Here is a compilation of some of my favorite books from the last year. If you think of a book I might like, please let me know. I'm always in search of the next book.

• Tree of Smoke
• The Thirteenth Tale
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics
• Restless
• Intuition

• Age of Turbulence
• MindSet
• Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
• The No Asshole Rule
• The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
• Stumbling on Happiness
• You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation

• Handbook of Competence and Motivation
• The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance
• Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk among Friends

I'm relatively new to blogs but I've found some that are consistently interesting. Others I check out only occasionally. Here are the few I visit most often...

• Bob Sutton's Work Matters
  Bob is a professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford. I believe this blog grew out of his book, The No Asshole Rule.
• The Freakonomics Blog by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
  This blog also grew out of a book and is facilitated by The New York Times.
• Harvard Business Online: Discussion Leaders
  Check out this blog/Web site and you'll see several well-respected discussion leaders and the topics they're writing about.
• The New York Times
  I check out the Most Popular articles on The New York Times daily. My wife and I don't have a television, so this is how we get our basic news.