Last Updated: 05/16/2013
Currently Reading:
- Fiction Writer's Workshop -- Josip Novakovich
- I'm Feeling Lucky (The Confessions of Google Employee #59) -- Doug Edwards
- Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others -- John C. Maxwell and Jim Dornan
- Church: Uncommon -- Tony Dungy @tonydungy
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership -- John C. Maxwell
- I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist -- Norman L. Geisler, Frank Turek and David Limbaugh -- My review (I am re-reading this repeatedly because there's so much to absorb.)
- Not So Big Remodelling -- Sarah Susanka and Marc Vassallo
Up Next:
- Power: Why Some People Have It - And Others Don't -- Jeffrey Pfeffer
- The Final Summit -- Andy Andrews
- Max on Life -- Max Lucado
Reading List: I would certainly welcome donated copies of any of these books, or other books you'd like me to review.
-A-
- Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself -- David Foster Wallace and David Lipsky (NF)
- The Art of Choosing -- Sheena Iyengar
- The Art of War
- Across the Universe -- Beth Revis (Completed/Review)
- And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft -- Mike Sacks (Completed/Review)
-B-
- Between Heaven and Hell... -- Peter Kreeft
- Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don't Work -- Dan Roam
- Business Brilliant -- Lewis Schiff
- Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
- Brain Rules -- John Medina (Completed/Review)
- Breakfast with Jesus -- Greg Laurie (Completed)
-C-
- Choke: What the Secrets of The Brain Reveal About -- Getting It Right When You Have...
- The Cost of Bad Behavior -- Christine Pearson, Christine Porath
- City: Rediscovering the Center -- William H. Whyte -- (Completed/Review)
- The Cove -- Ron Rash (Completed/Review)
-D-
-E-
- Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions -- Guy Kawasaki
- Everything Explained through Flowcharts -- Doogie Horner
- Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination -- Hugh MacLeod
- An Echo in the Bone -- Diana Gabaldon (Abandoned)
- Everything Explained Through Flowcharts -- (Completed/Review)
- The Expats -- Chris Pavone -- (Completed/Review)
-F-
- 57 Words that Changed the World -- Daryl Johnson
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future -- Michael J. Fox (Abandoned)
-G-
- Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers
- Good Strategy, Bad Strategy --Richard P. Rumelt (Inc. July/Aug. 2011)
- Guns, Germs, and Steel -- Jared Diamond
- Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success -- Adam Grant (Inc., April 2013)
- Gone Girl -- Gillian Flynn (Completed/Review)
- Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Media -- Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff (Completed/Review)
- Guess How Much I Love You -- Sam McBratney (Completed/Review)
-I-
- If You Build It, Will They Come? -- Rob Adams
- If You Want to Write -- Brenda Ueland
- Imagine -- Jonah Lehrer (EW #1 non-fiction)
- I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist -- Norman L. Geisler, Frank Turek and David Limbaugh (Completed/Review)
- Imperfect Birds -- Anne Lamotte (Abandoned/Partial Review)
- In Between the Ears -- Lee Goetti (Abandoned/Partial Review)
-L-
- The Life God Blesses -- Gordon MacDonald
- Last Night in Twisted River -- John Irving (Completed/Review)
-M-
- Me, Myspace and I: Parenting the Net Generation -- Larry Rosen
- The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing -- Lisa Gansky
- Microcosmic God -- Theodore Sturgeon (03/29, while reading Groundswell)
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success -- Carol Dweck (01/04/11)
- A Matter of Fate -- Heather Lyons (Completed)
- Moby Dick -- Herman Melville (Abandoned)
- The Myth of the Garage -- Chip Heath and Dan Heath (Completed/Review)
-N-
- The Naked Presenter -- same as "presentation zen"
- NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children -- Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
-O-
- 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
- Onward: How Starbucks Fought for its Life without Losing its Soul -- Howard Schultz (Completed/Review)
- Other People's Rejection Letters -- Bill Shapiro (Completed/Review)
- The Overton Window -- Glenn Beck (Completed/Review)
-P-
-R-
- Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn -- Dr. Larry Rosen
- REWORK (Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson) (06/16/11 - adv. in May 2011 Inc.)
- Redesigning Leadership -- John Maeda (Completed)
- Road Dogs -- Elmore Leonard (Completed/Review)
-S-
- Smile and Move -- Sam Parker
- The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert -- John M. Gottman and Nan Silver (author referenced in Brain Rules)
- The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History -- John Ortved
- Still Midnight (Alex Morrow #1) -- Denise Mina (EW B+)
- Shadow and Bone (Grisha Trilogy) -- Leigh Bardugo (Completed/Review)
- Southern Discomfort -- Margaret Maron (Completed/Review)
- Spark -- Melissa Dereberry (Completed/Review)
- Stone's Fall -- Iain Pears (Abandoned/Partial Review)
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action -- Simon Sinek (Completed)
- Stormcaller -- R. K. MacPherson (Abandoned)
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard -- Chip Heath and Dan Heath (Completed/Review)
-T-
- The Teleportation Accident -- Noel Beauman (EW A)
- Think Twice (Lisa Scottoline)
- Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success -- John C. Maxwell
- Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing -- Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
- Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles (two volumes)
- Truth Like the Sun (Jim Lyhnch) (NF, EW B+)
- A Tale of Two Cities -- Charles Dickens (Abandoned)
- Tempest -- Julie Cross (Completed/Review)
-U-
- Up on the Roof - Alex McLean
-V-
- Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity
- Vertical Church -- James Macdonald (Completed/Review)
-W-
- What Technology Wants -- Kevin Kelly
- A Whole New Mind -- Daniel Pink (NF)
- The War of Art: Break through the Blocks and Win Your Innter Creative Battles -- Steven Pressfield (Abandoned/Partial Review)
