Back in 2015 I decided as part of my annual pledge to try and read at least 12 books during the course of the year. I have maintained this over the last few years and therefore thought I would share my list in case it might be useful to others, and also as a record for myself.
2021
- The Paradox of choice by Barry Schwartz
- Social by Matthew D. Liberman
- The Gray Rhino by Michele Wucker
- The Four by Scott Galloway
- Surrounded by idiots by Thomas Erikson
- Rebel Ideas by Matthew Syed
- My Secret #EdTech Diary by Al Kingsley
The below books are still to be read, however I intend to read before the end of 2021:
- Why we sleep by Matthew Walker *Currently Reading
- The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo
- Skin in the game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Sprint by Jake Knapp
- Innovators by Walter Isaacson
- Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene
- The power of us by David Price
- Quiet by Susan Cain
2020
- Compassionism by Kavitha Chahel
- The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle
- Start with why by Simon Sinek
- Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
- Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
- The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
- Reaching down the rabbit hole by Allan Ropper & B.D Burrell
- I’m worth more by Rob Moore
- Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark
- Factfulness by Hans Rosling
- Enlightenment No by Steven Pinker
2019
- Originals by Adam Grant
- Hamlets Blackberry, William Power
- Declutter your life, Gill Hasson
- Twitter Power 2.0, Joel Comm and Anthony Robbins
- Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
- Dare to Lead, Brené Brown
- The power of meaning, Emily Esfahani Smith
- The chimp paradox, Steve Peters
- Mistakes were made (but not by me), Carol Tavris and Ellior Aronson
- 10 mindframes for visible learning, John Hattie and Klaus Zierer
- New Dark Age by James Bridle
- When the adults change everything changes by Paul Dix
- Everything is F*cked by Mark Manson
- Radical Candor by Kim Scott
- Sway by Pragya Agarwal
2018
- The fourth education revolution, Anthony Seldon
- Make it stick, Peter C Brown, Henry L Roediger and Mark A McDaniel
- SUMO (Shut up and move on), Paul McGee
- The upside of rationality, Dan Ariely
- Open, David Price
- The gift of failure, Jessica Lahey
- Change, Richard Gerver
- The Cyber Effect, Mary Aiken
- The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau
- The marshmallow test, Walker Mischel
- Mindfulness, Gill Hasson
- The Art of balance, David J Bookbinder
- Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, Kathryn Schulz
- It’s complicated, Danah Boyd
- Twitter Power 3.0 by Jim Taylor and Joel Comm
- Daily Rituals by Mason Currey
2017
- Essentialism by Greg McKeown
- Herd by Mark Earls
- Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- Grit by Angela Duckworth
- Focus by Daniel Goleman
- The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
- Being Brilliant by Andrew Cope
- Learning with e’s by Steve Wheeler
- Culture Map by Erin Meyer
- The subtle art of not giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
- Bounce by Matthew Syed
- Moving Toward Global Compassion by Dr. Paul Ekman
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
2016
- Black Box Thinking, Matthew Syed, 2015
- The Dark Net, Jamie Bartlett, 2014
- The Glass Cage, Nichola Carr, 2015
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, 2011
- The Black Swan, Nassim Taleb, 2007
- Drive, Daniel Pink, 2009
- The Invisible Gorilla, 2010
- Multipliers, Liz Wiseman, 2010
- How We Learn, Benedict Carey, 2014
- Resilience, Andrew Zolli & Ann Marie Healy, 2012
- The Element, Ken Robinson, 2009
- Adapt, Tim Harford, 2011
- Incognito by David Eagleman (2011)
Other Books worth note
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