2013 was my best year reading in I’m thinking 20 years having knocked off 75 books via Hardcover. Paperback and eBook reading and Audible.com listening. If it wasn’t for Audible I am sure the number would be maybe only half of what I did because Audible gave me the opportunity to “read” while I was driving my car or riding my bicycle. In particular I really appreciated Amazon’s Whispernet, and Whispersync which allowed me to sync any audio book I was listening to with the Kindle version on my iPad. Any interesting observation I made,…I can read an eBook on my iPad faster than I can a paperback or hardcover and with only a few exceptions I can’t listen to an audio book any faster than normal speed with out losing some comprehension and I certainly can’t listen to a an audiobook as fast as I can read.
- Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know: Alexandra Horowitz
- Get Clients Now!(TM): A 28-Day Marketing Program for Professionals, Consultants, and Coaches: by C. J. Hayden
- Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling: by Michael Port
- Get Slightly Famous: Become a Celebrity in Your Field and Attract More Business with Less Effort: by Steven Van Yode
- How We Decide: Jonah Lehrer
- Proust Was a Neuroscientist: Jonah Lehrer
- The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths eBook: Michael Shermer
- Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine: by Paul A., M.D. Offit
- The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses eBook: Eric Ries
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business eBook: Charles Duhigg
- Switch by Dan & Chip Heath
- To Sell Is Human by Daniel H. Pink
- Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find – and Keep – Love by Amir Levine & Rachel S. F. Heller
- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane
- The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss
- Making Habits, Breaking Habits by Jeremy Dean
- Wheat Belly by William Davis
- Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease by Robert H. Lustig
- Built to Sell by John Warrillow
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game: by Michael Lewis
- Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan
- Venture Deals by Jason Mendelson & Brad Feld
- Startup Communities by Brad Feld
- Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire by Paul Smith
- Groundswell by Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff
- Rolling Rocks Downhill (BETA) – The Physics of Profitable Lean Software Development eBook: by Clarke Ching
- Heft on Wheels: A Field Guide to Doing a 180 eBook: by Mike Magnuson
- Profitable Plumbing: How to make the most money in the plumbing and heating trade eBook: by M. Scott Gregg
- The Myth of the Garage eBook: by Chip Heath
- It’s Not Who You Know, It’s Who Knows You by David Avrin
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don’t by Nate Silver
- Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer
- Born Round by Frank Bruni
- Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs by Norm Brodsky & Bo Burlingham
- Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills • The Great Courses
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement: (Revised Third Edition) by Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox (a regular once a year re-read & re-listen)
- Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!: 4 Keys to Unlock Your Business Potential eBook: by Greg Crabtree
- Medical Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths: What We Think We Know May Be Hurting Us • The Great Courses
- Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar – Your Brain’s Silent Killers by David Perlmutter & Kristin Loberg
- The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes’ Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
- Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford
- Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data by Charles Wheelan
- The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz
- How Dogs Love Us by Gregory Berns
- Who’s in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain by Michael S. Gazzaniga
- Subliminal by Leonard Mlodinow
- The Brain That Changes Itself: Personal Triumphs from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge
- The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
- The Power to Get by Michael Boylan
- The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ by David Shenk
- The Referral Engine by John Jantsch
- The Commitment Engine: Making Work Worth It by Jantsch, John
- Making It All Work by David Allen
- Reaching The Goal: How Managers Improve a Services Business Using Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints by John Arthur Ricketts
- The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive eBook: by Dean Baker
- Construction Marketing Ideas by Mark Buckshon
- The Trusted Advisor by Maister, David H., Green, Charles H. and Robert M. Galford
- Trading Up: Why Consumers Want New Luxury Goods–and How Companies Create Them by Michael J. Silverstein , Neil Fiske & John Butman
- The Loyalty Effect: The Hidden Force Behind Growth, Profits, and Lasting Value Paperback by Frederick F. Reichheld & Thomas Teal
- The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Candide by Voltaire
- Poetics: Aristotle
- Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless eBook: by Greta Christina
- Captain Stormfield’s Visit To Heaven by Mark Twain
- The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience eBook: by Carmine Gallo
- The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living: An Expert Guide to Making the Life-Saving Benefits of Carbohydrate Restriction Sustainable and Enjoyable eBook by Stephen Phinney & Jeff Volek
- Think Statistically by Uri Bram
- Lying by Sam Harris
- Free Will by Sam Harris
- Common Sense: by Thomas Paine