The best books read this year from twitter
Every Christmas, my wife Karen asks me what I want for Christmas and provide her with a list. This year I thought I’d get some advice from the good people on twitter.
So a little while ago I posted a tweet ‘What’s the best book you’ve read this year?’I have had some excellent responses and now have a fabulous Christmas wish list.
What’s interesting is the quality of the books mentioned and the diversity of them which illustrates the quality of people on twitter.
‘What has this got to do with social media?’ you may be wondering. I say ‘Everything’ in that social media is a superb way of gathering opinion and information and doing something like this proves its power and usefulness to me yet again.
To thank the people who recommended books I’ve included your twitter ids below with the books you read this year that you loved most and to you I say ‘Many thanks’. If anyone would like to add their own suggestions in the comments section of the blog or comment on others recommendations, please feel free to do so.
Here’s the list exactly as they were tweeted:
@arjantupan One best book? Hard. Here some: White Tiger, Lean Thinking, Black Swan, Democracy Kills
@arjantupan Oh, And Tribes, of course. And, for the Americans and Dutch: The Island at the Center of the World
@Dunkndisorderly Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer. Amazing book
@jordiv Stieg Larsson trilogy
@mikeashworth ringolevio, a life played for keeps. amazing book, read it time and time again 
@ivojo Just finished The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman, other than that The Dreaming Void then Temporal Void by Peter F. Hamilton.
@ianthomas Free by Chris Anderson.
@divydovy ooh good question. Shantaram, extremely loud & incredibly close, or animal, vegetable, miracle
@dunneendelstein Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
@@kimchandler Without a doubt… Shantaram!
@@SteveCanDo best fiction book The girl with the dragon tatoo. Best business book – Get of your Arse
@grhansen best book I’ve read this year? Hard to pick one, but I recommend The Alchemist
@CWayNews Fight Club is the best book I’ve read. So much better than the already amazing movie. Warning: Not for the faint at heart.
@bigjohn52 Best book this year: “Crush It!” By: Gary Vay.ner.chuk
@SharkGirl777 Glen Beck’s “Argueing with Idiots” he’s great ! I love him…
@emilywadams Engleby by Sebastian Faulkes : chilling, beautifully written an leaves you thinking
@MJ_Nemisis best book I read this year was ‘a long way gone’ Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah.
@Elsablaine Carrie Fisher’s ‘Wishful Drinking’ was a fun bio. lot’s of laughs.
@Jordyclements Green Hills of Africa by Hemingway. Or Twilight. Ha!
@lauradevsmith best book I’ve read this year is Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. Helped me make some major life changes.
@dragtotop Just finished The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman, ot-http://dragtotop.com/Wladyslaw_Szpilman
@JohanDHaeseleer the best idaes have something missing best book this year
@euonymous: Best book read this year… Thinking Styles by Robert J. Sternberg. Changed the way I think about schools, human interactions
@andronin: Dean Koont’z Dead or Alive. It’s book three of the Frankenstein trilogy, intense read imho
December 21st, 2009 at 4:00 pm
hello there Jeremy,
Interesting experiment. I recently discovered the application weRead that works on facebook and that allows you to create a library of books you’d like to read or have read, by checking my friends weRead page I also get some inspiration for my next books. I personally read “when there will be good news?” atm by Kate Atkinson and I find it really good, very well written, funny and intriguing.