Did you read a good book in 2019? Ed and Ron sure did!
We read some GREAT books in 2019 and we went over them in detail during our show this past week. Click the audio link above to listen.
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for.”
“A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.”
Here we are! Starting with Ed’s top 5:
Survivor’s Obligation: Navigating an Intentional Life, Chris Stricklin and Joel Neeb. You can listen to Episode #262 for our interview with Chris about the book.
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.
Why Catholics Can’t Sing, Thomas Day.
Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business and Life, Rory Sutherland. You can listen to our interview with Rory Sutherland on this book at Episode #267.
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes, Donald Hoffman.
…and shifting to Ron’s top 5:
Cents and Sensibility: What Economists Can Learn from the Humanities, Gary Saul Morson, Morton Owen Schapiro.
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, Atul Gawande.
The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty, Clayton M. Christensen, Efosa Ojomo, and Karen Dillon
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, Thomas Sowell.
The Experience Economy: Competing for Customer Time, Attention, and Money, B. Joseph Pine II, and James H. Gilmore
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Here are the books Ron and Ed discussed during the bonus episode this past week:
Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America, Scott Adams.
The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing, Merve Emre.
Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World, Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell.
Improv Wisdom: Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up. Patricia Ryan Madson.
Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story, Chris Nashawaty.