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 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!