Challenge: 50 Books discussion
2010
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Jim Takchess 50 Books in 2010
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2)Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance BOT3) Influencer: The Power to Change Anything BOT
4)Down at the Docks Book
5 SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance BOT
15 Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow Bot16 Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost: A Memoir of Hampshire College in the Twilight of the '80s Book
21 Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends on ItSuperfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends on Itbook
24 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus bot25 Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth book
35 Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets Bot
36 Made By Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World
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37 Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His AssassinBook
39 Four Laws That Drive the Universe book40 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Bot (second time I read it)
41 The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Bot
44) Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done Bot very dry45) One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way book
46) Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long book loved it 47) Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation book loved it
48) The Fall book
49)The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals BOT .Same fellow who reads talebs books I think
51) 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot bot52) The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective book
53) The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold CasesBot
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Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (other topics)
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I'm starting fresh with 50 books list for this year. I did the 100 books in a year last year (which is not that hard if one commutes and listens to books on tapes).
This is what I read/listened to last year.
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
I'm toning it down and taking my time this year.