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!**