Books of 2013

1. Muck City : Bryan Mealer. High school football in Florida.
2. The back of the napkin: Dan Roam. Portraying ideas visually and simply.
3. The White Lioness: Henning Mankell. Swedish crime thriller.
4. Courage and Other broadcasts: Field Marshal Sir William Slim. Leadership, courage and other virtues.
5. It’s not about the coffee: Lessons on putting people first at Starbucks. Howard Behar. Leadership from Starbucks.
6. Brave New World: Aldous Huxley. Classic sf novel.
7. Brave New World Revisited: Aldous Huxley. Look at social events and future of society.
8. Daemon: Daniel Suarez. SF techno thriller.
9. Excel 2010 Simplified: Paul McFedries. Useful graphic book.
10. What the plus: google+ for the rest of us. Guy Kawasaki. Tips on using google+.
11. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell: Susanna Clarke. Alternate reality of 19th century magical England novel.
12. Freedom: Daniel Suarez. Poor sequel to excellent Daemon.
13. Developing Children: Their changing movement. Mary Ann Roberton, Lolas E Halverson.
14. Kim: Rudyard Kipling. Classic adventure novel.
15. D:Day: The Battle for Normandy. Antony Beevor. Historic account of the battle.
16. Dodger: Terry Pratchett. Historical fantasy set in Dickensian London.
17. The Dark Judges: Alan Grant & John Wagner. Graphic Novel as part of World Book Night.
18. Cosmopolis: Don Delillo. Fictional treatise on modern day New York capitalism.
19. Full Disclosure: Andrew Neil. Autobiographical account of his tenure at the Sunday Times and relationship with Rupert Murdoch.
20. Let the right one in: John Ajvide Lindqvist. Swedish horror story.
21. The Art of Thinking Clearly: Rolf Dobelli.
22. The World Until Yesterday: Jared Diamond. Look at primitive societies and what we can learn.
23. Bruce Lee: Words from a Master. Ed. John Little. Interviews and reflections with Bruce Lee.
24. The Twilight Watch: Sergei Lukyanenko:.Russian crime/ horror novel.
25. The Last Watch: Sergei Lukyanenko:. Final part of quadrology.
26. Thinking Fast and slow: Daniel Lederman. Terrific analysis of how we think (or don’t). Must read.
27. Teaching Gymnastics:Mauldon, E. Layson, J.Excellent older text on creative movement lessons and plans for school children.
28. The Way Home: George Pelcanos. Crime/ drama novel set in Washington DC.
29. Solar: Ian McKewan. Satire about flawed scientist.
30. The Checklist Manifesto: Atul Gawande. Thoughtful look at getting simple things done well consistently based on flight checks.
31. Republic: Plato. Classic treatise on morality and creating a perfect society.
32. A Quiet Belief in Angels: R.J. Ellory. Crime coming of age novel set in Georgia, USA. Emminently readable; read it in a day.
33. Encylopedia of physical education, fitness and sports. Cureton, t. Stull,G. Eds. 1980 compilation of reports, papers. Especially good on youth fitness.
34. From here to infinity: Martin Rees. Based on his 4 reith lectures, an overview of science in the future and how it affects humanity.
35. Total Recall: Arnold Schwarzenegger. Autobiography from youth to present day. Real page turner.
36. Comic books 101; The History, Methods and Madness: Chris Ryall & Scott Tipton. Nice overview of modern day American comics.
37. Just six numbers: Martin Rees. How our universe is shaped by 6 different numbers.
38. The Art of War for Executives: Donald Krause. A reshaping of Sun Tzu’s text for business.
39. The Ace of Skulls: Chris Wooding. Sci fi novel about the Ketty Jay.
40. Practice Perfect: Doug Lemov. Great book about teaching/ coaching practice. Uses 42 lessons.
41. Track and field omnibook: Ken Doherty. Classic coaching textbook.
42. Carter beats the devil: Glen David Gold. Historical novel about US magician Charles Carter and President Harding’s death.
43. Antifragile: Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Outstanding thought leader’s book about how to get stronger in life. Myth busting about the wealth / education relationship of nations. Really attacks academia and the banking system and how innovation and originality occur through other means.

I think I might try the same next year. I liked the process of recording what I actually read.

I need to make more use of the library for the general books. Unfortunately the text books are usually unavailable, so I tend to buy from Abe books.

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