My Top 10 books of 2009
What?! You already have a Top 10 books list after two weeks of 2009?
Not really. In fact, I have managed to finish just one book so far this year. It was a Christmas present and a pleasant read: Carole Coleman’s personal account of covering the US Presidential Election. Obama literature understandably has popped up everywhere. Not sure if it’s due to the frustratingly long transition period or the impressive velocity of the publishing industry, but it’s possible to read several books about the election before the man ever takes office.
Should I have the opportunity to compile a list of my ten favourite reads of 2009 a year from now, I wonder how many of the books that are presently at the top of my ‘to read’ pile will figure in the shake-up? I think it’s fair to expect that quite a few new or unheard of titles will emerge over the course of the year; the ‘known unknowns’ as Donald Rumsfeld used to say.
One of the pleasures of the Bookbuzz and Smarter Egg learning group work is that clients make passionate recommendations for books they have found to be very powerful, useful or just a lot of fun to read. Some of those recommendations feature on the list below and I’m always open to new suggestions (via comments below is good too!).
To the list:
Making It All Work by David Allen
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
The Power of Less by Leo Babauta
The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
The New Leaders by Daniel Goleman et al.
Thinking for a Living by Thomas Davenport
The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
Thanks for including my book on the list! I’m also a big fan of Twyla Tharp’s book–very inspirational. The other one I recommend highly is “The Art of Possibility” by Benjamin and Rosamund Zander.