As someone who is always seeking new insights, differing perspectives, and a way to get out of my own head, I'm a voracious reader.
As you might imagine, I read a good deal about travel, and adventure, but I read even more philosophy, social commentary, fiction, and yes, self-help. All of this reading lends a new lens with which to see the world, providing a wider, clearer picture. Books tell us where we've been, and with a little imagination on the part of the reader, can show us where we're going.
Moving forward, I'll include some quick blurbs, first impressions and takeaways, but for now, here's a look at what I’ve been reading lately. Were any of these on your list?
1. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by its Most Brilliant Teacher - Richard Feynman
2. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World - Peter Frankopan
3. Infomocracy - Malka Older
4. Contagious - Jonah Berger
5. Self Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. Influence: The Psychology of Influence - Robert Cialdini
7. Privacy by Design: 8 Principles For Better Privacy Design - Tijmen Schep
8. Rogue Code - Mark Russinovich
9. Digital Vertigo: How Today’s Online Social Revolution is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us - Andrew Keen
10. Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow
11. Outsmarting Your Kids Online: A Safety Handbook for Overwhelmed Parents - Amber Mac & Michael Bazzell
12. Don’t Make Me Think Revisited - Steve Krug
13. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds - Michael Lewis
14. But What If We’re Wrong? - Chuck Klosterman
15. Through the Eye of a Needle - Peter Brown
16. On Liberty - Jon Stuart Mill
17. The Road To Serfdom - Fredrick Hayak
18. Submission - Michel Houellebecq
19. Race Matters - Cornel West
20. The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck - Mark Manson
21. Disrupt Yourself - Whitney Johnson
22. The 10th of December - George Saunders
23. On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century - Timothy Snyder
24. The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker
25. Superposition - David Walton
26. The Everything Store - Brad Stone
27. Animal Farm - George Orwell
28. The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age - Astra Taylor
29. The Book of Investing Wisdom - Peter Krass
30. Blockchain - Gary Mitnick
31. Radical Candor - Kim Malone
32. Leaders Eat Last - Simon Sinek
33. Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihayli
34. The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt
35. Platform Revolution - Parker, Van Alstyne, Choudary
36. The Bulletproof Diet - Dave Asprey
37. Top Secret America - Dana Priest and William Arkin
38. Treatise on Tolerance - Voltaire
39. Why We Suck - Denis Leary
40. New Confessions of an Economic Hitman - John Perkins
41. Paradox of Choice - Barry Schwartz
42. Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
43. Tribes - Seth Godin
44. Between the World and Me - Ta-Neshi Coates
45. Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior - Ori Brafman and Ron Brafman
46. Chaos Monkeys - Antonio Garcia Martinez
47. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick
48. Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic - Tom Holland
49. Stoicism - James Daugherty
50. Weapons of Math Destruction - Cathy O’Neil
51. Markov Models - Duo {Code}
52. Deep Work - Cal Newport
53. Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer