I frequently open up conversations with friends I haven’t seen in a while by asking them “What have you been reading?” I get lots of good ideas from them. Now that Labor Day (and the 2014 Bigelow Forum) has come and gone, and since turnabout is only fair play, here’s a brief list of selected reading from my summer 2014 of mostly light beach reading (in more or less chronological order):
Be Careful What You Wish For by Jeffrey Archer
The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery by Sarah Lewis
The Painter by Peter Heller
Casebook: A Novel by Mona Simpson
The Path to Power by Robert Caro
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Son by Jo Nesbo
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
The Heist by Daniel Silva
Powers of Two by Joshua Schenk
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby And His Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
The White Van by Patrick Hoffman
By the Late John Brockman by John Brockman
Zero to One by Peter Thiel