Reading List: 2020 and beyond?

*Asterisk indicates previously read (to re-read) read or partially read.

I’m not promising to finish in 2020, but I’d like to. Needs more fiction.

Getting things done (4)

1. 12 Week Year – Brian P. Moran, Michael Lennington* (read 2020/01/09)
2. Atomic Habits – James Clear*
3. Make Time – Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (added 2020/01/05)
4. Start Finishing – Charlie Gilkey (added 2020/01/05)

People stuff and organisational culture (5)

1. Switch – Chip and Dan Heath
2. The Culture Code – Daniel Coyle
3. You Are What You Do – Ben Horowitz
4. The Infinite Game – Simon Sinek
5. Drive – Dan Pink (remembered and added 2020/01/05)

Design and making things (4)

1. The Design of Everyday Things – Don Norman*
2. Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines – Apple Computer*
3. Letting Go of the Words – Ginny Reddish*
4. Something by Steve Krug*

Marketing and communication (4)

1. This is Marketing – Seth Godin*
2. Story Driven – Bernadette Jiwa*
3. The Fortune Cookie Principle – Bernadette Jiwa*
4. The Compelling Communicator – Tim Pollard*

Management and strategy (6)

1. The Excellence Dividend – Tom Peters*
2. The Pursuit of Wow! – Tom Peters
3. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It – Michael E. Gerber*
4. Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs – David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano*
5. Crossing the Chasm – Geoff Moore
6. The Long Tail – Chris Anderson

Ways of seeing the world and decision making (6)

1. Factfulness – Hans Rosling
2. Enlightenment Now – Steven Pinker
3. Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
4. Thinking in Bets – Annie Duke
5. Map and Territory – Eliezer Yudowsky*
6. Antifragile – Nassim Nicholas Taleb (added 2020/04/01)
7. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (added 2020/01/12)

More general hinterland reading (5)

1. A Brief History of Debt – David Graeber
2. Generous Justice – Tim Keller
3. Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
4. The Gift – Lewis Hyde
5. Indonesia Etc. – Elizabeth Pisani (added 2020/04/01)
6. The Canon – Natalie Angier (added 2020/01/05)
7. Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace and Strategy – Colin S. Gray (added 2019/01/09)
8. The Life You Can Save – Peter Singer (added 2020/02/16)

Fiction, history and other (6)

1. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo*
2. Interesting Times – Terry Pratchett
3. Forgotten Wars – Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper
4. Can Love Last?: The Fate of Romance over Time – Stephen A. Mitchell (or a substitute)
5. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution – C.L.R. James
6. Bandwidth – Eliot Peper