My 6 months in books… H2 2020
2 min readDec 19, 2020
My previous book blogs are here.
Please throw recommendations at me (@tim_dempsey)…
Books I’d strongly recommend (in no order):
- How We Learn: The New Science of Education and the Brain
Stanislas Dehaene - The Sum of Our Dreams: A Concise History of America
Louis Masur - Banking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry
Anne Boden - Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
Jacob Goldstein - The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children’s Future — And Why They Should Give It Back
David Willetts - A Year At The Circus: Inside Trump’s White House
Jon Sopel - Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, With an Introduction by Walter Isaacson
Jeff Bezos, Walter Isaacson - Impact: Reshaping capitalism to drive real change
Sir Ronald Cohen - The Prosecutor
Nazir Afzal - The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz
Jack Fairweather
Others I read and enjoyed:
- Elegant Defense, An: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
Matt Richtel - Zero to Sold: How to Start, Run, and Sell a Bootstrapped Business
Arvid Kahl - Gambling with Other People’s Money: How Perverse Incentives Caused the Financial Crisis
Russ Roberts - Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
Matt Parker - Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
Gaston Dorren - The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Morgan Housel - Leadership in Turbulent Times: Lessons from the Presidents
Doris Kearns Goodwin - So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
Jon Ronson - No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Reed Hastings
Books I wouldn’t recommend so highly:
- The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Take Control and Master the Odds
Maria Konnikova - Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor - Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths)
Stephen Fry - Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
Johny Pitts
Books I wouldn’t recommend at all:
- Arithmetic
Paul Lockhart
