The 20 Best Books I Read in 2013

18 December 2013

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These are the 20 best books I read in 2013, ranked by number of highlights on Amazon Kindle.

How should I rank the best non-fiction books? Based on the number of stars I gave them? How quickly I finished them? How often I talked about them? No!

The value of a non-fiction book is in the number of things I marked as interesting.

Thus, I hereby give you an overview of the 20 best books I read in 2013, ranked by number of highlights on Amazon Kindle (shown in the 2nd column). I’m sure there’s something in this list you’ll find valuable too!

	#	Title – Author	Year	Rating
1	79	Search and Social: The Definitive Guide to Real-Time Content Marketing – Rob Garner	2012	5/5
2	66	Punished by Rewards – Alfie Kohn	1999	5/5
3	64	Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman	2011	4/5
4	58	Contagious: Why Things Catch On – Jonah Berger	2013	5/5
5	53	Abolishing Performance Appraisals: Why They Backfire and What to Do Instead – Tom Coens, Mary Jenkins	2002	4/5
6	53	To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Persuading, Convincing, and Influencing Others – Daniel H. Pink	2013	3/5
7	52	Create Your Writer Platform: The Key to Building an Audience, Selling More Books, and Finding Success as an Author – Chuck Sambuchino	2012	4/5
8	48	Influence – Robert B. Cialdini	2006	5/5
9	45	The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise? – Chris Brogan	2012	3/5
10	41	Who am I?: 16 Basic Desires that Motivate Our Actions Define Our Persona: 16 Basic Desires that Motivate Our Actions Define Our Persona – Steven Reiss	2000	4/5
11	39	Optimize: How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media, and Content Marketing – Lee Odden	2012	4/5
12	39	APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book – Guy Kawasaki, Shawn Welch	2012	4/5
13	37	Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder – Nassim Nicholas Taleb	2012	5/5
14	36	Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal – Oren Klaff	2011	4/5
15	29	Let’s Get Digital: How To Self-Publish, And Why You Should (Let’s Get Publishing) – David Gaughran	2011	4/5
16	27	The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom – Jonathan Haidt	2006	4/5
17	26	The Halo Effect: … and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers – Phil Rosenzweig	2007	5/5
18	22	The Decision to Trust: How Leaders Create High-Trust Organizations – Robert F. Hurley	4/5	2011
19	21	Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business – John Mackey, Rajendra Sisodia	2012	4/5
20	19	The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works – Ricardo Semler	2004	4/5

Also see: The 12 Best Books I Read in 2012

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