What’s On My

Summer Reading List (and

should be on yours too!)

ByDr Chris Stout

I know, I know… what may be one person’s favorite may be another person’s yawn. Some of my picks will be no surprise, but

couple of others may open a new door.

Regardless, I hope you enjoy them as much as I

have…!

Business – Classic (gotta read!)

The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely

Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Business – NewCrazy is a Compliment: The

Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags – Linda Rottenberg

Zero to One – Peter Thiel

Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman

Team Genius—Rich Karlgaard and Michael

S. Malone

Humanitarian Intervention

On Immunity: An Inoculation – Eula Bliss

Digital Humanitarians: How Big Data is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response

– Patrick Meier

Health

Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming

One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering

Myself – Rich Roll

4 Hour Body – Timothy Ferriss

Productivity

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

(Expanded and Updated) – Timothy Ferriss

Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons accelerate Success – Shane Snow

Getting Things Done – David Allen

Creativity

Catching the Big Fish – David Lynch

A Curious Mind – Brian Grazer

Inside the Box – Drew Boyd and Jacob Goldenberg

MoneyThe Little Books that Still Beat

the Market - Joel Greenblatt

Physics of Wall Street – James Owen Weatherall

Irrational Exuberance, 3rd edition – Robert J. Shiller

FunCool Tools – Kevin Kelly

The Magic of Reality – Richard Dawkins

On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) – Seneca

Self Reliance – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Happiness of Pursuit – Chris Guillebeau

Let’s be Less Stupid – Patricia Marx

How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking – Jordan Ellenberg

Just Powerful

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End – Atul Gawande

Photography credits

Jeff Sheldon*Aleks Dorohovich*

Alejandro Escamilla*Glen Noble*

Cliff Johnson**Creative Commons Zero License

Chris StoutSpecial Thanks: Joshua Cadavez