I've seen several friends post their reading list from 2013 (in addition to nearly every major newspaper or magazine creating their Best-of-2013 lists). I figured I would join in on the trend, and give some simple recommendations:
1 = Must Read
2 = Worth the Time
3 = So-so
I was not a particularly prodigious reader this year because of my increasing time commitments, plus I chose some hefty titles (three of them were around 800 pages each).
2013
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Gregory Hays (translator) - 1
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris - 2
Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris -2
Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw - 2
Boomerang by Michael Lewis - 2
The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner - 1
Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh - 3
Integrity by Henry Cloud - 3
The Discourses of Epictetus by Robin Hand (translator) - 3
Where God Was Born by Bruce Feiler - 2
Here's what I plan to read next year:
2014
Lead Like Jesus by Ken Blanchard
Rome's Last Citizen by Goodman and Soni
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin
Cool War by Noah Feldman
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant by H.W. Brands
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson
To Sell Is Human by Daniel Pink
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Coming Apart by Charles Murray.
ReplyDeleteTalks about three of the elements of happiness:
Faith, family, community, and how those have been gradually "coming apart" in America and the long term costs of that on our society and overall prosperity. Gov. Bush recommended it in a speech.