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Books: 2014 retrospective and to-read for 2015

Many of my friends have shared their reading lists of all the books they read in 2014 (thank you!) -- this gave me some excellent ideas of books to read for 2015.

So I have decided to share my reading list as well, and the list of books I plan to read in 2015. If you have any ideas for additional books, I'd love them (especially in the topic areas of business, finance, nonfiction).

Favorite books I read in 2014:

  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
  • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
  • The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F Drucker
  • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
  • Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
  • The Big Short by Michael Lewis
  • How Google Works by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg
  • Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal by Nick Bilton
  • The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
  • *#GIRLBOSS‬ by Sophia Amoruso
  • Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager by Michael Lopp
  • Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett
  • SuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
  • Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game by Paul Midler

Books I plan to read in 2015:

  • The Luxury Strategy: Break the Rules of Marketing to Build Luxury Brands by Jean-Noël Kapferer and Vincent Bastien
  • The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development by Chad Fowler
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  • Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
  • The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work by Scott Burkina
  • Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
  • Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by Dave Logan and John King
  • The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t by Robert I. Sutton
  • Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by L. David Marquet and Stephen R. Covey
  • Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows and Diana Wright
  • The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network by Katherine Losse
  • Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" by Lena Dunham
  • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered by Austin Kleon
  • Yes Please by Amy Poehler
  • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail but Some Don’t by Nate Silver
  • The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance Paperback by David Epstein
  • Faster, Higher, Stronger: How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes--and What We Can Learn from Them by Mark McClusky
  • Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook by Michael Lopp
  • The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
  • Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek

Here's to a well read 2015!

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