What I read in 2017

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Published

December 31, 2017

Modified

January 10, 2024

Just like 2016, I set myself a target of reading 50 books in 2017, and just like 2016, I fell a little short. Moving from New Jersey to London in the Summer is my excuse.

Here’s what I did get through in 2017 (click through for more details on each book):

  1. [Kindle] Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek
  2. [Kindle] Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
  3. [Audible] It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership by Colin Powell
  4. [Kindle] Be the Business: CIOs in the New Era of IT by Martha Heller
  5. [Kindle] The Art Of Business Value by Mark Schwartz
  6. [Audible] The Network: The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age by Scott Woolley
  7. [Audible] Dark Matter: A Novel by Blake Crouch
  8. [Kindle] Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini
  9. [Audible] You Have the Right to Remain Innocent by James Duane
  10. [Kindle] Implementing Beyond Budgeting: Unlocking the Performance Potential by Bjarte Bogsnes
  11. [Audible] Guilty Minds by Joseph Finder
  12. [Audible] Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts by Susan Cain , Gregory Mone , Erica Moroz
  13. [ePub] Impact Mapping by Gojko Adzic
  14. [Kindle] Dictator: A novel (Ancient Rome Trilogy) by Robert Harris
  15. [Audible] The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant
  16. [Audible] A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
  17. [Audible] The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
  18. [Audible] The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  19. [Audible] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  20. [Audible] The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
  21. [Audible] The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  22. [Kindle] Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott
  23. [Audible] Silos, Politics and Turf Wars by Patrick Lencioni
  24. [ePub] Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps by Daniel Drescher
  25. [Kindle] The Late Show by Michael Connelly
  26. [Kindle and Audible] Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
  27. [Audible] The Switch by Joseph Finder
  28. [Kindle and Audible] Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
  29. [Audible] Sourdough by Robin Sloan
  30. [Audible] Paradox Bound by Peter Clines
  31. [Audible] Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly
  32. [Audible] The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
  33. [Audible] Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey
  34. [Audible] Exit West: A Novel by Mohsin Hamid
  35. [Kindle] Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen by Mark Buchanan
  36. [Kindle] Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher