s simply not practical to read and drive, I am now reading more books.