Favorite Books I Read In 2015

Last updated: February 27, 2023

Recommended:

  • The Fish That Ate the Whale [BUSINESS], [HISTORY]
  • Red Rising [FICTION], [SCIFI]
  • Born to Run [HEALTH]
  • Creativity, Inc [BUSINESS]
  • It Starts With Food [HEALTH]
  • Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari [SOCIAL COMMENTARY] [HUMOR]
  • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX by Ashlee Vance [BUSINESS]
  • Agency: Starting a Creative Firm by Rick Webb [BUSINESS]
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things [BUSINESS]

 book cover of The Fish That Ate The Whale Red Rising book cover Born To Run Creativity, Inc  It Starts With Food Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari Elon Musk Tesla SpaceX by Ashlee Vance Agency Starting a Creative Firm by Rick Webb Hard Thing About Hard Things

More: See My Favorite Books From 2013, and posts about “books” on my semi-secret Tumblr. Honorable mention goes to Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears [FICTION] [SCIFI] which I finished at the end of December 2014 and subsequently read all 4 books in the series.

All Books Purchased and Read Entirely in 2015:

  • The Fish That Ate the Whale
  • Red Rising
  • Born to Run
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
  • The Atlantis Gene
  • Creativity, Inc
  • It Starts With Food
  • Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
  • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX… Ashlee Vance
  • Hatching Twitter
  • The Turing Exception (Singularity Series Book 4)
  • Agency: Starting a Creative Firm by Rick Webb
  • In a Sunburned Country
  • The Martian: A Novel
  • The Last Firewall (Singularity Series Book 3)
  • A.I. Apocalypse (Singularity Series Book 2)
  • Nexus by Ramez Naam

Books Purchased and Started Reading, But Gave Up or Stopped:

  • Fight Club
  • Gulliver’s Travels
  • The Girl With All the Gifts
  • Wool – Part One
  • Zoo
  • The Museum of Innocence
  • H Is For Hawk
  • Just Do It
  • Junkyard Planet
  • The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

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More of my favorites: Favorite Books From 2013, and posts about “books” on my semi-secret Tumblr.

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