Preview: Reading 2012

As for the last couple of years, there will be a reading list for 2012. Last year was pretty good, I worked my way through 24 books. Some of them were short, sure, but the ideas still valuable.
After 28 books in 2009 and 18 in 2010 two books/month is a nice pace, considering that I have other hobbies, too?

The shortlist for this year looks as follows at the end of the post and as always you can keep track of my progress on this page.

In the last couple of years this would also mean changing my twitter background, but the shelf hasn’t really changed. Now what? I’ll find something 😉

What are you reading?

1. PLI/Abby Marks Beale – 10 Days to faster Reading
2. Georg Franck – Die Ökonomie der Aufmerksamkeit
3. Thomas Klupp – Paradiso
4. Nick Hornby – Juliet Naked
5. Siri Hustvest – Enchantment of Lily Dahl
6. Chris Brogan/Julien Smith – Trust Agents
7. Jack Falla – Home Ice
8. Minette Walters – The Breaker
9. O’Reilly – Your Brain: The Missing Manual
10. Charles Frazier – Thirteen Moons
11. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird (*)
12. Hanif Kureishi – The Buddha of Suburbia
13. Richard Powers – Generosity
14. Charles Bukowski – Ham on Rye
15. Chip & Dan Heath – Switch
16. Steven Levy – In the Plex
17. Walther Isaacson – Steve Jobs Biography
18. Eric Ries – The Lean Startup
19. Thomas Pletzinger – Gentlemen, wir leben am Abgrund
20. David Halberstam – Playing for keeps
21. Jonathan Lethem – Chronic City
22. Don DeLillo – Underworld
23. Gavin Menzies – 1421
24. Jostein Gaardner – Sophie’s World
25. Andreas Eschbach – Eine Billion Dollar*
26. Jaron Lanier – You’re not a gadget
27. Lee Child – Reacher No. 17
28. Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Der Schwarze Schwan+
29. Howard Jacobson – No more Mr. Nice Guy+
30. James Altucher – I was Blind but now I See + (Kindle for iPhone)
31. Tom Peters – Re-Imagine +