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Best books of the year

These are the best books I read this year - they may well have been published in 1900...but these are what I read and enjoyed...

A Stroke of Insight - worth reading if you want to understand a little more on how the brain functions

The Second machine age - has a very pertinent take on the age of machines - and it makes you think. I plan to read the sequel to this in the coming year.

The Leadership moment - 9 stories on leadership - not your usual leadership stories and that makes it a rivetting read

Alan Mullaly and the fight to save Americas Icon - has some good insights on corporate culture in the  fight to turnaround Ford

The Box - is a fabulous story of the Container - yes, something as simple as a container and it is such a great story to read

A man called Ove - a fictional bittersweet story about an old man from a different generation...

Call of the wild - an old classic about a dog, but a heartwarming read

Wonder - its a childrens book, but my, does it make you think!

Eragon - again a childrens book, loosely modelled on LOTR? I lost interest after the first one...

Divergent - sci fiction - starts on a strong premise - then I got bored of the book

Wonder why there are so many childrens books, it is because they get these books home and I get curious enough to read some of them...

Apart from this, Mindset - by Carol Dweck - this is a classic read.

Anywhere but home - the story of Anu Vaidyanathan - is a candid read on the world of long distance running by Indias first Ironman (yes, a woman)

Ingenius (Tina Seelig): the worst book I read this year

A general theory of love: This is a neuro biological explanation of the process of love - and I loved it for the explanation of the brain

Behave: A deeper explanation of why we behave, how we behave - not an easy read, but if you are interested, this is a book worth reading...

Irrestible: easily my most thinking book of the year - because it opens the window into the dangerous new world of behavioural addiction - the internet

Homo Sapiens - a little late to the party, but easily my best read of the year...

And as for the coming year, the reading list is already lined up...

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