Yesterday, I asked for seven book recommendations for me to read during the seven weeks my kids will be away this summer.
We collected all of your ideas – you picked a total of 140 books for me to choose from. There were only a handful of repeats from multiple people, which was surprising. Below, all suggested books, in alphabetical order. The asterisks were books that were repeated. I’ve already read a few of these, but left them on the list.
I’ll be selecting my seven books shortly and giving you the list in advance. You can read along with me each week and then we’ll react to each one together.
| Titles: | Authors: |
| Absent Superpower | Peter Zeihan |
| Adrift | Steven Callahan |
| Against the Gods** | Peter L. Bernstein |
| Alexander Hamilton | Ron Chernow |
| Alone in Antarctica | Felicity Aston |
| Am I Being too Subtle | Sam Zell |
| American Caesar | William Manchester |
| American Nations | Colin Woodward |
| American Ulysses | Ronald C. White |
| An American Sickness | Elisabeth Rosenthal |
| At Home | Bill Bryson |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand |
| Barking Up the Wrong Tree | Eric Barker |
| Beat the Market | Edward O. Thorp and Sheen T. Kassouf |
| Bed of Procrustes | Nassim Taleb |
| Behave | Robert Sapolski |
| Being Mortal | Atul Gawande |
| Beisner | Dean Acheson |
| Black Edge** | Sheelah Kolhatkar |
| Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon | Steve Sheinkin |
| Brave Companions | David McCullough |
| Brothers | Stephen Kinzer |
| Buffet – The Biography | Roger Lowenstein |
| Charlie Wilson’s War | George Crile III |
| Chronicles | Bob Dylan |
| Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole |
| Cork Dork | Bianca Bosker |
| Creativity Inc | Amy Wallace and Edwin Catmull |
| Dark Pools | Scott Patterson |
| Den of Thieves | James B. Stewart |
| Development as Freedom | Amartya Sen |
| Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems | Galileo Galilei |
| Dreadnought | Robert K. Massie |
| Dream Hoarders | Richard V. Reeves |
| Fatal Shore | Robert Hughes |
| Fed Up | Danielle Dimartino Booth |
| Fooled by Randomness | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
| Fortune’s Formula | William Poundstone |
| Fountainhead | Ayn Rand |
| Gates of Fire | Steven Pressfield |
| Gilead | Marilynne Robinson |
| Good Profit | Charles Koch |
| Guns Germs and Steel** | Jared Diamond |
| Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood |
| Hip Hop Family Tree | Ed Piskor |
| History of Gold | Peter L. Bernstein |
| History of the World in 6 Glasses | Tom Standage |
| Homo Deus** | Yuval Noah Harari |
| How Will you Measure your Life | Clayton M. Christensen |
| I’m a Stranger Here Myself | Bill Bryson |
| Immortal Irishman | Timothy Egan |
| In the Kingdom of Ice | Hampton Sides |
| Innocents Abroad | Mark Twain |
| Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking | Daniel Dennett |
| John Adams** | David McCullough |
| Killing Rommel | Steven Pressfield |
| Killing the Rising Sun | Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard |
| Letters from Earth | Mark Twain |
| Life | James Fox and Keith Richards |
| Lords of Finance | Liaquat Ahamed |
| Losing my Virginity | Richard Branson |
| Man for all Markets | Edward O. Thorp |
| Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor Frankl |
| Mental Models, Investing and You | Vishal Khandelwal |
| More Money than God | Sebastian Mallaby |
| Murder at the Altar | Veronica Heley |
| My Cross to Bear | Gregg Allman |
| My Promised Land | Ari Shavit |
| News of the World | Paulette Jiles |
| October | Richard Wright |
| Odd Man Rush | Bill Keenan |
| Oh Tyranny | Timothy Snyder |
| On Being Certain | Robert A. Burton |
| Operation Nemesis | Eric Bogosian |
| Out of Revolution | Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy |
| Paradise Now | Chris Jennings |
| Pilot’s Journey | George Norfleet |
| Politics and the English Language and Other Essays | George Orwell |
| Postwar | Tony Judt |
| Predator’s Ball | Connie Bruck |
| Prisoners of Geography | Tim Marshall |
| Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power | Steve Coll |
| Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capatalism | Max Weber |
| Rainbow’s End | Vernor Vinge |
| Ready Player One | Ernest Cline |
| Reminiscences of a Stock Operator | Edwin Lefèvre |
| Revenge of Geography | Kaplan |
| Road to Character | David Brooks |
| Salt | Mark Kurlansky |
| Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari |
| Seeking Wisdom | Peter Bevelin |
| Sellout | Paul Beatty |
| Shoe Dog | Phil Knight |
| Shogun | James Clavell |
| Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson |
| Stalingrad | Antony Beevor |
| Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang |
| Tales of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind | Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba |
| The Buried Giant | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| The Captain and Kings | Taylor Caldwell |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon |
| The Drunkard’s Walk | Leonard Mlodinow |
| The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin |
| The Great Transformation | Karl Polanyi |
| The Hour between Dog and Wolf | John M. Coates |
| The Invention of Air | Steven Johnson |
| The Invisible Hands | Steven Drobny |
| The Longest Climb | Paul Pritchard |
| The Lords of Finance | Liaquat Ahamed |
| The Martian | Andy Weir |
| The Most Important Thing Illuminated | Howard Marks |
| The Nightmare Years | William L. Shirer |
| The Power Broker | Robert Caro |
| The Prize** | Daniel Yergin |
| The Secret Club that Runs the World | Kate Kelly |
| The SPEED of Trust | Rebecca R. Merrill and Stephen M. R. Covey |
| The Sports Gene | David Epstein |
| The Success Equation** | Michael J. Mauboussin |
| The Summit | Eric Alexander |
| The Swerve: How the World Became Modern | Stephen Greenblatt |
| The Terezin Album of Marianka Zadikow | Debórah Dwork and Marianne Zadikow May |
| The Unconquered | Scott Wallace |
| The Undoing Project | Michael L. Lewis |
| The Zurich Axioms | Max Gunther |
| Top Dog | Ashley Merryman and Po Bronson |
| Trade Like Chuck | Chuck Hughes |
| Tribe | Sebastian Junger |
| Ubiquity | Mark Buchanan |
| Unbroken | Laura Hillenbrand |
| Undaunted Courage | Stephen E. Ambrose |
| Undisputed Truth | Mike Tyson |
| Vogel | Deng Xiaoping |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| We Learn Nothing | Kreider |
| What Got You Here Won’t Get You There | Marshall Goldsmith |
| When Genius Failed | Roger Lowenstein |
| Winds of War | Herman Wouk |
| World Order | Henry Kissinger |
| Wright Brothers | David McCullough |
You can head over to Amazon to check these out while I pick from the list…thanks for all the great ideas!
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