Non-fiction books have been a big part of life, they are the reasons of my development throughout the years whether its personal or professional. I like the books that challenge me, books that can shape or morph my thinking about the world, ideas I haven’t even considered existed. This is a list of top ten books that affected me the most in the year 2019. Keep me mind that the position doesn’t reflect me liking one book more than the other.
10. How Not to Die by Micheal Greger
If you’re like me, who want to stay healthy and fit. If you care about what you eat and how you can avoid certain diseases, this is a must read. The author has done a phenomenal job in doing research for the book. The book is divided in two parts, the teaches you about common diseases and what causes them and how to avoid, the second part is more about the what food you should eat, with Micheal Greger’s personal checklist about his preferences about using those foods.
9. Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright
This is the most fun I had reading a book. This is a book about How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the 300 billion illegal drug business? You will be taken to a journey in the business of drugs and cartels, how they make profit and what is the process of supplying drug all over the world. The book also show the economic side of this business.
8. Principles : Life and Work by Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.
7. Letters to A Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens has written a book for the young men and women to today and tomorrow exploring the entire range of “contrary positions”—from noble dissident to gratuitous nag—Hitchens introduces the next generation to the minds and the misfits who influenced him, invoking such mentors as Emile Zola, Rosa Parks, and George Orwell.
6. Free Will by Sam Harris
Sam Harris is one of the most intelligent and influential people alive. His views on society, terrorism, religion and free will has touched almost everyone. In this book about free will, Sam Harris tell us that the free will is an illusion and that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life.
5. Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain was life changing for me, before I read that book I couldn’t ever dream of pursuing cooking as a hobby, after that I cook something almost everyday. A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential. For the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business as a whole—and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores those changes, taking the reader back and forth—from the author’s bad old days—to the present.
4. The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
Bringing a fresh perspective to age-old questions of right and wrong and good and evil, Harris demonstrates that we already know enough about the human brain and its relationship to events in the world to say that there are right and wrong answers to the most pressing questions of human life. Using his expertise in philosophy and neuroscience, along with his experience on the front lines of our “culture wars,” Harris delivers a game-changing book about the future of science and about the real basis of human cooperation.
3. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.
2. The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant
In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the reader the accumulated store of knowledge and experience from their four decades of work on the ten monumental volumes of “The Story of Civilization.” The result is a survey of human history, full of dazzling insights into the nature of human experience, the evolution of civilization, the culture of man.
1. The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics—as well as their implications for our moral codes and public policies.
10. How Not to Die by Micheal Greger
If you’re like me, who want to stay healthy and fit. If you care about what you eat and how you can avoid certain diseases, this is a must read. The author has done a phenomenal job in doing research for the book. The book is divided in two parts, the teaches you about common diseases and what causes them and how to avoid, the second part is more about the what food you should eat, with Micheal Greger’s personal checklist about his preferences about using those foods.
9. Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright
This is the most fun I had reading a book. This is a book about How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the 300 billion illegal drug business? You will be taken to a journey in the business of drugs and cartels, how they make profit and what is the process of supplying drug all over the world. The book also show the economic side of this business.
8. Principles : Life and Work by Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.
7. Letters to A Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens has written a book for the young men and women to today and tomorrow exploring the entire range of “contrary positions”—from noble dissident to gratuitous nag—Hitchens introduces the next generation to the minds and the misfits who influenced him, invoking such mentors as Emile Zola, Rosa Parks, and George Orwell.
6. Free Will by Sam Harris
Sam Harris is one of the most intelligent and influential people alive. His views on society, terrorism, religion and free will has touched almost everyone. In this book about free will, Sam Harris tell us that the free will is an illusion and that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life.
5. Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain was life changing for me, before I read that book I couldn’t ever dream of pursuing cooking as a hobby, after that I cook something almost everyday. A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential. For the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business as a whole—and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores those changes, taking the reader back and forth—from the author’s bad old days—to the present.
4. The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
Bringing a fresh perspective to age-old questions of right and wrong and good and evil, Harris demonstrates that we already know enough about the human brain and its relationship to events in the world to say that there are right and wrong answers to the most pressing questions of human life. Using his expertise in philosophy and neuroscience, along with his experience on the front lines of our “culture wars,” Harris delivers a game-changing book about the future of science and about the real basis of human cooperation.
3. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.
2. The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant
In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the reader the accumulated store of knowledge and experience from their four decades of work on the ten monumental volumes of “The Story of Civilization.” The result is a survey of human history, full of dazzling insights into the nature of human experience, the evolution of civilization, the culture of man.
1. The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics—as well as their implications for our moral codes and public policies.
interesting list. I'll have to check out Narconomics.
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