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Reading List (2009) – March

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From the list below I would highly recommend: Pollan’s In Defense of Food and Friedman’s The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.

Title, (Author Last Name, Date of Publication) – Date Completed

  1. Beyond Bullshit: Straight-Talk at Work (Culbert 2008) – 3/2
  2. The Age of Heretics (Kleiner 2008) – 3/9
  3. The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth (Friedman 2005) – 3/19
  4. Planet India (Kamdar 2007) – 3/25
  5. The 21st Century Economy (Epping 2009) – 3/25
  6. In Defense of Food (Pollan 2008) – 3/27
  7. The Cost of Living (Roy 1999) – 3/31

Page count for March: 1,545 (49.84/day)

The list of books read in 2008 struggled its way to 66, I’m aiming for 100 in 2009.

2009 totals: 19 books, 5,159 pages, 57.32/day, on pace for 76 books, behind 6 books.

Reading List – 2009 (February)

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Title, (Author Last Name, Date of Publication) – Date Completed

  1. The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, (Suskind 2008) – 2/7/2009
  2. The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Pinker 2007) – 2/22/2009
  3. Tribes (Godin 2008) 2/23/2009
  4. The elephant, the tiger, and the cellphone: reflections on India, the emerging 21st century power (Tharoor 2007) – 2/28/2009
  5. The Encore Effect: how to achieve remarkable performance in anything you do (Sanborn 2008) – 2/28/2009
  6. The Other (Kapuściński 2008) – 2/28/2009

Page count for February: 1,697 (60.61/day)

The list of books read in 2008 struggled its way to 66, I’m aiming for 100 in 2009. That Stephen Pinker book did me in this month, 634 end notes; took me 2 weeks to ingest it all.

2009 totals: 12 books, 3,614 pages, 61.25/day, on pace for 72 books, behind: 4 2/3 books. (If I’m seriously considering reading Don Quiotxe, I’m in big trouble on the 100 books front….)

(And yes, I did a power surge yesterday to finish the month with > 3 books so it wouldn’t look too lame.)

Updated: Forgot I read Seth Godin’s “Tribes”

Reading List – 2009 (January)

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Title, (Author Last Name, Date of Publication) – Date Completed

  1. Angler, (Gellman 2008) – 1/4/2009
  2. Hot, Flat and Crowded, (Friedman 2008) – 1/14/2009
  3. When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Sedaris 2009) – 1/21/2009
  4. How Fiction Works (Wood 2009) – 1/26/2009
  5. Imperial Life in the Emerald City, inside Iraq’s green zone (Chandrasekaran 2006) – 1/28/2009
  6. McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern (Vol 25 2007)

Page count for January: 1,917 (61.84/day)

The list of books read in 2008 struggled its way to 66, I’m aiming for 100 in 2009.