Interesting books read after 2008

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Yes. I could not stop reading books. After reading "What is life" by Erwin Schrodinger, I have read quite a lot of books. I will just mention the interesting ones here.


  1. Genome - Matt Ridley
  2. Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  3. Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  4. Stumbling on happiness - Daniel Gilbert
  5. Strangers to ourselves - Timothy Wilson
  6. Information - James  Gleick
  7. Physics of the Future - Michio Kaku
  8. Thinking in Systems, A primer - Donella Meadows
  9. Drive - Daniel Pink
  10. The Paradigm Conspiracy - Breton and Largent
  11. Expert Political Judgement - Philip Tetlock
  12. Fifth Discipline - Peter Senge
  13. Please Understand me 2 - David Keirsey
  14. Software Craftsmanship - Pete McBreen
  15. Head First OOAD - Brett Mclaughlin
  16. Pragmatic Programmer - Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas
  17. How Nature works - Per Bak
  18. Bak's sand pile - Theodore Gyle Lewis
  19. Weak links - Peter Csermely
  20. Tribal Leadership - Dave Logan and others
  21. My stroke of insight - Jill Bolte Taylor
  22. Essentialism - Greg McKeown
  23. Breaking the habit of being yourself - Joe Dispenza


 I have marked the most interesting books with blue. Could not resist.  :-)


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