My 2008 Book List
In 2006, I read 25 books. In 2007, I didn’t read nearly as many. I’m going to try and read at least 25 in 2008 and here’s a list of what I’m going to start with. Some of these I got for Christmas, some are ones I’ve had for ages that I’ve intended to read for a while, but never got around to them. I need to finish Kevin’s book soon, so that will be my first one. It’ll be followed (in no particular order) by:
- Wild at Heart by John Eldridge
- Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins
- A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
- Spunk & Bite by Arthur Plotnik
- Lucky Dog by Mark Barrowcliffe
- Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
- The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
- Become a Better You by Joel Osteen
- The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
- The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
- Plum Island by Nelson DeMille
- Marley & Me by John Grogan
- Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
Obviously, to get to 25 books, I need a lot more books. Leave your suggestions in the comments.
With the ongoing writer’s strike, it won’t be difficult to find time to read since, outside of American Gladiators, I don’t have a ton of shows to watch outside of Iron Chef America and the standard Bravo reality fare.
I’m sure that will be good for me. Less TV usually is.
4 Comments to “My 2008 Book List”
jake
you could start reading the clive cussler novels. i have almost all of them. and i think dad has the ones i don’t have.
- 1:15 pm on 12 31, 2007
Jen
As a dog owner you will (hopefully) enjoy Marley and Me. The dog reminds me so much of Charlie. I loved the book. Another author you may want to check out is Bill Bryson. He wrote A Walk in the Woods and other travel memoir type books.
- 9:43 am on 01 01, 2008
susan ashcroft
If youa re going to read Friedman’s book, then you msut also read two books, which offer a counter perspective to Friedman’s “The World is Flat.”
First is, the Harvard Professor, Pankaj Ghemawat’s latest book, “Redefining Global Strategy”. I read an article of his published in the journal, “Foreign Policy”, where he argues that the world is, at best, only semi-globalized. His argument being that Cultural, Administrative, Geographic and Economic aspects of a nation come in the way of total globalization from taking place and cites examples of the same.
The second book, is by Aronica and Ramdoo, “The World is Flat? A Critical Analysis of Thomas Friedman’s New York Times Bestseller.”
You may want to see mkpress.com/flat and watch mkpress.com/flatoverview.html
for an interesting counterperspective on Friedman’s “The World is Flat”.
Also a really interesting 6 min wake-up call: Shift Happens! mkpress.com/ShiftExtreme.html
There is also a companion book listed: Extreme Competition: Innovation and the Great 21st Century Business Reformation mkpress.com/extreme
mkpress.com/Extreme11minWMV.html
- 10:05 pm on 01 04, 2008
Jari Chevalier
Just want to let you know that Dan Pink will be my guest on Living Hero towards the end of February. Just enter your email in the subscription box on http://livinghero.com to receive an email when the Podcast is broadcast. I’m writing to you and others in advance to give you a chance to participate in the formation of the interview questions. Just type your question into the question box widget on the right column of the page. Also, to see recent blog posts, just click into the recent posts question in the right side column. Once the Podcast is posted, comments can be added at the bottom of the podcast post. I look forward to a highly generative ongoing conversation and I do hope you’ll be part of it! Please spread the word! My very best, Jari Chevalier
- 10:37 am on 01 06, 2008
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