Need a Book for the Beach? Here’s J.P. Morgan’s Summer Reading List

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Over the years, Jamie Dimon, J.P. Morgan’s chief executive and chairman, and Mary Erdoes, CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, have contributed their own picks, Mr. Oduyoye said.

Here’s this year’s list:

Art & Place: Site-Specific Art of the Americas, by Editors of Phaidon
Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder, by Arianna Huffington
Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds, by Carmine Gallo
The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy, by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley.
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind, by Biz Stone
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind, by Michio Kaku
Olives, Lemons & Za’atar: The Best Middle Eastern Home Cooking, by Rawia Bishara
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything, by Col. Chris Hadfield
The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing’s Greatest Race, the America’s Cup, by Julian Guthrie

And for comparison here’s the inaugural list from 2000:

The Pursuit of Wealth: The Incredible Story of Money Throughout the Ages by Robert Sobel
The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America by Lawrence Cunningham
Security Analysis (Classic 1934 Edition) by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter
The Cluetrain Manifesto by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls and David Weinberger
The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton Christensen
Faster by James Gleick
The Silicon Boys and Their Valley Dreams, by David Kaplan
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell
Patient Number One, by Rick Murdock