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Jim Takchess 2009 100+ list
In addition to reading, I listen to books on tapes on my commute so this is achievable.
I take out a piles of library books many which I decide not to complete (or start). Some actually get picked up and completed depending on my interests, whim and momentum.
I'll add some titles as time allows.
The book I am closest to finishing is:
1) Outliers
It is a quick, interesting and enjoyable read.
2) The Tipping Point
3)The Black Swan The Impact of the Highly Improbable
4)The Post-American World
5)
The Brass Verdict
6)A Working Stiff's Manifesto A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine That Fired Me, and Three I Can't Remember
7)Scratch Beginnings Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream
8)Speed Tribes Days and Nights With Japan's Next Generation
9)Sway The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
10)The Wild Trees A Story of Passion and Daring
11)Chaos Making a New Science
12)Body of Lies A Novel
13)The Gridlock Economy How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives
14)The Woods
15)The Cult of the Amateur How today's Internet is killing our culture
16)Boyos
17)Wikinomics How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
A three of these I started in 08 and finished in 09:Brass Verdict, The Woods, Speed Tribes.
This is a fast start for my list. I expect that once spring arrives I will slow down.
18 The Next Great Thing The Sun, the Stirling Engine, and the Drive to Change the World
24 The Perfect Mile Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It
A most amazing book!
26 From Counterculture to Cyberculture Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
27 Storming Las Vegas How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars
36 Stop Me If You've Heard This A History and Philosophy of Jokes
37 Postcards from Tomorrow Square Reports from China
45 The 4-Hour Work Week Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
46 The Return Of Depression Economics And The Crisis Of 2008
47 The Trillion Dollar Meltdown Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
48 This Wheel's on Fire Levon Helm and the Story of the Band
49 The Scarecrow
51 Free Lunch How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense
52 Deep Survival Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
63 The Brass Wall The Betrayal of Undercover Detective #4126
64 E=mc2 A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
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Books mentioned in this topic
Outliers (other topics)The Post-American World (other topics)
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (other topics)
Speed Tribes: Days and Nights With Japan's Next Generation (other topics)
Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream (other topics)
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