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2013 Reading List

Another year, another 100+ books. My reading list for 2013 was varied and fun. I already posted my favorites here, but below is a complete list of all the books I read this year. You can click on them to read a review or go to Amazon.com and read more.

Here they are:

Myanmar Startup Guide 2013, by Derek Sivers
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The World Atlas of Wine, by Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson

Hunt Vs. Lauda: The Epic 1976 Formula 1 Season, by Paul Fearnley

Grace, by Max Lucado

The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dickens

Blood from a Stone, by Donna Leon

Wine Wars: The Curse of the Blue Nun, the Miracle of Two Buck Chuck, and the Revenge of the Terroirists, by Mike Veseth

History Decoded, by Brad Meltzer

Churchill, by Paul Johnson

The Junkyard Wonders, by Patricia Polacco

George Washington’s Secret Six, by Brian Kilmeade

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Mozart: A Life, by Paul Johnson

Junkyard Planet, by Adam Minter

Scoop, by Evelyn Waugh

Say This Prayer Into the Past, by Paul Willis

Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement, by Bill Duggan

Friends in High Places, by Donna Leon

Brilliant Blunders, by Mario Livio

Four Quartets, by T.S. Eliot

Light in August, by William Faulkner

The Power of Why, by C. Richard Weylman

Happy Money, by Michael Norton and Elizabeth Dunn

Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance, by Jane Gleeson-White

Wheels of Change, by Kevin Nelson

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David and Goliath, by Malcolm Gladwell

The Third Conversion, by Scott Rodin

Godric: A Novel, by Frederick Buechner

Top Down: A Novel of the Kennedy Assassination, by Jim Lehrer

Eat That Frog!, by Brian Tracy

Silent Night, by Robert Parker

The Innovator’s Dilemma, by Clayton Christensen

Empty Mansions, by Bill Dedman

The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution, by Charles Morris

American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms, by Chris Kyle

The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God’s Call to Justice, by Mark Labberton

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Frozen in Time, by Mitchell Zuckoff

Constantine the Emperor, by David Potter

Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu, by Christopher Heaney

Crisis Recovery Ethics Economics, by Rowan Williams

A Traveller’s History of Greece

The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy, by Edward Luttwak

Napoleon: A Life, by Paul Johnson

Through the Perilous Fight: Six Weeks That Saved the Nation, by Steve Vogel

Desperate Sons, by Les Standiford

The Drunken Botanist, by Amy Stewart

Free, by Mark and Lisa Scandrette

The Idea Factory, by Jon Gertner

The Wolf and the Watchman, by Scott Johnson

Prized Possession, by Alan Smyth

Wine and War, by Donald Kladstrup

Give and Take, by Adam Grant

Willful Behavior, by Donna Leon

Contagious, by Jonah Berger

1812: The Navy’s War, by George Daughan

1775: A Good Year for Revolution, by Kevin Phillips

City of Fortune, by Roger Crowley

Comeback, by Charles Morris

Every Good Endeavor, by Timothy Keller

The War That Made America, by Fred Anderson

God is Red, by Liao Yiwu

The Crusades, by Thomas Asbridge

Uniform Justice, by Donna Leon

Revolutionary Summer, by Joseph Ellis

Darwin, by Paul Johnson

Venice, by Thomas Madden

Fast Living, by Scott Todd

A Sea of Troubles, by Donna Leon

Consider the Fork, by Bee Wilson

A Higher Call, by Adam Makos

A Spirituality of Fundraising, by Henri Nouwen

History of the World Christian Movement: Earliest Christianity to 1453, by Dale Irvin and Scott Sunquist

The End of Power, by Moises Naim

Makers, by Chris Anderson

Bunch of Amateurs, by Jack Hitt

Loving the Poor, Saving the Rich, by Helen Rhee

The Freedom of Self Forgetfulness, by Tim Keller

The Gospel of Wealth, by Andrew Carnegie

The Gilded Age, by Mark Twain

A Year of Biblical Womanhood, by Rachel Held Evans

Fatal Remedies, by Donna Leon

Lunches With Mr. Q, by Kevin Nelson

Decisive, by Chip and Dan Heath

Double Cross, by Ben Macintyre

Godly Ambition, by Alister Chapman

Abundance, by Diamandis and Kotler

Black Fire: The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer–and of the Mysterious Fires That Baptized Gold Rush-Era San Francisco, by Robert Graysmith

A Time to Betray, by Reza Kahlili

Merchant Marine War Diary – 1944, by Henry Kasper

On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes, by Alexandra Horowitz

Thomas Becket, by John Guy

Through the Eye of a Needle, by Peter Brown

Jungleland, by Christopher Stewart

Plutocrats, by Chrystia Freeland

The Blood of Heroes, by James Donovan

To Sell is Human, by Daniel Pink

Antifragile, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Carthage Must Be Destroyed, by Richard Miles

Tahoe Beneath the Surface, by Scott Lankford

Holy War, by Nigel Cliff

Not Your Mother’s Morals, by Jonathan Fitzgerald

Early Livermore, from the Livermore Heritage Guild

Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter

Why Does College Cost So Much?, by Archibald and Feldman

A Walk Through the Bible, by Lesslie Newbigin

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