Summertime and the reading is easy... and fun! Here are some of my top picks for nightstand or beach!

1. What’s On
My Summer
Reading List
(and should be on
yours too!)
By
Dr Chris Stout

2. I know, I know… what may be
one person’s favorite may be
another person’s yawn. Some of
my picks will be no surprise,
but couple of others may open
a new door.
Regardless, I hope you enjoy them
as much as I have…!

3. Business – Classic (gotta read!)
The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely
Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J.
Dubner

4. Business – New
Crazy is a Compliment: The Power of
Zigging When Everyone Else Zags
– Linda Rottenberg
Zero to One
– Peter Thiel
Thinking, Fast and Slow
– Daniel Kahneman
Team Genius
—Rich Karlgaard and Michael S.
Malone

5. Humanitarian Intervention
On Immunity: An Inoculation – Eula Bliss
Digital Humanitarians: How Big Data is Changing
the Face of Humanitarian Response – Patrick Meier

6. Health
Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle
Age, Becoming One of the
World’s Fittest Men, and
Discovering Myself – Rich Roll
4 Hour Body – Timothy Ferriss

7. Productivity
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live
Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Expanded
and Updated) – Timothy Ferriss
Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and
Icons accelerate Success – Shane Snow
Getting Things Done – David Allen

8. Creativity
Catching the Big Fish – David Lynch
A Curious Mind – Brian Grazer
Inside the Box – Drew Boyd and
Jacob Goldenberg

9. Money
The Little Books that Still Beat the Market
- Joel Greenblatt
Physics of Wall Street
– James Owen Weatherall
Irrational Exuberance, 3rd edition
– Robert J. Shiller

10. Fun
Cool Tools – Kevin Kelly
The Magic of Reality – Richard Dawkins
On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) – Seneca
Self Reliance – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Happiness of Pursuit – Chris Guillebeau
Let’s be Less Stupid – Patricia Marx
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking –
Jordan Ellenberg

11. Just Powerful
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in
the End – Atul Gawande

12. Photography credits
Jeff Sheldon*
Aleks Dorohovich*
Alejandro Escamilla*
Glen Noble*
Cliff Johnson*
*Creative Commons Zero License
Chris Stout
Special Thanks: Joshua Cadavez