As a voracious reader, I often get asked by friends and clients what I'm reading. And, I periodically recommend books that make me pause and think differently about the world.
I'm sure I won't update this as often as I plan to right now, but feel free to e-mail me -- andy@plattnercommunications.com -- to ask about the last, best book I read if you are curious. Or tell me if you've fallen in love with a book that I should read. I love independent bookstores, but, to make travel better, I made the transition to a Kindle in early 2009 and now mostly read on my iPad. (Buy from your local bookstore if you can.)
Reading Now:
Before I Go To Sleep: A Novel, by S.J. Watson
The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good, by David J. Linden
Recommended:
City of Thieves, by David Benioff
Little Bee, by Chris Cleave
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
One Day, by David Nichols
Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools by Steven Brill
Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It, by Malie Meloy
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen
The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It, by Joshua Cooper Ramo
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
The Age of American Unreason, by Susan Jacoby
Loving Frank: A Novel, by Nancy Horan
Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell
Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America, by Paul Tough
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, by Malcolm Gladwell
Folly, by Laurie R. King
Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America, by Timothy Egan
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, by Diane Ravitch
The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo, by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by
Stieg Larsson
Miracle on the 17th Green: A Novel, by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge
Reckless: A Novel, by Andrew Gross
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand
The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer, by Curtis Wilkie
Room: A Novel, by Emma Donoghue
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories, by Flannery O'Connor
All the Justice Money Can Buy: Corporate Greed on Trial by Snigdha Prakash
The Art of Fielding, a Novel: by Chad Harbach