Here is a non-exhaustive list of books I read in 2017. Almost all books I read electronically, the odd one I listen to as an audio book. I’d rather read the real thing, wouldn’t we all, but I consume so much material that it is just cheaper and easier to use my Kindle app. I’ve given away hundreds if not thousands of books over the years and every time it breaks my heart a little. These days I am judicious in the books I purchase in hard copy and keep on my tiny bookshelf, if I really love one I read on Kindle I will buy it and add it to the collection.
January
When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
Moon Lander – Thomas J. Kelly
Apollo Pilot – Donn Eisele, Francis French, Susan Eisele Black
Hornet 33 – Ed Denny
February
China: History of an Empire – Raymond C. Nelson
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawkins
March
The Code Book – Simon Singh
How to Day Trade for a Living – Andrew Aziz
The Simple Strategy – Markus Heitkoetter, Mark Hodge
The Long and the Short of it – John Kay
Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert T. Kiyosaki
Beginners Guide to Investing – Ivy Bytes, Alex Frey
Smart Investors Keep it Simple: Guide to Passive Investment – Giovanni Rigters
April
The Intelligent investor -Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig, Warren E. Buffett
Step by step Dividend Investing – Joseph Hogue
Dividend Investing Guide – Sebastian B.
Space Flight for Beginners – Andrew Motes
Failure is not an option – Gene Kranz
Superintelligence, Paths, Dangers and Strategies – Nick Bostrom
May
The books I read in May 2017 were really life changing for me. Particularly Gary Taubes’ books and The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferris. I totally altered my approach to diet, went keto, then slow carb and eventually ended up at the lowest weight I’d ever been as an adult.
The Elusive Benefits of Undereating and Exercise – Gary Taubes
Four Hour Body – Tim Ferriss
Four Hour Week – Tim Ferriss
Freakanomics -Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
The Bell Curve – Charles Murray
Good Calories Bad Calories – Gary Taubes
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold – John Le Carre
How the World Works – Noam Chomsky, Arthur Naiman, David Barsamian
God is Not Great – Christopher Hitchens (Audible)
Free Will – Sam Harris (Audible)
June
Waking Up – Sam Harris (Audible)
Siddartha – Hermann Hesse
Mortality – Christopher Hitchens
All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
The things we carried – Tim O’brien (Audible)
July
Turn the ship around – David Marquet (Audible)
Fat & Cholesterol Don’t Cause Heart Attacks – Malcolm Kendrick, Uffe Ravnskov, Zoë Harcombe, Fred A. Kummerow, Harumi Okuyama, Niamh Hynes, Peter H. Langsjoen, Duane Graveline, David M. Diamond, Paul Rosch
Adventures in Being Human – Gavin Francis (Audible)
If this is a man – Primo Levi
August
20 rental properties in one year – Graeme Fowler
The New Zealand Property Investors Guide – Lisa Dudson
Property 101 – Matthew Gilligan
How to grow a multi million dollar property portfolio – Michael Yardney
The armchair guide to property investing – Ben Kingsley, Bryce Holdaway
The quantum universe -Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw
September
Money, Master the Game – Tony Robbins
The Guns of August – Barabara Tuchmann
October
Command and control – Erich Schlosser
This is a fantastic book I use in the podcast episode The End of the World
November
Endurance – Scott Kelly
The Third World War – John Hackett (print)
December
How the mind works – Steven Pinker
The simple guide to feeling better – Susan Kalior
Out of the Blue – Ian Cowie
The Human Predicament – David Benetar
This book inspired the podcast episode Making Babies on antinatalism
Dunkirk – Joshua Levine
What does this button do? – Bruce Dickinson
The cause of death – Cynric Temple Camp (print)
An excellent book which really captures the little known experiences of a pathologist
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