Must Read Books in 2009
- In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto - By Michael Pollan (born 6 February 1955) is an American author, columnist, activist, and professor of journalism and director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
- Godel, Escher, Bach - By Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945 in New York, New York) is an American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, thinking and creativity. He is best known for Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, first published in 1979, for which he was awarded the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction.
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets - By Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a philosopher of randomness about the fallibility of human knowledge.
- Go Kiss The World - By Subroto Bagchi is co-founder and The Gardner for MindTree Ltd. MindTree Ltd. is an international consulting company working in the IT Consulting and Software Services space.
- How Starbucks Saved My Life - By Michael Gates Gill which chronicles his journey from a high-level advertising executive with J. Walter Thompson to a barista at Starbucks. The book has been optioned by Tom Hanks for a film.
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - By Doris Kearns Goodwin (born Doris Kearns on January 4, 1943) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer and court historian, and an oft-seen political commentator.
- The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World - By Lewis Hyde is a scholar and writer whose scholarly work focuses on the nature of imagination, creativity, and property.
- The God of Small Things - By Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian writer and activist who won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and in 2002, the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize.
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - By Robert Maynard Pirsig (born September 6, 1928, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American writer and philosopher, mainly known as the author of the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974), which has sold millions of copies around the world.
- The History of Love - By Nicole Krauss (born 1974) is an American writer. Krauss lives in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, novelist Jonathan Safran Foer and their son, Sasha.
- The Last Summer of the World - By Emily Mitchell
- What If?: Short Stories to Spark Diversity Dialogue - By Steve L. Robbins
- Complexity - By Mitchell Waldrop
- Programming the Universe - By Seth Lloyd
I have made this list based on recommendations from friends and fellow bloggers. Would try my best to read and review each one as the year goes on. Please comment your recommendations and suggestions.
