Over the last 30 days, I have written a blog post every day on significant books that I have presented over the first 15 years of the First Friday Book Synopsis.  We meet every month, so that means I did not write about 10 books from each year. My selections include my choices for two significant books from each year.  I had to skip some terrific books, and may pick some of these up in coming days.

Here’s the complete list.  It is in the order I presented them — so, #1  was from 1998, and #30  is a book I presented in 2012.

I really do think these are worth reading.  I certainly learned/remembered as I wrote these posts.

30 Books in 30 days – Remembering 15 years of the First Friday Book Synopsis (click on the title to take you to the article on that book):

#1 – The Circle of Innovation, Tom Peters

#2 – The Argument Culture, Deborah Tannen

#3 – Encouraging the Heart, James Kouzes and Barry Posner

#4 – The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas L. Friedman

#5 – The New New Thing, Michael Lewis

#6 – The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell

#7 – The Art of Innovation, Tom Kelley

#8 – Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich

#9 – Getting Things Done, David Allen

#10 – Execution, Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan

#11 – The Power of Full Engagement, Tony Schwartz and Jim Loehr

#12 – Moneyball, Michael Lewis

#13 – Women Don’t Ask, Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever

#14 – The Wisdom of Crowds, James Suroweicki

#15 – The World is Flat, Thomas Freidman

#16 – Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant, W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne

#17 – Wooden on Leadership by John Wooden

#18 – Never Eat Alone And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time  (The Ultimate Networker Reveals How to Build a Lifelong Community of Colleagues, Contacts, Friends, and Mentors) by Keith Ferrazzi

#19 – Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Chip Heath & Dan Heath

#20 – Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams

#21 – The Future of Management, Gary Hamel

#22 – The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria

#23 – Outliers:  The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell

#24 – Womenomics: 1. Write Your Own Rules for Success {2. How to Stop Juggling and Struggling and Finally Start Living and Working the Way You Really Want}, Claire Shipman (Good Morning America) and Katty Kay (BBC News) 

#25 – Switch:  How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, Chip Heath and Dan Heath

#26 – The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Atul Gawande

#27 – Prescription for Excellence: Leadership Lessons for Creating a World Class Customer Experience from UCLA Health System, Joseph Michelli

#28 – Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck — Why Some Thrive Despite Them All, Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen

#29 – Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson

#30 – Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain