For no other reason than self-flagellation I'm going to start a list of books I should have read. Hopefully this will provoke me to get on with it. Worse, I have copies of some of these and have still not got round to reading them. I will also note the must-read books I started then gave up on.
Some of these may date quickly. If I'd been compiling this list in the 70s I would probably feel I had to read The One-Minute Manager and stuff like that. Hey, there's another list! Books that are no longer required reading! The Mythical Man-Month, Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus, etc. etc. If I procrastinate long enough many of the books on my list will drop off due to no longer being trendy (No Logo springs to mind as a candidate).
How can I manage this list? I would like other people to prioritise them for me since I am unlikely to be able to read them all anytime soon. Which do you recommend?
Where is the last.fm for books?
1. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell
2. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell
3. The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki
Many, many more to come.