Over the past two years I participated in a challenge that I heard about on my friend Arik Hanson’s blog to read a set number of books. In each of the past two years I met my goal of surpassing 30 books in the calendar year which helped keep my mind’s creative juices flowing.
This year, I have decided to take a step back and lower my number to 20 books with the hope to read something that either brings me into more of an imagination plane of thought or to take me outside of my comfort zone. The exceptions will be some books on parenting my youngin or peeping out friends books that are coming out this year.
I challenge you to think about turning off the tube for a bit and reading more in 2013.
Below is the list of books I read in 2012 (hyperlinked books have reviews):
- The Flinch
- Home Buying Everything You Must Know
- The Social Media Strategist
- No Bullshit Social Media
- The Pursuit of Happyness
- How to Sell Your House for More Money
- Out of Oz
- The Science of Social
- The end of Business as Usual
- Social TV
- Sea of Monsters
- The Titan’s Curse
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The Storytelling Animal
- Marketing in the Round
- Freedom is Blogging in Your Underwear
- The Hunger Games
- Moonwalking with Einstein
- The Hobbit
- Catching Fire
- Mockingjay
- Honest Signals
- Brewing Better Beer
- LinkedIn for Business
- Optimize
- You Gotta Have Balls
- @YourService
- That Book About Harvard
- Fierce Loyalty
- Battle of the Labyrinth
- The Last Olympian
- Cloud Atlas
- Amazing Things Will Happen
- Muck City
- The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe
- Texts from Dog
I’d like to hear about books you’d recommend.
I love to read, and have taken up Kenna Griffin’s #100books challenge for 2013. A lofty goal, but hey!…no guts, no glory. I’m only on book #5, so I know the bar’s set high, but it’s good to have a goal, right? One of my most favourite books of all time is Einsten’s Dreams. Some others I’d suggest: Drive and To Sell is Human by Daniel Pink/ The Way of the Tiger by Lance Secretan/ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (which I first read in university and am now re-reading for probably the fourth time. I get something new out of it each time)/ I could go on and on, but these are a few faves. Cheers! Kaarina
KDillabough Thanks for the suggestions! Both of Pink’s books are on my Amazon maybe I should purchase list and think I might. Now on to the 100 books… damn you crazy – are you giving up TV all together?
jeffespo Don’t watch much TV…except NHL hockey and NLL lacrosse, of course! I’m a crazy-avid reader. First thing every morning and bedtime are sacrosanct reading times for me.
I also highly recommend “Einstein’s Dreams”, mentioned above, by physicist Alan Lightman. It’s a small novel that can be read in one sitting – 30 fables that “probe the essence of time, the adventure of creativity and the glory of possibility”…simply brilliant. Cheers! Kaarina
KDillabough I will add to the wish list my friend 🙂
@Beverly_Davis What?
@KOttavio I will slap you
@jeffespo Can I add the Bell Jar and Feminine Mystique to your list? 😛