52 Books in 52 Weeks Overview

Happy New Years Everyone!!!!

What better way of starting a year than reading :). I found this post by Robin McCormack about 52 books in 52 weeks. Now, I added some extra books to the list to give me more variety. This sounds simple, fun and easy but lets see if I can complete the challenge :). 

Here is a list of books that I will try to tackle this year.

1. Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle by Thea Cooper and Arthur Ainsberg  
2. World War One: History in an Hour by Rupert Colley 
3. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself by Harriet Ann Jacobs 
4. The Killing of Train-Man Brown by Will Bevis 
5. O Little Town: A Novel by Don Reid  
6. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee 
7. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. The Forgotten Garden: a Novel by Kate Morton 
9. Little, Big by John Crowley
10. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
11. The Secret History by Donna Tartt  
12. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins 
13. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 
14. A Collection of Essays by George Orwell 
15. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
16. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
17. You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
18. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
19. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
20. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
21. Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
22. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler 
23. Still Foolin' Em by Billy Crystal  
24. Someone: A Novel by Alice McDormott
25. Conversation with Myself: Nelson Mandela Foreword by President Barack Obama
26. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 
27. Scarcity, Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir
28. How Stella Saved the Farm by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble 
29. The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed by Adam Bryant
30. Unconscious Branding: How Neuroscience Can Empower (and Inspire) Marketing by Douglas Van Praet 
31. The Art of The Pitch by Peter Coughter
32. The Fall of the Alpha by Dana Ardi
33. Adapt: why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
34. The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
35. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman 
36. Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat 
37. How We Do Harm by Otis Webb Brawley, M.D., with Paul Goldberg 
38. Sleights of Mind  by Stephen L. Macknik & Susana Martinez-Conde, with Sandra Blakeslee 
39. The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths by Michael Shermer 
40. The Forever Fix:  Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It by Ricki Lewis  
41. On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins with Sandra Blakeslee 
42. Emergency!: True Stories From The Nation's ERs by Mark Brown, M.D. 
43. The Viral Storm:  The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age by Nathan Wolfe 
44. The South Beach Heart Health Revolution:  Cardiac Prevention That Can Reverse Heart Disease and Stop Heart Attacks and Strokes by Arthur Agatston, M.D. 
45. The White Cascade:  The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche by Gary Krist 
46. Dark Dreams:  A Legendary FBI Profiler Examines Homicide and the Criminal Mind  by Roy Hazelwood and Stephen G. Michaud 
47. Ending Aging:  The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime by Aubrey de Grey, Ph.D., with Michael Rae 
48. Skin Game: Memoir by Caroline Kettlewell 
49. Divided Minds:  Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia by Pamela Spiro Wagner and Carolyn S. Spiro, M.D. 
50. The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle by Eric Lax 
51. The Intelligent Entrepreneur by Bill Murphy Jr. 
52. Being Strategic by Erika Andersen 
53. The Wizard of Lies:  Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques 
54. Next Generation Leadership: Next Generation Leadership  by Sherry H. Penney and Patricia Akemi Neilson 
55. Why Darwin Matters:  The Case Against Intelligent Design by Michael Shermer 
56. Head Cases:  Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath by Michael Paul Mason  
57. Steve Jobs: Agenda by Harry Wessling