Looking back on 2004, i devoured 31 books (which is probably the most i have consumed in my adult life). maybe that means i wasn't working enough (though it probably has to do with the fact that i was frequently travelling overseas).
Of the 31 books, exactly 20 where on paper. The other 11 were audiobooks. I have tried to find the time to listen to audiobooks while running, on safari, in the car, and even doing laundry around the house.
I try to review/log each book that read (so i can remember later) -- you can view them at http://summation.typepad.com/summation/books/index.html
Below are the books I read (books in bold were ones i actually read -- the ones in non-bold were audio books). I highlighted the really amazing books in (the ones that really made me think) in orange.
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
The Fatal Shore : The epic of Australia's founding by Robert Hughes
How We Know What Isn't So by Thomas Gilovich
The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia By David Hoffman
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
Colossus: The Price of America's Empire by Niall Ferguson
Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 by Thomas Friedman
Emotional Intelligence : Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman
Conversationally Speaking : Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness by Alan Garner
Running On Empty : How The Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It by Pete Peterson
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
The Anatomy of Buzz: How to Create Word-Of-Mouth Marketing by Emanuel Rosen
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
John Adams, by David McCullough
From Bush to Bush: The Lazlo Toth Letters by Don Novello
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number by Mario Livio
Why We Buy: The Science Of Shopping by Paco Underhill
Just and Unjust Wars by Michael Walzer
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
The Influentials: One American in Ten Tells the Other Nine How to Vote, Where to Eat, and What to Buy by Jon Berry and Ed Keller
Out of the Madness by Jerrold Ladd
Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority by John McWhorter
Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Overcoming Reading Problems at Any Level by Sally Shaywitz
Woodrow Wilson by Louis Auchincloss
Stand-Up Comedy : The Book by Judy Carter
Geronimo: A Biography by Alexander Adams
I Love You, Ronnie by Nancy Reagan
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek
