Vern Gambetta’s 2018 best books list

Of the 150 books I have read in 2018 these are my selections for the best. It is an eclectic collection reflecting my various interests. Hopefully this will give you some ideas for good reading. This year I did not pick a book of the year. Too many good ones to pick out one book.

• The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Dan Coyle
• Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson
• The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life by James Martin SJ
• Masters of Modern Soccer: How the World’s Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game by Grant Wahl
• The Playmaker’s Advantage: How to Raise Your Mental Game to the Next Level by Leonard Zaichowsky & Daniel Peterson
• On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
• Human movement: An integrated approach by Joseph R. Higgins
• Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram
• Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life by Robert Dallek
• Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America by James and Deborah Fallows
• Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
• The Barcelona Way: Unlocking the DNA of a Winning Culture by Damian Hughes
• The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation by Miriam Pawel
• Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 by Max Hastings
• The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene