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!