| AUTHOR | TITLE | |
|---|---|---|
| Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith with Carlye Adler | The Dragonfly Effect | |
| Romeo Alaeff | I'll Be Dead by the Time You Read This: The Existential Life of Animals | |
| Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager with n+1 | Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager | |
| Stephen Baker | Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything | |
| Nicholas Bate | Instant MBA: Think, Perform and Earn Lika a Top Business School Graduate | |
| Ken Blanchard | Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations | |
| Anthony Bourdain | Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly | |
| Richard L. Brandt | One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com | |
| Natalie Canavor and Claire Meirowitz | The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing | |
| John Cassidy | How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities | |
| Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler | Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives | |
| Cathy N. Davidson | Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work and Learn | |
| Cory Doctorow | With a Little Help | |
| Nancy Duarte | Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences | |
| Judy Dutton | Science Fair Season: Twelve Kids, a Robot Named Scorch...and What It Takes to Win | |
| Douglas Edwards | I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 | |
| Michael Ellsberg | The Education of Millionaires: It's Not What You Think and It's Not Too Late | |
| Jasper Fforde | One of Our Thursdays is Missing: A Novel | |
| Joshua Foer | Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything | |
| Christopher J. Frank and Paul Magnone | Drinking from the Fire Hose: Making Smarter Decisions without Drowning in Information | |
| Paolo Giordano | The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel | |
| Dave Gray, Sunni Brown and James Macanufo | Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers | |
| Seth Godin | Poke the Box | |
| Paul Hammernes and Margaret Moore with John Haas | Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life: Train Your Brain To Do More in Less Time | |
| Tony Hsieh | Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose | |
| Walter Isaacson | Steve Jobs | |
| John Kay | Obliquity: Why Our Goals are Best Achieved Indirectly | |
| Martin Lindstrom | Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy | |
| Paul La Monica | Inside Rupert's Brain | |
| Adelaide Lancaster and Amy Abrams | The Big Enough Company: Creating a Business that Works for You | |
| Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Oglivie | Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Toolkit for Managers | |
| Matthew E. May | The Shibumi Strategy: A Powerful Way to Create Meaningful Change | |
| Hugh MacLeod | Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination | |
| Mark Magnacca | So What? How to Communicate What Really Matters to Your Audience | |
| Scott Nicholson (ed.) | Write Good or Die: Survival Tips for the 21st Century | |
| Al Pittampalli | Read This Before Our Next Meeting: The Modern Meeting Standard for Successful Organizations | |
| James O'Rourke | The Truth about Confident Presenting | |
| Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur | Business Model Generation | |
| Dev Patnaik with Pete Mortensen | Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy | |
| Scott Patterson | The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It | |
| Michael W. Preis with Matthew Frederick | 101 Things I Learned in Business School | |
| Steven Pressfield | Do the Work | |
| Oliver Pötzsch and Lee Chadeayne | The Hangman's Daughter: A Historical Novel | |
| #quakebook | 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake | |
| Tom Rachman | The Imperfectionists: A Novel | |
| Garr Reynolds | The Naked Presenter: Delivering Powerful Presentations With or Without Slides | |
| Jeff Ryan | Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America | |
| Tim Sanders | Today We Are Rich: Harnessing the Power of Total Confidence | |
| Paul J.H. Schoemaker | Brilliant Mistakes: Finding Success on the Far Side of Failure | |
| Adrian Slywotzky with Karl Weber | Demand: Creating What People Want Before They Know They Want It | |
| Peter Taylor | The Lazy Project Manager: How to be Twice as Productive and Still Leave the Office Early | |
| Richard Templar | The Rules of Work, Expanded Edition: A Definitive Code for Personal Success | |
| David Thorne | The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius | |
| Jerry Weissman | Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story | |
| Dan Zarrella | Zarrella's Hierarchy of Contagiousness: The Science, Design and Engineering of Contagious Ideas |
Obviously, I did a lot of reading this year, spurred on mostly because of my Kindle. On balance, I think it was a good spread of material that found its way to me this year. Granted, the bulk of my reading list is composed of business books (and all that this implies), and yes, there were a bunch of clunkers (there always are), but there's also some truly exceptional stuff in the mix, too (likewise). Oh, I should also mention: fiction!
The best book I read all year was Moonwalking with Einstein. Runners-up would be I'm Feeling Lucky and Evil Plans.
As always, if there are any books out there you'd like to recommend, please do. My 2012 reading list thanks you in advance.
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