Books are Good Company

A few weeks back, a friend had this quote on her facebook wall, loved it.  A similar expression was actually the seed for my this year’s new year resolution of reading books.

“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.”
― E.B. White

So how did I do? I would say I did pretty good, considering Barun, Anmol and other activities of life. Here’s the list of books that I remember reading.

• The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths by Michael Shermer
• Your Brain at work. by David Rock
• How Math Can Save Your Life: (And Make You Rich, Help You Find The One, and Avert Catastrophes) by James D. Stein
• The Apple Way by Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
• The tiger that isn’t seeing through a world of number by Andrew Dilnot ,Michael Blastland
• Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content by Mark Levy
• The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Timothy Ferriss
• How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport
• Who is Mark Twain? by Mark Twain
• A Technique for getting ideas- thinking classics by James Wood Young 
• The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss
• Decisive: How to make better choices in life and work by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
• Seeking wisdom from Darwin to Charlie munger by Peter Bevelin
• The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills by Daniel Coyle
• The Bootstrapper’s Bible: How to Start and Build a Business With a Great Idea and (Almost) No Money by Seth Godin
• To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others by Daniel H Pink
• Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World by Christopher Steiner
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
• Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey
• The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Edward B. Burger , Michael Starbird
• The Power of Why: Simple Questions That Lead to Success by Amanda Lang
• Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World by Michael Hyatt
• How Children Succeed by Paul Tough
• Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successful Businessman by Robert R. Updegraff
• The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity by Steven Strogatz
• The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything … Fast by Josh Kaufman
• Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
• What Does the Moon Smell Like?: 151 Astounding Science Quizzes by Eva Everything
• Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds by Scott Berkun
• David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change by Charles Duhigg
• The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More by Bruce Feiler

And all the way am trying to follow C.S. Lewis advice, “It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”

Additional Bonus:

Click on the links and you can read the first chapter of each book on Amazon for free!!

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