I guess you could say that knowledge is my special interest. Honestly, I didn't read until my mid 20s. I struggled in school and English classes, mostly skating by on knowledge I could hack to get a passing grade in High School and Hiring someone to write my essays in the one English class I took in college. Hand me an economics, math, or engineering book though and I would speed through it. Turns out, it was due to the format. The books for those classes had numbers and pictures.
It wasn't until grad school that I accidentally discovered audiobooks and would soon find my groove reading everything. It happened by accident after training to run a marathon while taking night school. I needed a way to run and read at the same time; enter audiobooks. This new mode of reading allowed me to focus on the content without having to stare blankly at the text for hours without absorbing it. Today I use a combination of audio books and open dyslexic font and have read hundreds of (mostly non-fiction but some fiction) books.
Sometimes the smallest change makes the biggest difference.
Books on Personal Wellness
Nutrition
This is your Brain on Food - Dr. Uma Naidoo
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
Pamela A Popper - Food over Medicine
T. Colin Campbell
Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
Rip Esselstyn - The Engine 2 Diet
Body, Fitness and Mind
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
Michael Pollan:
Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Michael A Singer - The Untethered Soul
Ethan Cross - Chatter the Voice in your head and why it matters
Aaron Spitz MD - The Penis Book
Michael Greger MD:
How not to Age (Coming in December)
Drive the Surprising Truth about what motivates us
Phil Jackson
Sacred Hoops
Longevity
Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn - The Telomere Effect
Why we Sleep
Mans Search for meaning
Communication, Community and Relationships
Malccolm Gladwell: Talking to Strangers
We're not Broken: Changing the autism conversation
Reshma Saujani: Pay Up The Future of Women and Work (and Why it’s Different than You think)
David Graeber: The Dawn of Everything
Guns Germs and Steel - The Fate of Human Societies
Upheaval
Jonah Berger:
How Ideas Spread - The Great Courses
Contagious: Why things Catch on
Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Johan Rockstrom: Breaking Boundaries - The Science of our planet
Paul Gilding - The Great Disruption
Bill Gates - How to avoid a climate disaster
Books on Economics and Society
Americana: A 400 year history of American capitalism
The Responsible Company: What we've learned from Patagonia's first 40 years
This is how they tell me the world ends: The Cyberweapons arms race
The black swan
Reminiscences of a stock operator
One Click
Winning Now, Winning Later
Billion Dollar Whale
The Politics Industry
The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Official Transcript
Finite and Infinite Games
Raven Rock:
Dark Alliance:
The Book of Satoshi
Michael Lewis
The Big Short
Liars Poker
Books on History and Anthropology
Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Jared Diamond
Guns Germs and Steel - The Fate of Human Societies
Upheaval
The World Until Yesterday: What can we learn from traditional societies?
David Graeber
David Graeber: The Dawn of Everything
Debt: a 5000 year history
Bullshit Jobs
Novels
The Vegetarian
The Overstory
The Outsiders
Holes
Ready Player One
Ready Player Two
The President is Missing
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Nine Perfect Strangers
Biographies and Autobiographies
Walter Isaacson
Steve Jobs
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Permanent Record - Edward Snowden
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