47 Books For Your 2011 Reading List
Looking for books to populate your reading list for 2011? Here are a few to think about.
Last year I set myself a challenge: reading a book every two weeks throughout the year (I actually managed one more than that). I also reached out to you – the readers of this site – for suggestions on what to read, and they obliged.
I was so pleased with the results that I’m doing the same in 2011. Once again, I reached out for suggestions – this time to people on Twitter. Here’s the list of books they suggested, along with a few books I plan on reading myself (links are Amazon affiliate links):
Non-Fiction
- Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make The Leap…and Others Don’t
– Jim Collins (via @OT_Group)
- Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
– Daniel Goleman (via @ZoeDisco)
- First, Break All The Rules: What The Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently
– Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (via @ZoeDisco)
- Rules for Renegades
– Christine Cornaford (via @Chris_Eh_Young)
- Making Ideas Happen
– Scott Belsky (via @Chris_Eh_Young)
- In Defense Of Food
– Michael Pollan (via @slowfoodist)
- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
– Dawkins (via @jamesfowlerart)
- The Age of Persuasion: How Marketing Ate Our Culture
(via @DoctorJones)
- Superfreakonomics
– Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (via @DoctorJones)
- Common Sense Leadership – Garth Johns (via @MMPerspectives – thanks for the copy)
- The Art of War
– Sun Tzu (via @dbrodbeck)
- On the Origin of Species
– Charles Darwin (via @dbrodbeck)
- The Selfish Gene
– Richard Dawkins (via @dbrodbeck)
- Double Double: How to Double Your Revenue and Profit in 3 Years or Less
– @CameronHerold (via @cadijordan)
- The New Rules of Marketing and PR
– David Meerman Scott (via @ruthings)
- The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
– John Hagel III, John Brown & Lang Davison (via @melissa_ful)
- Flip the Funnel: How to Use Existing Customers to Gain New Ones
– Joseph Jaffe (via @melissa_ful)
- The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy
– Nilofer Merchant (via @melissa_ful)
- Change By Design
(via @melissa_ful)
- Social Media Roi: Managing and Measuring Social Media Efforts in Your Organization
– Olivier Blanchard
- Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World
– Chris Lowney (via @CloudSpark)
- Rework
– Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson(via @CloudSpark)
- Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy
– Martin Lindstrom (via @Michaelynch)
- Purple Cow
– Seth Godin (via @rightsleeve)
- Crossing The Chasm
– Geoffrey Moore (via @rightsleeve)
- Big Switch
– Nicholas Carr (via @rightsleeve)
- Workarounds That Work: How to Conquer Anything That Stands in Your Way at Work
– Russell Bishop (thanks to McGraw Hill for sending me a copy)
- Predictably Irrational
– Dan Ariely
- What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
– Malcolm Gladwell
- Here Comes Everybody
– Clay Shirky
- Beyond Bullet Points
– Cliff Atkinson
- Winning
– Jack Welch
- In Search Of Excellence
– Peters & Waterman
- Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man
– John Perkins
- Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
– Charlene Li & Josh Bernoff
- They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers
– Romeo Dallaire (finished this – well worth reading)
Fiction
- Y The Last Man
– Brian Vaughan (via @ZoeDisco)
- Water For Elephants
– Sara Gruen (via @misskatiemo)
- This Is Where I Leave You
– Jonathan Tropper (via @SaraSantiago)
- The Great Gatsby
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via @dbrodbeck)
- The Help
– Kathryn Stockett (via @LauraRWalton)
- The Count of Monte Cristo
– Alexandre Dumas (via @DustinPlett)
- Aftermath: An Inspector Banks Novel
– Peter Robinson (via @GraemeMenzies)
- Await Your Reply
– Dan Chaon (via @SaraSantiago)
- History Of Love
– Nicole Krauss (via @SaraSantiago)
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
– Laura Hillenbrand (via @belllindsay)
- Relentless
– Robin Parrish (just finished this)
- Freedom Incorporated – Peter Tylee (reading this now)
What would you add to the list?
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