There's some really great suggestions on this list by everyone else, and many I want to read! Thank you for sharing your best read for 2023.
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I probably read about 60ish books this year - I don't think any one in particular book stood out from the rest, but they all took me on an interesting journey through them. Here are some memorable ones :
1. How Iceland changed the world by Egill Bjaanason
2. Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world by Jack Wetherford
3. Insanely Simple , the obsession that drives Apple’s success by Ken Segell
4. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
5. Trillion Dollar Coach (Bill Campbell) by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle
6. The Tipping point by Malcolm Gladwell
7. What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
8. JFK and the Unspeakable by James W Douglass
9. The Pirates of Panama or the Bucaneers of America by Alexander Olivier
10. Prototype Nation, China and the Contested Promise of Innovation by Silvia M Lindtner
11. Contagious, why things catch on by Jonah Berger
12. Connecting the Dots, Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World (Cisco) by Chambers, John
13. Entrepreneurial Nation: Why Manufacturing Is Still Key to America’s Future by Ro Khanna
14. Red Light Therapy by Ari Whitten
15. Nuclear Power explained by Dirk Eidemuller
16. A long way gone, Memoir of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
17. On Palestine by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe
18. Demokrasi : Indonesia in the 21st century by Hamish McDonald
19. Drugs as Weapons against us by John L Potash (re read)
20. Mukiwa, A white boy in Africa by Peter Godwin
21. It’s not only Rock and Roll by Jenny Boyd
22. Mindset - changing the way you think to fulfil your potential by Carol S Dweck
23. The idealist : Aaron Shwartz and the rise of the free culture of the internet by Justin Peters
24. Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein
25. Hillbilly Elegy, A memoir of a family and culture in crisis by JD Vance
26. Savage inequalities, children in America’s schools by Jonathan Kozol
27. The Wise Men by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas
28. Neuroscience of creativity by Oshnin Vartanian, Adam Bristol and James Kauffman
29. Some thoughts concerning education by John Locke
30. Emile by Jean Jacques Rousseau
31. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston
32. Zimbabwe under the British Empire by Charles River
33. IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black
