Capitolism

I enjoyed another fantastic year of reading. Friends and family members gave me some outstanding book suggestions, including Lonesome Dove, which became one of my all-time favorite books. Other highlight’s included: Chernow’s biography of George Washington, Four Steps to the Epiphany, my introduction to Pat Conroy, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, re-reading Thucydides, Poor Charlie’s Almanack, and Kahneman on thinking. See the complete list of my 2011 reading below:

1. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – Ian Fleming (Gift of Brooken Smith)

2. You Are the Value — Leo Pusateri (Gift of John Cunningham)

3. Personal Bible: Verses of Salvation, Assurance, Comfort (Compliments of Saddleback Leather Co.)

4. Quotations of George Washington (Gift of Dad)

5. Quotations of Benjamin Franklin (Gift of Dad)

6. Quotations of Thomas Jefferson (Gift of Dad)

7. Master and Commander — Patrick O’Brian (Gift of Diane Richmond, now Diane Knox)

8. Financial Intelligence — Karen Berman, Joe Knight and John Case

9. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany – Brant Cooper and Peter Vlaskovits

10. Washington: A Life – Ron Chernow

11. The Big Short — Michael Lewis

12. My Reading Life – Pat Conroy

13. Introducing Statistics: A Graphic Guide — Eileen Magnello and Borin Van Loon

14. The Lords of Discipline — Pat Conroy

15. Foundation — Isaac Asimov

16. Analects — Confucius

17. Leading & Leadership — Edited by Timothy Fuller

18. Quotations of Abraham Lincoln (Gift of Dad)

19. War of Art — Steven Pressfield

20. Lonesome Dove — Larry McMurtry

21. Murder on the Orient Express — Agatha Christie

22. Mere Christianity — C.S. Lewis

23. Henry Clay: The Essential American — David Heidler and Jeanne Heidler

24. The 4-Hour Workweek — Timothy Ferriss

25. The Thank You Economy — Gary Vaynerchuk

26. Power — Jeffrey Pfeffer

27. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing — John C. Bogle

28. Rise of Theodore Roosevelt — Edmund Morris

29. Treatise on Law — St. Thomas Aquinas

30. Crazy Horse — Larry McMurtry

31. The Orvis Guide to Beginning Fly Fishing — Tom Rosenbauer

32. Salt Water Fly Fishing — Joe Brooks

33. The Apology of Socrates — Plato

34. History of the Peloponnesian War — Thucydides

35. The Legendary Adventures of Alexander the Great — Translated by Richard Stoneman

36. “The Sea, The Sea” — Xenophon

37. Adventures in the Rocky Mountains — Isabella Bird

38. How to Become a Rainmaker — Jeffrey J. Fox

39. Mythology — Edith Hamilton

40. Escape from the Antarctic — Ernest Shackleton

41. Stall Points — Matthew Olson and Derek Van Bever

42. Poor Charlie’s Almanack: Expanded Third Edition — Edited by Peter Kaufman

43. Boone: A Biography — Robert Morgan

44. The Challenger Sale — Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson

45. Poor Richard’s Almanack — Benjamin Franklin

46. The Origin of Species — Charles Darwin

47. A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens

48. The Four Steps to the Epiphany — Steven Gary Blank (Gift of Zach Clayton)

49. The Dead — James Joyce

50. The Lean Startup — Eric Ries

51. Saints for Today — Ivan Innerst

52. Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman