My 20 Kindle eBooks of 2014

2014 is a tough and rough year.

However it is also a good year, as I kind of picked up reading again (thanks to the Kindle Paperwhite II, my fourth Kindle), even though I am still a slow reader. Managed to only finish 20 Kindle eBooks this year, and my favourite ones are “Stuffocation“, “Lean Startup“, “Service Design” and “Pitch Perfect“.

The 20 books in reading sequence …

1. Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
2. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
3. Data Science for Business: What you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking
4. Chariots of the Gods
5. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
6. Stuffocation
7. Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: How I Went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur
8. The Fortune Cookie Principle : The 20 Keys to a Great Brand Story and Why Your Business Needs One
9. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
10. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
11. Difference: The one-page method for reimagining your business and reinventing your marketing
12. Pitch Perfect: How to Say It Right the First Time, Every Time
13. Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean Series)
14. Service Design: From Insight to Implementation
15. Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising
16. The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt
17. Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
18. Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)
19. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
20. The Lost Empire of Atlantis: History’s Greatest Mystery Revealed

Still, there are a few books in the Kindle impatiently waiting … shall be good for the next three, four months !!

1. The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids (a reread)
2. The FastDiet – Revised & Updated: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, and Live Longer with the Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting
3. Loyalty 3.0: How to Revolutionize Customer and Employee Engagement with Big Data and Gamification
4. Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
5. The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users
6. The 7 Day Startup: You Don’t Learn Until You Launch
7. Flash Boys

Keep reading !!

Author: Michael Yung

Michael possessed over 30 years of experience in Information Technology with focuses on complex application development, database technologies and IT strategy. He also spent the last 20 years in Internet technology, eCommerce development / operations, web usability, computer security and Public Key Infrastructure technologies. View all posts by Michael Yung