Books of 2024 on the Price Writer Podcast Episode 23

Books mentioned:

Best of the year

A Risky Business: An Actuary's Guide to Quantifying and Managing Risk in Society - Catrin Townsend

Non-fiction

Fluke - Dr Brian Klaas

Escape from Model Land - Erica Thompson

You're Better Than They Think You Are - Sir Rod Aldridge

Blue Ocean Strategy - W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne

The Power of Moments - Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Enzo Ferrari - Luca Dal Monte

The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life - Steven Bartlett

Churchill - Andrew Roberts

Normandy ’44 - James Holland

D-Day - Antony Beevor

Stalingrad - Antony Beevor

Band of Brothers - Stephen E. Ambrose

D-Day - Stephen E. Ambrose

The Battle of the Atlantic - Jonathan Dimbleby

Masters of the Air - Donald L. Miller

Sicily '43 - James Holland

Becoming Superman - J Michael Straczynski

Midnight in Chernobyl - Adam Higginbotham

Challenger - Adam Higginbotham

Supercommunicators - Charles Duhigg

Methods of Persuasion - Nick Kolenda

Imagine Reading This Book - Nick Kolenda

Pre-Suasion - Robert Cialdini

The Challenger Sale - Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson

Dark Psychology and Manipulation - Lucas Bailey

The Illusion of Choice - Richard Shotton

The Charisma Myth - Olivia Fox Cabane

Want - Gillian Anderson

We Can All Make It - Sara Davies

Single-Minded: My Life in Business - Claude Littner

Fiction

Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey

Caliban's War - James S. A. Corey

Abaddon's Gate - James S. A. Corey

Cibola Burn - James S. A. Corey

Nemesis Games - James S. A. Corey

Babylon's Ashes - James S. A. Corey

Persepolis Rising - James S. A. Corey

Tiamat's Wrath - James S. A. Corey

Leviathan Falls - James S. A. Corey

The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu, Ken Liu

Pompeii - Robert Harris

Greyhound - C.S. Forester

The Roommate - Rosie Danan

Prelude to Foundation - Isaac Asimov

Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov

Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov

Precipice - Robert Harris

French Short Stories - Lingo Mastery

Short Stories in French - Olly Richards, Richard Simcott

French Sci-Fi Short Stories - Sebastian Cutillo

To Children

Skin in the Game - Jane Wurwand

I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzai

Jo Malone: My Story

The Trials of Life - David Attenborough

World War 1 & 2 History for Kids History Brought Alive

The Princess Bride - William Goldman

Tin Tin – various including TinTin on the Moon

Star Wars: In the Shadow of Yavin

Some of The Wizard of Oz Collection by - L. Frank Baum

The Princess Bride (again)

The Adventures of Parsley the Lion

Wonka - Sibéal Pounder, Paul King

Sing - Dreamworks

Both

My Family and Other Animals - Gerand Durrell

Kensuke's Kingdom - Michael Morpurgo

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