Summary Book List

  • 2022
    • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity – David Graeber & David Wengrow (non-fiction)
    • The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes – Zachary D. Carter (non-fiction)
    • Useful Delusions – Shankar Vedantam & Bill Mesler (non-fiction)
    • Making Numbers Count – Chip Heath & Karla Starr (non-fiction)
    • Tinker, Dabble, Doodle, Try – Srini Pillay, MD
    • The Story of More
    • The Waste – Catherine Coleman Flowers
    • Lab Girl – Hope Jahren
    • A Natural History of the Future – Rob Dunn
    • A Trillion Trees – Fred Pearce
  • 2021
    • The Breadth – James Nester (non-fiction)
    • Geography of Genius – Eric Weiner (re-read, non-fiction)
    • Permission Marketing – Seth Godin (non-fiction)
    • Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman (non-fiction)
    • Listening Woman – Tony Hillerman (fiction)
    • People of Darkness – Tony Hillerman (fiction)
    • The infidel and the professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship that shaped Modern Thought – Dennis Rasmussen (non-fiction)
    • War and Peace and War – Peter Turchin (non-fiction)
    • The New Map-Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations – Daniel Yergin (non-ficition)
    • Think Again- Adam Grant (non-fiction)
    • Chatter – Ethan Kross (non-fiction)
    • Pipe Dreams – Chelsea Wald (non-fiction)
    • The Foundation – Isaac Asimov (fiction)
    • Prisoner of Geography – Time Marshall (non-fiction)
    • The Exponential Age: How accelerating technology is transforming business, politics, and society – Azeem Azhar (non-fiction)
    • Nausicca of the Valley of the Wind – Hayao Miyazaki (fiction)
  • 2020
    • Pilgrimage to eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in search of a Faith – Timothy Egan (non-fiction)
    • Life After College – Jeffrery J Selingo
    • A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel – Amor Towles (fiction)
    • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Harari (non-fiction)
    • Post Corona – Scott Galloway (non-fiction)
    • A.I. Super Powers: China/Silicon Valley – Kai-Fu Leef
  • 2019
    • Skin in the Game – Nassim Taleb (non-fiction)
    • Foundation & Chaos/Triumph series – Issac Asimov (fiction)
    • Foundation Trilogy Series and Edge – Issac Asimov (fiction)
    • Everest: The West Ridge – Thomas Hornbein (non-fiction)
    • Thanks a Thousand – AJ Jacob (non-fiction)
    • Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis- Jared Diamond
    • Rethink – Steven Poole (re-read, non-fiction)
    • The Subtle Art of Not Giving Fu$k: Mark Manson
    • Never Lost Again – Bill Kilday
    • Everything is F#cked: A book about hope – Mark Manon
    • Master and Emissary – Ian McGilchrist
    • Range: Why Generalist Triumph in a Specialized World – David Epstein
    • Sapien – Yuval Hariai (non-ficition)
  • 2018
    • The Undoing Project – Michael Lewis
    • Smartcuts – Shane Snow
    • Dream Team – Shane Snow
    • The Prophets and the Wizard – Charles Mann
    • Nonsense – James Holmes (re-read, non-fiction)
    • The Fifth Risk – Michael Lewis (non-fiction)
    • Life in Code – Ellen Ullman (non-ficition)
    • Scarcity – Sendhill Mullain Athan, Eldar Shafir (non-fiction)
    • The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway (fiction)
    • Bering Sea Strong – Laura Hartema (non-fiction)
    • My Adventures with God – Stephen Tobolowsky (non-fiction)
  • 2017
    • Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas – Steven Poole
    • Rise of the Robot – Martin Ford
    • How to fall at almost everything and still win big – Adam Scotts
    • Think like Freak – Steven Dubanar
    • The Power of Habit : Why we do what we do in life and business – Charles Duhigg
    • But What if We’re Wrong? – Chuck Klosterman
    • The Innovators – Walter Isaacson
    • Payoff: The Hidden logic that shapes our motivation – Dan Ariely
    • There is Life After the College – Jeffrey Selingo
    • Learning from the Octopus – Rafa Sagarin
    • Life of Ignatius of Loyola – Phillip Caraman, SJ
    • Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
    • MisbehavingBehavioral Economics – Richard Thaler
    • Why Buddhism is True – Robert Wright
  • 2016
    • Geography of Genius – Andrew Weir
    • Connectorgraphy: Mapping the future of global civilization – Parag Khana
    • John Adams – David McCullough
    • The Wright Brothers – David McCullough
    • The Great Bridge – David McCullough
    • Race Against Machine – Erk Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee
    • The Second Machine Age – Erik Brynjoflosson
    • The Men Who United the States of America – Simon Winchester
    • Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing – Jamie Holmes
    • The Silo Effect – Gillian Teff
    • Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently – Dawna Markova
    • How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that made the Modern World – Steven Johnson
    • Thanks for Being Late – Thomas Friedman
    • Short History of Progress – Ronald Wright
    • Rejection Proof – Jin Jiang
    • Choose Yourself – James Altucher

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