Here are my ratings for the books I read in 2015.
In case you've forgotten, the scale goes like this: 1 - pass, 2 - some good
some bad, 3 - recommended, 4 - can't stop raving about it, 5 - fundamentally
changed my life.
1. Colonel
Roosevelt (Morris) 3
2. Working
for God in the Marketplace (Nwuneli) 3
3. The
Price of Everything (Porter) 3
4. Vision
of the Anointed (Sowell) 3
5. The
Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and
Progress (Postrel) 4
6. Try
This: Traveling the Globe Without Leaving the Table (Freeman) 4
7. Steve
Jobs (Isaacson) 4
8. Damn
Good Advice (For People with Talent!): How To Unleash Your Creative Potential
(Lois) 2
9. The
Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (Schroeder) 4
10. His
Excellency: George Washington (Ellis) 3
11. Authentically
Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority (McWhorter) 2
12. Get
Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank
(Epstein) 3
13. Narrative
of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Douglass) 3
14. A
People’s History of the United States (Zinn) 3
15. The
Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters (Coyle) 2
16. The
War of the Sexes: How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from
Prehistory to the Present (Seabright) 4
17. The
Wisdom of Crowds (Surowiecki) 3
18. Ecological
Intelligence : How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change
Everything (Goleman) 3
19. Uppity:
My Untold Story About The Games People Play (White) 3
20. Transition
Game: How Hoosiers Went Hip-Hop (Wertheim) 4
21. Play
Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine
(Dohrmann) 4
22. Sticklers,
Sideburns and Bikinis: The Military Origins of Everyday Words and Phrases
(Donald) 2
23. Lean
In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (Sandberg) 4
24. One
Summer: America, 1927 (Bryson) 4
25. Think
Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
(Levitt/Dubner) 3
26. The
Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Duhigg) 3
27. Food:
A Love Story (Gaffigan) 3
28. I
Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
(Yousafzai) 4
29. Crazy
Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem (DeYoung) 2
30. Jeter
Unfiltered (Jeter) 2
31. David
and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Gladwell) 3
32. The
Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Pinker) 4
33. Dad
is Fat (Gaffigan) 3
34. From
Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible (Cline) 3
35. The
Joy of Less: Discovering Your Inner Minimalist (Richards) 2
36. The
4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming
Superhuman (Ferriss) 3
37. Year
of No Sugar (Schaub) 3
38. Dr.
Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern
Medicine (Aptowicz) 4
39. How
Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character (Paul
Tough) 3
40. The
Grand Design (Hawking) 3
41. The
Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility
(Taleb) 3
42. Zealot:
The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth (Aslan) 4
43. The
God Delusion (Dawkins) 3
44. C.
S. Lewis - A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet (McGrath) 3
45. What
If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Munroe) 4
46. Up
from Slavery: An Autobiography (Washington) 3
47. The
Souls of Black Folk (Du Bois) 3
48. A
Crash Course in American Law (Jones) 2
49. 50
Core American Documents: Required Reading for Students, Teachers, and Citizens
(Burkett) 2
50. Dreams
from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Obama) 3
51. Bonhoeffer:
Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich (Metaxas)
4
52. The
Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and
Organizing (Kondo) 4
53. Gang
Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (Venkatesh) 4
54. A
Nation of Immigrants (Kennedy) 3
55. Salt
Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us (Moss) 4
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