Hall of Fame
A running ranking of the best things I've spent time with. Books first, with films, flags, and games to follow.
I used to read a lot, then, like many Americans growing up to become an adult, I promptly stopped reading at all once I started working. Cognizant of this horror, I restarted to make an effort to block out time to read, but it was in vain until I discovered Audible. Now, I swallow hundreds of hours of books, and keep a running ranking here of the best books, both audio and otherwise, that I've read.
1
Churchill: Walking with Destiny · Andrew Roberts
50h 28m audiobook
2
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind · Yuval Noah Harari
15h 17m audiobook
3
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany · William L. Shirer
57h 11m audiobook
4
A Short History of Nearly Everything · Bill Bryson
18h 13m audiobook
5
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions · Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
11h 50m audiobook
6
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike · Phil Knight
13h 21m audiobook
7
The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World · Robert Garland, TGC
24h 28m audiobook
8
Cosmos · Carl Sagan
14h 31m audiobook
9
Napoleon: A Life · Andrew Roberts
32h 56m audiobook
10
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know · Malcolm Gladwell
8h 42m audiobook
No movies rankings published yet.
My flag rankings, scored against the five NAVA principles.
1
United Kingdom
2
Barbados
3
Switzerland
4
France
5
South Africa
6
United States
7
Macedonia
8
Sweden (or Scandinavia)
9
Jamaica
10
Democratic Republic of Congo
11
Israel
12
Germany
13
Turkey
14
China
15
Canada
No video games rankings published yet.