9 Most Influential Books Of 2007

The following books influenced me the most this year:

• Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
• A History of the Middle East by Peter Mansfield
• Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5 by Timothy Ferriss
• The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent by Richard Florida
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
• Social Blueprints: Conceptual Foundations of Sociology by David K. Brown
• Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development by James O. Coplien and Neil B. Harrison