2019: A roller coaster ride in books

This year was a real roller coaster ride with books. There were some real gems and some real duds. A great decision i made this year was to discontinue books that were either poorly written or weren’t worth the time and effort. Here are some books and the ratings.

My top 3 for the year were:

1. Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin, a US Presidential Historian
2. The Signals are Talking by Amy Webb
3. I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong

Vishnu’s Bookshelf

Making Breakthrough Innovations Happen

by Porus Munshi

Leadership: Lessons from the Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson for Turbulent Times

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control

by Kartik Hosanagar

Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it

by Martin Ford

The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream

by Amy Webb

Connecting the Dots: Leadership Lessons in a Start-up World

by John Chambers

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

by Ed Yong

The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

by Amy Webb

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

by John Carreyrou

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

by Daniel Coyle

Sevens Heaven: The Beautiful Chaos of Fiji’s Olympic Dream

by Ben Ryan

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE

by Phil Knight

Seriously Curious: The Facts and Figures that Turn Our World Upside Down

by Tom Standage

The High-Speed Company: Creating Urgency and Growth in a Nanosecond Culture

by Jason Jennings

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

by Ben Horowitz

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World

by Tim Marshall

The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence

by Amir Husain

Measure What Matters

by John E. Doerr

A Century Is Not Enough: My Roller-coaster Ride to Success

by Sourav Ganguly