***** Must Read / Best book of year. You must read.
**** Excellent. Try to read even if outside your area of interest
*** Very good, read if interested
unrated, *, and ***, likely a good read if you have time. The books not worth reading are not on the list, as they were not finished
Book length preferentially listed by time rather than pages as it is more accurate between books.
2018
*** Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou
11h 36m
*** Walking Together, Walking Far: How a U.S. and African Medical School Partnership Is Winning the Fight against HIV/AIDS
Fran Quigley
176 pg
**** Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Ashlee Vance
13h 13m
Built from Scratch: How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion
Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank
11h 49m
***** Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients
Jeremey N. Smith
10h 12m
**** On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
10h 24m
The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups
Randall Stross
8h 49m
**** Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
16h 14m
***** Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker
13h 52m
*** 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Jordan B. Peterson
15h 40m
**** The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
Niall Ferguson
17h 22m
**** Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Couterterrorist Unit
Command Sergeant Mejor Eric L. Haney
13h 1m
*** Mistreated: Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care - and Why We're Usually Wrong
Robert Pearl
11h 38m
2017
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
6h 32m
*** The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
Brian Merchant
14h 29m
** Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
17h 1m
Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Appart
Rachel Botsman
10h 33m
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
14h 17m
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark
13h29m
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
14h 17m
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Geoffrey West
19h12m
* London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World
Robert Bucholz, The Great Courses
12h22m
***** The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone
13h
**** An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
Elisabeth Rosenthal
13h37m
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Adam Grant
10h1m
** At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Bill Bryson
16h 38m
Algorithms to live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
11h 50m
Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime -from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door
Brian Krebs
8h 46m
2016
*** The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
Annie Jacobsen
18h 22m
*** The Demon Under the Microscope: from battlefield hospitals to Nazi labs, one doctor's heroic search for the world's first miracle drug
Thomas Hager
12h 18m
A Short History of Modern Medicine
Frank Gonzalez-Crussi
9h 29m
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Phil Knight
13h 21m
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Kevin Kelly
11h 30m
*** The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
Edward Dolnick
10h 7m
The Now Habit
Neil Fiore
7h 28m
The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries
Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Great Courses
3h 3m
***** The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Jon Gertner
17hr 28m
*** Rethinking the Electronic Healthcare Record: Why the Electronic Healthcare Record (EhR) Failed So Hard, and How It Should Be Redesigned to Support Doctors
Martin Wehlou
214 pg
**** Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward Tufte
200 pg
*** Envisioning Information
Edward Tufte
128 pg
*** Visual Explanations
Edward Tufte
160 pg
*** Beautiful Evidence
Edward Tufte
214 pg
2015
**** Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
25h 19m
Word Order
Henry Kissinger
14h 13m
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the U.S. Surveillance State
Glen Greenwald
9h 53m
*** The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands
Eric Topol
11h 16m
***** The real world of technology
Ursula Franklin
224pg
2014
***** The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Atul Gawande
6h 8m
**** Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel
4h 50m
**** Problem-orientated Medical Record Implementation
1974
H Readey, Rosemarian Berni
183 pg
* Information Dashboard Design: Displaying Data for At-a-Glance Monitoring
Stephen Few
260 pg
The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics: The Dos and Don ts of Presenting Data, Facts, and Figures
Dona M. Wong
160 pg
Where Does it Hurt? An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care
Jonathan Bush
7h 21m
The Guide to the Future of Medicine: Technology AND The Human Touch
Bertalan Meskó
226pg
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
Glenn Greenwald
9h 53m
2012
**** Medical Ethics in the Ancient World
Paul Carrick
288 p
2008
***** Mountains Beyond Mountains
Tracy Kidder
322 pg
