Every year, I set myself a challenge to read at least one book a month. I prefer business, science and technology reads but I have also found time for comedy and sci-fi.
In order to read as much as possible, I normally listen to audiobooks during my commute and on my travels.
A few favourites from this year: (full list below)
Every book I’ve ever read can be found in my library.
Here’s my year in books
All the books I read in 2017
- One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
- Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
- It’s Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
- The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
- The Complete Short Stories
- A Man on the Moon
- The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
- DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution
- Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
- The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)
- Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
- The Martian
- Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
- The Daily Show: An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests
- Breaking the Chains of Gravity
- The Hacker Ethic: A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business
- Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
- Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
- Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
- Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science
- Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff
- God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction
- Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions
- Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
- Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension
- Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
- I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
- Forces of Nature
- Strategy: A History
- Human Universe
- The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World
- Michael Jackson, Inc.: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of a Billion-Dollar Empire
- No Logo
- The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
- The Horologicon: A Day’s Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
- Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
- The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
- The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle
- Atheism: A Very Short Introduction
- At the Devil’s Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel
- A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
- Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft and the Battle for the Internet
- Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
- Everydata: The Misinformation Hidden in the Little Data You Consume Every Day
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
- Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
- The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
- The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
- The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World’s Greatest Philosophers
- The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
- Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage
- I, Robot (Robot #0.1)
- The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
- The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
- Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed
- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
- Strengths Finder 2.0
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