Below are the books I read in 2020. I have tried to divide them by how much I enjoyed them and how valuable I found them. Click to buy on Amazon via my referral link (price stays same for you but helps support the SportsBiz Book Exchange).
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Highly Recommended:
Them: Why We Hate Each Other - And How to Heal, Ben Sasse
High Output Management, Andrew Grove
Richard Nixon: The Life, John Farrell
The Coddling of the American Mind, Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt
Principles: Life and Work, Ray Dalio
The Science of Self Learning, Peter Hollins
Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson
Recommended:
The Upside of Stress, Kelly McGonigal
The Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman
The Inner Game of Tennis, Timothy Gallwey
Travels with Epicurus, Daniel Klein
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass
Dueling with Kings, Daniel Barbasi
The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy
Two Americans, William Lee Miller
Fast Times: How Digital Winners Set Direction, Learn, And Adapt, Multiple Authors
The Cold War: A New History, John Lewis Gaddis
Gridiron Genius, Michael Lombardi
Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything, Jennifer Armstrong
Winning is Not a Strategy, Zac Logsdon
The Dichotomy of Leadership, Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
A Calendar of Wisdom, Leo Tolstoy
The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones, Rich Cohen
The Code. The Evaluation. The Protocols, Jocko Willink
Machine Learning: The New AI, Ethem Alpaydin
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson
The Tao of Charlie Munger, David Clark
Lou Gehrig: Pride of the Yankees, Paul Gallico
Chernobyl 01:23:40, Andrew Leatherbarrow
Worst. President. Ever, Robert Strauss
Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome, Anthony Everitt
The Happiness Equation, Neil Pasricha
Artificial Intelligence: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, Sarah Frier
Reconstruction: A Concise History, Allen Guelzo
Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius, Ryan Holiday
The Sharing Economy, Arun Sundararajan
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Castle on Sunset, Shawn Levy
Others:
Why We Make Things and Why It Matters, Peter Korn
Grace will Lead Us Home, Jennifer Berry Hawes
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
How Smart Machines Think, Sean Gerrish
When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron
Everybody Lies, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
A Life Well Played, Arnold Palmer
Finite and Infinite Games, James Carse
Everybody Lies, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
You Are Not A Rock, Mark Freeman
Previous Years’ Reads
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