These are my favorites of the 107 books that read in 2011. The first three are my top picks.
Great By Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite them All By Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen
Challenging Beliefs: Memoirs of a Career By Tim Noakes
That Used To Be Us _ How America Fell Behind In The World It Invented and How We Can Come Back By Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights by Alex Hutchinson
Sway – The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori and Rom Braufman
The Mechanics of Sprinting and Hurdling by Ralph Mann
The Extra 2% - How Wall Street Strategies Took A Major League Baseball Team From Worst To First by Jonah Keri
The Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History By S.C. Gwynne
I’M Here to Win: A World Champion’s Advice For Peak Performance by Chris McCormack
I Was A Horse in Bryansk by George V. Gemer
The Wave – In Pursuit of The Rouges, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey
Authentic Happiness By Martin E.P. Seligman
Heroes, Villains and Velodromes – Chris Hoy and The British Cycling Revolution By Richard Moore
Winning Matters by Frank Dick
Bossypants By Tina Fey
Los Angeles Stories by Ry Cooder (Fiction)
The Drop by Michael Connelly (Fiction)
The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly (Fiction)
Cutting For Stone By Abraham Verghese (Fiction)





