SOME RECENT READING

RECENTLY READ PAPER BOOKS

 Legend
#ppp = people, personality and philosophy
#csh = change, society and history
#bl = business and leadership
Some, of course, are a combination of these!

1. 1984  (George Orwell)   #csh
2. Animal Farm (George Orwell)   #csh
3. Bad science (Ben Goldacre)
4. History of world war 2   #csh
5. How the mind works (Daniel Pink)
6. How to fix the future (Andrew Keen)   #csh
7. Humble enquiry   #bl #ppp
8. Insecurity (Jane Franks)   #bl
9. Karl Marx and unreason   #csh
10. Liars poker (Michael Lewis)   #bl
11. Life 3.0   #csh
12. Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari)   #csh
13. Homo Deus  (Yuval Noah Harari)   #csh
14. 21 Lessons for 21st Century (Yuval Noah Harari)   #csh
15. The great economists   #csh #bl
16. The Idiot Brain   #ppp
17. The undoing project (Michael Lewis)   #csh #ppp
18. Thinking fast and slow (Danny Kahnerman)   #csh #bl #ppp
19. This is going to hurt (Adam Kay)
20. Utopia for realists   #csh #bl
21. Stories from a big country (Bill Bryson)
22. How to think politically (Graeme Garrard)   #csh #bl
23. A little history of philosophy (Nigel Warburton)   #csh #ppp
24. A little history of the world   #csh

RECENT AUDIO BOOKS

1. * Supercoach: 10th Anniversary Edition: 10 Secrets to Transform Anyone's Life - Michael Neill
2. * The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook - What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing - Bruce D. Perry,
3. * The Science of Effective Communication: Improve Your Social Skills and Small Talk, Develop Charisma and Learn How to Talk to Anyone: Positive Psychology Coaching Series, Volume 15 - Ian Tuhovsky
4. * Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything - Becky Bond, Zack Exley
5. * The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma - Bessel van der Kolk
6. * Coaching for Performance, 5th Edition: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership: Fully Revised 25th Anniversary Edition - Sir John Whitmore
7. * Manipulation Techniques: Learn How to Manipulate and Influence People with Mind Control and NLP - Gemma McCallis
8. Flow: Living at the Peak of Your Abilities - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Ph.D.
9. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl

PREVIOUS AUDIO BOOKS

 Legend
#ppp = people, personality and philosophy
#csh = change, society and history
#bl = business and leadership
Some, of course, are a combination of these!

1. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It - Chris Voss, Tahl Raz #bl #ppp
2. Raja Yoga Explained: Yoga for Beginners Guide - Sanjay Tewani #ppp
3. Cognitive Psychology for Dummies - Michael Pake, #ppp
4. I Love You But I'm Not In Love With You: Seven Steps to Saving Your Relationship - Andrew G. Marshall #ppp
5. Love Factually: The Science of Who, How and Why We Love - Laura Mucha #ppp
6. My Early Life - Winston Churchill #csh
7. Messy - Tim Harford #csh #bl #ppp
8. Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success - Brad Stulberg, Steve Magness #bl #ppp
9. The Unicorn Project: A Novel About Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data - Gene Kim #bl
10. Humble Consulting: How to Provide Real Help Faster - Edgar H. Schein #bl #ppp
11. The Examined Life - Stephen Grosz #ppp
12. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity - Douglas Murray #csh #ppp
13. No More Mr. Nice Guy: A Proven Plan for Getting What You Want in Love, Sex and Life (Updated) - Dr Robert Glover #ppp
14. How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy - Julian Baggini #csh #ppp
15. The Wisdom of Psychopaths - Kevin Dutton #csh #bl #ppp
16. The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships - Neil Strauss #ppp
17. Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel - Tom Wainwright #csh #bl
18. Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky - Noam Chomsky, #csh #ppp
19. Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis - George Monbiot #csh #bl #ppp
20. War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age - Mark Schwartz #bl
21. A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility - Mark Schwartz #bl
22. WTF?: What have we done? Why did it happen? How do we take back control? - Robert Peston #csh
23. The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups - Daniel Coyle #csh #bl #ppp
24. SAS Italian Job - Damien Lewis
25. Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator - Oleg V. Khlevniuk, #csh
26. Product Mastery: From Good to Great Product Ownership - Geoff Watts #bl
27. Scrum Mastery: From Good to Great Servant-Leadership - Geoff Watts #bl
28. Lean Mastery Collection: 8 Manuscripts: Lean Six Sigma, Lean Startup, Lean Enterprise, Lean  #bl
29. Analytics, Agile Project Management, Kanban, Scrum, Kaizen -
30. Scrum: The art of doing twice the work in half the time - Jeff Sutherland #bl
31. Eureka: Finding the Line Between Desire and Contentment, Then Riding It - Graham Field
32. The Climb - Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt
33. The Push - Tommy Caldwell
34. The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life - Mark Synnott
35. Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World - Elspeth Beard
36. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street - John Brooks #bl
37. In Search of Greener Grass: Riding from Reality towards Dreams and Finding Fulfillment - Graham Field
38. The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success - Andy McNab, Kevin Dutton #bl #ppp
39. Winners: And How They Succeed - Alastair Campbell #csh #bl #ppp
40. A Child Called 'It': One Child's Courage to Survive - David Pelzer #ppp
41.  Yes! 50 Secrets from the Science of Persuasion - Dr. Noah Goldstein, Steve Martin, #bl #ppp
42. Flipnosis - Kevin Dutton #bl #ppp
43. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Techniques for Retraining Your Brain - #csh #bl #ppp
44. The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure - Grant Cardone #bl
45. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #csh #bl #ppp
46. Principles: Life and Work - Ray Dalio #csh #bl #ppp
47. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die - Chip Heath, Dan Heath #bl #ppp
48. Key Person of Influence: The Five-Step Method to Become One of the Most Highly Valued and Highly Paid People in Your Industry - Daniel Priestley #bl
49. The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations - Gene Kim, #bl
50. Inside Story: Politics, Intrigue and Treachery from Thatcher to Brexit - Philip Webster #csh
51. The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence Through Leadership Development - Jeffrey Liker, #bl
52. Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant - W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne #bl
53. Thinking in Systems: A Primer - Donella H. Meadows #csh #bl #ppp
54. The Secret Barrister - The Secret Barrister #csh
55. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life - Mark Manson #csh #ppp
56. Critical Chain: Project Management and the Theory of Constraints - Eliyahu M. Goldratt #bl
57. The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks Than Others Do in 12 Months - Brian P. Moran, Michael Lennington #bl
58. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics - Richard Thaler #csh #bl #ppp
59. Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue - Ryan Holiday #bl #ppp
60. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - 30th Anniversary Edition - Eliyahu M. Goldratt, #bl
61. The Cold War: A World History - Odd Arne Westad #csh
62. The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win 5th Anniversary Edition - Gene Kim, #bl
63. Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril - Margaret Heffernan #csh #bl
64. The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today - Linda Yueh #csh #bl
65. Bad Blood - John Carreyrou
66. Hitch-22: A Memoir - Christopher Hitchens #csh
67. A History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev - #csh
68. Summary of 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson: An Antidote to Chaos - FlashBooks Book Summaries #csh #bl
69. Summary of Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths - Instaread #csh
70. Red Notice - Bill Browder #csh
71. How the Mind Works - Steven Pinker #ppp
72.  Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients - Ben Goldacre

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