Read in 2008

Here are the books I read in 2008:

January 2008

• The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas by Robert H. Frank 01/02/2008
• Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin 01/06/2008
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath & Dan Heath 01/12/2008
• Thank You For Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs 01/19/2008
• The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph From the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge 01/26/2008
• What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: Discover the 20 Workplace Habits You Need to Break by Marshall Goldsmith 01/27/2008

February 2008

• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan & Al Switzler 02/02/2008
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 02/16/2008
• More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places by Michael J. Mauboussin 02/21/2008
• The Seven Dumbest Relationship Mistakes Smart People Make by Carolyn N. Bushong 02/22/2008
• The One Thing You Need to Know: … About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success by Marcus Buckingham 02/24/2008

March 2008

• The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World by Tim Harford 03/02/2008
• An Ocean of Air: Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere by Gabrielle Walker 03/06/2008
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy 03/12/2008
• The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell by Rachel Herz 03/15/2008
• To Follow the Water: Exploring the Sea to Discover Climate From the Gulf Stream to the Blue Beyond by Dallas Murphy 03/17/2008
• Influencer: The Power to Change Anything by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan & Al Switzler 03/19/2008
• Bringing Down the House: the Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich 03/24/2008
• Balance: In Search of the Lost Sense by Scott McCredie 03/27/2008
• Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body by Jennifer Ackerman 03/29/2008

April 2008

• Mind Set! by John Naisbitt 04/01/2008
• Winning by Jack Welch 04/02/2008
• The Mathematics of Love by Emma Darwin 04/06/2008
• The Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra Davis 04/09/2008
• A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle 04/13/2008
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See 04/15/2008
• The Forbes Book of Great Business Letters: Memos, Missives, Pitches, Proposals and E-Mails by Erik Bruun (editor) 04/18/2008
• Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment by Martin E. P. Seligman 04/22/2008
• The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt 04/23/2008
• The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want by Sonja Lyubomirsky 04/30/2008

May 2008

• The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less by Barry Schwartz 05/01/2008
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan 05/04/2008
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver 05/06/2008
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers 05/07/2008
  
• Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben 05/13/2008
• The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine by Anne Harrington 05/18/2008
• The Buddha from Brooklyn by Martha Sherrill 05/21/2008
• The Definitive Book of Body Language by Barbara Pease & Allan Pease 05/23/2008
• The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket by Trevor Corson 05/26/2008
• Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill) by David Cay Johnston 05/27/2008
• Winning: The Answers: Confronting 74 of the Toughest Questions in Business Today by Jack Welch and Suzy Welch 05/28/2008
• Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a 17th Century Forbidden Love by Myriam Cyr 05/30/2008

June 2008

• Arthur & George by Julian Barnes 06/03/2008
• Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach 06/05/2008
• Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath by Michael Paul Mason 06/08/2008
• The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty by Julia Flynn Siler 06/16/2008
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards 06/23/2008
• Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor 06/30/2008

July 2008

• Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds by Bernd Heinrich 07/14/2008
• Persuasive Business Proposals: Writing to Win Customers, Clients, and Contracts by Tom Sant 07/18/2008
  
• The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot 07/20/2008
• Getting Started in Consulting by Alan Weiss 07/23/2008
• The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston 07/25/2008

August 2008

• All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew 08/08/2008
• Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich – and Cheat Everybody Else by David Cay Johnston 08/10/2008
• The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking by Roger Martin 08/16/2008
• Better Homes and Gardens Step-By-Step Successful Gardening 08/17/2008
• If at First You Don’t Succeed . . . The Eight Patterns of Highly Effective Entrepreneurs by Brent Bowers 08/20/2008
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startup’s Early Days by Jessica Livingston 08/28/2008
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 08/31/2008

September 2008

• The Moviegoer by Walker Percy 09/06/2008
• In Defense of Food: an Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan 09/07/2008
• The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine by Sherwin B. Nuland 09/17/2008
• Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America by Cullen Murphy 09/28/2008

October 2008

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 10/06/2008
• Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics by Joseph R. Biden, Jr. 10/13/2008
• The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics by Michael Shermer 10/30/2008

November 2008

• White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters by Robert Schlesinger 11/10/2008
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel by David Wroblewski 11/20/2008
• The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker by Steven Greenhouse 11/24/2008
• Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames by Thich Nhat Hanh 11/30/2008

December 2008

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 12/05/2008
• The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World by Lynne McTaggart 12/07/2008
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferris 12/07/2008
• The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence by Deepak Chopra 12/09/2008
• The Astonishing Power of Emotions: Let Your Feelings Be Your Guide by Esther and Jerry Hicks 12/09/2008
• Past Lives, Future Lives by Dr. Bruce Goldberg 12/12/2008
• Strategy and the Fat Smoker: Doing What’s Obvious But Not Easy by David H Maister 12/12/2008
• Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World by Lama Surya Das 12/18/2008
• Awakening The Buddhist Heart: Integrating Love, Meaning, and Connection into Every Part of Your Life by Lama Surya Das 12/23/2008
• The Numerati by Stephen Baker 12/24/2008
• The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels by Doris Lessing 12/25/2008
• Rising Sun by Michael Crichton 12/27/2008
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell 12/29/2008
• The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton 12/30/2008
• Mind of Clear Light: Advice on Living Well and Dying Consciously by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (translated by Jeffrey Hopkins) 12/31/2008

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