What I’ve Been Reading, 2013
2013 was my best year reading in I’m thinking 20 years having knocked off 75 books via Hardcover. Paperback and eBook reading and Audible.com listening. If it wasn’t for Audible I am sure the number would be maybe only half of what I did because Audible gave me the opportunity to “read” while I was driving my car or riding my bicycle. In particular I really appreciated Amazon’s Whispernet, and Whispersync which allowed me to sync any audio book I was listening to with the Kindle version on my iPad. Any interesting observation I made,…I can read an eBook on my iPad faster than I can a paperback or hardcover and with only a few exceptions I can’t listen to an audio book any faster than normal speed with out losing some comprehension and I certainly can’t listen to a an audiobook as fast as I can read.
- Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know: Alexandra Horowitz
- Get Clients Now!(TM): A 28-Day Marketing Program for Professionals, Consultants, and Coaches: by C. J. Hayden
- Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling: by Michael Port
- Get Slightly Famous: Become a Celebrity in Your Field and Attract More Business with Less Effort: by Steven Van Yode
- How We Decide: Jonah Lehrer
- Proust Was a Neuroscientist: Jonah Lehrer
- The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths eBook: Michael Shermer
- Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine: by Paul A., M.D. Offit
- The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses eBook: Eric Ries
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business eBook: Charles Duhigg
- Switch by Dan & Chip Heath
- To Sell Is Human by Daniel H. Pink
- Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find – and Keep – Love by Amir Levine & Rachel S. F. Heller
- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane
- The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss
- Making Habits, Breaking Habits by Jeremy Dean
- Wheat Belly by William Davis
- Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease by Robert H. Lustig
- Built to Sell by John Warrillow
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game: by Michael Lewis
- Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan
- Venture Deals by Jason Mendelson & Brad Feld
- Startup Communities by Brad Feld
- Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire by Paul Smith
- Groundswell by Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff
- Rolling Rocks Downhill (BETA) – The Physics of Profitable Lean Software Development eBook: by Clarke Ching
- Heft on Wheels: A Field Guide to Doing a 180 eBook: by Mike Magnuson
- Profitable Plumbing: How to make the most money in the plumbing and heating trade eBook: by M. Scott Gregg
- The Myth of the Garage eBook: by Chip Heath
- It’s Not Who You Know, It’s Who Knows You by David Avrin
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don’t by Nate Silver
- Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer
- Born Round by Frank Bruni
- Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs by Norm Brodsky & Bo Burlingham
- Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills • The Great Courses
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement: (Revised Third Edition) by Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox
- Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!: 4 Keys to Unlock Your Business Potential eBook: by Greg Crabtree
- Medical Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths: What We Think We Know May Be Hurting Us • The Great Courses
- Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar – Your Brain’s Silent Killers by David Perlmutter & Kristin Loberg
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- The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes’ Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
- Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford
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- Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data by Charles Wheelan
- The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz
- How Dogs Love Us by Gregory Berns
- Who’s in Charge? by Michael S. Gazzaniga
- Subliminal by Leonard Mlodinow
- The Brain That Changes Itself: Personal Triumphs from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge
- The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
- The Power to Get by Michael Boylan
- The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ by David Shenk
- The Referral Engine by John Jantsch
- The Commitment Engine: Making Work Worth It by Jantsch, John
- Making It All Work by David Allen
- Reaching The Goal: How Managers Improve a Services Business Using Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints by John Arthur Ricketts
- The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive eBook: by Dean Baker
- Construction Marketing Ideas by Mark Buckshon
- The Trusted Advisor by Maister, David H., Green, Charles H. and Robert M. Galford
- Trading Up: Why Consumers Want New Luxury Goods–and How Companies Create Them by Michael J. Silverstein , Neil Fiske & John Butman
- The Loyalty Effect: The Hidden Force Behind Growth, Profits, and Lasting Value Paperback by Frederick F. Reichheld & Thomas Teal
- The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Candide by Voltaire
- Poetics: Aristotle
- Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless eBook: by Greta Christina
- Captain Stormfield’s Visit To Heaven by Mark Twain
- The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience eBook: by Carmine Gallo
- The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living: An Expert Guide to Making the Life-Saving Benefits of Carbohydrate Restriction Sustainable and Enjoyable eBook: by Stephen Phinney & Jeff Volek
- Think Statistically by Uri Bram
- Lying by Sam Harris
- Free Will by Sam Harris
- Common Sense: by Thomas Paine