Below are the books I read in 2021. I have tried to divide them by how much I enjoyed them and how valuable I found them.
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Highly Recommended:
The Bully Pulpit, Doris Kearns Goodwin
Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
The Win Without Pitching Manifesto, Blair Enns (*Read Twice)
Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall
The Spy Masters, Chris Whipple
Parkland, Vincent Bugliosi
The Devil in the Grove, Gilbert King
Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch
Recommended:
Authentic Gravitas, Rebecca Newton
Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann
Mornings on Horseback, David McCullough
The Last Stand, Nathaniel Philbrick
Careless People, Sarah Churchwell
The Spy and the Traitor, Ben Macintyre
Eisenhower: A Life, Paul Johnson
Ike’s Bluff, Evan Thomas
How to Be a Great Boss, Gino Wickman
Sage Advice, Richard Borden
Make Time, Jake Knapp
Stony the Road, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Trump Revealed, Michael Kranish
Musonius Rufus: Lectures and Sayings
Clementine, Sonia Purnell
The Infinite Game, Simon Sinek
24 Hours in Ancient Rome, Philip Matyszak
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, Eric Jorgenson
Accidental Presidents, Jared Cohen
Turtles All the Way Down, John Green
A Life in Parts, Bryan Cranson
Robin, Dave Itzkoff
Three-Ring Circus, Jeff Pearlman
Effortless, Greg McKeown
They Ask You Answer, Marcus Sheridan
Playing for Keeps, David Halberstam
Pillar of Fire, Taylor Branch
That Distant Land, Wendell Berry
The End is Always Near, Dan Carlin
The Year 1000, Valerie Hansen
Sharp, Josh Donald
The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy (Editor)
Fanocracy, David Meerman Scott
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson
The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
The Wright Brothers, David McCullough
The Big Goodbye, Sam Wasson
Others:
Tanking to the Top, Yaron Weitzman
Legendary Self-Discipline, Peter Hollins
Life of a Klansman, Edward Ball
The Catalyst, Jonah Berger
Ten Innings at Wrigley, Kevin Cook
Digital Gold, Nathaniel Popper
Queen of Scots, John Guy
Smart Baseball, Keith Law
How to Build a Car, Adrian Newey
Murdered Midas, Charlotte Gray
Blockchain, Harvard Business Review
Making Time, Bob Clagett
The Last of the President’s Men, Bob Woodward
The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor
They Thought They Were Free, Milton Sanford Mayer
Previous Years’ Reads
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