Books in 2016

Book reading wise, 2016 was great. Learning new things, it was fantastic. Everything else, it was so so.

Here’s the word cloud of the book names. Looks like a brain. Really nice!

Here’s the full list of the books. A mix bunch of books but unfortunately not many on investing that I would have liked to see.

Data a love story	Amy Webb
59 seconds think a little, change a lot	Richard Wiseman
The Reluctant Mr Darwin	David Quammen
Darwin among machines	George Dyson
Math Geek: From Klein Bottles to chaos theory	Rosen, Raphael
Letters from a Father to His Son Entering College	Charles Franklin Thwing
Guns, germs and Steel	Jared Diamond
Give and Take	Adam Grant
Packing for Mars	Mary Roach
The ISIS  apocalypse	Willam McCants
Respecting truth	Lee McIntyre
Why sex is fun	Jared Diamond
Deep work	Cal Newport
When to Rob a Bank	Steven D. Levitt
Curious	Ian Leslie
The Making of the Fittest	Sean B. Carroll
Eating Animals	Jonathan Safran Foer
The Innovator’s Dilemma	Clayton M. Christensen
Value Investing: A Value Investor’s Journey Through The Unknown	Neely, J. Lukas
The Tell-Tale Brain	Ramachandran, V. S.
Black Box Thinking	Matthew Syed
Where Good Ideas Come From	Steven Johnson
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation	Gertner, Jon
The Wisest One in the Room	Thomas Gilovich and Lee Ross
Smarter Faster Better	Duhigg, Charles
I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford	Richard Snow
Pebbles of Perception	Laurence Endersen
The black swan	Nicolas N Taleb
The human advantage	Suzana Herculano-Houze
Concorde	Jonathan Glancey
Food Rules	Michael Pollan
Made to Stick	Chip Heath
A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind	David J. Helfand
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise	Anders Ericsson
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon	Stone, Brad
Brain Bugs	Dean Buonomano
The 5 Mistakes Every Investor Makes and How to Avoid Them	Peter Mallouk
Fooled by Randomness	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A Little History of Science	William Bynum
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us)	Tom Vanderbilt
Bounce	Matthew Syed
The Halo effect	Phil Rosenzweig
Methods of Persuasion	Kolenda, Nick
Warren Buffett’s Ground Rules	Jeremy C. Miller
I Don’t	Susan Squire
Ego Is the Enemy	Ryan Holiday
How to teach quantum mechanics to your dog	Chad Orzel
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE: EVOLUTION AND HUMAN LIFE	Jared Mason Diamond
The Making of the Atomic Bomb	Richard Rhodes
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness	Richard H. Thaler
The art of doing twice the work in half the time	Jeff Sutherland
The Ascent of money	Niall Ferguson
Decisive	Chip and Dan Heath
The Red Queen	Matt Ridley
Creativity Inc.	Ed Catmull
Move your bus	Ron Clark
Concentrated investing	Allen C Belleno
Originals	Adam Grant
Sapiens	Yuval Noah Harari
Do gentlemen really prefer blondes	Jena Pencott
The memory code	Lynne Kelly
The evolution of everything	Mat Ridley
How Not to Be Wrong : The Power of Mathematical Thinking	Jordan Ellenberg
Bad Science	Linda Gimmerman
Eureka How inventions happen	Gavin Weightman
How memory works	Robert Madigan
From the Big Bang to Your Cells: The Remarkable Story of Minerals	Raye Kane
Naked money	Charles wheels
On intelligence	Jeff Hawkins
One to nine	Andrew Hodges
Influence	Robert Cialdini
Inferno	Dan Brown
Stargazers	Allan Chapman
100 baggers	Christopher Mayer
What technology wants	Kevin Kelly
Homo Deus	Yuval Noah Harari