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| <h1>Alex Dean</h1> | ||
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| <p>There's nothing quite like a book that changes how you see the world. There's nothing quite like perceiving life through some unspoken lens, and then having some elegant idea change that perception. Books like that are the stuff of magic.</p> | ||
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| <p>The purpose of this page is to serve as a resource for others hoping to be transformed. For each year, I selected the top five books (from the roughly 40 to 50 books I typically get through) that have influenced me the most. While my selections are susceptible to my inherent biases of what is important, as well as my prevailing interests and attitudes of the time, I hope this page will be useful for others willing to indulge their curiosities to the furthest extent.</p> | ||
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| <h2>2024</h2> | ||
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| <li><i>The Dream Machine</i> by M. Mitchell Waldrop</li> | ||
| <li><i>To The Lighthouse</i> by Virginia Woolf</li> | ||
| <li><i>The Undoing Project</i> by Michael Lewis</li> | ||
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| <h2>2023</h2> | ||
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| <li><i>Organizing Genius</i> by Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman</li> | ||
| <li><i>Strangers Drowning</i> by Larissa MacFarquhar</li> | ||
| <li><i>The Canceling of the American Mind</i> by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott</li> | ||
| <li><i>The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt</i> by Edmund Morris</li> | ||
| <li><i>Paved Paradise</i> by Henry Grabar</li> | ||
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| <h2>2022</h2> | ||
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| <li><i>Amusing Ourselves to Death</i> by Neil Postman</li> | ||
| <li><i>The Righteous Mind</i> by Jonathan Haidt</li> | ||
| <li><i>American Pharaoh</i> by Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor</li> | ||
| <li><i>Pacific</i> by Simon Winchester</li> | ||
| <li><i>Strangers to Ourselves</i> by Rachel Aviv</li> | ||
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| <h2>2021</h2> | ||
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| <li><i>When We Cease to Understand the World</i> by Benjamín Labatut</li> | ||
| <li><i>This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends</i> by Nicole Perlroth</li> | ||
| <li><i>The Second Founding</i> by Eric Foner</li> | ||
| <li><i>The Price of Peace</i> by Zachary D. Carter</li> | ||
| <li><i>The Alignment Problem</i> by Brian Christian</li> | ||
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| <h2>2020</h2> | ||
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| <li><i>The Undocumented Americans</i> by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio</li> | ||
| <li><i>Conditional Citizens</i> by Laila Lalami</li> | ||
| <li><i>A Promised Land</i> by Barack Obama</li> | ||
| <li><i>The Age of Surveillance Capitalism</i> by Shoshana Zuboff</li> | ||
| <li><i>Politics Is For Power</i> by Eitan Hersh</li> | ||
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| <h2>2019</h2> | ||
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| <li><i>Peak</i> by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool</li> | ||
| <li><i>Incognito</i> by David Eagleman</li> | ||
| <li><i>Range</i> by David Epstein</li> | ||
| <li><i>Why We Sleep</i> by Matthew Walker</li> | ||
| <li><i>Make It Stick</i> by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel</li> | ||
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| <h2>2018</h2> | ||
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| <li><i>So Good They Can't Ignore You</i> by Cal Newport</li> | ||
| <li><i>How to Win Friends & Influence People</i> by Dale Carnegie</li> | ||
| <li><i>Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet</i> by Jamie Ford</li> | ||
| <li><i>The Great Gatsby</i> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</li> | ||
| <li><i>Othello</i> by William Shakespeare</li> | ||
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