Books I’ve Read In 2012

I generally keep all of the books I read during the course of the year together on the same shelf. Since, with very few exceptions, I mainly read non-fiction, it gives me a pretty good snapshot of some of what I have learned or been interested in during the course of a year.

I happened to glance at that shelf today and thought to myself, “That is a rather fine collection”.

I then took a look at both the Kindle and iBooks and thought, “Wow, an even finer collection of book still! I should list these somewhere.”

I then took a mental inventory of all of the books I have borrowed and returned and thought, “Holy cow I have read a lot of books!”

Here, in no particular order, are the books I have read in 2012 (and I may even be missing a few):

• Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology (P.S.) — Eric Brende

• What We Say Matters: Practicing Nonviolent Communication — P.T. Judith Hanson Lasater Ph.D., Ike K. Lasater

• A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams — Michael Pollan

• Seven Summits — Dick Bass, Frank Wells, Rick Ridgeway

• Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself — Rich Roll

• Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age — Douglas Rushkoff, Leland Purvis

• Anything You Want — Derek Sivers

• Do the Work — Steven Pressfield

• Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life’s Work — Steven Pressfield, Shawn Coyne

• Poke the Box — Seth Godin

• Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson

• Hamlet’s BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age — William Powers

• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking — Susan Cain

• The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World — Marti Olsen Laney Psy.D

• We Are All Weird — Seth Godin

• One Way Forward: The Outsider’s Guide to Fixing the Republic (Kindle Single) — Lawrence Lessig

• The Flinch — Julien Smith (The one is free on the Kindle and worth your time)

• Tales of the Revolution: True Stories of People who are Poking the Box and Making a Difference — Seth Godin (This one is free too)

• Self-Reliance — Ralph Waldo Emerson (This is one I read regularly and this edition is a fine one)

• The Hand of Andulain — Aaron Mahnke

• Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative — Austin Kleon

• Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity — Hugh MacLeod

• Freedom Is Blogging in Your Underwear — Hugh MacLeod

• All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House — David Giffels

• Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman

• Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers) — Andy Hunt

• Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other — Sherry Turkle

• This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life — David Foster Wallace

• Frictionless Freelancing — Aaron Mahnke

• Paperless — MacSparky

• For the Win: Cory Doctorow: Amazon.com: Books

• The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal — Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz

• The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains — Nicholas Carr

• The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption —Clay A. Johnson