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Let's Turn Pages - 2018
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Jan: (view spoiler)[256+240+127+112+114+258+128+251+225+288+228+208+191+265+224+368+320+466+316+306+224+176+336+304+252+240+256+384+256+583+224+400+288+480+242+308+272+416+224+256+263+133+288+206+320+217+234+304+209+180+304+448+527+623+272+224+288+162+201+202+288+111+276+280+391+320+272+320+288+256+592+168+212+208+288+206+544+224+256+288+208+288+218+320+448+240+264+304+256 (hide spoiler)]
= 89 books, 24,941 pages
Feb:(view spoiler)[270+288+336+192+80+603+259+416+384+316+273+192+336+336+208+149+288+272+352+176+147+368+256+320+248+320+256+280+400+252+304+304+320+384+224+334+339+304+496+320+307+304+205+466+256+242 (hide spoiler)]
= 47 books, 14,086 pages
Mar: (view spoiler)[400+400+341+205+288+864+242+176+384+240+352+324+187+304+528+320+295+375+360+295+320+240+384+256+106+70+326+208+187+229+304+256+224+386+219+240+272+230+80+156+163+288+208+751+320+399+256+208+362+286+114+160+432+528+230+240+202+352+432+272+115+304+416+240+929+256+635+170+320+336+213+364+224+148+256+403+450+257+128+357+208+208+222+256+343+480+448+483+640+273+336 (hide spoiler)]
= 91 books, 28,094 pages
Apr:(view spoiler)[528+214+288+274+244+448+304+249+320+212+320+388+480+272+225+66+304+400+384+378+39+274+224+208+215+200+256+269+352+353+256+204+312+212+336+58+194+480+256+196+208+224+480+257+338+142+208+288+384+288+384+309+266+345+432+304+272+134+301+426+376+386+352+245+336+288+880+274+1152+312+97+352+288+432+336+321+107+219+458+320+299+397+224+386+224+320+141+160+411+304+282+358+224+320+334+272+416+370+256+320+249+296+448+276+272+354+224+256+400+256+234+352+306+256+368+551+640+208+319+301+254+380+320+285+110+386+304+336+272+356+288+236+352+400+392+736 (hide spoiler)]
= 136 books, 42,714 pages
May: (view spoiler)[264+480+224+176+136+332+232+368+299+306+196+334+242+288+224+216+496+368+406+272+339+274+385+208+304+243+236+352+316+496+224+356+304+250+304+242+294+274+288+309+288+280+357+240+302+293+288+272+304+292+273+288+224+462+234+442+496+416+703+320+256+303+205+310+327+448+316+304+246+352+213+322+408+240+443+256+256+273+246+288+228+209+551+256+375+336+225+336+352+320+575+513+426+192+324+305+294+688+320+288+224+335+340+224+386+288+256+256+384+304+256+416+214+352+224+288+206+207+288+281+219+368+378+272+242+156+221+240+240+336+272+368+206+976 (hide spoiler)]
= 134 books, 41,132 pages
Jun: (view spoiler)[320+40+83+244+397+272+528+392+496+213+192+788+384+304+524+302+206+216+349+336+704+224+288+322+334+172+483+354+240+320+544+128+320+256+160+544+326+228+384+240+297+256+415+272+272+432+176+218+256+368+243+208+368+528+288+70+1716+128+606+198+250+252+240+220+256+192+256+410+336+272+243+656+376+272+256+142+656+432+234+729+404+321+85+208+308+224+352+303+220+240+224+144+224+170+288+272+352+81+304+416+237+290+240+320+256+384 (hide spoiler)]
= 106 books, 34,008 pages
Jul: (view spoiler)[335+480+128+236+304+120+357+240+336+288+288+366+304+240+272+384+256+384+372+480+281+128+344+260+44+240+234+208+272+272+393+304+267+320+320+480+272+336+480+272+290+288+304+337+272+480+496+304+288+215+352+242+536+165+201+324+362+191+291+224+240+226+304+309+ (hide spoiler)]
= 64 books, 19,098 pages
Aug: (view spoiler)[369+336+448+240+160+288+288+571+299+267 (hide spoiler)]
= 10 books, 3,266 pages
Sep: (view spoiler)[352+567+368+280+272+136+320+216+384+224+304+217+225+314+384+544+333+220+266+128+208+241+295+272+543+240+96+272+396+320+192+304+90+304+192+240+272+242+237+368+256+148+496+448+336+240+276+240+304+336+399+192+288+210+72+218+208+107+578+476+288+273+225+432+379+272+240+127+266+456+271+373+249+335+200+220+240+201+290+144+248+208+239+304+288+319+120+84+209+357+341+131+96+290+272+286+304+76+320+288+272+276+282+259+332+299+480+256+340+240+246 (hide spoiler)]
= 111 books, 31,749 pages
Oct: (view spoiler)[304+308+204+388+320+320+384+256+304+272+122+248+225+274+400+240+285+369+256+156+176+460+306+275+432+416+272+254+400+178+309+272+224+168+288+256+114+160+256+104+384+241+224+336+408+168+336+336+299+240+496+384+268+144+192+256+122+212+244+274+320+279+240+390+228+95+288+241+240+226+272+213+29 (hide spoiler)]
= 73 books, 19,570 pages
Nov: (view spoiler)[288+272+208+272+320+96+254+115+130+320+128+212+144+318+96+225+253+184+138+192+256+302+320 (hide spoiler)]
= 23 books, 5,043 pages
Dec: (view spoiler)[291+448+114+224+128+225+77+192+176+319+272+300+237+233+192+320 (hide spoiler)]
= 16 books, 3,748 pages
Total Books: 900
Total Pages: 267,457
Let's Turn Pages - 2018
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Jan: (view spoiler)[256+240+127+112+114+258+128+251+225+288+228+208+191+265+224+368+320+466+316+306+224+176+336+304+252+240+256+384+256+583+224+400+288+480+242+308+272+416+224+256+263+133+288+206+320+217+234+304+209+180+304+448+527+623+272+224+288+162+201+202+288+111+276+280+391+320+272+320+288+256+592+168+212+208+288+206+544+224+256+288+208+288+218+320+448+240+264+304+256 (hide spoiler)]
= 89 books, 24,941 pages
Feb:(view spoiler)[270+288+336+192+80+603+259+416+384+316+273+192+336+336+208+149+288+272+352+176+147+368+256+320+248+320+256+280+400+252+304+304+320+384+224+334+339+304+496+320+307+304+205+466+256+242 (hide spoiler)]
= 47 books, 14,086 pages
Mar: (view spoiler)[400+400+341+205+288+864+242+176+384+240+352+324+187+304+528+320+295+375+360+295+320+240+384+256+106+70+326+208+187+229+304+256+224+386+219+240+272+230+80+156+163+288+208+751+320+399+256+208+362+286+114+160+432+528+230+240+202+352+432+272+115+304+416+240+929+256+635+170+320+336+213+364+224+148+256+403+450+257+128+357+208+208+222+256+343+480+448+483+640+273+336 (hide spoiler)]
= 91 books, 28,094 pages
Apr:(view spoiler)[528+214+288+274+244+448+304+249+320+212+320+388+480+272+225+66+304+400+384+378+39+274+224+208+215+200+256+269+352+353+256+204+312+212+336+58+194+480+256+196+208+224+480+257+338+142+208+288+384+288+384+309+266+345+432+304+272+134+301+426+376+386+352+245+336+288+880+274+1152+312+97+352+288+432+336+321+107+219+458+320+299+397+224+386+224+320+141+160+411+304+282+358+224+320+334+272+416+370+256+320+249+296+448+276+272+354+224+256+400+256+234+352+306+256+368+551+640+208+319+301+254+380+320+285+110+386+304+336+272+356+288+236+352+400+392+736 (hide spoiler)]
= 136 books, 42,714 pages
May: (view spoiler)[264+480+224+176+136+332+232+368+299+306+196+334+242+288+224+216+496+368+406+272+339+274+385+208+304+243+236+352+316+496+224+356+304+250+304+242+294+274+288+309+288+280+357+240+302+293+288+272+304+292+273+288+224+462+234+442+496+416+703+320+256+303+205+310+327+448+316+304+246+352+213+322+408+240+443+256+256+273+246+288+228+209+551+256+375+336+225+336+352+320+575+513+426+192+324+305+294+688+320+288+224+335+340+224+386+288+256+256+384+304+256+416+214+352+224+288+206+207+288+281+219+368+378+272+242+156+221+240+240+336+272+368+206+976 (hide spoiler)]
= 134 books, 41,132 pages
Jun: (view spoiler)[320+40+83+244+397+272+528+392+496+213+192+788+384+304+524+302+206+216+349+336+704+224+288+322+334+172+483+354+240+320+544+128+320+256+160+544+326+228+384+240+297+256+415+272+272+432+176+218+256+368+243+208+368+528+288+70+1716+128+606+198+250+252+240+220+256+192+256+410+336+272+243+656+376+272+256+142+656+432+234+729+404+321+85+208+308+224+352+303+220+240+224+144+224+170+288+272+352+81+304+416+237+290+240+320+256+384 (hide spoiler)]
= 106 books, 34,008 pages
Jul: (view spoiler)[335+480+128+236+304+120+357+240+336+288+288+366+304+240+272+384+256+384+372+480+281+128+344+260+44+240+234+208+272+272+393+304+267+320+320+480+272+336+480+272+290+288+304+337+272+480+496+304+288+215+352+242+536+165+201+324+362+191+291+224+240+226+304+309+ (hide spoiler)]
= 64 books, 19,098 pages
Aug: (view spoiler)[369+336+448+240+160+288+288+571+299+267 (hide spoiler)]
= 10 books, 3,266 pages
Sep: (view spoiler)[352+567+368+280+272+136+320+216+384+224+304+217+225+314+384+544+333+220+266+128+208+241+295+272+543+240+96+272+396+320+192+304+90+304+192+240+272+242+237+368+256+148+496+448+336+240+276+240+304+336+399+192+288+210+72+218+208+107+578+476+288+273+225+432+379+272+240+127+266+456+271+373+249+335+200+220+240+201+290+144+248+208+239+304+288+319+120+84+209+357+341+131+96+290+272+286+304+76+320+288+272+276+282+259+332+299+480+256+340+240+246 (hide spoiler)]
= 111 books, 31,749 pages
Oct: (view spoiler)[304+308+204+388+320+320+384+256+304+272+122+248+225+274+400+240+285+369+256+156+176+460+306+275+432+416+272+254+400+178+309+272+224+168+288+256+114+160+256+104+384+241+224+336+408+168+336+336+299+240+496+384+268+144+192+256+122+212+244+274+320+279+240+390+228+95+288+241+240+226+272+213+29 (hide spoiler)]
= 73 books, 19,570 pages
Nov: (view spoiler)[288+272+208+272+320+96+254+115+130+320+128+212+144+318+96+225+253+184+138+192+256+302+320 (hide spoiler)]
= 23 books, 5,043 pages
Dec: (view spoiler)[291+448+114+224+128+225+77+192+176+319+272+300+237+233+192+320 (hide spoiler)]
= 16 books, 3,748 pages
Total Books: 900
Total Pages: 267,457
The Challenge Factory
Duration : January 1 - 31, 2018
Books must be at least 200 pages.
10/10 ✔
Gera’s Imperium II No. 200, Gera Plaza, Boat Club Road
(view spoiler)[read the second book in a trilogy or series
15/1/18 ***** - The Art of Seduction
read a book with 200 + pages
18/1/18 ***** - 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs (hide spoiler)]
Gera’s Imperium I (sits on 4 acres)
(view spoiler)[read the first book in a trilogy or series
21/1/18 **** - Tomorrow, When the War Began
read a book with 400+ pages
18/1/18 **** - Dead Gods: The 27 Club (hide spoiler)]
Kamat Plaza (famous hotel)
(view spoiler)[read a book with a 'Z' on the cover
4/1/18 ** - Mindsharing: The Art of Crowdsourcing Everything
read a book by a deceased author
17/1/18 **** - Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business (hide spoiler)]
Star Bhavan (Bank of India)
(view spoiler)[read a book where the mc is rich
25/1/18 *** - How to Think Like Bill Gates
read a book where the mc needs money
27/1/18 * - Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic by John De Graaf (hide spoiler)]
Dempo Trade Centre (has 7 floors)
(view spoiler)[read a book with a lot of white on the cover
16/1/18 *** - Unstoppable: 45 Powerful Stories of Perseverance and Triumph from People Just Like You
read a book with 7 or more words in the title
18/1/18 *** - 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People (hide spoiler)]
Duration : January 1 - 31, 2018
Books must be at least 200 pages.
10/10 ✔
Gera’s Imperium II No. 200, Gera Plaza, Boat Club Road
(view spoiler)[read the second book in a trilogy or series
15/1/18 ***** - The Art of Seduction
read a book with 200 + pages
18/1/18 ***** - 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs (hide spoiler)]
Gera’s Imperium I (sits on 4 acres)
(view spoiler)[read the first book in a trilogy or series
21/1/18 **** - Tomorrow, When the War Began
read a book with 400+ pages
18/1/18 **** - Dead Gods: The 27 Club (hide spoiler)]
Kamat Plaza (famous hotel)
(view spoiler)[read a book with a 'Z' on the cover
4/1/18 ** - Mindsharing: The Art of Crowdsourcing Everything
read a book by a deceased author
17/1/18 **** - Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business (hide spoiler)]
Star Bhavan (Bank of India)
(view spoiler)[read a book where the mc is rich
25/1/18 *** - How to Think Like Bill Gates
read a book where the mc needs money
27/1/18 * - Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic by John De Graaf (hide spoiler)]
Dempo Trade Centre (has 7 floors)
(view spoiler)[read a book with a lot of white on the cover
16/1/18 *** - Unstoppable: 45 Powerful Stories of Perseverance and Triumph from People Just Like You
read a book with 7 or more words in the title
18/1/18 *** - 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People (hide spoiler)]
The Challenge Factory
January TCF Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1st to January 31st, 2018
Read: 45/45 ✔
Garnet
(view spoiler)[G - 19/1/18 **** - The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg
A - 19/1/18 *** - #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso
R - 19/1/18 ***** - Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags by Linda Rottenberg
N - 19/1/18 ** - How to Become a Straight-A Student by Cal Newport
E - 19/1/18 ***** - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
T - 19/1/18 ***** - Get Smart!: How to Think, Decide, Act, and Get Better Results in Everything You Do by Brian Tracy (hide spoiler)]
Resolution
(view spoiler)[R - 20/1/18 *** - How to Be a Power Connector: The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Network Into Profits by Judy Robinett
E - 20/1/18 *** - Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss by Joel Fuhrman
S - 20/1/18 ** - 80/20 Internet Lead Generation: How a Few Simple, Profitable Strategies Can Lead to Marketplace Domination by Scott A. Dennison
O - 21/1/18 *** - The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, And the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
L - 20/1/18 **** - Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute
U - 20/1/18 **** - The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment by Todd Kashdan
T - 19/1/18 ***** - 10 Days to Faster Reading by The Princeton Language Institute
I - 21/1/18 **** - The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
O - 21/1/18 ***** - The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
N - 19/1/18 * - 121 First Dates: How to Succeed at Online Dating, Fall in Love, and Live Happily Ever After by Wendy Newman (hide spoiler)]
Capricorn
(view spoiler)[C - 21/1/18 *** - The Culture Engine: A Framework for Driving Results, Inspiring Your Employees, and Transforming Your Workplace by S. Chris Edmonds
A - 21/1/18 **** - The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry by John Warrillow
P - 21/1/18 **** - The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage by Daymond John
R - 22/1/18 *** - The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation by Kal Raustiala
I - 21/1/18 **** - Speak to Win: How to Present with Power in Any Situation by Brian Tracy
C - 21/1/18 ***** - The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success by Darren Hardy
O - 22/1/18 **** - The One Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard
R - 22/1/18 *** - The Industries of the Future by Alec J. Ross
N - 20/1/18 *** - The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships by Neil Strauss (hide spoiler)]
Garnet
(view spoiler)[G - 5/1/18 **** - The Gabriel Method by Jon Gabriel
A - 1/1/18 *** - ASAP Science by Mitchell Moffit
R - 19/1/18 **** - Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott
N - 17/1/18 *** - Job U: How to Find Wealth and Success by Developing the Skills Companies Actually Need by Nicholas Wyman
E - 5/1/18 *** - Leadership IQ: A Personal Development Process Based on a Scientific Study of a New Generation of Leaders by Emmett C. Murphy
T - 6/1/18 ** - My Grammar and I... Or Should That Be Me?: How to Speak and Write It Right by Caroline Taggart (hide spoiler)]
Bendudelums
(view spoiler)[B - 23/1/18 **** - 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman
E - 5/1/18 ** - Effective Immediately: How to Fit In, Stand Out, and Move Up at Your First Real Job by Emily Bennington
N - 2/1/18 ** - 10 Exciting Keys To Success: The Power Of A Successful Life by Bill Newman
D - 4/1/18 **** - Dream-Biz.Com: Design Your Future and Live Your Dreams in the E-Economy! by Burke Hedges
U - 16/1/18 **** - Ultimate Productivity by Jim Stovall
D - 22/1/18 *** - The Road to Character by David Brooks
E - 15/1/18 **** - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
L - 17/1/18 ** - I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey through the Science of Sound and Language by Lydia Denworth
U - 6/1/18 ***** - The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence by Robert Anthony
M - 4/1/18 **** - Gaining the Competitive Edge in Life & Business by Martin Ayles
S - 4/1/18 *** - The Sales Coach by Michael Patterson (hide spoiler)]
National Hobby Month: Read a book that features one of your favorite hobbies
17/1/18 **** - Body Language Secrets to Win More Negotiations
Walk Your Dog Month: Read a book with a dog on the cover
8/1/18 **** - The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need
January 6th: National Technology Day: Read a book where a character has to use computers
2/1/18 * - Click: What Millions of People Do Online and Why It Matters
January TCF Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1st to January 31st, 2018
Read: 45/45 ✔
Garnet
(view spoiler)[G - 19/1/18 **** - The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg
A - 19/1/18 *** - #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso
R - 19/1/18 ***** - Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags by Linda Rottenberg
N - 19/1/18 ** - How to Become a Straight-A Student by Cal Newport
E - 19/1/18 ***** - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
T - 19/1/18 ***** - Get Smart!: How to Think, Decide, Act, and Get Better Results in Everything You Do by Brian Tracy (hide spoiler)]
Resolution
(view spoiler)[R - 20/1/18 *** - How to Be a Power Connector: The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Network Into Profits by Judy Robinett
E - 20/1/18 *** - Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss by Joel Fuhrman
S - 20/1/18 ** - 80/20 Internet Lead Generation: How a Few Simple, Profitable Strategies Can Lead to Marketplace Domination by Scott A. Dennison
O - 21/1/18 *** - The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, And the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
L - 20/1/18 **** - Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute
U - 20/1/18 **** - The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment by Todd Kashdan
T - 19/1/18 ***** - 10 Days to Faster Reading by The Princeton Language Institute
I - 21/1/18 **** - The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
O - 21/1/18 ***** - The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
N - 19/1/18 * - 121 First Dates: How to Succeed at Online Dating, Fall in Love, and Live Happily Ever After by Wendy Newman (hide spoiler)]
Capricorn
(view spoiler)[C - 21/1/18 *** - The Culture Engine: A Framework for Driving Results, Inspiring Your Employees, and Transforming Your Workplace by S. Chris Edmonds
A - 21/1/18 **** - The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry by John Warrillow
P - 21/1/18 **** - The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage by Daymond John
R - 22/1/18 *** - The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation by Kal Raustiala
I - 21/1/18 **** - Speak to Win: How to Present with Power in Any Situation by Brian Tracy
C - 21/1/18 ***** - The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success by Darren Hardy
O - 22/1/18 **** - The One Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard
R - 22/1/18 *** - The Industries of the Future by Alec J. Ross
N - 20/1/18 *** - The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships by Neil Strauss (hide spoiler)]
Garnet
(view spoiler)[G - 5/1/18 **** - The Gabriel Method by Jon Gabriel
A - 1/1/18 *** - ASAP Science by Mitchell Moffit
R - 19/1/18 **** - Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott
N - 17/1/18 *** - Job U: How to Find Wealth and Success by Developing the Skills Companies Actually Need by Nicholas Wyman
E - 5/1/18 *** - Leadership IQ: A Personal Development Process Based on a Scientific Study of a New Generation of Leaders by Emmett C. Murphy
T - 6/1/18 ** - My Grammar and I... Or Should That Be Me?: How to Speak and Write It Right by Caroline Taggart (hide spoiler)]
Bendudelums
(view spoiler)[B - 23/1/18 **** - 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman
E - 5/1/18 ** - Effective Immediately: How to Fit In, Stand Out, and Move Up at Your First Real Job by Emily Bennington
N - 2/1/18 ** - 10 Exciting Keys To Success: The Power Of A Successful Life by Bill Newman
D - 4/1/18 **** - Dream-Biz.Com: Design Your Future and Live Your Dreams in the E-Economy! by Burke Hedges
U - 16/1/18 **** - Ultimate Productivity by Jim Stovall
D - 22/1/18 *** - The Road to Character by David Brooks
E - 15/1/18 **** - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
L - 17/1/18 ** - I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey through the Science of Sound and Language by Lydia Denworth
U - 6/1/18 ***** - The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence by Robert Anthony
M - 4/1/18 **** - Gaining the Competitive Edge in Life & Business by Martin Ayles
S - 4/1/18 *** - The Sales Coach by Michael Patterson (hide spoiler)]
National Hobby Month: Read a book that features one of your favorite hobbies
17/1/18 **** - Body Language Secrets to Win More Negotiations
Walk Your Dog Month: Read a book with a dog on the cover
8/1/18 **** - The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need
January 6th: National Technology Day: Read a book where a character has to use computers
2/1/18 * - Click: What Millions of People Do Online and Why It Matters
Booktastic Bookaholics
Challenges - Yearly
A-Z Author 2018
26/26 ✔
(view spoiler)[A - 4/1/18 **** - Gaining the Competitive Edge in Life & Business by Martin Ayles
B - 19/1/18 ***** - Get Smart!: How to Think, Decide, Act, and Get Better Results in Everything You Do by Brian Tracy
C - 16/1/18 *** - Unstoppable: 45 Powerful Stories of Perseverance and Triumph from People Just Like You by Cynthia Kersey
D - 17/1/18 **** - Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business by Dale Carnegie
E - 5/1/18 *** - Leadership IQ: A Personal Development Process Based on a Scientific Study of a New Generation of Leaders by Emmett C. Murphy
F - 20/1/18 *** - Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss by Joel Fuhrman
G - 17/1/18 **** - Body Language Secrets to Win More Negotiations by Greg Williams
H - 4/1/18 **** - Dream-Biz.Com: Design Your Future and Live Your Dreams in the E-Economy! by Burke Hedges
I - 15/1/18 *** - Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance by Ian Goldin
J - 16/1/18 **** - Ultimate Productivity by Jim Stovall
K - 18/1/18 ***** - 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs by Kevin Kruse
L - 17/1/18 ** - I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey through the Science of Sound and Language by Lydia Denworth
M - 1/1/18 *** - ASAP Science by Mitchell Moffit
N - 2/1/18 ** - 10 Exciting Keys To Success: The Power Of A Successful Life by Bill Newman
O - 16/1/18 **** - A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science by Barbara Oakley
P - 8/1/18 **** - The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need by Scott Pape
Q - 17/1/18 * - How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide by Jane Bryant Quinn
R -19/1/18 ***** - Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags by Linda Rottenberg
S - 18/1/18 **** - Dead Gods: The 27 Club by Chris Salewicz
T - 6/1/18 ** - My Grammar and I... Or Should That Be Me?: How to Speak and Write It Right by Caroline Taggart
U - 16/1/18 ***** - Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything by Ulrich Boser
V - 15/1/18 **** - The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order by Paul Vigna
W - 17/1/18 *** - Job U: How to Find Wealth and Success by Developing the Skills Companies Actually Need by Nicholas Wyman
X - 23/1/18 *** - Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Y - 17/1/18 **** - Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs by Muhammad Yunus
Z - 4/1/18 ** - Mindsharing: The Art of Crowdsourcing Everything by Lior Zoref (hide spoiler)]
Challenges - Yearly
A-Z Author 2018
26/26 ✔
(view spoiler)[A - 4/1/18 **** - Gaining the Competitive Edge in Life & Business by Martin Ayles
B - 19/1/18 ***** - Get Smart!: How to Think, Decide, Act, and Get Better Results in Everything You Do by Brian Tracy
C - 16/1/18 *** - Unstoppable: 45 Powerful Stories of Perseverance and Triumph from People Just Like You by Cynthia Kersey
D - 17/1/18 **** - Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business by Dale Carnegie
E - 5/1/18 *** - Leadership IQ: A Personal Development Process Based on a Scientific Study of a New Generation of Leaders by Emmett C. Murphy
F - 20/1/18 *** - Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss by Joel Fuhrman
G - 17/1/18 **** - Body Language Secrets to Win More Negotiations by Greg Williams
H - 4/1/18 **** - Dream-Biz.Com: Design Your Future and Live Your Dreams in the E-Economy! by Burke Hedges
I - 15/1/18 *** - Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance by Ian Goldin
J - 16/1/18 **** - Ultimate Productivity by Jim Stovall
K - 18/1/18 ***** - 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs by Kevin Kruse
L - 17/1/18 ** - I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey through the Science of Sound and Language by Lydia Denworth
M - 1/1/18 *** - ASAP Science by Mitchell Moffit
N - 2/1/18 ** - 10 Exciting Keys To Success: The Power Of A Successful Life by Bill Newman
O - 16/1/18 **** - A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science by Barbara Oakley
P - 8/1/18 **** - The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need by Scott Pape
Q - 17/1/18 * - How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide by Jane Bryant Quinn
R -19/1/18 ***** - Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags by Linda Rottenberg
S - 18/1/18 **** - Dead Gods: The 27 Club by Chris Salewicz
T - 6/1/18 ** - My Grammar and I... Or Should That Be Me?: How to Speak and Write It Right by Caroline Taggart
U - 16/1/18 ***** - Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything by Ulrich Boser
V - 15/1/18 **** - The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order by Paul Vigna
W - 17/1/18 *** - Job U: How to Find Wealth and Success by Developing the Skills Companies Actually Need by Nicholas Wyman
X - 23/1/18 *** - Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Y - 17/1/18 **** - Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs by Muhammad Yunus
Z - 4/1/18 ** - Mindsharing: The Art of Crowdsourcing Everything by Lior Zoref (hide spoiler)]
Booktastic Bookaholics
Challenges - Yearly
About You Part 1 2018
36/36 Part 1 ✔
Month 1: Read your Birthday Month
(view spoiler)[J - 5/1/18 **** - The Gabriel Method by Jon Gabriel
U - 16/1/8 *** - Unstoppable: 45 Powerful Stories of Perseverance and Triumph from People Just Like You by Cynthia Kersey
L - 4/1/18 ** - Mindsharing: The Art of Crowdsourcing Everything by Lior Zoref
Y - 5/1/18 **** - Your Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More by Jason W. Womack (hide spoiler)]
Month 2: Read your Birthstone
(view spoiler)[R - 25/2/18 ** - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
U - 13/2/18 *** - The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
B - 23/2/18 *** - A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World from Prehistory to Today by William J. Bernstein
Y - 24/2/18 **** - You Only Have to Be Right Once: The Unprecedented Rise of the Instant Tech Billionaires by Randall Lane (hide spoiler)]
Month 3: Read your sign
(view spoiler)[L - 1/3/18 ** - A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life by J. Craig Venter
E - 1/3/18 **** - Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
O - 1/3/18 ** - On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss (hide spoiler)]
Month 4: Read your Chinese Zodiac & your favorite flower
(view spoiler)[M - 2/4/18 *** - Copyfight by Phillipa McGuinness
E - 1/4/18 *** - Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
T - 1/4/18 ***** - TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris J. Anderson
A - 1/4/18 *** - Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com by Aaron Ross
L - 1/4/18 **** - Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
R - 9/4/18 *** - Night School by Richard Wiseman
O - 2/4/18 ** - On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future by Karen Elliott House
O - 3/4/18 *** - Open by Andre Agassi
S - 7/4/18 ** - Zen in Plain English: Experience the Essence of Zen by Stephan Schuhmacher
T - 4/4/18 **** - Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life by Donald J. Trump
E - 2/4/18 ***** - Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth by T. Harv Eker
R - 3/4/18 *** - Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Goldstein
D - 2/4/18 ** - Why Mindfulness is Better than Chocolate: Your guide to inner peace, enhanced focus and deep happiness by David Michie
A - 3/4/18 *** - Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets by Al Ramadan
I - 6/4/18 ** - An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff
S - 9/4/18 ** - Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte
Y - 7/4/18 * - You Are What You Think by David Stoop (hide spoiler)]
Month 5: Read 2 books set in a country you'd like to visit
(view spoiler)[1 - 1/5/18 *** - Lonely Planet Dubai & Abu Dhabi by Lonely Planet
2 - 1/5/18 ** - Lonely Planet Scotland by Lonely Planet (hide spoiler)]
Month 6: Read 2 books from your favourite genre
(view spoiler)[1 - 1/6/18 **** - Sell It Today, Sell It Now by Tom Hopkins
2 - 1/6/18 *** - How Companies Win: Profiting from Demand-Driven Business Models No Matter What Business You’re In by Rick Kash (hide spoiler)]
Month 7: Read 2 books that a friend or family member has recommended to you.
(view spoiler)[1 - 25/7/18 ***** - The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller
2 - 26/7/18 **** - Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent by Ryan Holiday (hide spoiler)]
Month 8: Read 2 books written by some of your favorite authors.
(view spoiler)[1 - 20/8/18 **** - The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader's Day: Revitalize Your Spirit and Empower Your Leadership by John C. Maxwell
2 - 20/8/18 ***** - The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization by John C. Maxwell (hide spoiler)]
Challenges - Yearly
About You Part 1 2018
36/36 Part 1 ✔
Month 1: Read your Birthday Month
(view spoiler)[J - 5/1/18 **** - The Gabriel Method by Jon Gabriel
U - 16/1/8 *** - Unstoppable: 45 Powerful Stories of Perseverance and Triumph from People Just Like You by Cynthia Kersey
L - 4/1/18 ** - Mindsharing: The Art of Crowdsourcing Everything by Lior Zoref
Y - 5/1/18 **** - Your Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More by Jason W. Womack (hide spoiler)]
Month 2: Read your Birthstone
(view spoiler)[R - 25/2/18 ** - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
U - 13/2/18 *** - The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
B - 23/2/18 *** - A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World from Prehistory to Today by William J. Bernstein
Y - 24/2/18 **** - You Only Have to Be Right Once: The Unprecedented Rise of the Instant Tech Billionaires by Randall Lane (hide spoiler)]
Month 3: Read your sign
(view spoiler)[L - 1/3/18 ** - A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life by J. Craig Venter
E - 1/3/18 **** - Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
O - 1/3/18 ** - On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss (hide spoiler)]
Month 4: Read your Chinese Zodiac & your favorite flower
(view spoiler)[M - 2/4/18 *** - Copyfight by Phillipa McGuinness
E - 1/4/18 *** - Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
T - 1/4/18 ***** - TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris J. Anderson
A - 1/4/18 *** - Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com by Aaron Ross
L - 1/4/18 **** - Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
R - 9/4/18 *** - Night School by Richard Wiseman
O - 2/4/18 ** - On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future by Karen Elliott House
O - 3/4/18 *** - Open by Andre Agassi
S - 7/4/18 ** - Zen in Plain English: Experience the Essence of Zen by Stephan Schuhmacher
T - 4/4/18 **** - Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life by Donald J. Trump
E - 2/4/18 ***** - Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth by T. Harv Eker
R - 3/4/18 *** - Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Goldstein
D - 2/4/18 ** - Why Mindfulness is Better than Chocolate: Your guide to inner peace, enhanced focus and deep happiness by David Michie
A - 3/4/18 *** - Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets by Al Ramadan
I - 6/4/18 ** - An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff
S - 9/4/18 ** - Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte
Y - 7/4/18 * - You Are What You Think by David Stoop (hide spoiler)]
Month 5: Read 2 books set in a country you'd like to visit
(view spoiler)[1 - 1/5/18 *** - Lonely Planet Dubai & Abu Dhabi by Lonely Planet
2 - 1/5/18 ** - Lonely Planet Scotland by Lonely Planet (hide spoiler)]
Month 6: Read 2 books from your favourite genre
(view spoiler)[1 - 1/6/18 **** - Sell It Today, Sell It Now by Tom Hopkins
2 - 1/6/18 *** - How Companies Win: Profiting from Demand-Driven Business Models No Matter What Business You’re In by Rick Kash (hide spoiler)]
Month 7: Read 2 books that a friend or family member has recommended to you.
(view spoiler)[1 - 25/7/18 ***** - The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller
2 - 26/7/18 **** - Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent by Ryan Holiday (hide spoiler)]
Month 8: Read 2 books written by some of your favorite authors.
(view spoiler)[1 - 20/8/18 **** - The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader's Day: Revitalize Your Spirit and Empower Your Leadership by John C. Maxwell
2 - 20/8/18 ***** - The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization by John C. Maxwell (hide spoiler)]
Booktastic Bookaholics
Challenges - Yearly
About You Part 2 2018
66/66 ✔
1. Read four books that has your favorite color appear somewhere on the cover.
Green
(view spoiler)[8/1/81 **** - The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need by Scott Pape
24/1/18 **** - You Are Your Choices: 50 Ways to Live the Good Life by Alexandra Stoddard
16/1/18 **** - Ultimate Productivity by Jim Stovall
24/1/18 **** - The Illustrated Kitchen Bible by Victoria Blashford-Snell (hide spoiler)]
2. Read a two books where the main character has your dream job.
(view spoiler)[27/1/18 ***** - All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World by Seth Godin
9/2/18 ***** - The Greatest Networker in the World by John Milton Fogg (hide spoiler)]
3. A nickname you go by.
(view spoiler)[R - 26/1/17 ** - The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch
I - 15/1/18 *** - Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance by Ian Goldin
C - 18/1/18 **** - Dead Gods: The 27 Club by Chris Salewicz
H - 4/1/18 **** - Dream-Biz.Com: Design Your Future and Live Your Dreams in the E-Economy! by Burke Hedges
O - 16/1/18 **** - A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science by Barbara Oakley (hide spoiler)]
4. Read three books from your favorite series. They can all come from the same series or different series.
(view spoiler)[30/1/18 **** - The Dead of Night by John Marsden
1/2/18 **** - A Killing Frost by John Marsden
4/2/18 *** - Darkness, Be My Friend by John Marsden (hide spoiler)]
5. Are you first born or third born or even eighth born.
(view spoiler)[F - 24/1/18 * - Fox by Martin Wallen
I - 17/1/18 ** - I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey through the Science of Sound and Language by Lydia Denworth
R - 15/1/18 ***** - The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
S - 4/1/18 *** - The Sales Coach by Michael Patterson
T - 6/1/18 ** - My Grammar and I... Or Should That Be Me?: How to Speak and Write It Right by Caroline Taggart (hide spoiler)]
6. Make of your dream car.
(view spoiler)[L - 16/1/18 ***** - Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything by Ulrich Boser
A - 4/1/18 **** - Gaining the Competitive Edge in Life & Business by Martin Ayles
M - 1/1/18 *** - ASAP Science by Mitchell Moffit
B - 2/1/18 ** - 10 Exciting Keys To Success: The Power Of A Successful Life by Bill Newman
O - 21/1/18 *** - The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, And the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
R - 20/1/18 *** - How to Be a Power Connector: The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Network Into Profits by Judy Robinett
G - 17/1/18 **** - Body Language Secrets to Win More Negotiations by Greg Williams
H - 25/1/18 *** - How to Think Like Bill Gates by Daniel Smith
I - 21/1/18 **** - The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
N - 22/1/18 **** - The Narcissist You Know: Defending Yourself Against Extreme Narcissists in an All-About-Me Age by Joseph Burgo
I - 22/1/18 **** - The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise? by Chris Brogan (hide spoiler)]
7. Your best subject in school.
(view spoiler)[E - 5/1/18 *** - Leadership IQ: A Personal Development Process Based on a Scientific Study of a New Generation of Leaders by Emmett C. Murphy
N - 17/1/18 ** - The Machiavellian's Guide to Charm: For Both Men and Women by Nick Casanova
G - 19/1/18 ***** - Get Smart!: How to Think, Decide, Act, and Get Better Results in Everything You Do by Brian Tracy
L - 19/1/18 ***** - Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags by Linda Rottenberg
I - 23/1/18 *** - The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength by Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
S - 10/1/18 ** - Can I Freeze It?: How to Use the Most Versatile Appliance in Your Kitchen by Susie Theodorou
H - 17/1/18 * - How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide by Jane Bryant Quinn (hide spoiler)]
8. What is your favorite sport.
(view spoiler)[S - 18/1/18 *** - 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People by Susan M. Weinschenk
N - 17/1/18 *** - Job U: How to Find Wealth and Success by Developing the Skills Companies Actually Need by Nicholas Wyman
O - 21/1/18 ***** - The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
O - 22/1/18 **** - The One Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard
K - 18/1/18 ***** - 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs by Kevin Kruse
E - 5/1/18 ** - Effective Immediately: How to Fit In, Stand Out, and Move Up at Your First Real Job by Emily Bennington
R - 19/1/19 **** - Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott (hide spoiler)]
9. Read your favorite form of book.
(view spoiler)[P - 17/1/18 **** - Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business by Dale Carnegie
A - 6/1/18 ***** - The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence by Robert Anthony
P - 23/1/18 **** - People Over Profit: Break the System, Live with Purpose, Be More Successful by Dale Partridge
E - 19/1/18 ***** - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
R - 22/1/18 *** - The Road to Character by David Brooks
B - 2/1/18 * - Click: What Millions of People Do Online and Why It Matters by Bill Tancer
A - 15/1/18 **** - The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order by Paul Vigna
C - 21/1/18 *** - The Culture Engine: A Framework for Driving Results, Inspiring Your Employees, and Transforming Your Workplace by S. Chris Edmonds
K - 22/1/18 *** - The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation by Kal Raustiala (hide spoiler)]
10. Read 2 books written by some of your favorite authors.
(view spoiler)[21/1/18 ***** - The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success by Darren Hardy
21/1/18 **** - Speak to Win: How to Present with Power in Any Situation by Brian Tracy (hide spoiler)]
11. Elementals. Reading four books total. One with "Earth" "Wind" "Fire" and "Water in the title or the item is on the cover.
(view spoiler)[15/1/18 **** - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
16/1/18 *** - Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration from Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most with the Least by Jessica Jackley
17/1/18 **** - FIRE: How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation by Dan Ward
17/1/18 **** - The 1% Windfall: How Successful Companies Use Price to Profit and Grow by Rafi Mohammed (hide spoiler)]
12. Are you an Animal? A Vegetable? Or a Mineral? Decide what you are and then pick within that grouping. Are you a cheeta (Any animal will do)? A Potato(Any Vegtable will do)? Or a diamond(Any Mineral will do)? Read 3 books or spell it out?
(view spoiler)[D - 19/1/18 **** - Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper
I - 22/1/18 *** - The Industries of the Future by Alec J. Ross
A - 19/1/18 *** - #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso
M - 17/1/18 **** - Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs by Muhammad Yunus
O - 24/1/18 *** - The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain by Tali Sharot
N - 19/1/18 * 121 First Dates: How to Succeed at Online Dating, Fall in Love, and Live Happily Ever After by Wendy Newman
D - 20/1/18 ** - 80/20 Internet Lead Generation: How a Few Simple, Profitable Strategies Can Lead to Marketplace Domination by Scott A. Dennison (hide spoiler)]
Challenges - Yearly
About You Part 2 2018
66/66 ✔
1. Read four books that has your favorite color appear somewhere on the cover.
Green
(view spoiler)[8/1/81 **** - The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need by Scott Pape
24/1/18 **** - You Are Your Choices: 50 Ways to Live the Good Life by Alexandra Stoddard
16/1/18 **** - Ultimate Productivity by Jim Stovall
24/1/18 **** - The Illustrated Kitchen Bible by Victoria Blashford-Snell (hide spoiler)]
2. Read a two books where the main character has your dream job.
(view spoiler)[27/1/18 ***** - All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World by Seth Godin
9/2/18 ***** - The Greatest Networker in the World by John Milton Fogg (hide spoiler)]
3. A nickname you go by.
(view spoiler)[R - 26/1/17 ** - The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch
I - 15/1/18 *** - Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance by Ian Goldin
C - 18/1/18 **** - Dead Gods: The 27 Club by Chris Salewicz
H - 4/1/18 **** - Dream-Biz.Com: Design Your Future and Live Your Dreams in the E-Economy! by Burke Hedges
O - 16/1/18 **** - A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science by Barbara Oakley (hide spoiler)]
4. Read three books from your favorite series. They can all come from the same series or different series.
(view spoiler)[30/1/18 **** - The Dead of Night by John Marsden
1/2/18 **** - A Killing Frost by John Marsden
4/2/18 *** - Darkness, Be My Friend by John Marsden (hide spoiler)]
5. Are you first born or third born or even eighth born.
(view spoiler)[F - 24/1/18 * - Fox by Martin Wallen
I - 17/1/18 ** - I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey through the Science of Sound and Language by Lydia Denworth
R - 15/1/18 ***** - The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
S - 4/1/18 *** - The Sales Coach by Michael Patterson
T - 6/1/18 ** - My Grammar and I... Or Should That Be Me?: How to Speak and Write It Right by Caroline Taggart (hide spoiler)]
6. Make of your dream car.
(view spoiler)[L - 16/1/18 ***** - Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything by Ulrich Boser
A - 4/1/18 **** - Gaining the Competitive Edge in Life & Business by Martin Ayles
M - 1/1/18 *** - ASAP Science by Mitchell Moffit
B - 2/1/18 ** - 10 Exciting Keys To Success: The Power Of A Successful Life by Bill Newman
O - 21/1/18 *** - The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, And the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
R - 20/1/18 *** - How to Be a Power Connector: The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Network Into Profits by Judy Robinett
G - 17/1/18 **** - Body Language Secrets to Win More Negotiations by Greg Williams
H - 25/1/18 *** - How to Think Like Bill Gates by Daniel Smith
I - 21/1/18 **** - The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
N - 22/1/18 **** - The Narcissist You Know: Defending Yourself Against Extreme Narcissists in an All-About-Me Age by Joseph Burgo
I - 22/1/18 **** - The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise? by Chris Brogan (hide spoiler)]
7. Your best subject in school.
(view spoiler)[E - 5/1/18 *** - Leadership IQ: A Personal Development Process Based on a Scientific Study of a New Generation of Leaders by Emmett C. Murphy
N - 17/1/18 ** - The Machiavellian's Guide to Charm: For Both Men and Women by Nick Casanova
G - 19/1/18 ***** - Get Smart!: How to Think, Decide, Act, and Get Better Results in Everything You Do by Brian Tracy
L - 19/1/18 ***** - Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags by Linda Rottenberg
I - 23/1/18 *** - The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength by Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
S - 10/1/18 ** - Can I Freeze It?: How to Use the Most Versatile Appliance in Your Kitchen by Susie Theodorou
H - 17/1/18 * - How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide by Jane Bryant Quinn (hide spoiler)]
8. What is your favorite sport.
(view spoiler)[S - 18/1/18 *** - 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People by Susan M. Weinschenk
N - 17/1/18 *** - Job U: How to Find Wealth and Success by Developing the Skills Companies Actually Need by Nicholas Wyman
O - 21/1/18 ***** - The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
O - 22/1/18 **** - The One Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard
K - 18/1/18 ***** - 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs by Kevin Kruse
E - 5/1/18 ** - Effective Immediately: How to Fit In, Stand Out, and Move Up at Your First Real Job by Emily Bennington
R - 19/1/19 **** - Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott (hide spoiler)]
9. Read your favorite form of book.
(view spoiler)[P - 17/1/18 **** - Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business by Dale Carnegie
A - 6/1/18 ***** - The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence by Robert Anthony
P - 23/1/18 **** - People Over Profit: Break the System, Live with Purpose, Be More Successful by Dale Partridge
E - 19/1/18 ***** - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
R - 22/1/18 *** - The Road to Character by David Brooks
B - 2/1/18 * - Click: What Millions of People Do Online and Why It Matters by Bill Tancer
A - 15/1/18 **** - The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order by Paul Vigna
C - 21/1/18 *** - The Culture Engine: A Framework for Driving Results, Inspiring Your Employees, and Transforming Your Workplace by S. Chris Edmonds
K - 22/1/18 *** - The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation by Kal Raustiala (hide spoiler)]
10. Read 2 books written by some of your favorite authors.
(view spoiler)[21/1/18 ***** - The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success by Darren Hardy
21/1/18 **** - Speak to Win: How to Present with Power in Any Situation by Brian Tracy (hide spoiler)]
11. Elementals. Reading four books total. One with "Earth" "Wind" "Fire" and "Water in the title or the item is on the cover.
(view spoiler)[15/1/18 **** - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
16/1/18 *** - Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration from Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most with the Least by Jessica Jackley
17/1/18 **** - FIRE: How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation by Dan Ward
17/1/18 **** - The 1% Windfall: How Successful Companies Use Price to Profit and Grow by Rafi Mohammed (hide spoiler)]
12. Are you an Animal? A Vegetable? Or a Mineral? Decide what you are and then pick within that grouping. Are you a cheeta (Any animal will do)? A Potato(Any Vegtable will do)? Or a diamond(Any Mineral will do)? Read 3 books or spell it out?
(view spoiler)[D - 19/1/18 **** - Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper
I - 22/1/18 *** - The Industries of the Future by Alec J. Ross
A - 19/1/18 *** - #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso
M - 17/1/18 **** - Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs by Muhammad Yunus
O - 24/1/18 *** - The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain by Tali Sharot
N - 19/1/18 * 121 First Dates: How to Succeed at Online Dating, Fall in Love, and Live Happily Ever After by Wendy Newman
D - 20/1/18 ** - 80/20 Internet Lead Generation: How a Few Simple, Profitable Strategies Can Lead to Marketplace Domination by Scott A. Dennison (hide spoiler)]
Booktastic Bookaholics
Challenges - Yearly
About You Part 3 2018
82/82 ✔
1. Read 2 books written by some of your favorite authors.
(view spoiler)[23/1/18 **** - TurboCoach: A Powerful System for Achieving Breakthrough Career Success by Brian Tracy
25/1/18 **** - The 4 Pillars of Leadership by John C. Maxwell (hide spoiler)]
2. Spell out your favorite holiday or read two books that are set during that time.
(view spoiler)[A - 21/1/18 **** - The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry by John Warrillow
U - 20/1/18 **** - The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment by Todd Kashdan
S - 20/1/18 *** - The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships by Neil Strauss
T - 19/1/18 ***** - 10 Days to Faster Reading by The Princeton Language Institute
R - 28/1/18 *** - The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
A - 27/1/18 * - Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic by John De Graaf
L - 20/1/18 **** - Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute
I - 27/1/18 **** - The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris
A - 27/1/18 ** - Ask: The Counterintuitive Online Formula to Discover Exactly What Your Customers Want to Buy...Create a Mass of Raving Fans...and Take Any Business to the Next Level by Ryan Levesque
D - 21/1/18 **** - The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage by Daymond John
A - 30/1/18 ** - Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love by Amir Levine
Y - 30/1/18 **** - You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero (hide spoiler)]
3. Your favorite bad guy. Who do you love to hate! Who do you hope changes! Spell it out.
(from Doctor Who)
(view spoiler)[M - 5/2/18 *** - The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
I - 2/2/18 *** - The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
S - 22/1/18 *** - The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time by Arianna Huffington
S - 7/2/18 * - Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty by Nancy L. Etcoff
Y - 13/2/14 *** - Your First 1000 Copies: The Step-by-Step Guide to Marketing Your Book by Tim Grahl (hide spoiler)]
4.Your favorite skin care product.
(view spoiler)[A - 1/2/18 **** - Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson
R - 1/2/18 *** - The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations Into Breakthroughs by Marcia Reynolds
T - 6/2/18 *** - Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs
I - 14/2/18 *** - I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
S - 17/2/18 **** - Activate Your Brain: How Understanding Your Brain Can Improve Your Work - and Your Life by Scott G. Halford
T - 7/2/18 ** - The Twenty-four Hour Mind: the Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives by Rosalind D. Cartwright
R - 5/2/18 *** - The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck
Y - 25/2/18 **** - A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness by Joseph A. Maciariello (hide spoiler)]
5. Your favorite board game or card game as a child.
(view spoiler)[S - 17/2/18 *** - Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind by Alex Stone
C - 19/1/18 ** - How to Become a Straight-A Student by Cal Newport
R - 2/3/18 *** - Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World by Matthieu Ricard
A - 6/2/18 ** - Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content by Mark Levy
B - 19/1/18 **** - The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg
B - 5/2/18 **** - The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
L - 25/2/18 ** - A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change by Stanley Lieberson
E - 20/1/18 *** - Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss by Joel Fuhrman (hide spoiler)]
6. Read 1 book that is your favorite movie made from books. Rereads are allowed for this. This can even be your favorite book being made into a movie.
(view spoiler)[22/1/18 **** - Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden (hide spoiler)]
7. Spell out your favorite childhood tv show.
(view spoiler)[A - 13/2/18 *** - 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success by Amy Morin
S - 19/2/18 ** - Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor
T - 23/2/18 ** - Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
R - 2/3/18 *** - Raise Your Voice: A Cause Manifesto by Brian Sooy
O - 29/1/18 ***** - The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller
B - 23/1/18 **** - 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman
O - 2/3/18 ** - Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World by Nick Lane
Y - 26/2/18 **** - You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself by David McRaney (hide spoiler)]
8. Spell out your favorite beverage.
(view spoiler)[X - 27/2/18 *** - The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
S - 17/2/18 ** - 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today by Stephen Le
E - 27/2/18 ** - Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability by Peter Dauvergne
N - 19/2/18 **** - Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future by Rohit Bhargava
E - 19/2/18 ***** - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
R - 19/2/18 ** - 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner
G - 1/2/18 ** - The Genius of Charlie Brown: Peanuts Guide to Life by Charles M. Schulz
Y - 3/3/18 *** - Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration--Lessons from The Second City by Kelly Leonard (hide spoiler)]
9. Read two books that you consider the cover artistic.
(view spoiler)[5/3/18 ** - Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
6/3/18 *** - An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield (hide spoiler)]
10. Spell out your favorite cartoon character.
(view spoiler)[R - 19/2/18 **** - Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours by Robert C. Pozen
I - 3/3/18 *** - If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy? by Raj Raghunathan
C - 1/2/18 **** - The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help––or Hurt––How You Lead by Carol Kinsey Goman
K - 4/3/18 ** - Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly (hide spoiler)]
11. Spell out a name of your pet
(view spoiler)[L - 13/2/18 ** - The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos by Leonard Mlodinow
U - 13/2/18 *** - The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
C - 5/2/18 **** - Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts by Susan Cain
K - 4/3/18 ** - Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective by Ha-Joon Chang
Y - 4/3/18 *** - The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell (hide spoiler)]
12. Spell out your favorite type of music/band/singer.
(view spoiler)[P - 25/2/18 *** - A World Without Ice by Henry N. Pollack
O - 4/3/18 **** - The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin
S - 27/2/18 ** - Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
T - 13/2/18 *** - The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh
M - 27/2/18 *** - Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders by Adam Morgan
O - 4/3/18 **** - The One Week Marketing Plan: The Set It & Forget It Approach for Quickly Growing Your Business by Mark Satterfield
D - 19/2/18 *** - Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage by Peter Forbes
E - 27/2/18 **** - Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business by Porter Erisman
R - 4/3/18 *** - Leadership Blind Spots and What to Do about Them by Karen Blakeley
N - 5/3/18 **** - Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny Le Couteur
J - 2/3/18 **** - Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job by Jon Acuff
U - 6/3/18 *** - The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle
K - 6/3/18 *** - Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Ken Segall
E - 7/3/18 *** - Economics: The User's Guide by Ha-Joon Chang
B - 1/3/18 *** - All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid by Matt Bai
O - 7/3/18 **** - On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
X - 7/3/18 ***** - The 10x Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure by Grant Cardone (hide spoiler)]
Challenges - Yearly
About You Part 3 2018
82/82 ✔
1. Read 2 books written by some of your favorite authors.
(view spoiler)[23/1/18 **** - TurboCoach: A Powerful System for Achieving Breakthrough Career Success by Brian Tracy
25/1/18 **** - The 4 Pillars of Leadership by John C. Maxwell (hide spoiler)]
2. Spell out your favorite holiday or read two books that are set during that time.
(view spoiler)[A - 21/1/18 **** - The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry by John Warrillow
U - 20/1/18 **** - The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment by Todd Kashdan
S - 20/1/18 *** - The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships by Neil Strauss
T - 19/1/18 ***** - 10 Days to Faster Reading by The Princeton Language Institute
R - 28/1/18 *** - The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
A - 27/1/18 * - Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic by John De Graaf
L - 20/1/18 **** - Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute
I - 27/1/18 **** - The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris
A - 27/1/18 ** - Ask: The Counterintuitive Online Formula to Discover Exactly What Your Customers Want to Buy...Create a Mass of Raving Fans...and Take Any Business to the Next Level by Ryan Levesque
D - 21/1/18 **** - The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage by Daymond John
A - 30/1/18 ** - Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love by Amir Levine
Y - 30/1/18 **** - You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero (hide spoiler)]
3. Your favorite bad guy. Who do you love to hate! Who do you hope changes! Spell it out.
(from Doctor Who)
(view spoiler)[M - 5/2/18 *** - The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
I - 2/2/18 *** - The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
S - 22/1/18 *** - The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time by Arianna Huffington
S - 7/2/18 * - Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty by Nancy L. Etcoff
Y - 13/2/14 *** - Your First 1000 Copies: The Step-by-Step Guide to Marketing Your Book by Tim Grahl (hide spoiler)]
4.Your favorite skin care product.
(view spoiler)[A - 1/2/18 **** - Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson
R - 1/2/18 *** - The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations Into Breakthroughs by Marcia Reynolds
T - 6/2/18 *** - Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs
I - 14/2/18 *** - I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
S - 17/2/18 **** - Activate Your Brain: How Understanding Your Brain Can Improve Your Work - and Your Life by Scott G. Halford
T - 7/2/18 ** - The Twenty-four Hour Mind: the Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives by Rosalind D. Cartwright
R - 5/2/18 *** - The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck
Y - 25/2/18 **** - A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness by Joseph A. Maciariello (hide spoiler)]
5. Your favorite board game or card game as a child.
(view spoiler)[S - 17/2/18 *** - Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind by Alex Stone
C - 19/1/18 ** - How to Become a Straight-A Student by Cal Newport
R - 2/3/18 *** - Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World by Matthieu Ricard
A - 6/2/18 ** - Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content by Mark Levy
B - 19/1/18 **** - The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg
B - 5/2/18 **** - The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
L - 25/2/18 ** - A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change by Stanley Lieberson
E - 20/1/18 *** - Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss by Joel Fuhrman (hide spoiler)]
6. Read 1 book that is your favorite movie made from books. Rereads are allowed for this. This can even be your favorite book being made into a movie.
(view spoiler)[22/1/18 **** - Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden (hide spoiler)]
7. Spell out your favorite childhood tv show.
(view spoiler)[A - 13/2/18 *** - 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success by Amy Morin
S - 19/2/18 ** - Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor
T - 23/2/18 ** - Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
R - 2/3/18 *** - Raise Your Voice: A Cause Manifesto by Brian Sooy
O - 29/1/18 ***** - The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller
B - 23/1/18 **** - 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman
O - 2/3/18 ** - Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World by Nick Lane
Y - 26/2/18 **** - You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself by David McRaney (hide spoiler)]
8. Spell out your favorite beverage.
(view spoiler)[X - 27/2/18 *** - The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
S - 17/2/18 ** - 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today by Stephen Le
E - 27/2/18 ** - Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability by Peter Dauvergne
N - 19/2/18 **** - Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future by Rohit Bhargava
E - 19/2/18 ***** - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
R - 19/2/18 ** - 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner
G - 1/2/18 ** - The Genius of Charlie Brown: Peanuts Guide to Life by Charles M. Schulz
Y - 3/3/18 *** - Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration--Lessons from The Second City by Kelly Leonard (hide spoiler)]
9. Read two books that you consider the cover artistic.
(view spoiler)[5/3/18 ** - Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
6/3/18 *** - An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield (hide spoiler)]
10. Spell out your favorite cartoon character.
(view spoiler)[R - 19/2/18 **** - Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours by Robert C. Pozen
I - 3/3/18 *** - If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy? by Raj Raghunathan
C - 1/2/18 **** - The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help––or Hurt––How You Lead by Carol Kinsey Goman
K - 4/3/18 ** - Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly (hide spoiler)]
11. Spell out a name of your pet
(view spoiler)[L - 13/2/18 ** - The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos by Leonard Mlodinow
U - 13/2/18 *** - The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
C - 5/2/18 **** - Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts by Susan Cain
K - 4/3/18 ** - Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective by Ha-Joon Chang
Y - 4/3/18 *** - The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell (hide spoiler)]
12. Spell out your favorite type of music/band/singer.
(view spoiler)[P - 25/2/18 *** - A World Without Ice by Henry N. Pollack
O - 4/3/18 **** - The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin
S - 27/2/18 ** - Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
T - 13/2/18 *** - The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh
M - 27/2/18 *** - Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders by Adam Morgan
O - 4/3/18 **** - The One Week Marketing Plan: The Set It & Forget It Approach for Quickly Growing Your Business by Mark Satterfield
D - 19/2/18 *** - Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage by Peter Forbes
E - 27/2/18 **** - Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business by Porter Erisman
R - 4/3/18 *** - Leadership Blind Spots and What to Do about Them by Karen Blakeley
N - 5/3/18 **** - Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny Le Couteur
J - 2/3/18 **** - Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job by Jon Acuff
U - 6/3/18 *** - The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle
K - 6/3/18 *** - Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Ken Segall
E - 7/3/18 *** - Economics: The User's Guide by Ha-Joon Chang
B - 1/3/18 *** - All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid by Matt Bai
O - 7/3/18 **** - On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
X - 7/3/18 ***** - The 10x Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure by Grant Cardone (hide spoiler)]
Booktastic Bookaholics
Challenges - Yearly
About You Part 4 2018
102/102 Part 1 ✔
1. Who is your favorite author? Read one of their books.
(view spoiler)[1 - 11/4/18 ***** - How Successful People Win: Turn Every Setback into a Step Forward by John C. Maxwell (hide spoiler)]
2. Your favorite Music genre.
(view spoiler)[B - 7/3/18 *** - 30 Ways to Reboot Your Body: A Complete User Manual for Getting the Most Out of the Human Body by Ben Greenfield
L - 8/3/18 *** - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
U - 16/2/18 *** - The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance by William McDonough
E - 13/3/18 ** - Effective HR Communication: A Framework for Communicating HR Programmes with Impact by Debra Corey
S - 8/3/18 ** - A Sky Full of Birds by Matt Merritt (hide spoiler)]
3. What is your favorite snack?
(view spoiler)[W - 7/3/18 *** - A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
A - 9/3/18 **** - Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness by Alan Derickson
S - 9/3/18 **** - Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight
A - 13/3/18 **** - As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
B - 13/3/18 *** - 21 Days to a Big Idea!: Creating Breakthrough Business Concepts by Bryan Mattimore
I - 26/3/18 ** - Idea to Execution: How to Optimize, Automate, and Outsource Everything in Your Business by Ari Meisel
P - 28/2/18 **** - Team of Leaders by Paul Gustavson
E - 21/3/18 **** - Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things by David Rose
A - 18/3/18 *** - The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan W. Watts (hide spoiler)]
4. Who is your favourite cartoon character?
(view spoiler)[B - 21/3/18 *** - How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
E - 22/3/18 *** - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
A - 23/3/18 *** - Anger Management for Dummies by W. Doyle Gentry
V - 25/3/18 **** - The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
I - 26/3/18 ** - I'm OK - You're OK by Thomas A. Harris
S - 22/3/18 **** - POP!: Stand Out in Any Crowd by Sam Horn (hide spoiler)]
5. What is your favorite holiday?
(view spoiler)[A - 23/3/18 *** - Accounting Made Simple: Accounting Explained in 100 Pages or Less by Mike Piper
U - 23/3/18 **** - The Ultimate Introduction to NLP: How to build a successful life by Richard Bandler
S - 24/3/18 ** - The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future by Steve Case
T - 1/3/18 **** - Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney
R - 23/3/18 *** - 60 Seconds and You're Hired! by Robin Ryan
A - 24/3/18 ** - A/B Testing: The Most Powerful Way to Turn Clicks Into Customers by Dan Siroker
L - 20/3/18 **** - Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
I - 26/3/18 *** - If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating by Alan Alda
A - 24/3/18 *** - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
D - 8/3/18 *** - Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey
A - 25/3/18 ***** - The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
Y - 26/3/18 ** - Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits by Kevin Roose (hide spoiler)]
6. What is your favorite children's book? Spell it out or read it.
(view spoiler)[T - 13/3/18 *** - Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
H - 17/2/18 *** - 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works by Dan Harris
E - 23/3/18 **** - Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss
L - 27/3/18 *** - Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time by Laura Stack
I - 27/3/18 *** - The IT Marketing Crash Course: How to Get Clients for Your Technology Business by Raj Khera
O - 7/3/18 *** - On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
N - 13/3/18 *** - Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum by Neil Patel
T - 27/3/18 *** - Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin
H - 23/3/18 ** - 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
E - 27/3/18 *** - Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
W - 24/3/18 * - A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order by Richard N. Haass
I - 30/3/18 *** - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
T - 28/3/18 ** - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
C - 7/3/18 ***** - Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho
H - 27/3/18 *** - Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
A - 29/3/18 *** - Living in Your Top 1%: Nine Essential Rituals to Achieve Your Ultimate Life Goals by Alissa Finerman
N - 21/3/18 ** - Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do by Kaiser Fung
D - 9/3/18 **** - Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You by Daniel Priestley
T - 29/3/18 **** - Unshakeable by Tony Robbins
H - 30/3/18 * - A Bigger Prize by Margaret Heffernan
E - 30/3/18 ** - How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
W - 24/3/18 *** - A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas by Warren Berger
A - 30/3/18 ** - Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought by Andrew W. Lo
R - 28/3/18 **** - 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
D - 26/3/18 ** - A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall Of The Ottoman Empire And The Creation Of The Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
R - 28/3/18 *** - Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win by Ryan Babineaux
O - 3/4/18 ** - Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative by Ken Robinson
B - 29/3/18 ***** - Be Obsessed or Be Average by Grant Cardone
E - 31/3/18 ** - Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert (hide spoiler)]
7. What is your favorite color? Read a book that the cover is mostly that color, the color is in the title, or spell it out.
(view spoiler)[1 - 7/4/18 *** - Random Kinds of Factness: 1001 (or So) Absolutely True Tidbits about (Mostly) Everything by Erin Barrett (hide spoiler)]
8. What is your favorite TV show? Spell it out.
(view spoiler)[B - 25/3/18 ***** - The 4 Laws of Financial Prosperity: Get Control of Your Money Now! by Blaine Harris
L - 2/4/18 ***** - Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World by Benny Lewis
A - 6/4/18 ** - Effective Logo Design: Guidelines for Small Business Owners, Bloggers, and Marketers by Anita Nipane
C - 23/3/18 **** - Campaigns that Shook the World: The Evolution of Public Relations by Danny Rogers
K - 25/3/18 **** - The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
M - 1/4/18 *** - Mindful Compassion: Using the Power of Mindfulness and Compassion to Transform our Lives by Paul Gilbert
I - 10/4/18 *** - Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia Puigcerver
R - 31/3/18 ** - Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life by Gretchen Rubin
R - 31/3/18 *** - SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
O - 12/4/18 ** - Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
R - 12/4/18 ** - Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt (hide spoiler)]
9. What is your favorite animal?
(view spoiler)[K - 23/3/18 **** - No Logo by Naomi Klein
I - 12/4/18 ** - Ignorance: How it drives science by Stuart Firestein
T - 3/4/18 ** - Finding Purpose by L.Leonard Taylor
T - 3/4/18 ** - 30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage by Karl Pillemer
E - 12/4/18 *** - Evergreen: Cultivate the Enduring Customer Loyalty That Keeps Your Business Thriving by Noah Fleming
N - 12/4/18 *** - Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright (hide spoiler)]
Challenges - Yearly
About You Part 4 2018
102/102 Part 1 ✔
1. Who is your favorite author? Read one of their books.
(view spoiler)[1 - 11/4/18 ***** - How Successful People Win: Turn Every Setback into a Step Forward by John C. Maxwell (hide spoiler)]
2. Your favorite Music genre.
(view spoiler)[B - 7/3/18 *** - 30 Ways to Reboot Your Body: A Complete User Manual for Getting the Most Out of the Human Body by Ben Greenfield
L - 8/3/18 *** - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
U - 16/2/18 *** - The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance by William McDonough
E - 13/3/18 ** - Effective HR Communication: A Framework for Communicating HR Programmes with Impact by Debra Corey
S - 8/3/18 ** - A Sky Full of Birds by Matt Merritt (hide spoiler)]
3. What is your favorite snack?
(view spoiler)[W - 7/3/18 *** - A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
A - 9/3/18 **** - Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness by Alan Derickson
S - 9/3/18 **** - Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight
A - 13/3/18 **** - As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
B - 13/3/18 *** - 21 Days to a Big Idea!: Creating Breakthrough Business Concepts by Bryan Mattimore
I - 26/3/18 ** - Idea to Execution: How to Optimize, Automate, and Outsource Everything in Your Business by Ari Meisel
P - 28/2/18 **** - Team of Leaders by Paul Gustavson
E - 21/3/18 **** - Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things by David Rose
A - 18/3/18 *** - The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan W. Watts (hide spoiler)]
4. Who is your favourite cartoon character?
(view spoiler)[B - 21/3/18 *** - How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
E - 22/3/18 *** - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
A - 23/3/18 *** - Anger Management for Dummies by W. Doyle Gentry
V - 25/3/18 **** - The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
I - 26/3/18 ** - I'm OK - You're OK by Thomas A. Harris
S - 22/3/18 **** - POP!: Stand Out in Any Crowd by Sam Horn (hide spoiler)]
5. What is your favorite holiday?
(view spoiler)[A - 23/3/18 *** - Accounting Made Simple: Accounting Explained in 100 Pages or Less by Mike Piper
U - 23/3/18 **** - The Ultimate Introduction to NLP: How to build a successful life by Richard Bandler
S - 24/3/18 ** - The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future by Steve Case
T - 1/3/18 **** - Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney
R - 23/3/18 *** - 60 Seconds and You're Hired! by Robin Ryan
A - 24/3/18 ** - A/B Testing: The Most Powerful Way to Turn Clicks Into Customers by Dan Siroker
L - 20/3/18 **** - Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
I - 26/3/18 *** - If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating by Alan Alda
A - 24/3/18 *** - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
D - 8/3/18 *** - Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey
A - 25/3/18 ***** - The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
Y - 26/3/18 ** - Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits by Kevin Roose (hide spoiler)]
6. What is your favorite children's book? Spell it out or read it.
(view spoiler)[T - 13/3/18 *** - Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
H - 17/2/18 *** - 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works by Dan Harris
E - 23/3/18 **** - Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss
L - 27/3/18 *** - Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time by Laura Stack
I - 27/3/18 *** - The IT Marketing Crash Course: How to Get Clients for Your Technology Business by Raj Khera
O - 7/3/18 *** - On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
N - 13/3/18 *** - Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum by Neil Patel
T - 27/3/18 *** - Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin
H - 23/3/18 ** - 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
E - 27/3/18 *** - Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
W - 24/3/18 * - A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order by Richard N. Haass
I - 30/3/18 *** - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
T - 28/3/18 ** - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
C - 7/3/18 ***** - Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho
H - 27/3/18 *** - Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
A - 29/3/18 *** - Living in Your Top 1%: Nine Essential Rituals to Achieve Your Ultimate Life Goals by Alissa Finerman
N - 21/3/18 ** - Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do by Kaiser Fung
D - 9/3/18 **** - Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You by Daniel Priestley
T - 29/3/18 **** - Unshakeable by Tony Robbins
H - 30/3/18 * - A Bigger Prize by Margaret Heffernan
E - 30/3/18 ** - How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
W - 24/3/18 *** - A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas by Warren Berger
A - 30/3/18 ** - Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought by Andrew W. Lo
R - 28/3/18 **** - 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
D - 26/3/18 ** - A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall Of The Ottoman Empire And The Creation Of The Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
R - 28/3/18 *** - Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win by Ryan Babineaux
O - 3/4/18 ** - Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative by Ken Robinson
B - 29/3/18 ***** - Be Obsessed or Be Average by Grant Cardone
E - 31/3/18 ** - Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert (hide spoiler)]
7. What is your favorite color? Read a book that the cover is mostly that color, the color is in the title, or spell it out.
(view spoiler)[1 - 7/4/18 *** - Random Kinds of Factness: 1001 (or So) Absolutely True Tidbits about (Mostly) Everything by Erin Barrett (hide spoiler)]
8. What is your favorite TV show? Spell it out.
(view spoiler)[B - 25/3/18 ***** - The 4 Laws of Financial Prosperity: Get Control of Your Money Now! by Blaine Harris
L - 2/4/18 ***** - Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World by Benny Lewis
A - 6/4/18 ** - Effective Logo Design: Guidelines for Small Business Owners, Bloggers, and Marketers by Anita Nipane
C - 23/3/18 **** - Campaigns that Shook the World: The Evolution of Public Relations by Danny Rogers
K - 25/3/18 **** - The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
M - 1/4/18 *** - Mindful Compassion: Using the Power of Mindfulness and Compassion to Transform our Lives by Paul Gilbert
I - 10/4/18 *** - Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia Puigcerver
R - 31/3/18 ** - Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life by Gretchen Rubin
R - 31/3/18 *** - SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
O - 12/4/18 ** - Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
R - 12/4/18 ** - Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt (hide spoiler)]
9. What is your favorite animal?
(view spoiler)[K - 23/3/18 **** - No Logo by Naomi Klein
I - 12/4/18 ** - Ignorance: How it drives science by Stuart Firestein
T - 3/4/18 ** - Finding Purpose by L.Leonard Taylor
T - 3/4/18 ** - 30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage by Karl Pillemer
E - 12/4/18 *** - Evergreen: Cultivate the Enduring Customer Loyalty That Keeps Your Business Thriving by Noah Fleming
N - 12/4/18 *** - Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright (hide spoiler)]
Wow, those are quite some challenges! Wishing you the best of luck with all of them & a very happy reading year!!
Susy wrote: "Wishing you the best of luck with all of them & a very happy reading year!!"
Thanks Susy, best of luck to you as well.
Thanks Susy, best of luck to you as well.
Richard wrote: "Susy wrote: "Wishing you the best of luck with all of them & a very happy reading year!!"
Thanks Susy, best of luck to you as well."
Thx Richard!!
Thanks Susy, best of luck to you as well."
Thx Richard!!
Hooray for Technology! E-Reader Challenge
Duration: January 1st to January 31st, 2018
Level: OMG, the guys in the white coats are coming...I'm Committed (20+ books)
Read: 73/75
(view spoiler)[1 - 4/1 **** - Your Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More by Jason W. Womack
2 - 4/1 *** - Leadership IQ: A Personal Development Process Based on a Scientific Study of a New Generation of Leaders by Emmett C. Murphy
3 - 5/1 ** - Effective Immediately: How to Fit In, Stand Out, and Move Up at Your First Real Job by Emily Bennington
4 - 5/1 ***** - The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence by Robert Anthony
5 - 9/1 ** - Can I Freeze It?: How to Use the Most Versatile Appliance in Your Kitchen by Susie Theodorou
6 - 14/1 **** - The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order by Paul Vigna
7 - 14/1 *** - Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance by Ian Goldin
8 - 14/1 ***** - The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
9 - 15/1 **** - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
10 - 16/1 **** - A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science by Barbara Oakley
11 - 16/1 *** - Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration from Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most with the Least by Jessica Jackley
12 - 16/1 ***** - Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything by Ulrich Boser
13 - 17/1 ** - The Machiavellian's Guide to Charm: For Both Men and Women by Nick Casanova
14 - 17/1 **** - FIRE: How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation by Dan Ward
15 - 17/1 **** - The 1% Windfall: How Successful Companies Use Price to Profit and Grow by Rafi Mohammed
16 - 17/1 * - How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide by Jane Bryant Quinn
17 - 17/1/18 **** - Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs by Muhammad Yunus
18 - 17/1/18 ** - I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey through the Science of Sound and Language by Lydia Denworth
19 - 17/1/18 *** - Job U: How to Find Wealth and Success by Developing the Skills Companies Actually Need by Nicholas Wyman
20 - 18/1/18 *** - 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People by Susan M. Weinschenk
21 - 18/1/18 ***** - 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs by Kevin Kruse
22 - 19/1/19 **** - Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott
23 - 19/1/19 **** - Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper
24 - 19/1/18 ***** - Get Smart!: How to Think, Decide, Act, and Get Better Results in Everything You Do by Brian Tracy
25 - 19/1/19 *** - #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso
26 - 19/1/18 ***** - Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags by Linda Rottenberg
27 - 19/1/18 **** - The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg
28 - 19/1/18 ***** - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
29 - 19/1/18 ***** - 10 Days to Faster Reading by The Princeton Language Institute
30 - 19/1/18 * - 121 First Dates: How to Succeed at Online Dating, Fall in Love, and Live Happily Ever After by Wendy Newman
31 - 19/1/18 ** - How to Become a Straight-A Student by Cal Newport
32 - 20/1/18 *** - How to Be a Power Connector: The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Network Into Profits by Judy Robinett
33 - 20/1/18 *** - Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss by Joel Fuhrman
34 - 20/1/18 ** - 80/20 Internet Lead Generation: How a Few Simple, Profitable Strategies Can Lead to Marketplace Domination by Scott A. Dennison
35 - 20/1/18 **** - Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute
36 - 20/1/18 **** - The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment by Todd Kashdan
37 - 20/1/18 *** - The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships by Neil Strauss
38 - 21/1/18 *** - The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, And the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
39 - 21/1/18 **** - The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
40 - 21/1/18 *** - The Culture Engine: A Framework for Driving Results, Inspiring Your Employees, and Transforming Your Workplace by S. Chris Edmonds
41 - 21/1/18 **** - The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry by John Warrillow
42 - 21/1/18 **** - The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage by Daymond John
43 - 21/1/18 ***** - The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success by Darren Hardy
44 - 21/1/18 ***** - The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
45 - 21/1/18 **** - Speak to Win: How to Present with Power in Any Situation by Brian Tracy
46 - 22/1/18 **** - The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise? by Chris Brogan
47 - 22/1/18 **** - The One Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard
48 - 22/1/18 **** - Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
49 - 22/1/18 *** - The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation by Kal Raustiala
50 - 22/1/18 *** - The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time by Arianna Huffington
51 - 22/1/18 *** - The Road to Character by David Brooks
52 - 22/1/18 **** - The Narcissist You Know: Defending Yourself Against Extreme Narcissists in an All-About-Me Age by Joseph Burgo
53 - 22/1/18 *** - The Industries of the Future by Alec J. Ross
54 - 23/1/18 **** - 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman
55 - 23/1/18 **** - People Over Profit: Break the System, Live with Purpose, Be More Successful by Dale Partridge
56 - 23/1/18 *** - Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
57 - 23/1/18 *** - The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength by Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
58 - 23/1/18 **** - TurboCoach: A Powerful System for Achieving Breakthrough Career Success by Brian Tracy
59 - 24/1/18 **** - You Are Your Choices: 50 Ways to Live the Good Life by Alexandra Stoddard
60 - 24/1/18 *** - The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain by Tali Sharot
61 - 24/1/18 * - Fox by Martin Wallen
62 - 24/1/18 **** - The Illustrated Kitchen Bible by Victoria Blashford-Snell
63 - 25/1/18 **** - The 4 Pillars of Leadership by John C. Maxwell
64 - 26/1/18 ** - The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch
65 - 27/1/18 ***** - All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World by Seth Godin
66 - 27/1/18 * - Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic by John De Graaf
67 - 27/1/18 ** - Ask: The Counterintuitive Online Formula to Discover Exactly What Your Customers Want to Buy...Create a Mass of Raving Fans...and Take Any Business to the Next Level by Ryan Levesque
68 - 27/1/18 **** - The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris
69 - 28/1/18 *** - The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
70 - 29/1/18 ***** - The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller
71 - 29/1/18 **** - The Dead of Night by John Marsden
72 - 30/1/18 ** - Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love by Amir Levine
73 - 30/1/18 **** - You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero
74 -
75 - (hide spoiler)]
Duration: January 1st to January 31st, 2018
Level: OMG, the guys in the white coats are coming...I'm Committed (20+ books)
Read: 73/75
(view spoiler)[1 - 4/1 **** - Your Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More by Jason W. Womack
2 - 4/1 *** - Leadership IQ: A Personal Development Process Based on a Scientific Study of a New Generation of Leaders by Emmett C. Murphy
3 - 5/1 ** - Effective Immediately: How to Fit In, Stand Out, and Move Up at Your First Real Job by Emily Bennington
4 - 5/1 ***** - The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence by Robert Anthony
5 - 9/1 ** - Can I Freeze It?: How to Use the Most Versatile Appliance in Your Kitchen by Susie Theodorou
6 - 14/1 **** - The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order by Paul Vigna
7 - 14/1 *** - Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance by Ian Goldin
8 - 14/1 ***** - The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
9 - 15/1 **** - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
10 - 16/1 **** - A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science by Barbara Oakley
11 - 16/1 *** - Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration from Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most with the Least by Jessica Jackley
12 - 16/1 ***** - Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything by Ulrich Boser
13 - 17/1 ** - The Machiavellian's Guide to Charm: For Both Men and Women by Nick Casanova
14 - 17/1 **** - FIRE: How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation by Dan Ward
15 - 17/1 **** - The 1% Windfall: How Successful Companies Use Price to Profit and Grow by Rafi Mohammed
16 - 17/1 * - How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide by Jane Bryant Quinn
17 - 17/1/18 **** - Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs by Muhammad Yunus
18 - 17/1/18 ** - I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey through the Science of Sound and Language by Lydia Denworth
19 - 17/1/18 *** - Job U: How to Find Wealth and Success by Developing the Skills Companies Actually Need by Nicholas Wyman
20 - 18/1/18 *** - 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People by Susan M. Weinschenk
21 - 18/1/18 ***** - 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs by Kevin Kruse
22 - 19/1/19 **** - Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott
23 - 19/1/19 **** - Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper
24 - 19/1/18 ***** - Get Smart!: How to Think, Decide, Act, and Get Better Results in Everything You Do by Brian Tracy
25 - 19/1/19 *** - #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso
26 - 19/1/18 ***** - Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags by Linda Rottenberg
27 - 19/1/18 **** - The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg
28 - 19/1/18 ***** - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
29 - 19/1/18 ***** - 10 Days to Faster Reading by The Princeton Language Institute
30 - 19/1/18 * - 121 First Dates: How to Succeed at Online Dating, Fall in Love, and Live Happily Ever After by Wendy Newman
31 - 19/1/18 ** - How to Become a Straight-A Student by Cal Newport
32 - 20/1/18 *** - How to Be a Power Connector: The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Network Into Profits by Judy Robinett
33 - 20/1/18 *** - Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss by Joel Fuhrman
34 - 20/1/18 ** - 80/20 Internet Lead Generation: How a Few Simple, Profitable Strategies Can Lead to Marketplace Domination by Scott A. Dennison
35 - 20/1/18 **** - Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute
36 - 20/1/18 **** - The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment by Todd Kashdan
37 - 20/1/18 *** - The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships by Neil Strauss
38 - 21/1/18 *** - The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, And the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
39 - 21/1/18 **** - The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
40 - 21/1/18 *** - The Culture Engine: A Framework for Driving Results, Inspiring Your Employees, and Transforming Your Workplace by S. Chris Edmonds
41 - 21/1/18 **** - The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry by John Warrillow
42 - 21/1/18 **** - The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage by Daymond John
43 - 21/1/18 ***** - The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success by Darren Hardy
44 - 21/1/18 ***** - The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
45 - 21/1/18 **** - Speak to Win: How to Present with Power in Any Situation by Brian Tracy
46 - 22/1/18 **** - The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise? by Chris Brogan
47 - 22/1/18 **** - The One Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard
48 - 22/1/18 **** - Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
49 - 22/1/18 *** - The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation by Kal Raustiala
50 - 22/1/18 *** - The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time by Arianna Huffington
51 - 22/1/18 *** - The Road to Character by David Brooks
52 - 22/1/18 **** - The Narcissist You Know: Defending Yourself Against Extreme Narcissists in an All-About-Me Age by Joseph Burgo
53 - 22/1/18 *** - The Industries of the Future by Alec J. Ross
54 - 23/1/18 **** - 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman
55 - 23/1/18 **** - People Over Profit: Break the System, Live with Purpose, Be More Successful by Dale Partridge
56 - 23/1/18 *** - Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
57 - 23/1/18 *** - The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength by Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
58 - 23/1/18 **** - TurboCoach: A Powerful System for Achieving Breakthrough Career Success by Brian Tracy
59 - 24/1/18 **** - You Are Your Choices: 50 Ways to Live the Good Life by Alexandra Stoddard
60 - 24/1/18 *** - The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain by Tali Sharot
61 - 24/1/18 * - Fox by Martin Wallen
62 - 24/1/18 **** - The Illustrated Kitchen Bible by Victoria Blashford-Snell
63 - 25/1/18 **** - The 4 Pillars of Leadership by John C. Maxwell
64 - 26/1/18 ** - The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch
65 - 27/1/18 ***** - All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World by Seth Godin
66 - 27/1/18 * - Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic by John De Graaf
67 - 27/1/18 ** - Ask: The Counterintuitive Online Formula to Discover Exactly What Your Customers Want to Buy...Create a Mass of Raving Fans...and Take Any Business to the Next Level by Ryan Levesque
68 - 27/1/18 **** - The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris
69 - 28/1/18 *** - The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
70 - 29/1/18 ***** - The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller
71 - 29/1/18 **** - The Dead of Night by John Marsden
72 - 30/1/18 ** - Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love by Amir Levine
73 - 30/1/18 **** - You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero
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Hooray for Technology! E-Reader Challenge
Duration: February 1st to February 28th, 2018
Level: OMG, the guys in the white coats are coming...I'm Committed (20+ books)
45/50
(view spoiler)[1 - 1/2/18 **** - A Killing Frost by John Marsden
2 - 1/2/18 **** - The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help––or Hurt––How You Lead by Carol Kinsey Goman
3 - 1/2/18 **** - Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson
4 - 1/2/18 *** - The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations Into Breakthroughs by Marcia Reynolds
5 - 2/2/18 *** - The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
6 - 4/2/18 *** - Darkness, Be My Friend by John Marsden
7 - 5/2/18 *** - The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone by Brian Merchant
8 - 5/2/18 **** - The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
9 - 5/2/18 *** - The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck
10 - 5/2/18 **** - Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts by Susan Cain
11 - 6/2/18 ** - Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content by Mark Levy
12 - 6/2/18 *** - Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs
13 - 7/2/18 * - Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty by Nancy L. Etcoff
14 - 7/2/18 ** - The Twenty-four Hour Mind: the Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives by Rosalind D. Cartwright
15 - 13/2/18 *** - The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
16 - 13/2/18 *** - 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success by Amy Morin
17 - 13/2/18 ** - The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos by Leonard Mlodinow
18 - 13/2/18 *** - The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh
19 - 13/2/14 *** - Your First 1000 Copies: The Step-by-Step Guide to Marketing Your Book by Tim Grahl
20 - 14/2/18 *** - I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
21 - 16/2/18 *** - The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance by William McDonough
22 - 17/2/18 *** - Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind by Alex Stone
23 - 17/2/18 **** - Activate Your Brain: How Understanding Your Brain Can Improve Your Work - and Your Life by Scott G. Halford
24 - 17/2/18 ** - 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today by Stephen Le
25 - 17/2/18 *** - 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works by Dan Harris
26 - 19/2/18 ** - 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner
27 - 19/2/18 ***** - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
28 - 19/2/18 **** - Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future by Rohit Bhargava
29 - 19/2/18 **** - Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours by Robert C. Pozen
30 - 19/2/18 ** - Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor
31 - 19/2/18 *** - Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage by Peter Forbes
32 - 23/2/18 ** - Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
33 - 23/2/18 *** - A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World from Prehistory to Today by William J. Bernstein
34 - 24/2/18 **** - You Only Have to Be Right Once: The Unprecedented Rise of the Instant Tech Billionaires by Randall Lane
35 - 25/2/18 ** - A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change by Stanley Lieberson
36 - 25/2/18 ** - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
37 - 25/2/18 *** - A World Without Ice by Henry N. Pollack
38 - 25/2/18 **** - A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness by Joseph A. Maciariello
39 - 26/2/18 **** - You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself by David McRaney
40 - 27/2/18 ** - Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
41 - 27/2/18 *** - Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders by Adam Morgan
42 - 27/2/18 ** - Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability by Peter Dauvergne
43 - 27/2/18 *** - The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
44 - 27/2/18 **** - Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business by Porter Erisman
45 - 28/2/18 **** - Team of Leaders by Paul Gustavson
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Level: OMG, the guys in the white coats are coming...I'm Committed (20+ books)
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(view spoiler)[1 - 1/2/18 **** - A Killing Frost by John Marsden
2 - 1/2/18 **** - The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help––or Hurt––How You Lead by Carol Kinsey Goman
3 - 1/2/18 **** - Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson
4 - 1/2/18 *** - The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations Into Breakthroughs by Marcia Reynolds
5 - 2/2/18 *** - The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
6 - 4/2/18 *** - Darkness, Be My Friend by John Marsden
7 - 5/2/18 *** - The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone by Brian Merchant
8 - 5/2/18 **** - The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
9 - 5/2/18 *** - The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck
10 - 5/2/18 **** - Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts by Susan Cain
11 - 6/2/18 ** - Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content by Mark Levy
12 - 6/2/18 *** - Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs
13 - 7/2/18 * - Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty by Nancy L. Etcoff
14 - 7/2/18 ** - The Twenty-four Hour Mind: the Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives by Rosalind D. Cartwright
15 - 13/2/18 *** - The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
16 - 13/2/18 *** - 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success by Amy Morin
17 - 13/2/18 ** - The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos by Leonard Mlodinow
18 - 13/2/18 *** - The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh
19 - 13/2/14 *** - Your First 1000 Copies: The Step-by-Step Guide to Marketing Your Book by Tim Grahl
20 - 14/2/18 *** - I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
21 - 16/2/18 *** - The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance by William McDonough
22 - 17/2/18 *** - Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind by Alex Stone
23 - 17/2/18 **** - Activate Your Brain: How Understanding Your Brain Can Improve Your Work - and Your Life by Scott G. Halford
24 - 17/2/18 ** - 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today by Stephen Le
25 - 17/2/18 *** - 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works by Dan Harris
26 - 19/2/18 ** - 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner
27 - 19/2/18 ***** - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
28 - 19/2/18 **** - Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future by Rohit Bhargava
29 - 19/2/18 **** - Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours by Robert C. Pozen
30 - 19/2/18 ** - Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor
31 - 19/2/18 *** - Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage by Peter Forbes
32 - 23/2/18 ** - Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
33 - 23/2/18 *** - A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World from Prehistory to Today by William J. Bernstein
34 - 24/2/18 **** - You Only Have to Be Right Once: The Unprecedented Rise of the Instant Tech Billionaires by Randall Lane
35 - 25/2/18 ** - A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change by Stanley Lieberson
36 - 25/2/18 ** - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
37 - 25/2/18 *** - A World Without Ice by Henry N. Pollack
38 - 25/2/18 **** - A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness by Joseph A. Maciariello
39 - 26/2/18 **** - You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself by David McRaney
40 - 27/2/18 ** - Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
41 - 27/2/18 *** - Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders by Adam Morgan
42 - 27/2/18 ** - Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability by Peter Dauvergne
43 - 27/2/18 *** - The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
44 - 27/2/18 **** - Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business by Porter Erisman
45 - 28/2/18 **** - Team of Leaders by Paul Gustavson
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February TCF Monthly Challenge
Duration: February 1st to February 28th, 2018
46/54
Cupid
(view spoiler)[C - 1/2/18 **** - The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help––or Hurt––How You Lead by Carol Kinsey Goman
U - 13/2/18 *** - The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
P - 1/2/18 **** - Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson
I - 2/2/18 *** - The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
D - 1/2/18 *** - The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations Into Breakthroughs by Marcia Reynolds (hide spoiler)] ✔
Amethyst
(view spoiler)[A - 6/2/18 ** - Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content by Mark Levy
M - 1/2/18 **** - A Killing Frost by John Marsden
E - 5/2/18 **** - The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
T - 6/2/18 *** - Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs
H - 23/2/18 ** - Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
Y - 24/2/18 **** - You Only Have to Be Right Once: The Unprecedented Rise of the Instant Tech Billionaires by Randall Lane
S - 7/2/18 * - Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty by Nancy L. Etcoff
T - 7/2/18 ** - The Twenty-four Hour Mind: the Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives by Rosalind D. Cartwright (hide spoiler)] ✔
Aquarius
(view spoiler)[A - 13/2/18 *** - 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success by Amy Morin
Q - 5/2/18 **** - Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts by Susan Cain
U - 13/2/18 ** - The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos by Leonard Mlodinow
A - 13/2/18 *** - The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh
R - 25/2/18 ** - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
I - 14/2/18 *** - I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
U - 16/2/18 *** - The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance by William McDonough
S - 17/2/18 *** - Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind by Alex Stone (hide spoiler)] ✔
Ash Wednesday
(view spoiler)[A - 17/2/18 **** - Activate Your Brain: How Understanding Your Brain Can Improve Your Work - and Your Life by Scott G. Halford
S - 17/2/18 ** - 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today by Stephen Le
H - 17/2/18 *** - 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works by Dan Harris
W - 19/2/18 ** - 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner
E - 19/2/18 ***** - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
D - 4/2/18 *** - Darkness, Be My Friend by John Marsden
N - 19/2/18 **** - Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future by Rohit Bhargava
E - 19/2/18 **** - Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours by Robert C. Pozen
S - 19/2/18 ** - Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor
D - 19/2/18 *** - Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage by Peter Forbes
A - 27/2/18 ** - Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Y - 13/2/14 *** - Your First 1000 Copies: The Step-by-Step Guide to Marketing Your Book by Tim Grahl (hide spoiler)] ✔
Sweetheart
(view spoiler)[S - 25/2/18 ** - A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change by Stanley Lieberson
W - 23/2/18 *** - A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World from Prehistory to Today by William J. Bernstein
E - 27/2/18 *** - Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders by Adam Morgan
E - 27/2/18 ** - Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability by Peter Dauvergne
T - 28/2/18 **** - Team of Leaders by Paul Gustavson
H - 25/2/18 *** - A World Without Ice by Henry N. Pollack
E - 27/2/18 **** - Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business by Porter Erisman
A - 27/2/18 *** - The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
R - 5/2/18 *** - The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck
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O - 5/2/18 *** - The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone by Brian Merchant
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1/2/18 ** - The Genius of Charlie Brown: Peanuts Guide to Life by Charles M. Schulz
February TCF Monthly Challenge
Duration: February 1st to February 28th, 2018
46/54
Cupid
(view spoiler)[C - 1/2/18 **** - The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help––or Hurt––How You Lead by Carol Kinsey Goman
U - 13/2/18 *** - The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
P - 1/2/18 **** - Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson
I - 2/2/18 *** - The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
D - 1/2/18 *** - The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations Into Breakthroughs by Marcia Reynolds (hide spoiler)] ✔
Amethyst
(view spoiler)[A - 6/2/18 ** - Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content by Mark Levy
M - 1/2/18 **** - A Killing Frost by John Marsden
E - 5/2/18 **** - The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
T - 6/2/18 *** - Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs
H - 23/2/18 ** - Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
Y - 24/2/18 **** - You Only Have to Be Right Once: The Unprecedented Rise of the Instant Tech Billionaires by Randall Lane
S - 7/2/18 * - Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty by Nancy L. Etcoff
T - 7/2/18 ** - The Twenty-four Hour Mind: the Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives by Rosalind D. Cartwright (hide spoiler)] ✔
Aquarius
(view spoiler)[A - 13/2/18 *** - 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success by Amy Morin
Q - 5/2/18 **** - Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts by Susan Cain
U - 13/2/18 ** - The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos by Leonard Mlodinow
A - 13/2/18 *** - The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh
R - 25/2/18 ** - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
I - 14/2/18 *** - I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
U - 16/2/18 *** - The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance by William McDonough
S - 17/2/18 *** - Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind by Alex Stone (hide spoiler)] ✔
Ash Wednesday
(view spoiler)[A - 17/2/18 **** - Activate Your Brain: How Understanding Your Brain Can Improve Your Work - and Your Life by Scott G. Halford
S - 17/2/18 ** - 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today by Stephen Le
H - 17/2/18 *** - 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works by Dan Harris
W - 19/2/18 ** - 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner
E - 19/2/18 ***** - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
D - 4/2/18 *** - Darkness, Be My Friend by John Marsden
N - 19/2/18 **** - Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future by Rohit Bhargava
E - 19/2/18 **** - Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours by Robert C. Pozen
S - 19/2/18 ** - Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor
D - 19/2/18 *** - Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage by Peter Forbes
A - 27/2/18 ** - Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Y - 13/2/14 *** - Your First 1000 Copies: The Step-by-Step Guide to Marketing Your Book by Tim Grahl (hide spoiler)] ✔
Sweetheart
(view spoiler)[S - 25/2/18 ** - A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change by Stanley Lieberson
W - 23/2/18 *** - A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World from Prehistory to Today by William J. Bernstein
E - 27/2/18 *** - Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders by Adam Morgan
E - 27/2/18 ** - Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability by Peter Dauvergne
T - 28/2/18 **** - Team of Leaders by Paul Gustavson
H - 25/2/18 *** - A World Without Ice by Henry N. Pollack
E - 27/2/18 **** - Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business by Porter Erisman
A - 27/2/18 *** - The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
R - 5/2/18 *** - The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck
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O - 5/2/18 *** - The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone by Brian Merchant
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February 28: The final episode of M.A.S.H. is aired in 1983.: Read a book that centers around a television show
1/2/18 ** - The Genius of Charlie Brown: Peanuts Guide to Life by Charles M. Schulz
Hooray for Technology! E-Reader Challenge
Duration: March 1st to March 31st, 2018
Level: OMG, the guys in the white coats are coming...I'm Committed (20+ books)
Read: 80/80 ✔
(view spoiler)[1 - 1/3/18 **** - Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney
2 - 1/3/18 ** - A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life by J. Craig Venter
3 - 1/3/18 **** - Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
4 - 1/3/18 ** - On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
5 - 2/3/18 *** - All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid by Matt Bai
6 - 2/3/18 *** - Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World by Matthieu Ricard
7 - 2/3/18 **** - Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job by Jon Acuff
8 - 2/3/18 ** - Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World by Nick Lane
9 - 3/3/18 *** - Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration--Lessons from The Second City by Kelly Leonard
10 - 3/3/18 *** - If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy? by Raj Raghunathan
11 - 4/3/18 ** - Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly
12 - 4/3/18 ** - Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective by Ha-Joon Chang
13 - 4/3/18 *** - The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell
14 - 4/3/18 **** - The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin
15 - 4/3/18 **** - The One Week Marketing Plan: The Set It & Forget It Approach for Quickly Growing Your Business by Mark Satterfield
16 - 4/3/18 *** - Leadership Blind Spots and What to Do about Them by Karen Blakeley
17 - 5/3/18 **** - Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny Le Couteur
18 - 5/3/18 ** - Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
19 - 6/3/18 *** - An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
20 - 6/3/18 *** - The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle
21 - 6/3/18 *** - Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Ken Segall
22 - 7/3/18 *** - Economics: The User's Guide by Ha-Joon Chang
23 - 7/3/18 ***** - The 10x Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure by Grant Cardone
24 - 7/3/18 **** - On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
25 - 7/3/18 *** - 30 Ways to Reboot Your Body: A Complete User Manual for Getting the Most Out of the Human Body by Ben Greenfield
26 - 7/3/18 *** - A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
27 - 7/3/18 *** - On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
28 - 8/3/18 *** - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
29 - 8/3/18 *** - Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey
30 - 8/3/18 ** - A Sky Full of Birds by Matt Merritt
31 - 9/3/18 **** - Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness by Alan Derickson
32 - 9/3/18 **** - Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight
33 - 9/3/18 **** - Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You by Daniel Priestley
34 - 13/3/18 *** - Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
35 - 13/3/18 *** - Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum by Neil Patel
36 - 13/3/18 ** - Effective HR Communication: A Framework for Communicating HR Programmes with Impact by Debra Corey
37 - 13/3/18 **** - As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
38 - 13/3/18 *** - 21 Days to a Big Idea!: Creating Breakthrough Business Concepts by Bryan Mattimore
39 - 18/3/18 *** - The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan W. Watts
40 - 21/3/18 *** - How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
41 - 21/3/18 ** - Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do by Kaiser Fung
42 - 20/3/18 **** - Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
43 - 21/3/18 **** - Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things by David Rose
44 - 22/3/18 *** - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
45 - 22/3/18 **** - POP!: Stand Out in Any Crowd by Sam Horn
46 - 23/3/18 *** - 60 Seconds and You're Hired! by Robin Ryan
47 - 23/3/18 *** - Anger Management for Dummies by W. Doyle Gentry
48 - 23/3/18 ** - 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
49 - 23/3/18 *** - Accounting Made Simple: Accounting Explained in 100 Pages or Less by Mike Piper
50 - 23/3/18 **** - The Ultimate Introduction to NLP: How to build a successful life by Richard Bandler
51 - 23/3/18 **** - Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss
52 - 23/3/18 **** - No Logo by Naomi Klein
53 - 23/3/18 **** - Campaigns that Shook the World: The Evolution of Public Relations by Danny Rogers
54 - 24/3/18 ** - The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future by Steve Case
55 - 24/3/18 ** - A/B Testing: The Most Powerful Way to Turn Clicks Into Customers by Dan Siroker
56 - 24/3/18 * - A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order by Richard N. Haass
57 - 24/3/18 *** - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
58 - 24/3/18 *** - A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas by Warren Berger
59 - 25/3/18 ** - Unrequited: Women and Romantic Obsession by Lisa A. Phillips
60 - 25/3/18 *** - The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain by Steven R. Gundry
61 - 25/3/18 **** - The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
62 - 25/3/18 ***** - The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
63 - 25/3/18 **** - The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
64 - 26/3/18 ** - A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall Of The Ottoman Empire And The Creation Of The Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
65 - 26/3/18 ** - Idea to Execution: How to Optimize, Automate, and Outsource Everything in Your Business by Ari Meisel
66 - 26/3/18 ** - I'm OK - You're OK by Thomas A. Harris
67 - 26/3/18 ** - Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits by Kevin Roose
68 - 26/3/18 *** - If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating by Alan Alda
69 - 27/3/18 **** - Curate This!: The Hands-On, How-To Guide To Content Curation by Steven Rosenbaum
70 - 27/3/18 *** - Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin
71 - 27/3/18 *** - The IT Marketing Crash Course: How to Get Clients for Your Technology Business by Raj Khera
72 - 27/3/18 *** - Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time by Laura Stack
73 - 27/3/18 *** - Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
74 - 27/3/18 *** - Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
75 - 28/3/18 *** - A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter
76 - 28/3/18 ** - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
77 - 28/3/18 **** - 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
78 - 28/3/18 *** - Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win by Ryan Babineaux
79 - 29/3/18 *** - Living in Your Top 1%: Nine Essential Rituals to Achieve Your Ultimate Life Goals by Alissa Finerman
80 - 29/3/18 **** - Unshakeable by Tony Robbins (hide spoiler)]
Duration: March 1st to March 31st, 2018
Level: OMG, the guys in the white coats are coming...I'm Committed (20+ books)
Read: 80/80 ✔
(view spoiler)[1 - 1/3/18 **** - Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney
2 - 1/3/18 ** - A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life by J. Craig Venter
3 - 1/3/18 **** - Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
4 - 1/3/18 ** - On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
5 - 2/3/18 *** - All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid by Matt Bai
6 - 2/3/18 *** - Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World by Matthieu Ricard
7 - 2/3/18 **** - Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job by Jon Acuff
8 - 2/3/18 ** - Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World by Nick Lane
9 - 3/3/18 *** - Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration--Lessons from The Second City by Kelly Leonard
10 - 3/3/18 *** - If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy? by Raj Raghunathan
11 - 4/3/18 ** - Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly
12 - 4/3/18 ** - Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective by Ha-Joon Chang
13 - 4/3/18 *** - The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell
14 - 4/3/18 **** - The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin
15 - 4/3/18 **** - The One Week Marketing Plan: The Set It & Forget It Approach for Quickly Growing Your Business by Mark Satterfield
16 - 4/3/18 *** - Leadership Blind Spots and What to Do about Them by Karen Blakeley
17 - 5/3/18 **** - Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny Le Couteur
18 - 5/3/18 ** - Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
19 - 6/3/18 *** - An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
20 - 6/3/18 *** - The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle
21 - 6/3/18 *** - Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Ken Segall
22 - 7/3/18 *** - Economics: The User's Guide by Ha-Joon Chang
23 - 7/3/18 ***** - The 10x Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure by Grant Cardone
24 - 7/3/18 **** - On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
25 - 7/3/18 *** - 30 Ways to Reboot Your Body: A Complete User Manual for Getting the Most Out of the Human Body by Ben Greenfield
26 - 7/3/18 *** - A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
27 - 7/3/18 *** - On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
28 - 8/3/18 *** - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
29 - 8/3/18 *** - Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey
30 - 8/3/18 ** - A Sky Full of Birds by Matt Merritt
31 - 9/3/18 **** - Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness by Alan Derickson
32 - 9/3/18 **** - Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight
33 - 9/3/18 **** - Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You by Daniel Priestley
34 - 13/3/18 *** - Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
35 - 13/3/18 *** - Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum by Neil Patel
36 - 13/3/18 ** - Effective HR Communication: A Framework for Communicating HR Programmes with Impact by Debra Corey
37 - 13/3/18 **** - As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
38 - 13/3/18 *** - 21 Days to a Big Idea!: Creating Breakthrough Business Concepts by Bryan Mattimore
39 - 18/3/18 *** - The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan W. Watts
40 - 21/3/18 *** - How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
41 - 21/3/18 ** - Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do by Kaiser Fung
42 - 20/3/18 **** - Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
43 - 21/3/18 **** - Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things by David Rose
44 - 22/3/18 *** - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
45 - 22/3/18 **** - POP!: Stand Out in Any Crowd by Sam Horn
46 - 23/3/18 *** - 60 Seconds and You're Hired! by Robin Ryan
47 - 23/3/18 *** - Anger Management for Dummies by W. Doyle Gentry
48 - 23/3/18 ** - 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
49 - 23/3/18 *** - Accounting Made Simple: Accounting Explained in 100 Pages or Less by Mike Piper
50 - 23/3/18 **** - The Ultimate Introduction to NLP: How to build a successful life by Richard Bandler
51 - 23/3/18 **** - Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss
52 - 23/3/18 **** - No Logo by Naomi Klein
53 - 23/3/18 **** - Campaigns that Shook the World: The Evolution of Public Relations by Danny Rogers
54 - 24/3/18 ** - The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future by Steve Case
55 - 24/3/18 ** - A/B Testing: The Most Powerful Way to Turn Clicks Into Customers by Dan Siroker
56 - 24/3/18 * - A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order by Richard N. Haass
57 - 24/3/18 *** - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
58 - 24/3/18 *** - A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas by Warren Berger
59 - 25/3/18 ** - Unrequited: Women and Romantic Obsession by Lisa A. Phillips
60 - 25/3/18 *** - The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain by Steven R. Gundry
61 - 25/3/18 **** - The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
62 - 25/3/18 ***** - The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
63 - 25/3/18 **** - The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
64 - 26/3/18 ** - A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall Of The Ottoman Empire And The Creation Of The Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
65 - 26/3/18 ** - Idea to Execution: How to Optimize, Automate, and Outsource Everything in Your Business by Ari Meisel
66 - 26/3/18 ** - I'm OK - You're OK by Thomas A. Harris
67 - 26/3/18 ** - Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits by Kevin Roose
68 - 26/3/18 *** - If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating by Alan Alda
69 - 27/3/18 **** - Curate This!: The Hands-On, How-To Guide To Content Curation by Steven Rosenbaum
70 - 27/3/18 *** - Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin
71 - 27/3/18 *** - The IT Marketing Crash Course: How to Get Clients for Your Technology Business by Raj Khera
72 - 27/3/18 *** - Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time by Laura Stack
73 - 27/3/18 *** - Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
74 - 27/3/18 *** - Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
75 - 28/3/18 *** - A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter
76 - 28/3/18 ** - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
77 - 28/3/18 **** - 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
78 - 28/3/18 *** - Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win by Ryan Babineaux
79 - 29/3/18 *** - Living in Your Top 1%: Nine Essential Rituals to Achieve Your Ultimate Life Goals by Alissa Finerman
80 - 29/3/18 **** - Unshakeable by Tony Robbins (hide spoiler)]
The Challenge Factory
March TCF Monthly Challenge
Duration: March 1st to March 31st, 2018
90/90 ✔
Gold
(view spoiler)[G - 7/3/18 *** - A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
O - 7/3/18 *** - On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
L - 8/3/18 *** - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
D - 8/3/18 *** - Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey (hide spoiler)]
Madness
(view spoiler)[M - 1/3/18 **** - Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney
A - 2/3/18 *** - All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid by Matt Bai
D - 4/3/18 **** - The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin
N - 5/3/18 **** - Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny Le Couteur
E - 1/3/18 **** - Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
S - 6/3/18 *** - Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Ken Segall
S - 7/3/18 **** - On the Shortness of Life by Seneca (hide spoiler)]
Basketball
(view spoiler)[B - 1/3/18 ** - On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
A - 2/3/18 *** - Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World by Matthieu Ricard
S - 8/3/18 ** - A Sky Full of Birds by Matt Merritt
K - 4/3/18 ** - Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective by Ha-Joon Chang
E - 7/3/18 *** - Economics: The User's Guide by Ha-Joon Chang
T - 7/3/18 ***** - The 10x Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure by Grant Cardone
B - 4/3/18 ** - Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly
A - 5/3/18 ** - Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
L - 1/3/18 ** - A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life by J. Craig Venter
L - 4/3/18 *** - Leadership Blind Spots and What to Do about Them by Karen Blakeley (hide spoiler)]
Bloodstone
(view spoiler)[B - 7/3/18 *** - 30 Ways to Reboot Your Body: A Complete User Manual for Getting the Most Out of the Human Body by Ben Greenfield
L - 3/3/18 *** - Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration--Lessons from The Second City by Kelly Leonard
O - 2/3/18 ** - Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World by Nick Lane
O - 4/3/18 **** - The One Week Marketing Plan: The Set It & Forget It Approach for Quickly Growing Your Business by Mark Satterfield
D - 9/3/18 **** - Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness by Alan Derickson
S - 9/3/18 **** - Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight
T - 13/3/18 *** - Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
O - 9/3/18 **** - Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You by Daniel Priestley
N - 13/3/18 *** - Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum by Neil Patel
E - 13/3/18 ** - Effective HR Communication: A Framework for Communicating HR Programmes with Impact by Debra Corey (hide spoiler)]
Aquamarine
(view spoiler)[A - 6/3/18 *** - An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
Q - 2/3/18 **** - Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job by Jon Acuff
U - 6/3/18 *** - The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle
A - 13/3/18 **** - As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
M - 13/3/18 *** - 21 Days to a Big Idea!: Creating Breakthrough Business Concepts by Bryan Mattimore
A - 18/3/18 *** - The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan W. Watts
R - 4/3/18 *** - The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell
I - 3/3/18 *** - If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy? by Raj Raghunathan
N - 21/3/18 ** - Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do by Kaiser Fung
E - 21/3/18 **** - Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things by David Rose (hide spoiler)]
Leprechaun
(view spoiler)[L - 20/3/18 **** - Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
E - 22/3/18 *** - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
P - 22/3/18 **** - POP!: Stand Out in Any Crowd by Sam Horn
R - 23/3/18 *** - 60 Seconds and You're Hired! by Robin Ryan
E - 23/3/18 **** - Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss
C - 23/3/18 ** - 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
H - 21/3/18 *** - How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
A - 23/3/18 *** - Accounting Made Simple: Accounting Explained in 100 Pages or Less by Mike Piper
U - 23/3/18 **** - The Ultimate Introduction to NLP: How to build a successful life by Richard Bandler
N - 23/3/18 **** - No Logo by Naomi Klein (hide spoiler)]
Catawampus
(view spoiler)[C - 23/3/18 **** - Campaigns that Shook the World: The Evolution of Public Relations by Danny Rogers
A - 23/3/18 *** - Anger Management for Dummies by W. Doyle Gentry
T - 24/3/18 ** - The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future by Steve Case
A - 24/3/18 ** - A/B Testing: The Most Powerful Way to Turn Clicks Into Customers by Dan Siroker
W - 24/3/18 * - A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order by Richard N. Haass
A - 24/3/18 *** - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
M - 24/3/18 *** - A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas by Warren Berger
P - 25/3/18 *** - The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain by Steven R. Gundry
U - 25/3/18 ** - Unrequited: Women and Romantic Obsession by Lisa A. Phillips
S - 25/3/18 **** - The Story of My Life by Helen Keller (hide spoiler)]
St Patrick's Day
(view spoiler)[S - 25/3/18 ***** - The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
T - 25/3/18 **** - The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
P - 26/3/18 ** - A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall Of The Ottoman Empire And The Creation Of The Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
A - 26/3/18 ** - Idea to Execution: How to Optimize, Automate, and Outsource Everything in Your Business by Ari Meisel
T - 26/3/18 ** - I'm OK - You're OK by Thomas A. Harris
R - 26/3/18 ** - Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits by Kevin Roose
I - 26/3/18 *** - If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating by Alan Alda
C - 27/3/18 *** - Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin
K - 27/3/18 *** - The IT Marketing Crash Course: How to Get Clients for Your Technology Business by Raj Khera
S - 27/3/18 **** - Curate This!: The Hands-On, How-To Guide To Content Curation by Steven Rosenbaum
D - 27/3/18 *** - Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time by Laura Stack
A - 27/3/18 *** - Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
Y - 27/3/18 *** - Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari (hide spoiler)]
Corflute
(view spoiler)[C - 28/3/18 *** - A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter
O - 28/3/18 ** - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
R - 28/3/18 **** - 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
F - 28/3/18 *** - Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win by Ryan Babineaux
L - 29/3/18 *** - Living in Your Top 1%: Nine Essential Rituals to Achieve Your Ultimate Life Goals by Alissa Finerman
U - 29/3/18 **** - Unshakeable by Tony Robbins
T - 30/3/18 *** - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
E - 31/3/18 ** - Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert (hide spoiler)]
Mars
(view spoiler)[M - 30/3/18 * - A Bigger Prize by Margaret Heffernan
A - 30/3/18 ** - Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought by Andrew W. Lo
R - 31/3/18 ** - Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life by Gretchen Rubin
S - 31/3/18 *** - SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (hide spoiler)]
March 3rd: I Want You to Be Happy Day: Re-Read a book that makes you happy
7/3/18 ***** - Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho
March 14: National Pi Day: Read a book where a character is a mathematician
30/3/18 ** - How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
March 29: National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day: Read a book with a character that runs their own business
29/3/18 ***** - Be Obsessed or Be Average by Grant Cardone
March 10: The U.S. government issues paper money for the first time in 1862.: Read a book with money on the cover
25/3/18 ***** - The 4 Laws of Financial Prosperity: Get Control of Your Money Now! by Blaine Harris
March TCF Monthly Challenge
Duration: March 1st to March 31st, 2018
90/90 ✔
Gold
(view spoiler)[G - 7/3/18 *** - A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
O - 7/3/18 *** - On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
L - 8/3/18 *** - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
D - 8/3/18 *** - Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey (hide spoiler)]
Madness
(view spoiler)[M - 1/3/18 **** - Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney
A - 2/3/18 *** - All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid by Matt Bai
D - 4/3/18 **** - The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin
N - 5/3/18 **** - Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny Le Couteur
E - 1/3/18 **** - Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
S - 6/3/18 *** - Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Ken Segall
S - 7/3/18 **** - On the Shortness of Life by Seneca (hide spoiler)]
Basketball
(view spoiler)[B - 1/3/18 ** - On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
A - 2/3/18 *** - Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World by Matthieu Ricard
S - 8/3/18 ** - A Sky Full of Birds by Matt Merritt
K - 4/3/18 ** - Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective by Ha-Joon Chang
E - 7/3/18 *** - Economics: The User's Guide by Ha-Joon Chang
T - 7/3/18 ***** - The 10x Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure by Grant Cardone
B - 4/3/18 ** - Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly
A - 5/3/18 ** - Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
L - 1/3/18 ** - A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life by J. Craig Venter
L - 4/3/18 *** - Leadership Blind Spots and What to Do about Them by Karen Blakeley (hide spoiler)]
Bloodstone
(view spoiler)[B - 7/3/18 *** - 30 Ways to Reboot Your Body: A Complete User Manual for Getting the Most Out of the Human Body by Ben Greenfield
L - 3/3/18 *** - Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration--Lessons from The Second City by Kelly Leonard
O - 2/3/18 ** - Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World by Nick Lane
O - 4/3/18 **** - The One Week Marketing Plan: The Set It & Forget It Approach for Quickly Growing Your Business by Mark Satterfield
D - 9/3/18 **** - Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness by Alan Derickson
S - 9/3/18 **** - Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight
T - 13/3/18 *** - Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
O - 9/3/18 **** - Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You by Daniel Priestley
N - 13/3/18 *** - Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum by Neil Patel
E - 13/3/18 ** - Effective HR Communication: A Framework for Communicating HR Programmes with Impact by Debra Corey (hide spoiler)]
Aquamarine
(view spoiler)[A - 6/3/18 *** - An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
Q - 2/3/18 **** - Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job by Jon Acuff
U - 6/3/18 *** - The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle
A - 13/3/18 **** - As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
M - 13/3/18 *** - 21 Days to a Big Idea!: Creating Breakthrough Business Concepts by Bryan Mattimore
A - 18/3/18 *** - The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan W. Watts
R - 4/3/18 *** - The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell
I - 3/3/18 *** - If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy? by Raj Raghunathan
N - 21/3/18 ** - Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do by Kaiser Fung
E - 21/3/18 **** - Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things by David Rose (hide spoiler)]
Leprechaun
(view spoiler)[L - 20/3/18 **** - Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
E - 22/3/18 *** - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
P - 22/3/18 **** - POP!: Stand Out in Any Crowd by Sam Horn
R - 23/3/18 *** - 60 Seconds and You're Hired! by Robin Ryan
E - 23/3/18 **** - Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss
C - 23/3/18 ** - 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
H - 21/3/18 *** - How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
A - 23/3/18 *** - Accounting Made Simple: Accounting Explained in 100 Pages or Less by Mike Piper
U - 23/3/18 **** - The Ultimate Introduction to NLP: How to build a successful life by Richard Bandler
N - 23/3/18 **** - No Logo by Naomi Klein (hide spoiler)]
Catawampus
(view spoiler)[C - 23/3/18 **** - Campaigns that Shook the World: The Evolution of Public Relations by Danny Rogers
A - 23/3/18 *** - Anger Management for Dummies by W. Doyle Gentry
T - 24/3/18 ** - The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future by Steve Case
A - 24/3/18 ** - A/B Testing: The Most Powerful Way to Turn Clicks Into Customers by Dan Siroker
W - 24/3/18 * - A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order by Richard N. Haass
A - 24/3/18 *** - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
M - 24/3/18 *** - A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas by Warren Berger
P - 25/3/18 *** - The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain by Steven R. Gundry
U - 25/3/18 ** - Unrequited: Women and Romantic Obsession by Lisa A. Phillips
S - 25/3/18 **** - The Story of My Life by Helen Keller (hide spoiler)]
St Patrick's Day
(view spoiler)[S - 25/3/18 ***** - The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
T - 25/3/18 **** - The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
P - 26/3/18 ** - A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall Of The Ottoman Empire And The Creation Of The Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
A - 26/3/18 ** - Idea to Execution: How to Optimize, Automate, and Outsource Everything in Your Business by Ari Meisel
T - 26/3/18 ** - I'm OK - You're OK by Thomas A. Harris
R - 26/3/18 ** - Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits by Kevin Roose
I - 26/3/18 *** - If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating by Alan Alda
C - 27/3/18 *** - Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin
K - 27/3/18 *** - The IT Marketing Crash Course: How to Get Clients for Your Technology Business by Raj Khera
S - 27/3/18 **** - Curate This!: The Hands-On, How-To Guide To Content Curation by Steven Rosenbaum
D - 27/3/18 *** - Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time by Laura Stack
A - 27/3/18 *** - Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
Y - 27/3/18 *** - Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari (hide spoiler)]
Corflute
(view spoiler)[C - 28/3/18 *** - A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter
O - 28/3/18 ** - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
R - 28/3/18 **** - 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
F - 28/3/18 *** - Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win by Ryan Babineaux
L - 29/3/18 *** - Living in Your Top 1%: Nine Essential Rituals to Achieve Your Ultimate Life Goals by Alissa Finerman
U - 29/3/18 **** - Unshakeable by Tony Robbins
T - 30/3/18 *** - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
E - 31/3/18 ** - Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert (hide spoiler)]
Mars
(view spoiler)[M - 30/3/18 * - A Bigger Prize by Margaret Heffernan
A - 30/3/18 ** - Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought by Andrew W. Lo
R - 31/3/18 ** - Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life by Gretchen Rubin
S - 31/3/18 *** - SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (hide spoiler)]
March 3rd: I Want You to Be Happy Day: Re-Read a book that makes you happy
7/3/18 ***** - Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho
March 14: National Pi Day: Read a book where a character is a mathematician
30/3/18 ** - How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
March 29: National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day: Read a book with a character that runs their own business
29/3/18 ***** - Be Obsessed or Be Average by Grant Cardone
March 10: The U.S. government issues paper money for the first time in 1862.: Read a book with money on the cover
25/3/18 ***** - The 4 Laws of Financial Prosperity: Get Control of Your Money Now! by Blaine Harris
The Challenge Factory
Hooray for Technology! E-Reader Challenge
Duration: April 1st to April 30th, 2018
Level: OMG, the guys in the white coats are coming...I'm Committed (20+ books)
80/80 ✔
(view spoiler)[1 - 1/4/18 *** - Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com by Aaron Ross
2 - 1/4/18 ***** - TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris J. Anderson
3 - 1/4/18 *** - Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
4 - 1/4/18 **** - Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
5 - 2/4/18 ** - How to Be Alive: A Guide To The Kind of Happiness That Helps The World by Colin Beavan
6 - 2/4/18 ***** - Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World by Benny Lewis
7 - 2/4/18 ** - On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future by Karen Elliott House
8 - 2/4/18 ***** - Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth by T. Harv Eker
9 - 3/4/18 *** - Open by Andre Agassi
10 - 3/4/18 *** - Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Goldstein
11 - 3/4/18 *** - Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets by Al Ramadan
12 - 3/4/18 ** - Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative by Ken Robinson
13 - 3/4/18 ** - Finding Purpose by L.Leonard Taylor
14 - 3/4/18 ** - 30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage by Karl Pillemer
15 - 4/4/18 **** - Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life by Donald J. Trump
16 - 6/4/18 *** - Let’s Go Invent Tomorrow: A Year’s Worth of Quotes, Wisdom, and Insight from the World’s Most Successful Business Leaders by Jessica Easto
17 - 6/4/18 ** - Effective Logo Design: Guidelines for Small Business Owners, Bloggers, and Marketers by Anita Nipane
18 - 6/4/18 ** - An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff
19 - 7/4/18 * - You Are What You Think by David Stoop
20 - 7/4/18 *** - Random Kinds of Factness: 1001 (or So) Absolutely True Tidbits about (Mostly) Everything by Erin Barrett
21 - 7/4/18 *** - [book:The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer
22 - 7/4/18 ** - A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive by Ted Coiné
23 - 7/4/18 *** - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
24 - 9/4/18 *** - Night School by Richard Wiseman
25 - 9/4/18 ** - Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte
26 - 9/4/18 ** - A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
27 - 10/4/18 ** - UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products That People Want by Jaime Levy
28 - 10/4/18 *** - Hannibal and Me: What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failu re by Andreas Kluth
29 - 10/4/18 ** - Ketogenic Diet: Types of Keto Diet and Precautions While You Lose Weight by Ben Harewood
30 - 10/4/18 *** - Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia Puigcerver
31 - 12/4/18 ** - Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
32 - 12/4/18 ** - Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
33 - 12/4/18 ***** - Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk
34 - 12/4/18 ** - Ignorance: How it drives science by Stuart Firestein
35 - 12/4/18 *** - Evergreen: Cultivate the Enduring Customer Loyalty That Keeps Your Business Thriving by Noah Fleming
36 - 12/4/18 *** - The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone
37 - 12/4/18 *** - Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright
38 - 12/4/18 ** - Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World by Paul Collier
39 - 12/4/18 *** - I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
40 - 14/4/18 *** - 499 Funny and Serious Life Quotes Part 5 by Thomas J. Strang
41 - 14/4/18 ** - Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content by Ann Handley
42 - 14/4/18 *** - Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
43 - 14/4/18 ** - Experiments with People: Revelations from Social Psychology by Robert P. Abelson
44 - 14/4/18 ** - Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace by Nikil Saval
45 - 14/4/18 ** - In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World by Ian Stewart
46 - 14/4/18 ** - Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek
47 - 15/4/18 * - A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" by Marianne Williamson
48 - 15/4/18 *** - Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck by Jon Acuff
49 - 15/4/18 **** - On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller by Richard Norton Smith
50 - 15/4/18 ** - Stop Acting Rich: ...and Start Living Like a Real Millionaire by Thomas J. Stanley
51 - 16/4/18 * - Nuclear Weapons Encyclopedia: The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (Glasstone and Dolan Reference on Atomic Explosions), Nuclear Matters Handbook by Progressive Management
52 - 16/4/18 ** - Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? by Nancy Leys Stepan
53 - 16/4/18 ** - Keto Recipes for Accelerated Weight Loss: Top 40 Quick & Easy Keto Diet Recipes to Help You Successfully Feel Healthier and Truly Alive! by Olivia Rose
54 - 16/4/18 *** - Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
55 - 17/4/18 ** - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
56 - 17/4/18 * - Introduction to Molecular Energy Transfer by James T. Yardley
57 - 17/4/18 ** - Speed Reading: The Definitive Speed Reading Collection by Warren R. Sullivan
58 - 17/4/18 **** - Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You by Daniel Priestley
59 - 17/4/18 *** - Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds
60 - 18/4/18 ** - The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be by Moisés Naím
61 - 18/4/18 ** - On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
62 - 18/4/18 *** - Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay: The Business of Popular Music by Simon Napier-Bell
63 - 18/4/18 ** - The Essential HR Handbook: A Quick and Handy Resource for Any Manager or HR Professional by Sharon Armstrong
64 - 18/4/18 *** - The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism by Calum Chace
65 - 18/4/18 ** - Patient's Guide to Dental Implants by Tom Balshi
66 - 19/4/18 *** - The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me About Life and Wealth by Richard Paul Evans
67 - 20/4/18 *** - Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
68 - 20/4/18 *** - The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
69 - 20/4/18 *** - The Republic by Plato
70 - 20/4/18 *** - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
71 - 20/4/18 ** - The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated by Helaine Olen
72 - 20/4/18 *** - A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life by Brian Grazer
73 - 21/4/18 ** - Extreme sports by Steve Shipside
74 - 23/4/18 * - Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard
75 - 23/4/18 ** - Neuro-Linguistic Programming for Dummies by Romilla Ready
76 - 24/4/18 *** - The Road to Reinvention: How to Disrupt Your Organization Before the Competition Does by Josh Linkner
77 - 25/4/18 *** - The Yes Book: The Art of Better Negotiation by Clive Rich
78 - 25/4/18 *** - Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
79 - 25/4/18 **** - Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig
80 - 26/4/18 *** - Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life by Eric Greitens
(hide spoiler)]
Hooray for Technology! E-Reader Challenge
Duration: April 1st to April 30th, 2018
Level: OMG, the guys in the white coats are coming...I'm Committed (20+ books)
80/80 ✔
(view spoiler)[1 - 1/4/18 *** - Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com by Aaron Ross
2 - 1/4/18 ***** - TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris J. Anderson
3 - 1/4/18 *** - Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
4 - 1/4/18 **** - Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
5 - 2/4/18 ** - How to Be Alive: A Guide To The Kind of Happiness That Helps The World by Colin Beavan
6 - 2/4/18 ***** - Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World by Benny Lewis
7 - 2/4/18 ** - On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future by Karen Elliott House
8 - 2/4/18 ***** - Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth by T. Harv Eker
9 - 3/4/18 *** - Open by Andre Agassi
10 - 3/4/18 *** - Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Goldstein
11 - 3/4/18 *** - Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets by Al Ramadan
12 - 3/4/18 ** - Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative by Ken Robinson
13 - 3/4/18 ** - Finding Purpose by L.Leonard Taylor
14 - 3/4/18 ** - 30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage by Karl Pillemer
15 - 4/4/18 **** - Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life by Donald J. Trump
16 - 6/4/18 *** - Let’s Go Invent Tomorrow: A Year’s Worth of Quotes, Wisdom, and Insight from the World’s Most Successful Business Leaders by Jessica Easto
17 - 6/4/18 ** - Effective Logo Design: Guidelines for Small Business Owners, Bloggers, and Marketers by Anita Nipane
18 - 6/4/18 ** - An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff
19 - 7/4/18 * - You Are What You Think by David Stoop
20 - 7/4/18 *** - Random Kinds of Factness: 1001 (or So) Absolutely True Tidbits about (Mostly) Everything by Erin Barrett
21 - 7/4/18 *** - [book:The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer
22 - 7/4/18 ** - A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive by Ted Coiné
23 - 7/4/18 *** - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
24 - 9/4/18 *** - Night School by Richard Wiseman
25 - 9/4/18 ** - Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte
26 - 9/4/18 ** - A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
27 - 10/4/18 ** - UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products That People Want by Jaime Levy
28 - 10/4/18 *** - Hannibal and Me: What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failu re by Andreas Kluth
29 - 10/4/18 ** - Ketogenic Diet: Types of Keto Diet and Precautions While You Lose Weight by Ben Harewood
30 - 10/4/18 *** - Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia Puigcerver
31 - 12/4/18 ** - Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
32 - 12/4/18 ** - Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
33 - 12/4/18 ***** - Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk
34 - 12/4/18 ** - Ignorance: How it drives science by Stuart Firestein
35 - 12/4/18 *** - Evergreen: Cultivate the Enduring Customer Loyalty That Keeps Your Business Thriving by Noah Fleming
36 - 12/4/18 *** - The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone
37 - 12/4/18 *** - Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright
38 - 12/4/18 ** - Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World by Paul Collier
39 - 12/4/18 *** - I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
40 - 14/4/18 *** - 499 Funny and Serious Life Quotes Part 5 by Thomas J. Strang
41 - 14/4/18 ** - Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content by Ann Handley
42 - 14/4/18 *** - Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
43 - 14/4/18 ** - Experiments with People: Revelations from Social Psychology by Robert P. Abelson
44 - 14/4/18 ** - Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace by Nikil Saval
45 - 14/4/18 ** - In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World by Ian Stewart
46 - 14/4/18 ** - Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek
47 - 15/4/18 * - A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" by Marianne Williamson
48 - 15/4/18 *** - Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck by Jon Acuff
49 - 15/4/18 **** - On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller by Richard Norton Smith
50 - 15/4/18 ** - Stop Acting Rich: ...and Start Living Like a Real Millionaire by Thomas J. Stanley
51 - 16/4/18 * - Nuclear Weapons Encyclopedia: The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (Glasstone and Dolan Reference on Atomic Explosions), Nuclear Matters Handbook by Progressive Management
52 - 16/4/18 ** - Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? by Nancy Leys Stepan
53 - 16/4/18 ** - Keto Recipes for Accelerated Weight Loss: Top 40 Quick & Easy Keto Diet Recipes to Help You Successfully Feel Healthier and Truly Alive! by Olivia Rose
54 - 16/4/18 *** - Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
55 - 17/4/18 ** - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
56 - 17/4/18 * - Introduction to Molecular Energy Transfer by James T. Yardley
57 - 17/4/18 ** - Speed Reading: The Definitive Speed Reading Collection by Warren R. Sullivan
58 - 17/4/18 **** - Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You by Daniel Priestley
59 - 17/4/18 *** - Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds
60 - 18/4/18 ** - The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be by Moisés Naím
61 - 18/4/18 ** - On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
62 - 18/4/18 *** - Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay: The Business of Popular Music by Simon Napier-Bell
63 - 18/4/18 ** - The Essential HR Handbook: A Quick and Handy Resource for Any Manager or HR Professional by Sharon Armstrong
64 - 18/4/18 *** - The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism by Calum Chace
65 - 18/4/18 ** - Patient's Guide to Dental Implants by Tom Balshi
66 - 19/4/18 *** - The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me About Life and Wealth by Richard Paul Evans
67 - 20/4/18 *** - Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
68 - 20/4/18 *** - The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
69 - 20/4/18 *** - The Republic by Plato
70 - 20/4/18 *** - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
71 - 20/4/18 ** - The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated by Helaine Olen
72 - 20/4/18 *** - A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life by Brian Grazer
73 - 21/4/18 ** - Extreme sports by Steve Shipside
74 - 23/4/18 * - Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard
75 - 23/4/18 ** - Neuro-Linguistic Programming for Dummies by Romilla Ready
76 - 24/4/18 *** - The Road to Reinvention: How to Disrupt Your Organization Before the Competition Does by Josh Linkner
77 - 25/4/18 *** - The Yes Book: The Art of Better Negotiation by Clive Rich
78 - 25/4/18 *** - Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
79 - 25/4/18 **** - Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig
80 - 26/4/18 *** - Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life by Eric Greitens
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The Challenge Factory
April TCF Monthly Challenge
Duration: April 1st to April 30th, 2018
86/86 ✔
Passover
(view spoiler)[P - 1/4/18 *** - Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com by Aaron Ross
A - 1/4/18 ***** - TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris J. Anderson
S - 1/4/18 **** - Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
S - 2/4/18 ***** - Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth by T. Harv Eker
O - 2/4/18 ** - On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future by Karen Elliott House
V - 7/4/18 *** - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
E - 1/4/18 *** - Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
R - 3/4/18 ** - Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative by Ken Robinson (hide spoiler)]
Sweet Pea
(view spoiler)[S - 11/4/18 **** - Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success by Stephen R. Covey
W - 7/4/18 ** - A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive by Ted Coiné
E - 6/4/18 ** - Effective Logo Design: Guidelines for Small Business Owners, Bloggers, and Marketers by Anita Nipane
E - 6/4/18 *** - Let’s Go Invent Tomorrow: A Year’s Worth of Quotes, Wisdom, and Insight from the World’s Most Successful Business Leaders by Jessica Easto
T - 3/4/18 ** - Finding Purpose by L.Leonard Taylor
P - 3/4/18 *** - Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Goldstein
E - 7/4/18 *** - Random Kinds of Factness: 1001 (or So) Absolutely True Tidbits about (Mostly) Everything by Erin Barrett
A - 3/4/18 *** - Open by Andre Agassi (hide spoiler)]
Diamond
(view spoiler)[D - 4/4/18 **** - Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life by Donald J. Trump
I - 6/4/18 ** - An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff
A - 3/4/18 *** - Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets by Al Ramadan
M - 7/4/18 *** - The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer
O - 9/4/18 ** - Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte
N - 9/4/18 *** - Night School by Richard Wiseman
D - 7/4/18 * - You Are What You Think by David Stoop (hide spoiler)]
Taxes
(view spoiler)[T - 3/4/18 ** - 30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage by Karl Pillemer
A - 10/4/18 *** - Hannibal and Me: What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failu re by Andreas Kluth
X - 12/4/18 * - Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely
E - 12/4/18 *** - Evergreen: Cultivate the Enduring Customer Loyalty That Keeps Your Business Thriving by Noah Fleming
S - 12/4/18 ** - Ignorance: How it drives science by Stuart Firestein (hide spoiler)]
Showers
(view spoiler)[S - 12/4/18 *** - The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone
H - 2/4/18 ** - How to Be Alive: A Guide To The Kind of Happiness That Helps The World by Colin Beavan
O - 12/4/18 ** - Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
W - 12/4/18 *** - Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright
E - 12/4/18 ** - Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World by Paul Collier
R - 12/4/18 ** - Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
S - 12/4/18 *** - I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi (hide spoiler)]
Easter
(view spoiler)[E - 14/4/18 ** - Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content by Ann Handley
A - 14/4/18 *** - Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
S - 14/4/18 *** - 499 Funny and Serious Life Quotes Part 5 by Thomas J. Strang
T - 13/4/18 ** - Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message by Tara Mohr
E - 14/4/18** - Experiments with People: Revelations from Social Psychology by Robert P. Abelson
R - 15/4/18 * - A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" by Marianne Williamson (hide spoiler)]
Chick
(view spoiler)[C - 12/4/18 ***** - Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk
H - 10/4/18 ** - Ketogenic Diet: Types of Keto Diet and Precautions While You Lose Weight by Ben Harewood
I - 10/4/18 *** - Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia Puigcerver
C - 14/4/18 ** - Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace by Nikil Saval
K - 9/4/18 ** - A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss (hide spoiler)]
Dinger
(view spoiler)[D - 15/4/18 *** - Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck by Jon Acuff
I - 14/4/18 ** - In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World by Ian Stewart
N - 14/4/18 ** - Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek
G - 11/4/18 ** - Celtic Mythology by Geddes and Grosset
E - 16/4/18 ** - Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? by Nancy Leys Stepan
R - 15/4/18 **** - On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller by Richard Norton Smith (hide spoiler)]
♘Pick a Theme in the "What's So Great About April?" section and read as many books as you can that fit that theme
Library Week: Read a book you checked out from the library
(view spoiler)[7/4/18 ** - Zen in Plain English: Experience the Essence of Zen by Stephan Schuhmacher
3/4/18 ** - The Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power by Keith Barnham
13/4/18 **** - Why the Rich Are Getting Richer by Robert T. Kiyosaki
13/4/18 **** - Why We Want You To Be Rich: Two Men, One Message by Donald J. Trump and Robert T. Kiyosaki
2/4/18 *** - Copyfight by Phillipa McGuinness
2/4/18 ** - Why Mindfulness is Better than Chocolate: Your guide to inner peace, enhanced focus and deep happiness by David Michie
12/4/18 **** - Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi by Howard Gardner
1/4/18 *** - Mindful Compassion: Using the Power of Mindfulness and Compassion to Transform our Lives by Paul Gilbert
10/4/18 *** - The Happiness Code: Ten Keys to Being the Best You Can Be by Domonique Bertolucci
11/4/18 ** - Use Philosophy to be Happier - 30 Steps to Perfect the Art of Living by Mark Vernon
11/4/18 *** - The Path to Wealth: Seven Spiritual Steps for Financial Abundance by May McCarthy
13/4/18 *** - The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey
11/4/18 ***** - How Successful People Win: Turn Every Setback into a Step Forward by John C. Maxwell
16/4/18 *** - Closer: Find Happiness in your Life and Relationships with the 7 Principles of Connectedness by Peter Charleston
16/4/18 ***** - The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future by Theodore Zeldin
17/4/18 ** - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
18/4/18 ** - A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever by Marianne Williamson
18/4/18 *** - The Louise Parker Method: Lean for Life by Louise Parker
19/4/18 * - Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us by Will Storr
19/4/18 ** - Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor
19/4/18 ** - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
20/4/18 **** - Escape Fat Trap for Life by Judith Wills
20/4/18 **** - The Cheese Trap: How Breaking a Surprising Addiction Will Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Get Healthy by Neal D. Barnard
20/4/18 *** - Beating Diabetes (a Harvard Medical School Book): Lower Your Blood Sugar, Lose Weight, and Stop Diabetes and Its Complications in Their Tracks by David M. Nathan
21/4/18 ** - How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Richard Witt
21/4/18 *** - Curious English Words and Phrases: The truth behind the expressions we use by Max Cryer
23/4/18 ** - Why Is the Dalai Lama Always Smiling?: A Westerner's Introduction and Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Practice by Lama Tsomo
24/4/18 **** - Ultimate Energy: How To Get From Tired To Inspired by Tricia Woolfrey
24/4/18 ** - 101 Things Everyone Should Know About Economics: A Down and Dirty Guide to Everything from Securities and Derivatives to Interest Rates and Hedge Funds - And What They Mean For You by Peter Sander
24/4/18 ** - Pioneering the Possible: Awakened Leadership for a World That Works by Scilla Elworthy
24/4/18 ** - Confucius by Meher McArthur
25/4/18 *** - Get a Financial Grip: A Simple Plan for Finacial Freedom by Pete Wargent
25/4/18 *** - Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business
(hide spoiler)]
April 28: Kiss Your Mate Day/Great Poetry Reading Day: Read a book of poetry
9/4/18 ** - The Anthology of Really Important Modern Poetry: Timeless Poems by Snooki, John Boehner, Kanye West, and Other Well-Versed Celebrities by Kathryn Petras
April TCF Monthly Challenge
Duration: April 1st to April 30th, 2018
86/86 ✔
Passover
(view spoiler)[P - 1/4/18 *** - Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com by Aaron Ross
A - 1/4/18 ***** - TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris J. Anderson
S - 1/4/18 **** - Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
S - 2/4/18 ***** - Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth by T. Harv Eker
O - 2/4/18 ** - On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future by Karen Elliott House
V - 7/4/18 *** - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
E - 1/4/18 *** - Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
R - 3/4/18 ** - Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative by Ken Robinson (hide spoiler)]
Sweet Pea
(view spoiler)[S - 11/4/18 **** - Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success by Stephen R. Covey
W - 7/4/18 ** - A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive by Ted Coiné
E - 6/4/18 ** - Effective Logo Design: Guidelines for Small Business Owners, Bloggers, and Marketers by Anita Nipane
E - 6/4/18 *** - Let’s Go Invent Tomorrow: A Year’s Worth of Quotes, Wisdom, and Insight from the World’s Most Successful Business Leaders by Jessica Easto
T - 3/4/18 ** - Finding Purpose by L.Leonard Taylor
P - 3/4/18 *** - Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Goldstein
E - 7/4/18 *** - Random Kinds of Factness: 1001 (or So) Absolutely True Tidbits about (Mostly) Everything by Erin Barrett
A - 3/4/18 *** - Open by Andre Agassi (hide spoiler)]
Diamond
(view spoiler)[D - 4/4/18 **** - Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life by Donald J. Trump
I - 6/4/18 ** - An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff
A - 3/4/18 *** - Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets by Al Ramadan
M - 7/4/18 *** - The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer
O - 9/4/18 ** - Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte
N - 9/4/18 *** - Night School by Richard Wiseman
D - 7/4/18 * - You Are What You Think by David Stoop (hide spoiler)]
Taxes
(view spoiler)[T - 3/4/18 ** - 30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage by Karl Pillemer
A - 10/4/18 *** - Hannibal and Me: What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failu re by Andreas Kluth
X - 12/4/18 * - Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely
E - 12/4/18 *** - Evergreen: Cultivate the Enduring Customer Loyalty That Keeps Your Business Thriving by Noah Fleming
S - 12/4/18 ** - Ignorance: How it drives science by Stuart Firestein (hide spoiler)]
Showers
(view spoiler)[S - 12/4/18 *** - The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone
H - 2/4/18 ** - How to Be Alive: A Guide To The Kind of Happiness That Helps The World by Colin Beavan
O - 12/4/18 ** - Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
W - 12/4/18 *** - Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright
E - 12/4/18 ** - Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World by Paul Collier
R - 12/4/18 ** - Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
S - 12/4/18 *** - I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi (hide spoiler)]
Easter
(view spoiler)[E - 14/4/18 ** - Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content by Ann Handley
A - 14/4/18 *** - Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
S - 14/4/18 *** - 499 Funny and Serious Life Quotes Part 5 by Thomas J. Strang
T - 13/4/18 ** - Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message by Tara Mohr
E - 14/4/18** - Experiments with People: Revelations from Social Psychology by Robert P. Abelson
R - 15/4/18 * - A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" by Marianne Williamson (hide spoiler)]
Chick
(view spoiler)[C - 12/4/18 ***** - Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk
H - 10/4/18 ** - Ketogenic Diet: Types of Keto Diet and Precautions While You Lose Weight by Ben Harewood
I - 10/4/18 *** - Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia Puigcerver
C - 14/4/18 ** - Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace by Nikil Saval
K - 9/4/18 ** - A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss (hide spoiler)]
Dinger
(view spoiler)[D - 15/4/18 *** - Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck by Jon Acuff
I - 14/4/18 ** - In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World by Ian Stewart
N - 14/4/18 ** - Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek
G - 11/4/18 ** - Celtic Mythology by Geddes and Grosset
E - 16/4/18 ** - Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? by Nancy Leys Stepan
R - 15/4/18 **** - On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller by Richard Norton Smith (hide spoiler)]
♘Pick a Theme in the "What's So Great About April?" section and read as many books as you can that fit that theme
Library Week: Read a book you checked out from the library
(view spoiler)[7/4/18 ** - Zen in Plain English: Experience the Essence of Zen by Stephan Schuhmacher
3/4/18 ** - The Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power by Keith Barnham
13/4/18 **** - Why the Rich Are Getting Richer by Robert T. Kiyosaki
13/4/18 **** - Why We Want You To Be Rich: Two Men, One Message by Donald J. Trump and Robert T. Kiyosaki
2/4/18 *** - Copyfight by Phillipa McGuinness
2/4/18 ** - Why Mindfulness is Better than Chocolate: Your guide to inner peace, enhanced focus and deep happiness by David Michie
12/4/18 **** - Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi by Howard Gardner
1/4/18 *** - Mindful Compassion: Using the Power of Mindfulness and Compassion to Transform our Lives by Paul Gilbert
10/4/18 *** - The Happiness Code: Ten Keys to Being the Best You Can Be by Domonique Bertolucci
11/4/18 ** - Use Philosophy to be Happier - 30 Steps to Perfect the Art of Living by Mark Vernon
11/4/18 *** - The Path to Wealth: Seven Spiritual Steps for Financial Abundance by May McCarthy
13/4/18 *** - The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey
11/4/18 ***** - How Successful People Win: Turn Every Setback into a Step Forward by John C. Maxwell
16/4/18 *** - Closer: Find Happiness in your Life and Relationships with the 7 Principles of Connectedness by Peter Charleston
16/4/18 ***** - The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future by Theodore Zeldin
17/4/18 ** - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
18/4/18 ** - A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever by Marianne Williamson
18/4/18 *** - The Louise Parker Method: Lean for Life by Louise Parker
19/4/18 * - Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us by Will Storr
19/4/18 ** - Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor
19/4/18 ** - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
20/4/18 **** - Escape Fat Trap for Life by Judith Wills
20/4/18 **** - The Cheese Trap: How Breaking a Surprising Addiction Will Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Get Healthy by Neal D. Barnard
20/4/18 *** - Beating Diabetes (a Harvard Medical School Book): Lower Your Blood Sugar, Lose Weight, and Stop Diabetes and Its Complications in Their Tracks by David M. Nathan
21/4/18 ** - How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Richard Witt
21/4/18 *** - Curious English Words and Phrases: The truth behind the expressions we use by Max Cryer
23/4/18 ** - Why Is the Dalai Lama Always Smiling?: A Westerner's Introduction and Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Practice by Lama Tsomo
24/4/18 **** - Ultimate Energy: How To Get From Tired To Inspired by Tricia Woolfrey
24/4/18 ** - 101 Things Everyone Should Know About Economics: A Down and Dirty Guide to Everything from Securities and Derivatives to Interest Rates and Hedge Funds - And What They Mean For You by Peter Sander
24/4/18 ** - Pioneering the Possible: Awakened Leadership for a World That Works by Scilla Elworthy
24/4/18 ** - Confucius by Meher McArthur
25/4/18 *** - Get a Financial Grip: A Simple Plan for Finacial Freedom by Pete Wargent
25/4/18 *** - Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business
(hide spoiler)]
April 28: Kiss Your Mate Day/Great Poetry Reading Day: Read a book of poetry
9/4/18 ** - The Anthology of Really Important Modern Poetry: Timeless Poems by Snooki, John Boehner, Kanye West, and Other Well-Versed Celebrities by Kathryn Petras
Nothing But Reading Challenges
Monthly/Seasonal Challenges
April: Rain or Shine Reading Challenge
88/88 ✔
Atmospheric Pressure
(view spoiler)[A - 1/4/18 *** - Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com by Aaron Ross
T - 1/4/18 ***** - TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris J. Anderson
M - 1/4/18 *** - Mindful Compassion: Using the Power of Mindfulness and Compassion to Transform our Lives by Paul Gilbert
O - 2/4/18 ** - On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future by Karen Elliott House
S - 1/4/18 **** - Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
P - 1/4/18 *** - Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
H - 2/4/18 ** - How to Be Alive: A Guide To The Kind of Happiness That Helps The World by Colin Beavan
E - 2/4/18 ***** - Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth by T. Harv Eker
R - 3/4/18 ** - Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative by Ken Robinson
I - 6/4/18 ** - An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff
C - 7/4/18 ** - A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive by Ted Coiné
P - 2/4/18 *** - Copyfight by Phillipa McGuinness
R - 3/4/18 *** - Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Goldstein
E - 6/4/18 ** - Effective Logo Design: Guidelines for Small Business Owners, Bloggers, and Marketers by Anita Nipane
S - 7/4/18 * - You Are What You Think by David Stoop
S - 11/4/18 **** - Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success by Stephen R. Covey
U - 7/4/18 *** - The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer
R - 3/4/18 *** - Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets by Al Ramadan
E - 7/4/18 *** - Random Kinds of Factness: 1001 (or So) Absolutely True Tidbits about (Mostly) Everything by Erin Barrett (hide spoiler)]
Cumulonimbus
(view spoiler)[C - 12/4/18 ***** - Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk
U - 9/4/18 ** - A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
M - 2/4/18 ** - Why Mindfulness is Better than Chocolate: Your guide to inner peace, enhanced focus and deep happiness by David Michie
U - 10/4/18 ** - UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products That People Want by Jaime Levy
L - 2/4/18 ***** - Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World by Benny Lewis
O - 3/4/18 *** - Open by Andre Agassi
N - 9/4/18 *** - Night School by Richard Wiseman
I - 10/4/18 *** - Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia Puigcerver
M - 7/4/18 *** - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
B - 3/4/18 ** - The Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power by Keith Barnham
U - 11/4/18 ** - Use Philosophy to be Happier - 30 Steps to Perfect the Art of Living by Mark Vernon
S - 12/4/18 ** - Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith (hide spoiler)]
National Hurricane Center
(view spoiler)[N - 12/4/18 ** - Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
A - 9/4/18 ** - The Anthology of Really Important Modern Poetry: Timeless Poems by Snooki, John Boehner, Kanye West, and Other Well-Versed Celebrities by Kathryn Petras
T - 3/4/18 ** - Finding Purpose by L.Leonard Taylor
I - 12/4/18 ** - Ignorance: How it drives science by Stuart Firestein
O - 9/4/18 ** - Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte
N - 12/4/18 *** - Evergreen: Cultivate the Enduring Customer Loyalty That Keeps Your Business Thriving by Noah Fleming
A - 10/4/18 *** - Hannibal and Me: What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failu re by Andreas Kluth
L - 6/4/18 *** - Let’s Go Invent Tomorrow: A Year’s Worth of Quotes, Wisdom, and Insight from the World’s Most Successful Business Leaders by Jessica Easto
H - 10/4/18 *** - The Happiness Code: Ten Keys to Being the Best You Can Be by Domonique Bertolucci
U - 12/4/18 *** - The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone
R - 12/4/18 * - Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely
R - 13/4/18 **** - Why the Rich Are Getting Richer by Robert T. Kiyosaki
I - 12/4/18 *** - I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
C - 14/4/18 ** - Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace by Nikil Saval
A - 14/4/18 *** - Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
N - 12/4/18 *** - Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright
E - 12/4/18 ** - Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World by Paul Collier
C - 11/4/18 ** - Celtic Mythology by Geddes and Grosset
E - 13/4/18 *** - The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey
N - 14/4/18 ** - Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek
T - 4/4/18 **** - Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life by Donald J. Trump
E - 14/4/18 ** - Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content by Ann Handley
R - 14/4/18** - Experiments with People: Revelations from Social Psychology by Robert P. Abelson (hide spoiler)]
Stationary Front
(view spoiler)[S - 7/4/18 ** - Zen in Plain English: Experience the Essence of Zen by Stephan Schuhmacher
T - 13/4/18 **** - Why We Want You To Be Rich: Two Men, One Message by Donald J. Trump
A - 15/4/18 *** - Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck by Jon Acuff
T - 13/4/18 ** - Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message by Tara Mohr
I - 14/4/18 ** - In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World by Ian Stewart
O - 15/4/18 **** - On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller by Richard Norton Smith
N - 16/4/18 ** - Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? by Nancy Leys Stepan
A - 17/4/18 ** - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
R - 15/4/18 * - A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" by Marianne Williamson
Y - 17/4/18 * - Introduction to Molecular Energy Transfer by James T. Yardley
F - 19/4/18 *** - The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me About Life and Wealth by Richard Paul Evans
R - 17/4/18 *** - Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds
O - 16/4/18 ** - Keto Recipes for Accelerated Weight Loss: Top 40 Quick & Easy Keto Diet Recipes to Help You Successfully Feel Healthier and Truly Alive! by Olivia Rose
N - 16/4/18 * - Nuclear Weapons Encyclopedia: The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (Glasstone and Dolan Reference on Atomic Explosions), Nuclear Matters Handbook by Progressive Management
T - 16/4/18 ***** - The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future by Theodore Zeldin (hide spoiler)]
Tropical Disturbance
(view spoiler)[T - 15/4/18 ** - Stop Acting Rich: ...and Start Living Like a Real Millionaire by Thomas J. Stanley
R - 20/4/18 *** - The Republic by Plato
O - 18/4/18 ** - On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
P - 3/4/18 ** - 30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage by Karl Pillemer
I - 20/4/18 *** - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
C - 12/4/18 **** - Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi by Howard Gardner
A - 20/4/18 *** - Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
L - 18/4/18 *** - The Louise Parker Method: Lean for Life by Louise Parker
D - 19/4/18 ** - Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor
I - 20/4/18 ** - The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated by Helaine Olen
S - 14/4/18 *** - 499 Funny and Serious Life Quotes Part 5 by Thomas J. Strang
T - 18/4/18 *** - Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay: The Business of Popular Music by Simon Napier-Bell
U - 20/4/18 *** - The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
R - 16/4/18 *** - Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
B - 10/4/18 ** - Ketogenic Diet: Types of Keto Diet and Precautions While You Lose Weight by Ben Harewood
A - 19/4/18 ** - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
N - 20/4/18 **** - The Cheese Trap: How Breaking a Surprising Addiction Will Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Get Healthy by Neal D. Barnard
C - 20/4/18 *** - A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life by Brian Grazer
E - 20/4/18 **** - Escape Fat Trap for Life by Judith Wills (hide spoiler)]
Monthly/Seasonal Challenges
April: Rain or Shine Reading Challenge
88/88 ✔
Atmospheric Pressure
(view spoiler)[A - 1/4/18 *** - Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com by Aaron Ross
T - 1/4/18 ***** - TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris J. Anderson
M - 1/4/18 *** - Mindful Compassion: Using the Power of Mindfulness and Compassion to Transform our Lives by Paul Gilbert
O - 2/4/18 ** - On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future by Karen Elliott House
S - 1/4/18 **** - Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
P - 1/4/18 *** - Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
H - 2/4/18 ** - How to Be Alive: A Guide To The Kind of Happiness That Helps The World by Colin Beavan
E - 2/4/18 ***** - Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth by T. Harv Eker
R - 3/4/18 ** - Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative by Ken Robinson
I - 6/4/18 ** - An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff
C - 7/4/18 ** - A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive by Ted Coiné
P - 2/4/18 *** - Copyfight by Phillipa McGuinness
R - 3/4/18 *** - Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Goldstein
E - 6/4/18 ** - Effective Logo Design: Guidelines for Small Business Owners, Bloggers, and Marketers by Anita Nipane
S - 7/4/18 * - You Are What You Think by David Stoop
S - 11/4/18 **** - Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success by Stephen R. Covey
U - 7/4/18 *** - The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer
R - 3/4/18 *** - Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets by Al Ramadan
E - 7/4/18 *** - Random Kinds of Factness: 1001 (or So) Absolutely True Tidbits about (Mostly) Everything by Erin Barrett (hide spoiler)]
Cumulonimbus
(view spoiler)[C - 12/4/18 ***** - Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk
U - 9/4/18 ** - A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
M - 2/4/18 ** - Why Mindfulness is Better than Chocolate: Your guide to inner peace, enhanced focus and deep happiness by David Michie
U - 10/4/18 ** - UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products That People Want by Jaime Levy
L - 2/4/18 ***** - Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World by Benny Lewis
O - 3/4/18 *** - Open by Andre Agassi
N - 9/4/18 *** - Night School by Richard Wiseman
I - 10/4/18 *** - Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia Puigcerver
M - 7/4/18 *** - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
B - 3/4/18 ** - The Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power by Keith Barnham
U - 11/4/18 ** - Use Philosophy to be Happier - 30 Steps to Perfect the Art of Living by Mark Vernon
S - 12/4/18 ** - Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith (hide spoiler)]
National Hurricane Center
(view spoiler)[N - 12/4/18 ** - Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
A - 9/4/18 ** - The Anthology of Really Important Modern Poetry: Timeless Poems by Snooki, John Boehner, Kanye West, and Other Well-Versed Celebrities by Kathryn Petras
T - 3/4/18 ** - Finding Purpose by L.Leonard Taylor
I - 12/4/18 ** - Ignorance: How it drives science by Stuart Firestein
O - 9/4/18 ** - Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte
N - 12/4/18 *** - Evergreen: Cultivate the Enduring Customer Loyalty That Keeps Your Business Thriving by Noah Fleming
A - 10/4/18 *** - Hannibal and Me: What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failu re by Andreas Kluth
L - 6/4/18 *** - Let’s Go Invent Tomorrow: A Year’s Worth of Quotes, Wisdom, and Insight from the World’s Most Successful Business Leaders by Jessica Easto
H - 10/4/18 *** - The Happiness Code: Ten Keys to Being the Best You Can Be by Domonique Bertolucci
U - 12/4/18 *** - The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone
R - 12/4/18 * - Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely
R - 13/4/18 **** - Why the Rich Are Getting Richer by Robert T. Kiyosaki
I - 12/4/18 *** - I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
C - 14/4/18 ** - Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace by Nikil Saval
A - 14/4/18 *** - Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
N - 12/4/18 *** - Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright
E - 12/4/18 ** - Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World by Paul Collier
C - 11/4/18 ** - Celtic Mythology by Geddes and Grosset
E - 13/4/18 *** - The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey
N - 14/4/18 ** - Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek
T - 4/4/18 **** - Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life by Donald J. Trump
E - 14/4/18 ** - Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content by Ann Handley
R - 14/4/18** - Experiments with People: Revelations from Social Psychology by Robert P. Abelson (hide spoiler)]
Stationary Front
(view spoiler)[S - 7/4/18 ** - Zen in Plain English: Experience the Essence of Zen by Stephan Schuhmacher
T - 13/4/18 **** - Why We Want You To Be Rich: Two Men, One Message by Donald J. Trump
A - 15/4/18 *** - Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck by Jon Acuff
T - 13/4/18 ** - Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message by Tara Mohr
I - 14/4/18 ** - In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World by Ian Stewart
O - 15/4/18 **** - On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller by Richard Norton Smith
N - 16/4/18 ** - Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? by Nancy Leys Stepan
A - 17/4/18 ** - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
R - 15/4/18 * - A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" by Marianne Williamson
Y - 17/4/18 * - Introduction to Molecular Energy Transfer by James T. Yardley
F - 19/4/18 *** - The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me About Life and Wealth by Richard Paul Evans
R - 17/4/18 *** - Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds
O - 16/4/18 ** - Keto Recipes for Accelerated Weight Loss: Top 40 Quick & Easy Keto Diet Recipes to Help You Successfully Feel Healthier and Truly Alive! by Olivia Rose
N - 16/4/18 * - Nuclear Weapons Encyclopedia: The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (Glasstone and Dolan Reference on Atomic Explosions), Nuclear Matters Handbook by Progressive Management
T - 16/4/18 ***** - The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future by Theodore Zeldin (hide spoiler)]
Tropical Disturbance
(view spoiler)[T - 15/4/18 ** - Stop Acting Rich: ...and Start Living Like a Real Millionaire by Thomas J. Stanley
R - 20/4/18 *** - The Republic by Plato
O - 18/4/18 ** - On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
P - 3/4/18 ** - 30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage by Karl Pillemer
I - 20/4/18 *** - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
C - 12/4/18 **** - Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi by Howard Gardner
A - 20/4/18 *** - Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
L - 18/4/18 *** - The Louise Parker Method: Lean for Life by Louise Parker
D - 19/4/18 ** - Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor
I - 20/4/18 ** - The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated by Helaine Olen
S - 14/4/18 *** - 499 Funny and Serious Life Quotes Part 5 by Thomas J. Strang
T - 18/4/18 *** - Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay: The Business of Popular Music by Simon Napier-Bell
U - 20/4/18 *** - The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
R - 16/4/18 *** - Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
B - 10/4/18 ** - Ketogenic Diet: Types of Keto Diet and Precautions While You Lose Weight by Ben Harewood
A - 19/4/18 ** - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
N - 20/4/18 **** - The Cheese Trap: How Breaking a Surprising Addiction Will Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Get Healthy by Neal D. Barnard
C - 20/4/18 *** - A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life by Brian Grazer
E - 20/4/18 **** - Escape Fat Trap for Life by Judith Wills (hide spoiler)]
Nothing But Reading Challenges
Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
Level 1a: 1-50 ✔
(view spoiler)[1. - 1/1/18 256p *** - AsapSCIENCE: Answers to the World’s Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors & Unexplained Phenomena by Mitchell Moffit
2. - 1/1/18 240p * - Click: What Millions of People Do Online and Why It Matters by Bill Tancer
3. - 1/1/18 127p ** - 10 Exciting Keys To Success: The Power Of A Successful Life by Bill Newman
4. - 3/1/18 112p *** - The Sales Coach by Michael Patterson
5. - 3/1/18 114p **** - Dream-Biz.Com: Design Your Future and Live Your Dreams in the E-Economy! by Burke Hedges
6. - 3/1/18 258p ** - Mindsharing: The Art of Crowdsourcing Everything by Lior Zoref
7. - 3/1/18 128p **** - Gaining the Competitive Edge in Life & Business by Martin Ayles
8. - 4/1/18 251p **** - Your Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More by Jason W. Womack
9. - 4/1/18 225p **** - The Gabriel Method by Jon Gabriel
10. - 4/1/18 288p *** - Leadership IQ: A Personal Development Process Based on a Scientific Study of a New Generation of Leaders by Emmett C. Murphy
11. - 5/1/18 228p ** - Effective Immediately: How to Fit In, Stand Out, and Move Up at Your First Real Job by Emily Bennington
12. - 5/1/18 208p ***** - The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence by Robert Anthony
13. - 5/1/18 191 ** - My Grammar and I... Or Should That Be Me?: How to Speak and Write It Right by Caroline Taggart
14. - 7/1/18 265 **** - The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need by Scott Pape
15. - 9/1/18 224p ** - Can I Freeze It?: How to Use the Most Versatile Appliance in Your Kitchen by Susie Theodorou
16. - 14/1/18 368p **** - The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order by Paul Vigna
17. - 14/1/18 320p *** - Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance by Ian Goldin
18. - 14/1/18 466p ***** - The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
19. - 15/1/18 316p **** - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
20. - 15/1/18 306p **** - A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science by Barbara Oakley
21. - 15/1/18 224p *** - Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration from Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most with the Least by Jessica Jackley
22. - 15/1/18 176p **** - Ultimate Productivity by Jim Stovall
23. - 15/1/18 336p *** - Unstoppable: 45 Powerful Stories of Perseverance and Triumph from People Just Like You by Cynthia Kersey
24. - 15/1/18 304p ***** - Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything by Ulrich Boser
25. - 16/1/18 252p ** - The Machiavellian's Guide to Charm: For Both Men and Women by Nick Casanova
26. - 16/1/18 240p **** - FIRE: How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation by Dan Ward
27. - 16/1/18 256p **** - The 1% Windfall: How Successful Companies Use Price to Profit and Grow by Rafi Mohammed
28. - 16/1/18 384p * - How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide by Jane Bryant Quinn
29. - 16/1/18 256p **** - Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs by Muhammad Yunus
30. - 16/1/18 583p **** - Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business by Dale Carnegie
31. - 16/1/18 224p **** - Body Language Secrets to Win More Negotiations by Greg Williams
32. - 16/1/18 400p ** - I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey through the Science of Sound and Language by Lydia Denworth
33. - 16/1/18 288p *** - Job U: How to Find Wealth and Success by Developing the Skills Companies Actually Need by Nicholas Wyman
34. - 17/1/18 480p **** - Dead Gods: The 27 Club by Chris Salewicz
35. - 17/1/18 242p *** - 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People by Susan M. Weinschenk
36. - 18/1/18 308p ***** - 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs by Kevin Kruse
37. - 18/1/18 272p **** - Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott
38. - 18/1/18 416p **** - Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper
39. - 18/1/18 224p ***** - Get Smart!: How to Think, Decide, Act, and Get Better Results in Everything You Do by Brian Tracy
40. - 18/1/18 256p *** - #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso
41. - 18/1/18 263p ***** - Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags by Linda Rottenberg
42. - 18/1/18 133p **** - The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg
43. - 20/1/18 288p ***** - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
44. - 20/1/18 206p ***** - 10 Days to Faster Reading by The Princeton Language Institute
45. - 20/1/18 320p * - 121 First Dates: How to Succeed at Online Dating, Fall in Love, and Live Happily Ever After by Wendy Newman
46. - 21/1/18 217p ** - How to Become a Straight-A Student by Cal Newport
47. - 21/1/18 234p *** - How to Be a Power Connector: The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Network Into Profits by Judy Robinett
48. - 21/1/18 304p *** - Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss by Joel Fuhrman
49. - 21/1/18 209p ** - 80/20 Internet Lead Generation: How a Few Simple, Profitable Strategies Can Lead to Marketplace Domination by Scott A. Dennison
50. - 21/1/18 180p **** - Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute (hide spoiler)]
Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
Level 1a: 1-50 ✔
(view spoiler)[1. - 1/1/18 256p *** - AsapSCIENCE: Answers to the World’s Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors & Unexplained Phenomena by Mitchell Moffit
2. - 1/1/18 240p * - Click: What Millions of People Do Online and Why It Matters by Bill Tancer
3. - 1/1/18 127p ** - 10 Exciting Keys To Success: The Power Of A Successful Life by Bill Newman
4. - 3/1/18 112p *** - The Sales Coach by Michael Patterson
5. - 3/1/18 114p **** - Dream-Biz.Com: Design Your Future and Live Your Dreams in the E-Economy! by Burke Hedges
6. - 3/1/18 258p ** - Mindsharing: The Art of Crowdsourcing Everything by Lior Zoref
7. - 3/1/18 128p **** - Gaining the Competitive Edge in Life & Business by Martin Ayles
8. - 4/1/18 251p **** - Your Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More by Jason W. Womack
9. - 4/1/18 225p **** - The Gabriel Method by Jon Gabriel
10. - 4/1/18 288p *** - Leadership IQ: A Personal Development Process Based on a Scientific Study of a New Generation of Leaders by Emmett C. Murphy
11. - 5/1/18 228p ** - Effective Immediately: How to Fit In, Stand Out, and Move Up at Your First Real Job by Emily Bennington
12. - 5/1/18 208p ***** - The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence by Robert Anthony
13. - 5/1/18 191 ** - My Grammar and I... Or Should That Be Me?: How to Speak and Write It Right by Caroline Taggart
14. - 7/1/18 265 **** - The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need by Scott Pape
15. - 9/1/18 224p ** - Can I Freeze It?: How to Use the Most Versatile Appliance in Your Kitchen by Susie Theodorou
16. - 14/1/18 368p **** - The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order by Paul Vigna
17. - 14/1/18 320p *** - Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance by Ian Goldin
18. - 14/1/18 466p ***** - The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
19. - 15/1/18 316p **** - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
20. - 15/1/18 306p **** - A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science by Barbara Oakley
21. - 15/1/18 224p *** - Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration from Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most with the Least by Jessica Jackley
22. - 15/1/18 176p **** - Ultimate Productivity by Jim Stovall
23. - 15/1/18 336p *** - Unstoppable: 45 Powerful Stories of Perseverance and Triumph from People Just Like You by Cynthia Kersey
24. - 15/1/18 304p ***** - Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything by Ulrich Boser
25. - 16/1/18 252p ** - The Machiavellian's Guide to Charm: For Both Men and Women by Nick Casanova
26. - 16/1/18 240p **** - FIRE: How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation by Dan Ward
27. - 16/1/18 256p **** - The 1% Windfall: How Successful Companies Use Price to Profit and Grow by Rafi Mohammed
28. - 16/1/18 384p * - How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide by Jane Bryant Quinn
29. - 16/1/18 256p **** - Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs by Muhammad Yunus
30. - 16/1/18 583p **** - Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business by Dale Carnegie
31. - 16/1/18 224p **** - Body Language Secrets to Win More Negotiations by Greg Williams
32. - 16/1/18 400p ** - I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey through the Science of Sound and Language by Lydia Denworth
33. - 16/1/18 288p *** - Job U: How to Find Wealth and Success by Developing the Skills Companies Actually Need by Nicholas Wyman
34. - 17/1/18 480p **** - Dead Gods: The 27 Club by Chris Salewicz
35. - 17/1/18 242p *** - 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People by Susan M. Weinschenk
36. - 18/1/18 308p ***** - 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs by Kevin Kruse
37. - 18/1/18 272p **** - Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott
38. - 18/1/18 416p **** - Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper
39. - 18/1/18 224p ***** - Get Smart!: How to Think, Decide, Act, and Get Better Results in Everything You Do by Brian Tracy
40. - 18/1/18 256p *** - #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso
41. - 18/1/18 263p ***** - Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags by Linda Rottenberg
42. - 18/1/18 133p **** - The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg
43. - 20/1/18 288p ***** - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
44. - 20/1/18 206p ***** - 10 Days to Faster Reading by The Princeton Language Institute
45. - 20/1/18 320p * - 121 First Dates: How to Succeed at Online Dating, Fall in Love, and Live Happily Ever After by Wendy Newman
46. - 21/1/18 217p ** - How to Become a Straight-A Student by Cal Newport
47. - 21/1/18 234p *** - How to Be a Power Connector: The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Network Into Profits by Judy Robinett
48. - 21/1/18 304p *** - Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss by Joel Fuhrman
49. - 21/1/18 209p ** - 80/20 Internet Lead Generation: How a Few Simple, Profitable Strategies Can Lead to Marketplace Domination by Scott A. Dennison
50. - 21/1/18 180p **** - Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute (hide spoiler)]
Nothing But Reading Challenges
Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
Level 1b: 50-100 ✔
Level 1 completed
(view spoiler)[51. - 21/1/18 304p **** - The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment by Todd Kashdan
52. - 21/1/18 448p *** - The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships by Neil Strauss
53. - 21/1/18 527p *** - The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, And the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
54. - 21/1/18 623p **** - The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
55. - 21/1/18 272p *** - The Culture Engine: A Framework for Driving Results, Inspiring Your Employees, and Transforming Your Workplace by S. Chris Edmonds
56. - 21/1/18 224p **** - The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry by John Warrillow
57. - 21/1/18 288p **** - The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage by Daymond John
58. - 21/1/18 162p ***** - The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success by Darren Hardy
59. - 21/1/18 201p ***** - The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
60. - 21/1/18 202p **** - Speak to Win: How to Present with Power in Any Situation by Brian Tracy
61. - 21/1/18 288p **** - The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise? by Chris Brogan
62. - 21/1/18 111p **** - The One Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard
63. - 21/1/18 276p **** - Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
64. - 21/1/18 280p *** - The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation by Kal Raustiala
65. - 21/1/18 391p *** - The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time by Arianna Huffington
66. - 21/1/18 320p *** - The Road to Character by David Brooks
67. - 21/1/18 272p **** - The Narcissist You Know: Defending Yourself Against Extreme Narcissists in an All-About-Me Age by Joseph Burgo
68. - 22/1/18 320p *** - The Industries of the Future by Alec J. Ross
69. - 22/1/18 288p **** - 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman
70. - 22/1/18 256p **** - People Over Profit: Break the System, Live with Purpose, Be More Successful by Dale Partridge
71. - 22/1/18 592p *** - Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
72. - 22/1/18 168p *** - The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength by Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
73. - 22/1/18 212p **** - TurboCoach: A Powerful System for Achieving Breakthrough Career Success by Brian Tracy
74. - 23/1/18 208p **** - You Are Your Choices: 50 Ways to Live the Good Life by Alexandra Stoddard
75. - 23/1/18 288p *** - The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain by Tali Sharot
76. - 23/1/18 206p * - Fox by Martin Wallen
77. - 23/1/18 544p **** - The Illustrated Kitchen Bible by Victoria Blashford-Snell
78. - 25/1/18 224p *** - How to Think Like Bill Gates by Daniel Smith
79. - 25/1/18 256p **** - The 4 Pillars of Leadership by John C. Maxwell
80. - 25/1/18 288p ** - The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch
81. - 26/1/18 208p ***** - All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World by Seth Godin
82. - 26/1/18 288p * - Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic by John De Graaf
83. - 26/1/18 218p ** - Ask: The Counterintuitive Online Formula to Discover Exactly What Your Customers Want to Buy...Create a Mass of Raving Fans...and Take Any Business to the Next Level by Ryan Levesque
84. - 26/1/18 320p **** - The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris
85. - 27/1/18 448 *** - The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves - Matt Ridley
86. - 28/1/18 240 ***** - The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller
87. - 29/1/18 264p **** - The Dead of Night by John Marsden
88. - 29/1/18 304p ** - Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love by Amir Levine
89. - 29/1/18 256p **** - You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero
90. - 31/1/18 270p **** - A Killing Frost by John Marsden
91. - 31/1/18 288p **** - The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help––or Hurt––How You Lead by Carol Kinsey Goman
92. - 1/2/18 336p **** - Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson
93. - 1/2/18 192p *** - The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations Into Breakthroughs by Marcia Reynolds
94. - 1/2/18 80p ** - The Genius of Charlie Brown: Peanuts Guide to Life by Charles M. Schulz
95. - 1/2/18 603p *** - The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
96. - 3/2/18 259p *** - Darkness, Be My Friend by John Marsden
97. - 4/2/18 416p *** - The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone by Brian Merchant
98. - 4/2/18 384p **** - The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
99. - 5/2/18 316p *** - The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck
100. - 5/2/18 273p **** - Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts by Susan Cain (hide spoiler)]
Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
Level 1b: 50-100 ✔
Level 1 completed
(view spoiler)[51. - 21/1/18 304p **** - The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment by Todd Kashdan
52. - 21/1/18 448p *** - The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships by Neil Strauss
53. - 21/1/18 527p *** - The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, And the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
54. - 21/1/18 623p **** - The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
55. - 21/1/18 272p *** - The Culture Engine: A Framework for Driving Results, Inspiring Your Employees, and Transforming Your Workplace by S. Chris Edmonds
56. - 21/1/18 224p **** - The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry by John Warrillow
57. - 21/1/18 288p **** - The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage by Daymond John
58. - 21/1/18 162p ***** - The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success by Darren Hardy
59. - 21/1/18 201p ***** - The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
60. - 21/1/18 202p **** - Speak to Win: How to Present with Power in Any Situation by Brian Tracy
61. - 21/1/18 288p **** - The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise? by Chris Brogan
62. - 21/1/18 111p **** - The One Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard
63. - 21/1/18 276p **** - Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
64. - 21/1/18 280p *** - The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation by Kal Raustiala
65. - 21/1/18 391p *** - The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time by Arianna Huffington
66. - 21/1/18 320p *** - The Road to Character by David Brooks
67. - 21/1/18 272p **** - The Narcissist You Know: Defending Yourself Against Extreme Narcissists in an All-About-Me Age by Joseph Burgo
68. - 22/1/18 320p *** - The Industries of the Future by Alec J. Ross
69. - 22/1/18 288p **** - 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman
70. - 22/1/18 256p **** - People Over Profit: Break the System, Live with Purpose, Be More Successful by Dale Partridge
71. - 22/1/18 592p *** - Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
72. - 22/1/18 168p *** - The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength by Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
73. - 22/1/18 212p **** - TurboCoach: A Powerful System for Achieving Breakthrough Career Success by Brian Tracy
74. - 23/1/18 208p **** - You Are Your Choices: 50 Ways to Live the Good Life by Alexandra Stoddard
75. - 23/1/18 288p *** - The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain by Tali Sharot
76. - 23/1/18 206p * - Fox by Martin Wallen
77. - 23/1/18 544p **** - The Illustrated Kitchen Bible by Victoria Blashford-Snell
78. - 25/1/18 224p *** - How to Think Like Bill Gates by Daniel Smith
79. - 25/1/18 256p **** - The 4 Pillars of Leadership by John C. Maxwell
80. - 25/1/18 288p ** - The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch
81. - 26/1/18 208p ***** - All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World by Seth Godin
82. - 26/1/18 288p * - Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic by John De Graaf
83. - 26/1/18 218p ** - Ask: The Counterintuitive Online Formula to Discover Exactly What Your Customers Want to Buy...Create a Mass of Raving Fans...and Take Any Business to the Next Level by Ryan Levesque
84. - 26/1/18 320p **** - The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris
85. - 27/1/18 448 *** - The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves - Matt Ridley
86. - 28/1/18 240 ***** - The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller
87. - 29/1/18 264p **** - The Dead of Night by John Marsden
88. - 29/1/18 304p ** - Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love by Amir Levine
89. - 29/1/18 256p **** - You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero
90. - 31/1/18 270p **** - A Killing Frost by John Marsden
91. - 31/1/18 288p **** - The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help––or Hurt––How You Lead by Carol Kinsey Goman
92. - 1/2/18 336p **** - Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson
93. - 1/2/18 192p *** - The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations Into Breakthroughs by Marcia Reynolds
94. - 1/2/18 80p ** - The Genius of Charlie Brown: Peanuts Guide to Life by Charles M. Schulz
95. - 1/2/18 603p *** - The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
96. - 3/2/18 259p *** - Darkness, Be My Friend by John Marsden
97. - 4/2/18 416p *** - The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone by Brian Merchant
98. - 4/2/18 384p **** - The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
99. - 5/2/18 316p *** - The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck
100. - 5/2/18 273p **** - Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts by Susan Cain (hide spoiler)]
Nothing But Reading Challenges
Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
Level 2a: 101-150 ✔
(view spoiler)[101. - 5/2/18 192p ** - Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content by Mark Levy
102. - 5/2/18 336p *** - Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs
103. - 6/2/18 336p * - Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty by Nancy L. Etcoff
104. - 8/2/18 208p ** - The Twenty-four Hour Mind: the Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives by Rosalind D. Cartwright
105. - 8/2/18 149p ***** - The Greatest Networker in the World by John Milton Fogg
106. - 14/2/18 288p *** - The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
107. - 14/2/18 272p *** - 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success by Amy Morin
108. - 14/2/18 352p ** - The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos by Leonard Mlodinow
109. - 14/2/18 176p *** - The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh
110. - 14/2/18 147p *** - Your First 1000 Copies: The Step-by-Step Guide to Marketing Your Book by Tim Grahl
111. - 14/2/18 368p *** - I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
112. - 15/2/18 256p *** - The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance by William McDonough
113. - 18/2/18 320p *** - Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind by Alex Stone
114. - 18/2/18 248p **** - Activate Your Brain: How Understanding Your Brain Can Improve Your Work - and Your Life by Scott G. Halford
115. - 18/2/18 320p ** - 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today by Stephen Le
116. - 18/2/18 256p *** - 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works by Dan Harris
117. - 18/2/18 280p ** - 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner
118. - 18/2/18 400p ***** - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
119. - 18/2/18 252p **** - Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future by Rohit Bhargava
120. - 19/2/18 304p **** - Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours by Robert C. Pozen
121. - 19/2/18 304p ** - Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor
122. - 19/2/18 304p *** - Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage by Peter Forbes
123. - 23/2/18 320p ** - Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
124. - 23/2/18 384p *** - A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World from Prehistory to Today by William J. Bernstein
125. - 23/2/18 224p **** - You Only Have to Be Right Once: The Unprecedented Rise of the Instant Tech Billionaires by Randall Lane
126. - 25/2/18 334 ** - A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change by Stanley Lieberson
127. - 25/2/18 339p ** - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
128. - 25/2/18 304p *** - A World Without Ice by Henry N. Pollack
129. - 25/2/18 496p **** - A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness by Joseph A. Maciariello
130. - 25/2/18 320p **** - You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself by David McRaney
131. - 26/2/18 307p ** - Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
132. - 26/2/18 304p *** - Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders by Adam Morgan
133. - 26/2/18 205p ** - Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability by Peter Dauvergne
134. - 26/2/18 466p *** - The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
135. - 27/2/18 256p **** - Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business by Porter Erisman
136. - 27/2/18 242p **** - Team of Leaders by Paul Gustavson
137. - 28/2/18 400p **** - Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney
138. - 28/2/18 400p ** - A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life by J. Craig Venter
139. - 28/2/18 341p **** - Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
140. - 1/3/18 205p ** - On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
141. - 1/3/18 288p *** - All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid by Matt Bai
142. - 1/3/18 864p *** - Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World by Matthieu Ricard
143. - 1/3/18 242p **** - Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job by Jon Acuff
144. - 1/3/18 176p *** - Raise Your Voice: A Cause Manifesto by Brian Sooy
145. - 1/3/18 384p ** - Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World by Nick Lane
146. - 2/3/18 240p *** - Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration--Lessons from The Second City by Kelly Leonard
147. - 2/3/18 352p *** - If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy? by Raj Raghunathan
148. - 4/3/18 324p ** - Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly
149. - 4/3/18 187p ** - Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective by Ha-Joon Chang
150. - 4/3/18 304p *** - The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell (hide spoiler)]
Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
Level 2a: 101-150 ✔
(view spoiler)[101. - 5/2/18 192p ** - Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content by Mark Levy
102. - 5/2/18 336p *** - Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs
103. - 6/2/18 336p * - Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty by Nancy L. Etcoff
104. - 8/2/18 208p ** - The Twenty-four Hour Mind: the Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives by Rosalind D. Cartwright
105. - 8/2/18 149p ***** - The Greatest Networker in the World by John Milton Fogg
106. - 14/2/18 288p *** - The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
107. - 14/2/18 272p *** - 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success by Amy Morin
108. - 14/2/18 352p ** - The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos by Leonard Mlodinow
109. - 14/2/18 176p *** - The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh
110. - 14/2/18 147p *** - Your First 1000 Copies: The Step-by-Step Guide to Marketing Your Book by Tim Grahl
111. - 14/2/18 368p *** - I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
112. - 15/2/18 256p *** - The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance by William McDonough
113. - 18/2/18 320p *** - Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind by Alex Stone
114. - 18/2/18 248p **** - Activate Your Brain: How Understanding Your Brain Can Improve Your Work - and Your Life by Scott G. Halford
115. - 18/2/18 320p ** - 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today by Stephen Le
116. - 18/2/18 256p *** - 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works by Dan Harris
117. - 18/2/18 280p ** - 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner
118. - 18/2/18 400p ***** - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
119. - 18/2/18 252p **** - Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future by Rohit Bhargava
120. - 19/2/18 304p **** - Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours by Robert C. Pozen
121. - 19/2/18 304p ** - Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor
122. - 19/2/18 304p *** - Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage by Peter Forbes
123. - 23/2/18 320p ** - Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
124. - 23/2/18 384p *** - A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World from Prehistory to Today by William J. Bernstein
125. - 23/2/18 224p **** - You Only Have to Be Right Once: The Unprecedented Rise of the Instant Tech Billionaires by Randall Lane
126. - 25/2/18 334 ** - A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change by Stanley Lieberson
127. - 25/2/18 339p ** - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
128. - 25/2/18 304p *** - A World Without Ice by Henry N. Pollack
129. - 25/2/18 496p **** - A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness by Joseph A. Maciariello
130. - 25/2/18 320p **** - You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself by David McRaney
131. - 26/2/18 307p ** - Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
132. - 26/2/18 304p *** - Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders by Adam Morgan
133. - 26/2/18 205p ** - Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability by Peter Dauvergne
134. - 26/2/18 466p *** - The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
135. - 27/2/18 256p **** - Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business by Porter Erisman
136. - 27/2/18 242p **** - Team of Leaders by Paul Gustavson
137. - 28/2/18 400p **** - Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney
138. - 28/2/18 400p ** - A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life by J. Craig Venter
139. - 28/2/18 341p **** - Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
140. - 1/3/18 205p ** - On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
141. - 1/3/18 288p *** - All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid by Matt Bai
142. - 1/3/18 864p *** - Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World by Matthieu Ricard
143. - 1/3/18 242p **** - Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job by Jon Acuff
144. - 1/3/18 176p *** - Raise Your Voice: A Cause Manifesto by Brian Sooy
145. - 1/3/18 384p ** - Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World by Nick Lane
146. - 2/3/18 240p *** - Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration--Lessons from The Second City by Kelly Leonard
147. - 2/3/18 352p *** - If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy? by Raj Raghunathan
148. - 4/3/18 324p ** - Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly
149. - 4/3/18 187p ** - Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective by Ha-Joon Chang
150. - 4/3/18 304p *** - The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell (hide spoiler)]
Nothing But Reading Challenges
Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
Level 2b: 151-200 ✔
Level 2 completed
(view spoiler)[151. - 4/3/18 528p **** - The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin
152. - 4/3/18 320p **** - The One Week Marketing Plan: The Set It & Forget It Approach for Quickly Growing Your Business by Mark Satterfield
153. - 4/3/18 295p *** - Leadership Blind Spots and What to Do about Them by Karen Blakeley
154. - 5/3/18 375p **** - Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny Le Couteur
155. - 5/3/18 360p ** - Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
156. - 5/3/18 295p *** - An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
157. - 5/3/18 320p *** - The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle
158. - 6/3/18 240p *** - Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Ken Segall
159. - 6/3/18 384p *** - Economics: The User's Guide by Ha-Joon Chang
160. - 6/3/18 256p ***** - The 10x Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure by Grant Cardone
161. - 6/3/18 106p **** - On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
162. - 6/3/18 70p *** - 30 Ways to Reboot Your Body: A Complete User Manual for Getting the Most Out of the Human Body by Ben Greenfield
163. - 7/3/18 326p *** - A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
164. - 7/3/18 208p ***** - Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho
165. - 7/3/18 187p *** - On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
166. - 7/3/18 229p *** - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
167. - 7/3/18 304p *** - Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey
168. - 8/3/18 256p ** - A Sky Full of Birds by Matt Merritt
169. - 8/3/18 224p **** - Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness by Alan Derickson
170. - 8/3/18 386p **** - Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight
171. - 8/3/18 219p **** - Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You by Daniel Priestley
172. - 12/3/18 240p *** - Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
173. - 12/3/18 272p *** - Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum by Neil Patel
174. - 12/3/18 230p ** - Effective HR Communication: A Framework for Communicating HR Programmes with Impact by Debra Corey
175. - 12/3/18 80p **** - As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
176. - 12/3/18 156p *** - 21 Days to a Big Idea!: Creating Breakthrough Business Concepts by Bryan Mattimore
177. - 19/3/18 163p *** - The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan W. Watts
178. - 21/3/18 288p *** - How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
179. - 21/3/18 208p ** - Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do by Kaiser Fung
180. - 21/3/18 751p **** - Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
181. - 21/3/18 320p **** - Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things by David Rose
182. - 21/3/18 399p *** - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
183. - 21/3/18 256p **** - POP!: Stand Out in Any Crowd by Sam Horn
184. - 22/3/18 208p *** - 60 Seconds and You're Hired! by Robin Ryan
185. - 22/3/18 362p *** - Anger Management for Dummies by W. Doyle Gentry
186. - 22/3/18 286p ** - 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
187. - 22/3/18 114p *** - Accounting Made Simple: Accounting Explained in 100 Pages or Less by Mike Piper
188. - 22/3/18 160p **** - The Ultimate Introduction to NLP: How to build a successful life by Richard Bandler
189. - 22/3/18 432p **** - Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss
190. - 22/3/18 528p **** - No Logo by Naomi Klein
191. - 22/3/18 230p **** - Campaigns that Shook the World: The Evolution of Public Relations by Danny Rogers
192. - 23/3/18 240p ** - The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future by Steve Case
193. - 23/3/18 202p ** - A/B Testing: The Most Powerful Way to Turn Clicks Into Customers by Dan Siroker
194. - 23/3/18 352p * - A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order by Richard N. Haass
195. - 23/3/18 432p *** - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
196. - 23/3/18 272p *** - A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas by Warren Berger
197. - 24/3/18 115p ***** - The 4 Laws of Financial Prosperity: Get Control of Your Money Now! by Blaine Harris
198. - 24/3/18 304p ** - Unrequited: Women and Romantic Obsession by Lisa A. Phillips
199. - 24/3/18 416p *** - The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain by Steven R. Gundry
200. - 24/3/18 240p **** - The Story of My Life by Helen Keller (hide spoiler)]
Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
Level 2b: 151-200 ✔
Level 2 completed
(view spoiler)[151. - 4/3/18 528p **** - The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin
152. - 4/3/18 320p **** - The One Week Marketing Plan: The Set It & Forget It Approach for Quickly Growing Your Business by Mark Satterfield
153. - 4/3/18 295p *** - Leadership Blind Spots and What to Do about Them by Karen Blakeley
154. - 5/3/18 375p **** - Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny Le Couteur
155. - 5/3/18 360p ** - Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
156. - 5/3/18 295p *** - An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
157. - 5/3/18 320p *** - The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle
158. - 6/3/18 240p *** - Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Ken Segall
159. - 6/3/18 384p *** - Economics: The User's Guide by Ha-Joon Chang
160. - 6/3/18 256p ***** - The 10x Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure by Grant Cardone
161. - 6/3/18 106p **** - On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
162. - 6/3/18 70p *** - 30 Ways to Reboot Your Body: A Complete User Manual for Getting the Most Out of the Human Body by Ben Greenfield
163. - 7/3/18 326p *** - A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
164. - 7/3/18 208p ***** - Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho
165. - 7/3/18 187p *** - On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
166. - 7/3/18 229p *** - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
167. - 7/3/18 304p *** - Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey
168. - 8/3/18 256p ** - A Sky Full of Birds by Matt Merritt
169. - 8/3/18 224p **** - Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness by Alan Derickson
170. - 8/3/18 386p **** - Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight
171. - 8/3/18 219p **** - Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You by Daniel Priestley
172. - 12/3/18 240p *** - Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
173. - 12/3/18 272p *** - Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum by Neil Patel
174. - 12/3/18 230p ** - Effective HR Communication: A Framework for Communicating HR Programmes with Impact by Debra Corey
175. - 12/3/18 80p **** - As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
176. - 12/3/18 156p *** - 21 Days to a Big Idea!: Creating Breakthrough Business Concepts by Bryan Mattimore
177. - 19/3/18 163p *** - The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan W. Watts
178. - 21/3/18 288p *** - How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
179. - 21/3/18 208p ** - Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do by Kaiser Fung
180. - 21/3/18 751p **** - Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
181. - 21/3/18 320p **** - Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things by David Rose
182. - 21/3/18 399p *** - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
183. - 21/3/18 256p **** - POP!: Stand Out in Any Crowd by Sam Horn
184. - 22/3/18 208p *** - 60 Seconds and You're Hired! by Robin Ryan
185. - 22/3/18 362p *** - Anger Management for Dummies by W. Doyle Gentry
186. - 22/3/18 286p ** - 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
187. - 22/3/18 114p *** - Accounting Made Simple: Accounting Explained in 100 Pages or Less by Mike Piper
188. - 22/3/18 160p **** - The Ultimate Introduction to NLP: How to build a successful life by Richard Bandler
189. - 22/3/18 432p **** - Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss
190. - 22/3/18 528p **** - No Logo by Naomi Klein
191. - 22/3/18 230p **** - Campaigns that Shook the World: The Evolution of Public Relations by Danny Rogers
192. - 23/3/18 240p ** - The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future by Steve Case
193. - 23/3/18 202p ** - A/B Testing: The Most Powerful Way to Turn Clicks Into Customers by Dan Siroker
194. - 23/3/18 352p * - A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order by Richard N. Haass
195. - 23/3/18 432p *** - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
196. - 23/3/18 272p *** - A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas by Warren Berger
197. - 24/3/18 115p ***** - The 4 Laws of Financial Prosperity: Get Control of Your Money Now! by Blaine Harris
198. - 24/3/18 304p ** - Unrequited: Women and Romantic Obsession by Lisa A. Phillips
199. - 24/3/18 416p *** - The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain by Steven R. Gundry
200. - 24/3/18 240p **** - The Story of My Life by Helen Keller (hide spoiler)]
Nothing But Reading Challenges
Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
Level 3a: 201-250 ✔
(view spoiler)[201. - 24/3/18 929p ***** - The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
202. - 24/3/18 256p **** - The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
203. - 25/3/18 635p ** - A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall Of The Ottoman Empire And The Creation Of The Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
204. - 25/3/18 170 ** - Idea to Execution: How to Optimize, Automate, and Outsource Everything in Your Business by Ari Meisel
205. - 25/3/18 320p ** - I'm OK - You're OK by Thomas A. Harris
206. - 25/3/18 336p ** - Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits by Kevin Roose
207. - 25/3/18 213p *** - If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating by Alan Alda
208. - 26/3/18 364p **** - Curate This!: The Hands-On, How-To Guide To Content Curation by Steven Rosenbaum
209. - 26/3/18 224p *** - Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin
210. - 26/3/18 148p *** - The IT Marketing Crash Course: How to Get Clients for Your Technology Business by Raj Khera
211. - 26/3/18 256p *** - Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time by Laura Stack
212. - 26/3/18 403p *** - Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
213. - 26/3/18 450p *** - Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
214. - 28/3/18 257p *** - A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter
215. - 28/3/18 128p ** - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
216. - 28/3/18 357p **** - 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
217. - 28/3/18 208p *** - Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win by Ryan Babineaux
218. - 29/3/18 208p ***** - Be Obsessed or Be Average by Grant Cardone
219. - 29/3/18 222p *** - Living in Your Top 1%: Nine Essential Rituals to Achieve Your Ultimate Life Goals by Alissa Finerman
220. - 29/3/18 256p **** - Unshakeable by Tony Robbins
221. - 29/3/18 343p *** - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
222. - 29/3/18 480p ** - How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
223. - 30/3/18 448p * - A Bigger Prize by Margaret Heffernan
224. - 30/3/18 483p ** - Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought by Andrew W. Lo
225. - 30/3/18 640p ** - Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert
226. - 30/3/18 273p ** - Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life by Gretchen Rubin
227. - 30/3/18 336p *** - SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
228. - 31/3/18 528p *** - Mindful Compassion: Using the Power of Mindfulness and Compassion to Transform our Lives by Paul Gilbert
229. - 31/3/18 214p *** - Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com by Aaron Ross
230. - 31/3/18 288p ***** - TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris J. Anderson
231. - 31/3/18 274p *** - Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
232. - 31/3/18 244p **** - Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
233. - 1/4/18 448p ** - How to Be Alive: A Guide To The Kind of Happiness That Helps The World by Colin Beavan
234. - 1/4/18 304p *** - Copyfight by Phillipa McGuinness
235. - 2/4/18 249p ***** - Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World by Benny Lewis
236. - 2/4/18 320p ** - On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future by Karen Elliott House
237. - 2/4/18 212p ***** - Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth by T. Harv Eker
238. - 2/4/18 320p ** - Why Mindfulness is Better than Chocolate: Your guide to inner peace, enhanced focus and deep happiness by David Michie
239. - 3/4/18 388p *** - Open by Andre Agassi
240. - 3/4/18 480p *** - Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Goldstein
241. - 3/4/18 272p *** - Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets by Al Ramadan
242. - 3/4/18 225p ** - Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative by Ken Robinson
243. - 3/4/18 66p ** - Finding Purpose by L.Leonard Taylor
244. - 3/4/18 304p ** - 30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage by Karl Pillemer
245. - 3/4/18 400p ** - The Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power by Keith Barnham
246. - 4/4/18 384p **** - Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life by Donald J. Trump
247. - 6/4/18 378p *** - Let’s Go Invent Tomorrow: A Year’s Worth of Quotes, Wisdom, and Insight from the World’s Most Successful Business Leaders by Jessica Easto
248. - 6/4/18 39p ** - Effective Logo Design: Guidelines for Small Business Owners, Bloggers, and Marketers by Anita Nipane
249. - 6/4/18 274p ** - An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff
250. - 7/4/18 224p ** - Zen in Plain English: Experience the Essence of Zen by Stephan Schuhmacher
(hide spoiler)]
Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
Level 3a: 201-250 ✔
(view spoiler)[201. - 24/3/18 929p ***** - The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
202. - 24/3/18 256p **** - The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
203. - 25/3/18 635p ** - A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall Of The Ottoman Empire And The Creation Of The Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
204. - 25/3/18 170 ** - Idea to Execution: How to Optimize, Automate, and Outsource Everything in Your Business by Ari Meisel
205. - 25/3/18 320p ** - I'm OK - You're OK by Thomas A. Harris
206. - 25/3/18 336p ** - Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits by Kevin Roose
207. - 25/3/18 213p *** - If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating by Alan Alda
208. - 26/3/18 364p **** - Curate This!: The Hands-On, How-To Guide To Content Curation by Steven Rosenbaum
209. - 26/3/18 224p *** - Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin
210. - 26/3/18 148p *** - The IT Marketing Crash Course: How to Get Clients for Your Technology Business by Raj Khera
211. - 26/3/18 256p *** - Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time by Laura Stack
212. - 26/3/18 403p *** - Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
213. - 26/3/18 450p *** - Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
214. - 28/3/18 257p *** - A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter
215. - 28/3/18 128p ** - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
216. - 28/3/18 357p **** - 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
217. - 28/3/18 208p *** - Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win by Ryan Babineaux
218. - 29/3/18 208p ***** - Be Obsessed or Be Average by Grant Cardone
219. - 29/3/18 222p *** - Living in Your Top 1%: Nine Essential Rituals to Achieve Your Ultimate Life Goals by Alissa Finerman
220. - 29/3/18 256p **** - Unshakeable by Tony Robbins
221. - 29/3/18 343p *** - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
222. - 29/3/18 480p ** - How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
223. - 30/3/18 448p * - A Bigger Prize by Margaret Heffernan
224. - 30/3/18 483p ** - Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought by Andrew W. Lo
225. - 30/3/18 640p ** - Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert
226. - 30/3/18 273p ** - Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life by Gretchen Rubin
227. - 30/3/18 336p *** - SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
228. - 31/3/18 528p *** - Mindful Compassion: Using the Power of Mindfulness and Compassion to Transform our Lives by Paul Gilbert
229. - 31/3/18 214p *** - Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com by Aaron Ross
230. - 31/3/18 288p ***** - TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris J. Anderson
231. - 31/3/18 274p *** - Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
232. - 31/3/18 244p **** - Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
233. - 1/4/18 448p ** - How to Be Alive: A Guide To The Kind of Happiness That Helps The World by Colin Beavan
234. - 1/4/18 304p *** - Copyfight by Phillipa McGuinness
235. - 2/4/18 249p ***** - Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World by Benny Lewis
236. - 2/4/18 320p ** - On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future by Karen Elliott House
237. - 2/4/18 212p ***** - Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth by T. Harv Eker
238. - 2/4/18 320p ** - Why Mindfulness is Better than Chocolate: Your guide to inner peace, enhanced focus and deep happiness by David Michie
239. - 3/4/18 388p *** - Open by Andre Agassi
240. - 3/4/18 480p *** - Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Goldstein
241. - 3/4/18 272p *** - Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets by Al Ramadan
242. - 3/4/18 225p ** - Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative by Ken Robinson
243. - 3/4/18 66p ** - Finding Purpose by L.Leonard Taylor
244. - 3/4/18 304p ** - 30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage by Karl Pillemer
245. - 3/4/18 400p ** - The Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power by Keith Barnham
246. - 4/4/18 384p **** - Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life by Donald J. Trump
247. - 6/4/18 378p *** - Let’s Go Invent Tomorrow: A Year’s Worth of Quotes, Wisdom, and Insight from the World’s Most Successful Business Leaders by Jessica Easto
248. - 6/4/18 39p ** - Effective Logo Design: Guidelines for Small Business Owners, Bloggers, and Marketers by Anita Nipane
249. - 6/4/18 274p ** - An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff
250. - 7/4/18 224p ** - Zen in Plain English: Experience the Essence of Zen by Stephan Schuhmacher
(hide spoiler)]
Nothing But Reading Challenges
Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
Level 3b: 251-300 ✔
(view spoiler)[
251. - 7/4/18 208p * - You Are What You Think by David Stoop
252. - 7/4/18 215p *** - Random Kinds of Factness: 1001 (or So) Absolutely True Tidbits about (Mostly) Everything by Erin Barrett
253. - 7/4/18 200p *** - The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer
254. - 7/4/18 256p ** - A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive by Ted Coiné
255. - 7/4/18 269p *** - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
256. - 9/4/18 352p *** - Night School by Richard Wiseman
257. - 9/4/18 353p ** - Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte
258. - 9/4/18 256p ** - The Anthology of Really Important Modern Poetry: Timeless Poems by Snooki, John Boehner, Kanye West, and Other Well-Versed Celebrities by Kathryn Petras
259. - 9/4/18 204p ** - A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
260. - 10/4/18 312p ** - UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products That People Want by Jaime Levy
261. - 10/4/18 212p *** - The Happiness Code: Ten Keys to Being the Best You Can Be by Domonique Bertolucci
262. - 10/4/18 336p *** - Hannibal and Me: What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failu re by Andreas Kluth
263. - 10/4/18 58p ** - Ketogenic Diet: Types of Keto Diet and Precautions While You Lose Weight by Ben Harewood
264. - 10/4/18 194p *** - Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia Puigcerver
265. - 11/4/18 480p ** - Celtic Mythology by Geddes and Grosset
266. - 11/4/18 256p ** - Use Philosophy to be Happier - 30 Steps to Perfect the Art of Living by Mark Vernon
267. - 11/4/18 196p *** - The Path to Wealth: Seven Spiritual Steps for Financial Abundance by May McCarthy
268. - 11/4/18 208p ***** - How Successful People Win: Turn Every Setback into a Step Forward by John C. Maxwell
269. - 11/4/18 224p **** - Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success by Stephen R. Covey
270. - 12/4/18 480p **** - Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi by Howard Gardner
271. - 12/4/18 257p ** - Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
272. - 12/4/18 338p ** - Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
273. - 12/4/18 142p ***** - Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk
274. - 12/4/18 208p ** - Ignorance: How it drives science by Stuart Firestein
275. - 12/4/18 288p *** - Evergreen: Cultivate the Enduring Customer Loyalty That Keeps Your Business Thriving by Noah Fleming
276. - 12/4/18 384p *** - The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone
277. - 12/4/18 288p *** - Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright
278. - 12/4/18 384p * - Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely
279. - 12/4/18 309p ** - Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World by Paul Collier
280. - 12/4/18 266p *** - I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
281. - 13/4/18 345p **** - Why We Want You To Be Rich: Two Men, One Message by Donald J. Trump
282. - 13/4/18 432p *** - The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey
283. - 13/4/18 304p ** - Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message by Tara Mohr
284. - 13/4/18 272p **** - Why the Rich Are Getting Richer by Robert T. Kiyosaki
285. - 14/4/18 134p *** - 499 Funny and Serious Life Quotes Part 5 by Thomas J. Strang
286. - 14/4/18 301p ** - Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content by Ann Handley
287. - 14/4/18 426p *** - Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
288. - 14/4/18 376p ** - Experiments with People: Revelations from Social Psychology by Robert P. Abelson
289. - 14/4/18 386p ** - Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace by Nikil Saval
290. - 14/4/18 352p ** - In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World by Ian Stewart
291. - 14/4/18 245p ** - Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek
292. - 15/4/18 336p * - A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" by Marianne Williamson
293. - 15/4/18 288p *** - Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck by Jon Acuff
294. - 15/4/18 880p **** - On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller by Richard Norton Smith
295. - 15/4/18 274p ** - Stop Acting Rich: ...and Start Living Like a Real Millionaire by Thomas J. Stanley
296. - 16/4/18 1152p * - Nuclear Weapons Encyclopedia: The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (Glasstone and Dolan Reference on Atomic Explosions), Nuclear Matters Handbook by Progressive Management
297. - 16/4/18 312p ** - Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? by Nancy Leys Stepan
298. - 16/4/18 97p ** - Keto Recipes for Accelerated Weight Loss: Top 40 Quick & Easy Keto Diet Recipes to Help You Successfully Feel Healthier and Truly Alive! by Olivia Rose
299. - 16/4/18 352p *** - Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
300. - 16/4/18 *** 288p - Closer: Find Happiness in your Life and Relationships with the 7 Principles of Connectedness by Peter Charleston
(hide spoiler)]
Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
Level 3b: 251-300 ✔
(view spoiler)[
251. - 7/4/18 208p * - You Are What You Think by David Stoop
252. - 7/4/18 215p *** - Random Kinds of Factness: 1001 (or So) Absolutely True Tidbits about (Mostly) Everything by Erin Barrett
253. - 7/4/18 200p *** - The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer
254. - 7/4/18 256p ** - A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive by Ted Coiné
255. - 7/4/18 269p *** - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
256. - 9/4/18 352p *** - Night School by Richard Wiseman
257. - 9/4/18 353p ** - Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte
258. - 9/4/18 256p ** - The Anthology of Really Important Modern Poetry: Timeless Poems by Snooki, John Boehner, Kanye West, and Other Well-Versed Celebrities by Kathryn Petras
259. - 9/4/18 204p ** - A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
260. - 10/4/18 312p ** - UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products That People Want by Jaime Levy
261. - 10/4/18 212p *** - The Happiness Code: Ten Keys to Being the Best You Can Be by Domonique Bertolucci
262. - 10/4/18 336p *** - Hannibal and Me: What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failu re by Andreas Kluth
263. - 10/4/18 58p ** - Ketogenic Diet: Types of Keto Diet and Precautions While You Lose Weight by Ben Harewood
264. - 10/4/18 194p *** - Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia Puigcerver
265. - 11/4/18 480p ** - Celtic Mythology by Geddes and Grosset
266. - 11/4/18 256p ** - Use Philosophy to be Happier - 30 Steps to Perfect the Art of Living by Mark Vernon
267. - 11/4/18 196p *** - The Path to Wealth: Seven Spiritual Steps for Financial Abundance by May McCarthy
268. - 11/4/18 208p ***** - How Successful People Win: Turn Every Setback into a Step Forward by John C. Maxwell
269. - 11/4/18 224p **** - Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success by Stephen R. Covey
270. - 12/4/18 480p **** - Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi by Howard Gardner
271. - 12/4/18 257p ** - Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
272. - 12/4/18 338p ** - Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
273. - 12/4/18 142p ***** - Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk
274. - 12/4/18 208p ** - Ignorance: How it drives science by Stuart Firestein
275. - 12/4/18 288p *** - Evergreen: Cultivate the Enduring Customer Loyalty That Keeps Your Business Thriving by Noah Fleming
276. - 12/4/18 384p *** - The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone
277. - 12/4/18 288p *** - Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright
278. - 12/4/18 384p * - Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely
279. - 12/4/18 309p ** - Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World by Paul Collier
280. - 12/4/18 266p *** - I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
281. - 13/4/18 345p **** - Why We Want You To Be Rich: Two Men, One Message by Donald J. Trump
282. - 13/4/18 432p *** - The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey
283. - 13/4/18 304p ** - Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message by Tara Mohr
284. - 13/4/18 272p **** - Why the Rich Are Getting Richer by Robert T. Kiyosaki
285. - 14/4/18 134p *** - 499 Funny and Serious Life Quotes Part 5 by Thomas J. Strang
286. - 14/4/18 301p ** - Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content by Ann Handley
287. - 14/4/18 426p *** - Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
288. - 14/4/18 376p ** - Experiments with People: Revelations from Social Psychology by Robert P. Abelson
289. - 14/4/18 386p ** - Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace by Nikil Saval
290. - 14/4/18 352p ** - In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World by Ian Stewart
291. - 14/4/18 245p ** - Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek
292. - 15/4/18 336p * - A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" by Marianne Williamson
293. - 15/4/18 288p *** - Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck by Jon Acuff
294. - 15/4/18 880p **** - On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller by Richard Norton Smith
295. - 15/4/18 274p ** - Stop Acting Rich: ...and Start Living Like a Real Millionaire by Thomas J. Stanley
296. - 16/4/18 1152p * - Nuclear Weapons Encyclopedia: The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (Glasstone and Dolan Reference on Atomic Explosions), Nuclear Matters Handbook by Progressive Management
297. - 16/4/18 312p ** - Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? by Nancy Leys Stepan
298. - 16/4/18 97p ** - Keto Recipes for Accelerated Weight Loss: Top 40 Quick & Easy Keto Diet Recipes to Help You Successfully Feel Healthier and Truly Alive! by Olivia Rose
299. - 16/4/18 352p *** - Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
300. - 16/4/18 *** 288p - Closer: Find Happiness in your Life and Relationships with the 7 Principles of Connectedness by Peter Charleston
(hide spoiler)]
Booktastic Bookaholics
Challenges - Yearly
About You Part 4 2018
48/48 Part 2 ✔
10. What is your favorite place to vacation?
Cruise Ship
(view spoiler)[C - 27/3/18 **** - Curate This!: The Hands-On, How-To Guide To Content Curation by Steven Rosenbaum
R - 13/4/18 **** - Why the Rich Are Getting Richer by Robert T. Kiyosaki
U - 25/3/18 ** - Unrequited: Women and Romantic Obsession by Lisa A. Phillips
I - 12/4/18 *** - I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
S - 14/4/18 *** - 499 Funny and Serious Life Quotes Part 5 by Thomas J. Strang
E - 12/4/18 ** - Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World by Paul Collier
S - 7/4/18 *** - The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer
H - 2/4/18 ** - How to Be Alive: A Guide To The Kind of Happiness That Helps The World by Colin Beavan
I - 14/4/18 ** - In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World by Ian Stewart
P - 25/3/18 *** - The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain by Steven R. Gundry (hide spoiler)]
11. What is your favorite way to spend your down time? Spell it out.
Netflix
(view spoiler)[N - 14/4/18 *** - Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
E - 13/4/18 *** - The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey
T - 7/4/18 ** - A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive by Ted Coiné
F - 28/3/18 *** - A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter
L - 6/4/18 *** - Let’s Go Invent Tomorrow: A Year’s Worth of Quotes, Wisdom, and Insight from the World’s Most Successful Business Leaders by Jessica Easto
I - 14/4/18 ** - Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek
X - 12/4/18 * - Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely (hide spoiler)]
12. What is your favorite song? Spell it out.
Dance Me to the End of Love (by Leonard Cohen)
(view spoiler)[D - 10/4/18 *** - The Happiness Code: Ten Keys to Being the Best You Can Be by Domonique Bertolucci
A - 9/4/18 ** - The Anthology of Really Important Modern Poetry: Timeless Poems by Snooki, John Boehner, Kanye West, and Other Well-Versed Celebrities by Kathryn Petras
N - 14/4/18 ** - Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace by Nikil Saval
C - 12/4/18 ***** - Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk
E - 14/4/18 ** - Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content by Ann Handley
M - 7/4/18 *** - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
E - 14/4/18** - Experiments with People: Revelations from Social Psychology by Robert P. Abelson
T - 15/4/18 ** - Stop Acting Rich: ...and Start Living Like a Real Millionaire by Thomas J. Stanley
O - 15/4/18 **** - On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller by Richard Norton Smith
T - 13/4/18 ** - Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message by Tara Mohr
H - 10/4/18 ** - Ketogenic Diet: Types of Keto Diet and Precautions While You Lose Weight by Ben Harewood
E - 16/4/18 ** - Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? by Nancy Leys Stepan
E - 18/4/18 ** - The Essential HR Handbook: A Quick and Handy Resource for Any Manager or HR Professional by Sharon Armstrong
N - 16/4/18 * - Nuclear Weapons Encyclopedia: The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (Glasstone and Dolan Reference on Atomic Explosions), Nuclear Matters Handbook by Progressive Management
D - 19/4/18 ** - Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor
O - 16/4/18 ** - Keto Recipes for Accelerated Weight Loss: Top 40 Quick & Easy Keto Diet Recipes to Help You Successfully Feel Healthier and Truly Alive! by Olivia Rose
F - 19/4/18 *** - The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me About Life and Wealth by Richard Paul Evans
L - 9/4/18 ** - A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
O - 17/4/18 **** - Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You by Daniel Priestley
V - 20/4/18 *** - Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
E - 20/4/18 **** - Escape Fat Trap for Life by Judith Wills (hide spoiler)]
13. What is your favorite movie?
The New Guy
(view spoiler)[T - 13/4/18 **** - Why We Want You To Be Rich: Two Men, One Message by Donald J. Trump
H - 10/4/18 *** - Hannibal and Me: What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failu re by Andreas Kluth
E - 18/4/18 ** - The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be by Moisés Naím
N - 20/4/18 **** - The Cheese Trap: How Breaking a Surprising Addiction Will Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Get Healthy by Neal D. Barnard
E - 18/4/18 *** - The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism by Calum Chace
W - 15/4/18 * - A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" by Marianne Williamson
G - 11/4/18 ** - Celtic Mythology by Geddes and Grosset
U - 10/4/18 ** - UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products That People Want by Jaime Levy
Y - 17/4/18 * - Introduction to Molecular Energy Transfer by James T. Yardley (hide spoiler)]
Challenges - Yearly
About You Part 4 2018
48/48 Part 2 ✔
10. What is your favorite place to vacation?
Cruise Ship
(view spoiler)[C - 27/3/18 **** - Curate This!: The Hands-On, How-To Guide To Content Curation by Steven Rosenbaum
R - 13/4/18 **** - Why the Rich Are Getting Richer by Robert T. Kiyosaki
U - 25/3/18 ** - Unrequited: Women and Romantic Obsession by Lisa A. Phillips
I - 12/4/18 *** - I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
S - 14/4/18 *** - 499 Funny and Serious Life Quotes Part 5 by Thomas J. Strang
E - 12/4/18 ** - Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World by Paul Collier
S - 7/4/18 *** - The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer
H - 2/4/18 ** - How to Be Alive: A Guide To The Kind of Happiness That Helps The World by Colin Beavan
I - 14/4/18 ** - In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World by Ian Stewart
P - 25/3/18 *** - The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain by Steven R. Gundry (hide spoiler)]
11. What is your favorite way to spend your down time? Spell it out.
Netflix
(view spoiler)[N - 14/4/18 *** - Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
E - 13/4/18 *** - The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey
T - 7/4/18 ** - A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive by Ted Coiné
F - 28/3/18 *** - A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter
L - 6/4/18 *** - Let’s Go Invent Tomorrow: A Year’s Worth of Quotes, Wisdom, and Insight from the World’s Most Successful Business Leaders by Jessica Easto
I - 14/4/18 ** - Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek
X - 12/4/18 * - Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely (hide spoiler)]
12. What is your favorite song? Spell it out.
Dance Me to the End of Love (by Leonard Cohen)
(view spoiler)[D - 10/4/18 *** - The Happiness Code: Ten Keys to Being the Best You Can Be by Domonique Bertolucci
A - 9/4/18 ** - The Anthology of Really Important Modern Poetry: Timeless Poems by Snooki, John Boehner, Kanye West, and Other Well-Versed Celebrities by Kathryn Petras
N - 14/4/18 ** - Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace by Nikil Saval
C - 12/4/18 ***** - Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk
E - 14/4/18 ** - Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content by Ann Handley
M - 7/4/18 *** - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
E - 14/4/18** - Experiments with People: Revelations from Social Psychology by Robert P. Abelson
T - 15/4/18 ** - Stop Acting Rich: ...and Start Living Like a Real Millionaire by Thomas J. Stanley
O - 15/4/18 **** - On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller by Richard Norton Smith
T - 13/4/18 ** - Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message by Tara Mohr
H - 10/4/18 ** - Ketogenic Diet: Types of Keto Diet and Precautions While You Lose Weight by Ben Harewood
E - 16/4/18 ** - Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? by Nancy Leys Stepan
E - 18/4/18 ** - The Essential HR Handbook: A Quick and Handy Resource for Any Manager or HR Professional by Sharon Armstrong
N - 16/4/18 * - Nuclear Weapons Encyclopedia: The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (Glasstone and Dolan Reference on Atomic Explosions), Nuclear Matters Handbook by Progressive Management
D - 19/4/18 ** - Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor
O - 16/4/18 ** - Keto Recipes for Accelerated Weight Loss: Top 40 Quick & Easy Keto Diet Recipes to Help You Successfully Feel Healthier and Truly Alive! by Olivia Rose
F - 19/4/18 *** - The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me About Life and Wealth by Richard Paul Evans
L - 9/4/18 ** - A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
O - 17/4/18 **** - Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You by Daniel Priestley
V - 20/4/18 *** - Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
E - 20/4/18 **** - Escape Fat Trap for Life by Judith Wills (hide spoiler)]
13. What is your favorite movie?
The New Guy
(view spoiler)[T - 13/4/18 **** - Why We Want You To Be Rich: Two Men, One Message by Donald J. Trump
H - 10/4/18 *** - Hannibal and Me: What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failu re by Andreas Kluth
E - 18/4/18 ** - The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be by Moisés Naím
N - 20/4/18 **** - The Cheese Trap: How Breaking a Surprising Addiction Will Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Get Healthy by Neal D. Barnard
E - 18/4/18 *** - The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism by Calum Chace
W - 15/4/18 * - A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" by Marianne Williamson
G - 11/4/18 ** - Celtic Mythology by Geddes and Grosset
U - 10/4/18 ** - UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products That People Want by Jaime Levy
Y - 17/4/18 * - Introduction to Molecular Energy Transfer by James T. Yardley (hide spoiler)]
Booktastic Bookaholics
Challenges - Yearly
About You Part 1 2018
50/50 Part 2 ✔
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
1-50
(view spoiler)[1 - 1/9/18 * - Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism by Valene L. Smith
2 - 1/9/18 * - Hydraulics of Groundwater by Jacob Bear
3 - 2/9/18 *** - Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business by Ken Auletta
4 - 2/9/18 *** - Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Hire, Keep and Nurture Creative Talent by Nolan Bushnell
5 - 2/9/18 ** - Build It: The Rebel Playbook for World Class Employee Engagement by Glenn Elliott
6 - 2/9/18 *** - The Worst Business Model in the World: A New Kind of Guide for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Danny Schuman
7 - 3/9/18 **** - The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers by Alex Banayan
8 - 3/9/18 **** - Get your shit together by Sarah Knight
9 - 3/9/18 **** - Cosmos by Carl Sagan
10 - 4/9/18 *** - An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake by Srinivas Rao
11 - 4/9/18 *** - Dying for a Paycheck: Why the American Way of Business Is Injurious to People and Companies by Jeffrey Pfeffer
12 - 4/9/18 *** - Resilience: Facing Down Rejection and Criticism on the Road to Success by Mark McGuinness
13 - 5/9/18 ** - Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative by Ken Robinson
14 - 5/9/18 *** - How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
15 - 5/9/18 *** - Always Hungry?: Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently by David Ludwig
16 - 6/9/18 **** - A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
17 - 6/9/18 *** - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
18 - 6/9/18 **** - A Brief History Of Time: From the Big Bang To Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
19 - 7/9/18 *** - I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
20 - 7/9/18 *** - The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter by Margareta Magnusson
21 - 7/9/18 *** - Getting to Yes with Yourself: And Other Worthy Opponents by William Ury
22 - 7/9/18 *** - I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi
23 - 8/9/18 ** - Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar
24 - 8/9/18 *** - Fast Asleep, Wide Awake: Discover the secrets of restorative sleep and vibrant energy by Nerina Ramlakhan
25 - 8/9/18 * - Engineering Materials and Processes Desk Reference by Robert W. Messler Jr.
26 - 9/9/18 *** - Cooking Up a Business: Lessons from Food Lovers Who Turned Their Passion Into a Career -- And How You C An, Too by Rachel Hofstetter
27 - 9/9/18 *** - Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
28 - 9/9/18 *** - A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama's Vision for Our World by Daniel Goleman
29 - 10/9/18 * - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
30 - 10/9/18 ** - Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus
31 - 10/9/18 ** - Guerilla Furniture Design: A Manual for Building Lean, Modern Furnishings from Salvaged and Sustainable Materials by Will Holman
32 - 10/9/18 **** - Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart by Shane Snow
33 - 11/9/18 *** - The Secret Door to Success by Florence Scovel Shinn
34 - 11/9/18 *** - Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders by Adam Morgan
35 - 11/9/18 ** - Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content by Mark Levy
36 - 11/9/18 * - Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy by Tressie McMillan Cottom
37 - 11/9/18 ** - Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You by Susan Forward
38 - 12/9/18 ** - Furniture Styles by Oliver Knežević
39 - 12/9/18 ** - The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island by Terry Hunt
40 - 12/9/18 **** - Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian
41 - 12/9/18 *** - Unmarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging. by Scott Stratten
42 - 12/9/18 *** - The IT Marketing Crash Course: How to Get Clients for Your Technology Business by Raj Khera
43 - 12/9/18 ** - The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet by Nina Teicholz
44 - 13/9/18 **** - The New Strategic Selling: The Unique Sales System Proven Successful by the World's Best Companies by Robert B. Miller
45 - 13/9/18 ** - The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel
46 - 13/9/18 *** - The End of Stress: Four Steps to Rewire Your Brain by Don Joseph Goewey
47 - 13/9/18 ** - Noose True stories of Australians who died at the gallows by Xavier Duff
48 - 14/9/18 *** - What Is Your What?: Discover the One Amazing Thing You Were Born to Do by Steve Olsher
49 - 14/9/18 * - After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre
50 - 14/9/18 *** - Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing by Jamie Holmes
(hide spoiler)]
Challenges - Yearly
About You Part 1 2018
50/50 Part 2 ✔
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
1-50
(view spoiler)[1 - 1/9/18 * - Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism by Valene L. Smith
2 - 1/9/18 * - Hydraulics of Groundwater by Jacob Bear
3 - 2/9/18 *** - Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business by Ken Auletta
4 - 2/9/18 *** - Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Hire, Keep and Nurture Creative Talent by Nolan Bushnell
5 - 2/9/18 ** - Build It: The Rebel Playbook for World Class Employee Engagement by Glenn Elliott
6 - 2/9/18 *** - The Worst Business Model in the World: A New Kind of Guide for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Danny Schuman
7 - 3/9/18 **** - The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers by Alex Banayan
8 - 3/9/18 **** - Get your shit together by Sarah Knight
9 - 3/9/18 **** - Cosmos by Carl Sagan
10 - 4/9/18 *** - An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake by Srinivas Rao
11 - 4/9/18 *** - Dying for a Paycheck: Why the American Way of Business Is Injurious to People and Companies by Jeffrey Pfeffer
12 - 4/9/18 *** - Resilience: Facing Down Rejection and Criticism on the Road to Success by Mark McGuinness
13 - 5/9/18 ** - Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative by Ken Robinson
14 - 5/9/18 *** - How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
15 - 5/9/18 *** - Always Hungry?: Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently by David Ludwig
16 - 6/9/18 **** - A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
17 - 6/9/18 *** - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
18 - 6/9/18 **** - A Brief History Of Time: From the Big Bang To Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
19 - 7/9/18 *** - I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
20 - 7/9/18 *** - The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter by Margareta Magnusson
21 - 7/9/18 *** - Getting to Yes with Yourself: And Other Worthy Opponents by William Ury
22 - 7/9/18 *** - I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi
23 - 8/9/18 ** - Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar
24 - 8/9/18 *** - Fast Asleep, Wide Awake: Discover the secrets of restorative sleep and vibrant energy by Nerina Ramlakhan
25 - 8/9/18 * - Engineering Materials and Processes Desk Reference by Robert W. Messler Jr.
26 - 9/9/18 *** - Cooking Up a Business: Lessons from Food Lovers Who Turned Their Passion Into a Career -- And How You C An, Too by Rachel Hofstetter
27 - 9/9/18 *** - Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
28 - 9/9/18 *** - A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama's Vision for Our World by Daniel Goleman
29 - 10/9/18 * - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
30 - 10/9/18 ** - Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus
31 - 10/9/18 ** - Guerilla Furniture Design: A Manual for Building Lean, Modern Furnishings from Salvaged and Sustainable Materials by Will Holman
32 - 10/9/18 **** - Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart by Shane Snow
33 - 11/9/18 *** - The Secret Door to Success by Florence Scovel Shinn
34 - 11/9/18 *** - Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders by Adam Morgan
35 - 11/9/18 ** - Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content by Mark Levy
36 - 11/9/18 * - Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy by Tressie McMillan Cottom
37 - 11/9/18 ** - Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You by Susan Forward
38 - 12/9/18 ** - Furniture Styles by Oliver Knežević
39 - 12/9/18 ** - The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island by Terry Hunt
40 - 12/9/18 **** - Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian
41 - 12/9/18 *** - Unmarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging. by Scott Stratten
42 - 12/9/18 *** - The IT Marketing Crash Course: How to Get Clients for Your Technology Business by Raj Khera
43 - 12/9/18 ** - The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet by Nina Teicholz
44 - 13/9/18 **** - The New Strategic Selling: The Unique Sales System Proven Successful by the World's Best Companies by Robert B. Miller
45 - 13/9/18 ** - The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel
46 - 13/9/18 *** - The End of Stress: Four Steps to Rewire Your Brain by Don Joseph Goewey
47 - 13/9/18 ** - Noose True stories of Australians who died at the gallows by Xavier Duff
48 - 14/9/18 *** - What Is Your What?: Discover the One Amazing Thing You Were Born to Do by Steve Olsher
49 - 14/9/18 * - After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre
50 - 14/9/18 *** - Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing by Jamie Holmes
(hide spoiler)]
Booktastic Bookaholics
Challenges - Yearly
About You Part 1 2018
50/50 Part 3 ✔
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
51-100
(view spoiler)[
51 - 14/9/18 *** - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
52 - 15/9/18 *** - The Heart of Hospitality: Great Hotel and Restaurant Leaders Share Their Secrets by Micah Solomon
53 - 15/9/18 *** - No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends by Richard Dobbs
54 - 15/9/18 *** - The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't by Robert I. Sutton
55 - 15/9/18 *** - Think to Lose Weight - The W.E.D. Method. by Brian Ellis
56 - 15/9/18 *** - First Responder Supervisor Guide by Trennis E. Killian
57 - 15/9/18 ** - Ultimate Guide to Poker Tells: Devastate Opponents by Reading Body Language, Table Talk, Chip Moves, and Much More by Randy Burgess
58 - 16/9/18 ** - If You Loved Me, You'd Stop!: What You Really Need to Know if Your Loved One Drinks Too Much by Lisa Frederiksen
59 - 16/9/18 *** - The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Freeman Dyson
60 - 16/9/18 *** - A Bigger Prize: Why Competition Isn't Everything and How We Do Better by Margaret Heffernan
61 - 17/9/18 *** - Can You Learn to Be Lucky?: Why Some People Seem to Win More Often Than Others by Karla Starr
62 - 17/9/18 * - Bear Attacks: The Deadly Truth by James Gary Shelton
63 - 17/9/18 ** - Autism: The Gift That Needs to Be Opened by Autism Society, Newfoundland and Labrador
64 - 17/9/18 *** - The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner
65 - 17/9/18 ** - Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice by Adam Benforado
66 - 17/9/18 **** - All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by Hubert L. Dreyfus
67 - 18/9/18 *** - The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time by Alex Korb
68 - 18/9/18 ** - Guide To Hotel Housekeeping by Alex Buenafe
69 - 18/9/18 **** - Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead by Cecile Richards
70 - 18/9/18 ** - Green Illusions by Ozzie Zehner
71 - 18/9/18 *** - The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True by Richard Dawkins
72 - 18/9/18 **** - Words of Wisdom - 1000 Inspirational Quotes That Make You Think - Wise Words, Aphorisms And Famous Sayings To Realize What Matters In Life by Luise J. Rotman
73 - 19/9/18 **** - Cult Horror Movies: Discover the 33 Best Scary, Suspenseful, Gory, and Monstrous Cinema Classics by Danny Peary
74 - 19/9/18 *** - The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner
75 - 19/9/18 *** - How to Write Everything by David Quantick
76 - 19/9/18 ** - The Power of Collective Wisdom: And the Trap of Collective Folly by Alan Briskin
77 - 19/9/18 *** - Sugar Crush: How to Reduce Inflammation, Stop Pain, and Reverse the Path to Diabetes by Richard P. Jacoby
78 - 19/9/18 **** - Think Yourself Successful: Rewire Your Mind, Become Confident, and Achieve Your Goals by Alireza Azmandian
79 - 19/9/18 *** - Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
80 - 19/9/18 *** - Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling by Edgar H. Schein
81 - 20/9/18 **** - Unwrapping your Passion, Creating the Life You Truly Want by Karen Putz
82 - 20/9/18 ** - The Consultant's Handbook: A Practical Guide to Delivering High-value and Differentiated Services in a Competitive Marketplace by Samir Parikh
83 - 20/9/18 *** - Shot: Staying Alive with Diabetes by Amy F. Ryan
84 - 20/9/18 **** - Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark
85 - 20/9/18 ** - The Simple Act of Reading by Debra Adelaide
86 - 20/9/18 *** - Forks Over Knives - The Cookbook: Over 300 Recipes for Plant-Based Eating All Through the Year by Del Sroufe
87 - 21/9/18 *** - Tibetan Sound Healing: Seven Guided Practices to Clear Obstacles, Cultivate Positive Qualities, and Uncover Your Inherent Wisdom by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
88 - 21/9/18 *** - You Were Born To Be An Entrepreneur: The Mystery of Discovering your Calling and Career by Jeremy Lopez
89 - 21/9/18 **** - Success is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices Change Your Life by Tommy Newberry
90 - 21/9/18 *** - Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes
91 - 21/9/18 *** - You Are That by Gangaji
92 - 22/9/18 *** - Drop Out And Get Schooled: The Case for Thinking Twice About College by Patrick Bet-David
93 - 22/9/18 **** - As a Man Thinketh / The Path of Prosperity by James Allen
94 - 22/9/18 ** - The Problem Was Me: How to End Negative Self-Talk and Take Your Life to a New Level by Thomas Gagliano
95 - 22/9/18 *** - The New Front Page by Tim Dunlop
96 - 22/9/18 **** - The Naked Millionaire: The Ultimate Fast-Track Guide to Wealth, Freedom and Fulfillment by David Taylor
97 - 22/9/18 **** - Never Too Late To Be Great: The Power of Thinking Long by Tom Butler-Bowdon
98 - 23/9/18 ** - The Easy Vegan Week by The Easy Vegan Home
99 - 23/9/18 ***** - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
100 - 23/9/18 ** - The Language of Zen: Heart Speaking to Heart by Richard Burnett Carter
(hide spoiler)]
Challenges - Yearly
About You Part 1 2018
50/50 Part 3 ✔
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
51-100
(view spoiler)[
51 - 14/9/18 *** - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
52 - 15/9/18 *** - The Heart of Hospitality: Great Hotel and Restaurant Leaders Share Their Secrets by Micah Solomon
53 - 15/9/18 *** - No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends by Richard Dobbs
54 - 15/9/18 *** - The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't by Robert I. Sutton
55 - 15/9/18 *** - Think to Lose Weight - The W.E.D. Method. by Brian Ellis
56 - 15/9/18 *** - First Responder Supervisor Guide by Trennis E. Killian
57 - 15/9/18 ** - Ultimate Guide to Poker Tells: Devastate Opponents by Reading Body Language, Table Talk, Chip Moves, and Much More by Randy Burgess
58 - 16/9/18 ** - If You Loved Me, You'd Stop!: What You Really Need to Know if Your Loved One Drinks Too Much by Lisa Frederiksen
59 - 16/9/18 *** - The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Freeman Dyson
60 - 16/9/18 *** - A Bigger Prize: Why Competition Isn't Everything and How We Do Better by Margaret Heffernan
61 - 17/9/18 *** - Can You Learn to Be Lucky?: Why Some People Seem to Win More Often Than Others by Karla Starr
62 - 17/9/18 * - Bear Attacks: The Deadly Truth by James Gary Shelton
63 - 17/9/18 ** - Autism: The Gift That Needs to Be Opened by Autism Society, Newfoundland and Labrador
64 - 17/9/18 *** - The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner
65 - 17/9/18 ** - Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice by Adam Benforado
66 - 17/9/18 **** - All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by Hubert L. Dreyfus
67 - 18/9/18 *** - The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time by Alex Korb
68 - 18/9/18 ** - Guide To Hotel Housekeeping by Alex Buenafe
69 - 18/9/18 **** - Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead by Cecile Richards
70 - 18/9/18 ** - Green Illusions by Ozzie Zehner
71 - 18/9/18 *** - The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True by Richard Dawkins
72 - 18/9/18 **** - Words of Wisdom - 1000 Inspirational Quotes That Make You Think - Wise Words, Aphorisms And Famous Sayings To Realize What Matters In Life by Luise J. Rotman
73 - 19/9/18 **** - Cult Horror Movies: Discover the 33 Best Scary, Suspenseful, Gory, and Monstrous Cinema Classics by Danny Peary
74 - 19/9/18 *** - The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner
75 - 19/9/18 *** - How to Write Everything by David Quantick
76 - 19/9/18 ** - The Power of Collective Wisdom: And the Trap of Collective Folly by Alan Briskin
77 - 19/9/18 *** - Sugar Crush: How to Reduce Inflammation, Stop Pain, and Reverse the Path to Diabetes by Richard P. Jacoby
78 - 19/9/18 **** - Think Yourself Successful: Rewire Your Mind, Become Confident, and Achieve Your Goals by Alireza Azmandian
79 - 19/9/18 *** - Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
80 - 19/9/18 *** - Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling by Edgar H. Schein
81 - 20/9/18 **** - Unwrapping your Passion, Creating the Life You Truly Want by Karen Putz
82 - 20/9/18 ** - The Consultant's Handbook: A Practical Guide to Delivering High-value and Differentiated Services in a Competitive Marketplace by Samir Parikh
83 - 20/9/18 *** - Shot: Staying Alive with Diabetes by Amy F. Ryan
84 - 20/9/18 **** - Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark
85 - 20/9/18 ** - The Simple Act of Reading by Debra Adelaide
86 - 20/9/18 *** - Forks Over Knives - The Cookbook: Over 300 Recipes for Plant-Based Eating All Through the Year by Del Sroufe
87 - 21/9/18 *** - Tibetan Sound Healing: Seven Guided Practices to Clear Obstacles, Cultivate Positive Qualities, and Uncover Your Inherent Wisdom by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
88 - 21/9/18 *** - You Were Born To Be An Entrepreneur: The Mystery of Discovering your Calling and Career by Jeremy Lopez
89 - 21/9/18 **** - Success is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices Change Your Life by Tommy Newberry
90 - 21/9/18 *** - Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes
91 - 21/9/18 *** - You Are That by Gangaji
92 - 22/9/18 *** - Drop Out And Get Schooled: The Case for Thinking Twice About College by Patrick Bet-David
93 - 22/9/18 **** - As a Man Thinketh / The Path of Prosperity by James Allen
94 - 22/9/18 ** - The Problem Was Me: How to End Negative Self-Talk and Take Your Life to a New Level by Thomas Gagliano
95 - 22/9/18 *** - The New Front Page by Tim Dunlop
96 - 22/9/18 **** - The Naked Millionaire: The Ultimate Fast-Track Guide to Wealth, Freedom and Fulfillment by David Taylor
97 - 22/9/18 **** - Never Too Late To Be Great: The Power of Thinking Long by Tom Butler-Bowdon
98 - 23/9/18 ** - The Easy Vegan Week by The Easy Vegan Home
99 - 23/9/18 ***** - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
100 - 23/9/18 ** - The Language of Zen: Heart Speaking to Heart by Richard Burnett Carter
(hide spoiler)]
Booktastic Bookaholics
Challenges - Yearly
About You Part 1 2018
11/50 Part 4
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
101-150
(view spoiler)[
101 - 23/9/18 *** - The Science of Stephen King: From 'Carrie' to 'Cell,' The Terrifying Truth Behind the Horror Master's Fiction by Lois H. Gresh
102 - 24/9/18 * - Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It by David M. Ewalt
103 - 24/9/18 *** - Zombies A-Z by Dan Oliver
104 - 24/9/18 ** - Think Before You Swallow by Noel O'Hare
105 - 24/9/18 ** - Video Games and Creativity by Garo Green
106 - 24/9/18 *** - The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
107 - 25/9/18 ** - How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
108 - 27/9/18 **** - Executive Presence: What Nobody Ever Tells You about Getting Ahead by Sylvia Ann Hewlett
109 - 27/9/18 *** - Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
110 - 28/9/18 *** - Buyer Personas: How to Gain Insight Into Your Customer's Expectations, Align Your Marketing Strategies, and Win More Business by Adele Revella
111 - 29/9/18 **** - Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company’s Future—and What to Do About It by Tien Tzuo (hide spoiler)]
Challenges - Yearly
About You Part 1 2018
11/50 Part 4
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
101-150
(view spoiler)[
101 - 23/9/18 *** - The Science of Stephen King: From 'Carrie' to 'Cell,' The Terrifying Truth Behind the Horror Master's Fiction by Lois H. Gresh
102 - 24/9/18 * - Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It by David M. Ewalt
103 - 24/9/18 *** - Zombies A-Z by Dan Oliver
104 - 24/9/18 ** - Think Before You Swallow by Noel O'Hare
105 - 24/9/18 ** - Video Games and Creativity by Garo Green
106 - 24/9/18 *** - The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
107 - 25/9/18 ** - How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
108 - 27/9/18 **** - Executive Presence: What Nobody Ever Tells You about Getting Ahead by Sylvia Ann Hewlett
109 - 27/9/18 *** - Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
110 - 28/9/18 *** - Buyer Personas: How to Gain Insight Into Your Customer's Expectations, Align Your Marketing Strategies, and Win More Business by Adele Revella
111 - 29/9/18 **** - Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company’s Future—and What to Do About It by Tien Tzuo (hide spoiler)]
Booktastic Bookaholics
Challenges - Yearly
About You Part 1 2018
17/21 Part 5
Month 10: Read one of your favorite foods
(view spoiler)[O - 4/10/18 **** - A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science by Barbara Oakley
S - 3/10/18 **** - Activate Your Brain: How Understanding Your Brain Can Improve Your Work - and Your Life by Scott G. Halford
S - 10/10/18 ***** - The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
O - 10/10/18 **** - Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success by Napoleon Hill
B - 3/10/18 ** - A Wealth of Common Sense: Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan by Ben Carlson
U - 1/10/18 *** - A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
C - 1/10/18 *** - A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna
C - 2/10/18 **** - Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People by Vanessa Van Edwards
O - 2/10/18 ** - 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today by Stephen Le (hide spoiler)]
Month 11: Read 2 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
(view spoiler)[1 - 2/11/18 *** - Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life by Dan Millman
2 - 4/11/18 **** - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (hide spoiler)]
Month 12: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
(view spoiler)[L - 237p 20/12/18 *** - The Laptop Millionaire by Mark Anastasi
A - 15/12/18 ***** - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
U -
R - 4/12/18 **** - Born to be Rich by Rollan Roberts II
A -
S - 3/12/18 *** - Me, Inc.: Build an Army of One, Unleash Your Inner Rock God, Win in Life and Business by Gene Simmons
H - 16/12/18 ** - Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the World for Success and Influence by Heidi Grant Halvorson
A -
N - 26/12/18 **** - Master-Key to Riches by Napoleon Hill
E - (hide spoiler)]
Challenges - Yearly
About You Part 1 2018
17/21 Part 5
Month 10: Read one of your favorite foods
(view spoiler)[O - 4/10/18 **** - A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science by Barbara Oakley
S - 3/10/18 **** - Activate Your Brain: How Understanding Your Brain Can Improve Your Work - and Your Life by Scott G. Halford
S - 10/10/18 ***** - The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
O - 10/10/18 **** - Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success by Napoleon Hill
B - 3/10/18 ** - A Wealth of Common Sense: Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan by Ben Carlson
U - 1/10/18 *** - A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
C - 1/10/18 *** - A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna
C - 2/10/18 **** - Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People by Vanessa Van Edwards
O - 2/10/18 ** - 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today by Stephen Le (hide spoiler)]
Month 11: Read 2 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
(view spoiler)[1 - 2/11/18 *** - Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life by Dan Millman
2 - 4/11/18 **** - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (hide spoiler)]
Month 12: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
(view spoiler)[L - 237p 20/12/18 *** - The Laptop Millionaire by Mark Anastasi
A - 15/12/18 ***** - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
U -
R - 4/12/18 **** - Born to be Rich by Rollan Roberts II
A -
S - 3/12/18 *** - Me, Inc.: Build an Army of One, Unleash Your Inner Rock God, Win in Life and Business by Gene Simmons
H - 16/12/18 ** - Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the World for Success and Influence by Heidi Grant Halvorson
A -
N - 26/12/18 **** - Master-Key to Riches by Napoleon Hill
E - (hide spoiler)]
Booktastic Bookaholics
Colors Count
Duration: 1 Year
SUPER-SIZE 120-PACK: any color names you choose, at least 80 letters total
Total count: 300/300
46/46 Part 1 ✔
Red
(view spoiler)[R - 20/4/18 *** - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
E - 24/4/18 ** - Pioneering the Possible: Awakened Leadership for a World That Works by Scilla Elworthy
D - 15/4/18 *** - Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck by Jon Acuff (hide spoiler)]
Tan
(view spoiler)[T - 18/4/18 *** - Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay: The Business of Popular Music by Simon Napier-Bell
A - 25/4/18 *** - Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business by Porter Erisman
N - 20/4/18 *** - Beating Diabetes (a Harvard Medical School Book): Lower Your Blood Sugar, Lose Weight, and Stop Diabetes and Its Complications in Their Tracks by David M. Nathan (hide spoiler)]
Blue
(view spoiler)[B - 3/4/18 ** - The Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power by Keith Barnham
L - 25/4/18 * - The Last Chance Millionaire: It's Not Too Late to Become Wealthy by Douglas R. Andrew
U - 11/4/18 ** - Use Philosophy to be Happier - 30 Steps to Perfect the Art of Living by Mark Vernon
E - 21/4/18 ** - Extreme sports by Steve Shipside (hide spoiler)]
Plum
(view spoiler)[P - 11/4/18 *** - The Path to Wealth: Seven Spiritual Steps for Financial Abundance by May McCarthy
L - 18/4/18 *** - The Louise Parker Method: Lean for Life by Louise Parker
U - 12/4/18 *** - The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone
M - 18/4/18 ** - A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever by Marianne Williamson (hide spoiler)]
Blush
(view spoiler)[B - 27/4/18 ***** - High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way by Brendon Burchard
L - 23/4/18 ** - Why Is the Dalai Lama Always Smiling?: A Westerner's Introduction and Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Practice by Lama Tsomo
U - 20/4/18 *** - The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
S - 24/4/18 ** - 101 Things Everyone Should Know About Economics: A Down and Dirty Guide to Everything from Securities and Derivatives to Interest Rates and Hedge Funds - And What They Mean For You by Peter Sander
H - 27/4/18 *** - Hello, My Name Is Awesome: How to Create Brand Names That Stick by Alexandra Watkins (hide spoiler)]
Peach
(view spoiler)[P - 11/4/18 **** - Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success by Stephen R. Covey
E - 25/4/18 *** - Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
A - 19/4/18 ** - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
C - 12/4/18 **** - Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi by Howard Gardner
H - 21/4/18 ** - How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Richard Witt (hide spoiler)]
Salmon
(view spoiler)[S - 19/4/18 * - Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us by Will Storr
A - 17/4/18 ** - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
L - 23/4/18 * - Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard
M - 21/4/18 *** - Curious English Words and Phrases: The truth behind the expressions we use by Max Cryer
O - 18/4/18 ** - On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
N - 23/4/18 ** - Neuro-Linguistic Programming for Dummies by Romilla Ready (hide spoiler)]
Eggplant
(view spoiler)[E - 25/4/18 **** - Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig
G - 27/4/18 ** - A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis
G - 26/4/18 *** - Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life by Eric Greitens
P - 16/4/18 *** - Closer: Find Happiness in your Life and Relationships with the 7 Principles of Connectedness by Peter Charleston
L - 24/4/18 *** - The Road to Reinvention: How to Disrupt Your Organization Before the Competition Does by Josh Linkner
A - 27/4/18 **** - The $50 Weekly Shop by Jody Allen
N - 26/4/18 ** - Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs by Noam Chomsky
T - 26/4/18 *** - Think Before You Like: Social Media's Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed by Guy P. Harrison (hide spoiler)]
Mulberry
(view spoiler)[M - 24/4/18 ** - Confucius by Meher McArthur
U - 24/4/18 **** - Ultimate Energy: How To Get From Tired To Inspired by Tricia Woolfrey
L - 27/4/18 *** - Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends by Tim Sanders
B - 18/4/18 ** - Patient's Guide to Dental Implants by Tom Balshi
E - 27/4/18 **** - Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours by Robert C. Pozen
R - 16/4/18 *** - Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
R - 27/4/18 ** - The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives by Stephen Buchmann
Y - 25/4/18 *** - The Yes Book: The Art of Better Negotiation by Clive Rich (hide spoiler)]
Colors Count
Duration: 1 Year
SUPER-SIZE 120-PACK: any color names you choose, at least 80 letters total
Total count: 300/300
46/46 Part 1 ✔
Red
(view spoiler)[R - 20/4/18 *** - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
E - 24/4/18 ** - Pioneering the Possible: Awakened Leadership for a World That Works by Scilla Elworthy
D - 15/4/18 *** - Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck by Jon Acuff (hide spoiler)]
Tan
(view spoiler)[T - 18/4/18 *** - Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay: The Business of Popular Music by Simon Napier-Bell
A - 25/4/18 *** - Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business by Porter Erisman
N - 20/4/18 *** - Beating Diabetes (a Harvard Medical School Book): Lower Your Blood Sugar, Lose Weight, and Stop Diabetes and Its Complications in Their Tracks by David M. Nathan (hide spoiler)]
Blue
(view spoiler)[B - 3/4/18 ** - The Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power by Keith Barnham
L - 25/4/18 * - The Last Chance Millionaire: It's Not Too Late to Become Wealthy by Douglas R. Andrew
U - 11/4/18 ** - Use Philosophy to be Happier - 30 Steps to Perfect the Art of Living by Mark Vernon
E - 21/4/18 ** - Extreme sports by Steve Shipside (hide spoiler)]
Plum
(view spoiler)[P - 11/4/18 *** - The Path to Wealth: Seven Spiritual Steps for Financial Abundance by May McCarthy
L - 18/4/18 *** - The Louise Parker Method: Lean for Life by Louise Parker
U - 12/4/18 *** - The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone
M - 18/4/18 ** - A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever by Marianne Williamson (hide spoiler)]
Blush
(view spoiler)[B - 27/4/18 ***** - High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way by Brendon Burchard
L - 23/4/18 ** - Why Is the Dalai Lama Always Smiling?: A Westerner's Introduction and Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Practice by Lama Tsomo
U - 20/4/18 *** - The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
S - 24/4/18 ** - 101 Things Everyone Should Know About Economics: A Down and Dirty Guide to Everything from Securities and Derivatives to Interest Rates and Hedge Funds - And What They Mean For You by Peter Sander
H - 27/4/18 *** - Hello, My Name Is Awesome: How to Create Brand Names That Stick by Alexandra Watkins (hide spoiler)]
Peach
(view spoiler)[P - 11/4/18 **** - Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success by Stephen R. Covey
E - 25/4/18 *** - Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
A - 19/4/18 ** - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
C - 12/4/18 **** - Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi by Howard Gardner
H - 21/4/18 ** - How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Richard Witt (hide spoiler)]
Salmon
(view spoiler)[S - 19/4/18 * - Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us by Will Storr
A - 17/4/18 ** - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
L - 23/4/18 * - Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard
M - 21/4/18 *** - Curious English Words and Phrases: The truth behind the expressions we use by Max Cryer
O - 18/4/18 ** - On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
N - 23/4/18 ** - Neuro-Linguistic Programming for Dummies by Romilla Ready (hide spoiler)]
Eggplant
(view spoiler)[E - 25/4/18 **** - Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig
G - 27/4/18 ** - A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis
G - 26/4/18 *** - Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life by Eric Greitens
P - 16/4/18 *** - Closer: Find Happiness in your Life and Relationships with the 7 Principles of Connectedness by Peter Charleston
L - 24/4/18 *** - The Road to Reinvention: How to Disrupt Your Organization Before the Competition Does by Josh Linkner
A - 27/4/18 **** - The $50 Weekly Shop by Jody Allen
N - 26/4/18 ** - Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs by Noam Chomsky
T - 26/4/18 *** - Think Before You Like: Social Media's Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed by Guy P. Harrison (hide spoiler)]
Mulberry
(view spoiler)[M - 24/4/18 ** - Confucius by Meher McArthur
U - 24/4/18 **** - Ultimate Energy: How To Get From Tired To Inspired by Tricia Woolfrey
L - 27/4/18 *** - Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends by Tim Sanders
B - 18/4/18 ** - Patient's Guide to Dental Implants by Tom Balshi
E - 27/4/18 **** - Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours by Robert C. Pozen
R - 16/4/18 *** - Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
R - 27/4/18 ** - The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives by Stephen Buchmann
Y - 25/4/18 *** - The Yes Book: The Art of Better Negotiation by Clive Rich (hide spoiler)]
Booktastic Bookaholics
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Duration: 1 Year
56/56 Part 2 ✔
Unmellow Yellow
(view spoiler)[U - 1/5/18 ***** - Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive by Kevin Horsley
N - 27/4/18 *** - Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts by Daniel Shapiro
M - 12/5/18 *** - Awakening the Entrepreneur Within: How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies by Michael E. Gerber
E - 5/5/18 **** - Cultivating Curiosity by Evette Cordy
L - 10/5/18 * - Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work by Leslie A. Perlow
L - 12/5/18 *** - Fearless Leadership: How To Overcome Behavioral Blind Spots And Transform Your Organization by Loretta Malandro
O - 25/4/18 *** - The Overwhelmed Brain: Personal Growth for Critical Thinkers by Paul Colaianni
W - 5/5/18 ** - What Motivates Me: Put Your Passions to Work by Adrian Gostick
Y - 5/5/18 **** - 250 Home Preserving Favorites: From Jams & Jellies to Marmalades & Chutneys by Yvonne Tremblay
E - 1/5/18 *** - Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker
L - 1/5/18 *** - Damn Good Advice (For People with Talent!): How To Unleash Your Creative Potential by America's Master Communicator, George Lois by George Lois
L - 4/5/18 ** - Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock
O - 6/5/18 *** - The Weekend Effect: The Life Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork by Katrina Onstad
W - 17/4/18 ** - Speed Reading: The Definitive Speed Reading Collection by Warren R. Sullivan (hide spoiler)]
Vivid Tangerine
(view spoiler)[V - 3/5/18 **** - Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence—and How You Can, Too by Gary Vaynerchuk
I - 20/4/18 ** - The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated by Helaine Olen
V - 16/5/18 *** - Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't by Verne Harnish
I - 27/4/18 *** - It's Rising Time!: What It Really Takes To Reach Your Financial Dreams by Kim Kiyosaki
D - 25/4/18 *** - The Art of Deliberate Success by David Keane
T - 5/5/18 *** - Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder by Arianna Huffington
A - 3/5/18 ** - The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By by Ari Gold
N - 4/5/18 *** - Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham
G - 20/4/18 *** - A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life by Brian Grazer
E - 2/5/18 *** - The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
R - 29/4/18 ** - The Encyclopedia of Aphrodisiacs: Psychoactive Substances for Use in Sexual Practices by Christian Rätsch
I - 4/5/18 *** - Mind Chi: Re-Wire Your Brain in 8 Minutes a Day: Strategies for Success in Business and Life by Richard Israel
N - 5/5/18 *** - Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
E - 6/5/18 *** - Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, cheaper than yours by Salim Ismail (hide spoiler)]
Wild Blue Yonder
(view spoiler)[W - 25/4/18 *** - Get a Financial Grip: A Simple Plan for Finacial Freedom by Pete Wargent
I - 26/4/18 ** - I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World by James Geary
L - 16/5/18 * - Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari
D - 26/4/18 ** - Facebook and Philosophy: What's on Your Mind? by D.E. Wittkower
B - 27/4/18 ** - Work Makes Me Nervous: Overcome Anxiety and Build the Confidence to Succeed by Jonathan Berent
L - 16/5/18 ** - The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency by Melody Beattie
U - 6/5/18 ** - U Thrive: How to Succeed in College by Dan Lerner
E - 16/5/18 ** - Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate by Vaclav Smil
Y - 3/5/18 ** - Paid Attention: Innovative Advertising for a Digital World by Faris Yakob
O - 10/5/18 *** - Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
N - 6/5/18 **** - Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People by Joe Navarro
D - 2/5/18 ***** - How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
E - 14/5/18 *** - End Procrastination Now!: Get It Done with a Proven Psychological Approach by William Knaus
R - 17/4/18 *** - Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds (hide spoiler)]
Wild Strawberry
(view spoiler)[W - 2/5/18 ** - What's Stopping Me from Getting Ahead?: What Your Manager Won't Tell You about What It Really Takes to Be Successful by Robert Goldfarb
I - 10/5/18 ** - The Inner Life of Animals: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World by Peter Wohlleben
L - 2/5/18 *** - When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn't the Life You Want by Mike Lewis
D - 6/5/18 **** - DotCom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online by Russell Brunson
S - 29/4/18 *** - Hustle Believe Receive: An 8-Step Plan to Changing Your Life and Living Your Dream by Sarah Centrella
T - 19/5/18 *** - Talent Magnetism: How to Build a Workplace That Attracts and Keeps the Best by Roberta Chinsky Matuson
R - 20/4/18 *** - The Republic by Plato
A - 2/5/18 **** - Ask and You Will Succeed: 1001 Extraordinary Questions to Create Life-Changing Results by Kenneth D. Foster
W - 10/5/18 ** - 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner
B - 12/5/18 * - Analysis Without Paralysis by Babette E. Bensoussan
E - 12/5/18 ** - The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere by Kevin Carey
R - 3/5/18 ***** - The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
R - 4/5/18 *** - The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career by Reid Hoffman
Y - 5/5/18 **** - A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness by Joseph A. Maciariello (hide spoiler)]
Colors Count
Duration: 1 Year
56/56 Part 2 ✔
Unmellow Yellow
(view spoiler)[U - 1/5/18 ***** - Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive by Kevin Horsley
N - 27/4/18 *** - Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts by Daniel Shapiro
M - 12/5/18 *** - Awakening the Entrepreneur Within: How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies by Michael E. Gerber
E - 5/5/18 **** - Cultivating Curiosity by Evette Cordy
L - 10/5/18 * - Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work by Leslie A. Perlow
L - 12/5/18 *** - Fearless Leadership: How To Overcome Behavioral Blind Spots And Transform Your Organization by Loretta Malandro
O - 25/4/18 *** - The Overwhelmed Brain: Personal Growth for Critical Thinkers by Paul Colaianni
W - 5/5/18 ** - What Motivates Me: Put Your Passions to Work by Adrian Gostick
Y - 5/5/18 **** - 250 Home Preserving Favorites: From Jams & Jellies to Marmalades & Chutneys by Yvonne Tremblay
E - 1/5/18 *** - Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker
L - 1/5/18 *** - Damn Good Advice (For People with Talent!): How To Unleash Your Creative Potential by America's Master Communicator, George Lois by George Lois
L - 4/5/18 ** - Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock
O - 6/5/18 *** - The Weekend Effect: The Life Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork by Katrina Onstad
W - 17/4/18 ** - Speed Reading: The Definitive Speed Reading Collection by Warren R. Sullivan (hide spoiler)]
Vivid Tangerine
(view spoiler)[V - 3/5/18 **** - Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence—and How You Can, Too by Gary Vaynerchuk
I - 20/4/18 ** - The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated by Helaine Olen
V - 16/5/18 *** - Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't by Verne Harnish
I - 27/4/18 *** - It's Rising Time!: What It Really Takes To Reach Your Financial Dreams by Kim Kiyosaki
D - 25/4/18 *** - The Art of Deliberate Success by David Keane
T - 5/5/18 *** - Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder by Arianna Huffington
A - 3/5/18 ** - The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By by Ari Gold
N - 4/5/18 *** - Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham
G - 20/4/18 *** - A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life by Brian Grazer
E - 2/5/18 *** - The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
R - 29/4/18 ** - The Encyclopedia of Aphrodisiacs: Psychoactive Substances for Use in Sexual Practices by Christian Rätsch
I - 4/5/18 *** - Mind Chi: Re-Wire Your Brain in 8 Minutes a Day: Strategies for Success in Business and Life by Richard Israel
N - 5/5/18 *** - Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
E - 6/5/18 *** - Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, cheaper than yours by Salim Ismail (hide spoiler)]
Wild Blue Yonder
(view spoiler)[W - 25/4/18 *** - Get a Financial Grip: A Simple Plan for Finacial Freedom by Pete Wargent
I - 26/4/18 ** - I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World by James Geary
L - 16/5/18 * - Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari
D - 26/4/18 ** - Facebook and Philosophy: What's on Your Mind? by D.E. Wittkower
B - 27/4/18 ** - Work Makes Me Nervous: Overcome Anxiety and Build the Confidence to Succeed by Jonathan Berent
L - 16/5/18 ** - The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency by Melody Beattie
U - 6/5/18 ** - U Thrive: How to Succeed in College by Dan Lerner
E - 16/5/18 ** - Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate by Vaclav Smil
Y - 3/5/18 ** - Paid Attention: Innovative Advertising for a Digital World by Faris Yakob
O - 10/5/18 *** - Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
N - 6/5/18 **** - Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People by Joe Navarro
D - 2/5/18 ***** - How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
E - 14/5/18 *** - End Procrastination Now!: Get It Done with a Proven Psychological Approach by William Knaus
R - 17/4/18 *** - Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds (hide spoiler)]
Wild Strawberry
(view spoiler)[W - 2/5/18 ** - What's Stopping Me from Getting Ahead?: What Your Manager Won't Tell You about What It Really Takes to Be Successful by Robert Goldfarb
I - 10/5/18 ** - The Inner Life of Animals: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World by Peter Wohlleben
L - 2/5/18 *** - When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn't the Life You Want by Mike Lewis
D - 6/5/18 **** - DotCom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online by Russell Brunson
S - 29/4/18 *** - Hustle Believe Receive: An 8-Step Plan to Changing Your Life and Living Your Dream by Sarah Centrella
T - 19/5/18 *** - Talent Magnetism: How to Build a Workplace That Attracts and Keeps the Best by Roberta Chinsky Matuson
R - 20/4/18 *** - The Republic by Plato
A - 2/5/18 **** - Ask and You Will Succeed: 1001 Extraordinary Questions to Create Life-Changing Results by Kenneth D. Foster
W - 10/5/18 ** - 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner
B - 12/5/18 * - Analysis Without Paralysis by Babette E. Bensoussan
E - 12/5/18 ** - The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere by Kevin Carey
R - 3/5/18 ***** - The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
R - 4/5/18 *** - The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career by Reid Hoffman
Y - 5/5/18 **** - A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness by Joseph A. Maciariello (hide spoiler)]
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Duration: 1 Year
53/53 Part 3 ✔
Wild Watermelon
(view spoiler)[W - 11/5/18 **** - 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
I - 15/5/18 *** - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
L - 15/5/18 **** - Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It by Ian Leslie
D - 14/5/18 *** - The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
W - 15/5/18 *** - Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson
A - 1/5/18 **** - The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success by Andy McNab
T - 19/5/18 ** - Talk Lean: Shorter Meetings. Quicker Results. Better Relations. by Alan Palmer
E - 12/5/18 *** - The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success by Emma Seppälä
R - 1/5/18 **** - Get Things Done: What Stops Smart People Achieving More and How You Can Change by Robert Kelsey
M - 5/5/18 *** - Stop Bitching Start Pitching by Marty Kellard
E - 13/5/18 ** - The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger by Elizabeth Blackburn
L - 19/5/18 *** - The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo
O - 4/5/18 *** - Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest by Peter Huber
N - 13/5/18 ** - The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson (hide spoiler)]
Shamrock
(view spoiler)[S - 4/5/18 ** - A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter
H - 12/5/18 ** - The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris
A - 19/5/18 *** - The As If Principle: The Radically New Approach to Changing Your Life by Richard Wiseman
M - 11/5/18 **** - Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich-And Why Most Don't by Donald J. Trump
R - 1/5/18 *** - Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less by Robert I. Sutton
O - 19/5/18 *** - The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
C - 14/5/18 **** - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
K - 5/5/18 ** - Rich Brother Rich Sister: Two Different Paths to God, Money and Happiness by Robert T. Kiyosaki (hide spoiler)]
Aquamarine
(view spoiler)[A - 6/5/18 ** - Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum
Q - 16/5/18 *** - Quid Pro Quo: What the Romans Really Gave the English Language by Peter Jones
U - 16/5/18 ** - Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done by Jocelyn K. Glei
A - 11/5/18 *** - The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between by Abigail Marsh
M - 12/5/18 ***** - Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions That Will Help You See It and Seize It by John C. Maxwell
A - 11/5/18 **** - 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success by Amy Morin
R - 13/5/18 *** - The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
I - 19/5/18 ** - Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe by Greg Ip
N - 15/5/18 *** - On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History by Nicholas A. Basbanes
E - 15/5/18 **** - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle (hide spoiler)]
Mango Tango
(view spoiler)[M - 16/5/18 ** - Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox to the Killer Bean of Calabar by Peter Macinnis
A - 15/5/18 *** - Co-Opetition by Adam M. Brandenburger
N - 16/5/18 **** - Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
G - 19/5/18 ***** - Get Off Your "but": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself by Sean Stephenson
O - 16/5/18 **** - Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder
T - 11/5/18 * - The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
A - 21/5/18 **** - How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler
N - 25/5/18 * - Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers by Lois P. Frankel
G - 30/5/18 ** - You Should Test That by Chris Goward
O - 14/5/18 ** - The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse by Mohamed El-Erian (hide spoiler)]
Purple Heart
(view spoiler)[P - 29/5/18 ***** - 10 Days to Faster Reading by The Princeton Language Institute
U - 27/5/18 **** - The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment by Todd Kashdan
R - 25/5/18 *** - Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements for Australia & New Zealand by Reader's Digest
P - 30/5/18 ***** - The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
L - 30/5/18 336p **** - The Leading Brain: Powerful Science-Based Strategies for Achieving Peak Performance by Friederike Fabritius
E - 29/5/18 ***** - Cashvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone by Drew Eric Whitman
H - 16/5/18 ** - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
E - 21/5/18 ** - Energy: A Beginner's Guide by Vaclav Smil
A - 21/5/18 *** - The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
R - 20/5/18 **** - Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
T - 16/5/18 **** - Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh (hide spoiler)]
Colors Count
Duration: 1 Year
53/53 Part 3 ✔
Wild Watermelon
(view spoiler)[W - 11/5/18 **** - 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
I - 15/5/18 *** - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
L - 15/5/18 **** - Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It by Ian Leslie
D - 14/5/18 *** - The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
W - 15/5/18 *** - Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson
A - 1/5/18 **** - The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success by Andy McNab
T - 19/5/18 ** - Talk Lean: Shorter Meetings. Quicker Results. Better Relations. by Alan Palmer
E - 12/5/18 *** - The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success by Emma Seppälä
R - 1/5/18 **** - Get Things Done: What Stops Smart People Achieving More and How You Can Change by Robert Kelsey
M - 5/5/18 *** - Stop Bitching Start Pitching by Marty Kellard
E - 13/5/18 ** - The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger by Elizabeth Blackburn
L - 19/5/18 *** - The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo
O - 4/5/18 *** - Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest by Peter Huber
N - 13/5/18 ** - The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson (hide spoiler)]
Shamrock
(view spoiler)[S - 4/5/18 ** - A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter
H - 12/5/18 ** - The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris
A - 19/5/18 *** - The As If Principle: The Radically New Approach to Changing Your Life by Richard Wiseman
M - 11/5/18 **** - Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich-And Why Most Don't by Donald J. Trump
R - 1/5/18 *** - Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less by Robert I. Sutton
O - 19/5/18 *** - The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
C - 14/5/18 **** - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
K - 5/5/18 ** - Rich Brother Rich Sister: Two Different Paths to God, Money and Happiness by Robert T. Kiyosaki (hide spoiler)]
Aquamarine
(view spoiler)[A - 6/5/18 ** - Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum
Q - 16/5/18 *** - Quid Pro Quo: What the Romans Really Gave the English Language by Peter Jones
U - 16/5/18 ** - Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done by Jocelyn K. Glei
A - 11/5/18 *** - The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between by Abigail Marsh
M - 12/5/18 ***** - Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions That Will Help You See It and Seize It by John C. Maxwell
A - 11/5/18 **** - 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success by Amy Morin
R - 13/5/18 *** - The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
I - 19/5/18 ** - Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe by Greg Ip
N - 15/5/18 *** - On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History by Nicholas A. Basbanes
E - 15/5/18 **** - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle (hide spoiler)]
Mango Tango
(view spoiler)[M - 16/5/18 ** - Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox to the Killer Bean of Calabar by Peter Macinnis
A - 15/5/18 *** - Co-Opetition by Adam M. Brandenburger
N - 16/5/18 **** - Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
G - 19/5/18 ***** - Get Off Your "but": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself by Sean Stephenson
O - 16/5/18 **** - Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder
T - 11/5/18 * - The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
A - 21/5/18 **** - How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler
N - 25/5/18 * - Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers by Lois P. Frankel
G - 30/5/18 ** - You Should Test That by Chris Goward
O - 14/5/18 ** - The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse by Mohamed El-Erian (hide spoiler)]
Purple Heart
(view spoiler)[P - 29/5/18 ***** - 10 Days to Faster Reading by The Princeton Language Institute
U - 27/5/18 **** - The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment by Todd Kashdan
R - 25/5/18 *** - Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements for Australia & New Zealand by Reader's Digest
P - 30/5/18 ***** - The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
L - 30/5/18 336p **** - The Leading Brain: Powerful Science-Based Strategies for Achieving Peak Performance by Friederike Fabritius
E - 29/5/18 ***** - Cashvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone by Drew Eric Whitman
H - 16/5/18 ** - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
E - 21/5/18 ** - Energy: A Beginner's Guide by Vaclav Smil
A - 21/5/18 *** - The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
R - 20/5/18 **** - Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
T - 16/5/18 **** - Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh (hide spoiler)]
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Colors Count
Duration: 1 Year
56/56 Part 4 ✔
Pink Flamingo
(view spoiler)[P - 29/5/18 **** - 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman
I - 21/5/18 ** - I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame by Brené Brown
N - 21/5/18 *** - The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret by Richie Norton
K - 20/5/18 * - Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie
F - 29/5/18 ** - The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win by Steven Gary Blank
L - 26/5/18 *** - The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch by Lewis Dartnell
A - 26/5/18 *** - The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method by Allen Carr
M - 25/5/18 **** - The Complete Book of Pickling: 250 Recipes from Pickles & Relishes to Chutneys & Salsas by Jennifer MacKenzie
I - 21/5/18 ** - In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan
N - 27/5/18 ** - Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward by Henry Cloud
G - 16/5/18 ***** - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
O - 20/5/18 ** - The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia by David E. Hoffman (hide spoiler)]
Carnation Pink
(view spoiler)[C - 20/5/18 ** - The Compassionate Mind by Paul Gilbert
A - 30/5/18 ** - Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design by Alvin E. Roth
R - 29/5/18 ** - Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich
N - 31/5/18 **** - The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play by Neil A. Fiore
A - 1/6/18 * - After Heidegger? by Gregory Fried
T - 27/5/18 ***** - How to Master the Art of Selling by Tom Hopkins
I - 28/5/18 *** - I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains by Chuck Klosterman
O - 25/5/18 * - Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie
N - 30/5/18 ***** - The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
P - 26/5/18 ** - Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam
I - 27/6/18 **** - Speak Without Fear: A Total System for Becoming a Natural, Confident Communicator by Ivy Naistadt
N - 28/6/18 ** - An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming by Nigel Lawson
K - 9/6/18 **** - Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World by Kevin Kelly (hide spoiler)]
Atomic Tangerine
(view spoiler)[A - 7/6/18 *** - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
T - 28/5/18 ** - Educated by Tara Westover
O - 26/5/18 ** - Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us by David DeSteno
M - 26/5/18 ** - Overcoming Mobbing: A Recovery Guide for Workplace Aggression and Bullying by Maureen Duffy
I - 7/6/18 ** - In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong by Amin Maalouf
C - 1/6/18 *** - When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don't Get Along by Joshua Coleman
T - 28/5/18 ** - Targeted: How Technology Is Revolutionizing Advertising and the Way Companies Reach Consumers by Mike Smith
A - 27/6/18 *** - The Airplane: How Ideas Gave Us Wings by Jay Spenser
N - 28/6/18 *** - 100 Simple Secrets of the Best Half of Life: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It by David Niven
G - 28/6/18 ** - Third or Additional Language Acquisition by Gessica De Angelis
E - 28/5/18 ** - Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David
R - 2/6/18 * - Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester
I - 31/5/18 *** - I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
N - 4/6/18 *** - Neuro-Linguistic Programming for Dummies by Romilla Ready
E - 2/6/18 * - Ordered Porous Solids by Valentin Valtchev (hide spoiler)]
Granny Smith Apple
(view spoiler)[G - 28/6/18 ** - Secrets To A Successful Eviction For Landlords And Rental Property Managers: The Complete Guide To Evicting Tenants Legally And Quickly by Carolyn Gibson
R - 28/6/18 *** - Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World: How One Family Learned That Saying No Can Lead to Life's Biggest Yes by Kristen Welch
A - 29/6/18 ** - All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information Into News by James T. Hamilton
N - 29/6/18 **** - How to Learn Any Language in a Few Months While Enjoying Yourself: 45 Proven Tips for Language Learners by Nate Nicholson
N - 1/6/18 **** - No Logo by Naomi Klein
Y - 20/5/18 *** - YouthNation: Building Remarkable Brands in a Youth-Driven Culture by Matt Britton
S - 26/5/18 ** - Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram
M - 29/5/18 **** - A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
I - 2/6/18 *** - If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating by Alan Alda
T - 3/6/18 *** - Before You Do: Making Great Decisions That You Won't Regret by T.D. Jakes
H - 31/5/18 **** - How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age by Dale Carnegie
A - 30/6/18 *** - Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
P - 3/6/18 ** - Protecting Your Parents' Money: The Essential Guide to Helping Mom and Dad Navigate the Finances of Retirement by Jeff D. Opdyke
P - 9/6/18 **** - Find Out Anything From Anyone, Anytime by James Pyle
L - 11/6/18 ** - Smart Parents: Parenting for Powerful Learning by Bonnie Lathram
E - 30/6/18 ** - The Eight Immortal Healers: Taoist Wisdom for Radiant Health by Mantak Chia (hide spoiler)]
Colors Count
Duration: 1 Year
56/56 Part 4 ✔
Pink Flamingo
(view spoiler)[P - 29/5/18 **** - 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman
I - 21/5/18 ** - I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame by Brené Brown
N - 21/5/18 *** - The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret by Richie Norton
K - 20/5/18 * - Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie
F - 29/5/18 ** - The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win by Steven Gary Blank
L - 26/5/18 *** - The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch by Lewis Dartnell
A - 26/5/18 *** - The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method by Allen Carr
M - 25/5/18 **** - The Complete Book of Pickling: 250 Recipes from Pickles & Relishes to Chutneys & Salsas by Jennifer MacKenzie
I - 21/5/18 ** - In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan
N - 27/5/18 ** - Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward by Henry Cloud
G - 16/5/18 ***** - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
O - 20/5/18 ** - The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia by David E. Hoffman (hide spoiler)]
Carnation Pink
(view spoiler)[C - 20/5/18 ** - The Compassionate Mind by Paul Gilbert
A - 30/5/18 ** - Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design by Alvin E. Roth
R - 29/5/18 ** - Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich
N - 31/5/18 **** - The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play by Neil A. Fiore
A - 1/6/18 * - After Heidegger? by Gregory Fried
T - 27/5/18 ***** - How to Master the Art of Selling by Tom Hopkins
I - 28/5/18 *** - I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains by Chuck Klosterman
O - 25/5/18 * - Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie
N - 30/5/18 ***** - The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
P - 26/5/18 ** - Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam
I - 27/6/18 **** - Speak Without Fear: A Total System for Becoming a Natural, Confident Communicator by Ivy Naistadt
N - 28/6/18 ** - An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming by Nigel Lawson
K - 9/6/18 **** - Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World by Kevin Kelly (hide spoiler)]
Atomic Tangerine
(view spoiler)[A - 7/6/18 *** - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
T - 28/5/18 ** - Educated by Tara Westover
O - 26/5/18 ** - Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us by David DeSteno
M - 26/5/18 ** - Overcoming Mobbing: A Recovery Guide for Workplace Aggression and Bullying by Maureen Duffy
I - 7/6/18 ** - In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong by Amin Maalouf
C - 1/6/18 *** - When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don't Get Along by Joshua Coleman
T - 28/5/18 ** - Targeted: How Technology Is Revolutionizing Advertising and the Way Companies Reach Consumers by Mike Smith
A - 27/6/18 *** - The Airplane: How Ideas Gave Us Wings by Jay Spenser
N - 28/6/18 *** - 100 Simple Secrets of the Best Half of Life: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It by David Niven
G - 28/6/18 ** - Third or Additional Language Acquisition by Gessica De Angelis
E - 28/5/18 ** - Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David
R - 2/6/18 * - Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester
I - 31/5/18 *** - I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
N - 4/6/18 *** - Neuro-Linguistic Programming for Dummies by Romilla Ready
E - 2/6/18 * - Ordered Porous Solids by Valentin Valtchev (hide spoiler)]
Granny Smith Apple
(view spoiler)[G - 28/6/18 ** - Secrets To A Successful Eviction For Landlords And Rental Property Managers: The Complete Guide To Evicting Tenants Legally And Quickly by Carolyn Gibson
R - 28/6/18 *** - Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World: How One Family Learned That Saying No Can Lead to Life's Biggest Yes by Kristen Welch
A - 29/6/18 ** - All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information Into News by James T. Hamilton
N - 29/6/18 **** - How to Learn Any Language in a Few Months While Enjoying Yourself: 45 Proven Tips for Language Learners by Nate Nicholson
N - 1/6/18 **** - No Logo by Naomi Klein
Y - 20/5/18 *** - YouthNation: Building Remarkable Brands in a Youth-Driven Culture by Matt Britton
S - 26/5/18 ** - Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram
M - 29/5/18 **** - A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
I - 2/6/18 *** - If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating by Alan Alda
T - 3/6/18 *** - Before You Do: Making Great Decisions That You Won't Regret by T.D. Jakes
H - 31/5/18 **** - How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age by Dale Carnegie
A - 30/6/18 *** - Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
P - 3/6/18 ** - Protecting Your Parents' Money: The Essential Guide to Helping Mom and Dad Navigate the Finances of Retirement by Jeff D. Opdyke
P - 9/6/18 **** - Find Out Anything From Anyone, Anytime by James Pyle
L - 11/6/18 ** - Smart Parents: Parenting for Powerful Learning by Bonnie Lathram
E - 30/6/18 ** - The Eight Immortal Healers: Taoist Wisdom for Radiant Health by Mantak Chia (hide spoiler)]
Booktastic Bookaholics
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Duration: 1 Year
49/49 Part 5 ✔
Outrageous Orange
(view spoiler)[O - 30/6/18 *** - Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done by Laura Vanderkam
U - 19/6/18 ** - Ultimate Guide to Local Business Marketing by Perry Marshall
T - 8/6/18 ** - Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships at Work by Todd Davis
R - 11/6/18 ** - A Hint of Saffron: A Buddhist's Thoughts on Religious Belief in the Twenty First Century by Roger Dale
A - 27/6/18 ** - Legal Literacy: An Introduction to Legal Studies by Archie Zariski
G - 30/6/18 ***** - #AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness by Gary Vaynerchuk
E - 30/6/18 *** - Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson
O - 28/6/18 * - Outrageous Openness: Letting the Divine Take the Lead by Tosha Silver
U - 28/6/18 ** - The Ultimate Office Prank Book by Mae B. Fired
S - 30/5/18 *** - 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People by Susan M. Weinschenk
O - 4/6/18 ** - Option B by Sheryl Sandberg
R - 30/6/18 ***** - Rejection Proof: 100 Days of Rejection, or How to Ask Anything of Anyone at Anytime by Jia Jiang
A - 30/6/18 *** - Reclaim Your Brain: How to Calm Your Thoughts, Heal Your Mind, and Bring Your Life Back Under Control by Joseph A. Annibali
N - 31/5/18 *** - Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
G - 11/6/18 * - Writing Forensic Reports: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals by Daniel P. Greenfield
E - 30/6/18 *** - Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao (hide spoiler)]
Razzle Dazzle Rose
(view spoiler)[R - 1/7/18 *** - The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes
A - 4/6/18 ** - Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought by Andrew W. Lo
Z - 16/4/18 ***** - The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future by Theodore Zeldin
Z - 3/5/18 *** - The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin
L - 12/6/18 **** - Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions by Dan Millman
E - 1/7/18 *** - Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy
D - 10/6/18 **** - Hardcore Self Help: F**k Anxiety by Robert Duff
A - 11/6/18 ** - Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
Z - 11/5/18 ** - Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate by Spencer Rascoff
Z - 8/6/18 *** - Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self by Manoush Zomorodi
L - 1/7/18 *** - Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends by Tim Sanders
E - 1/7/18 *** - Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss by Joel Fuhrman
R - 1/6/18 *** - How Companies Win: Profiting from Demand-Driven Business Models No Matter What Business You’re In by Rick Kash
O - 1/6/18 *** - On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
S - 1/6/18 *** - Spotify, Music for Everyone: The meteoric rise of the world’s top streaming service by 50MINUTES.COM
E - 1/7/18 *** - Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge (hide spoiler)]
Macaroni and Cheese
(view spoiler)[M - 30/5/18 *** - 21 Days to a Big Idea!: Creating Breakthrough Business Concepts by Bryan Mattimore
A - 3/6/18 *** - Get Some Headspace: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day by Andy Puddicombe
C - 10/6/18 ***** - DALE CARNEGIE Premium Collection: The Art of Public Speaking, How to Win Friends and Influence People, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living & Lincoln the Unknown by Dale Carnegie
A - 5/6/18 *** - How to Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton
R - 1/7/18 ** - Follow Your Gut: How the Ecosystem in Your Gut Determines Your Health, Mood, and More by Rob Knight
O - 1/7/18 ** - Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian
N - 3/6/18 * - Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort by Franz Leopold Neumann
I - 1/7/18 *** - It's Not the Size of the Data -- It's How You Use It: Smarter Marketing with Analytics and Dashboards by Koen Pauwels
A - 5/6/18 *** - #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso
N - 4/6/18 ** - Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us by Donald K. Yeomans
D - 6/6/18 **** - Design to Grow: How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility by David Butler
C - 18/6/18 ** - Buy It, Rent It, Profit!: Make Money as a Landlord in ANY Real Estate Market by Bryan M. Chavis
H - 8/6/18 *** - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
E - 2/7/18 *** - The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene by Richard Dawkins
E - 2/7/18 *** - The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain by John Kounios
S - 12/6/18 **** - The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny by Robin S. Sharma
E - 2/6/18 *** - The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands by Eric Topol (hide spoiler)]
Colors Count
Duration: 1 Year
49/49 Part 5 ✔
Outrageous Orange
(view spoiler)[O - 30/6/18 *** - Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done by Laura Vanderkam
U - 19/6/18 ** - Ultimate Guide to Local Business Marketing by Perry Marshall
T - 8/6/18 ** - Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships at Work by Todd Davis
R - 11/6/18 ** - A Hint of Saffron: A Buddhist's Thoughts on Religious Belief in the Twenty First Century by Roger Dale
A - 27/6/18 ** - Legal Literacy: An Introduction to Legal Studies by Archie Zariski
G - 30/6/18 ***** - #AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness by Gary Vaynerchuk
E - 30/6/18 *** - Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson
O - 28/6/18 * - Outrageous Openness: Letting the Divine Take the Lead by Tosha Silver
U - 28/6/18 ** - The Ultimate Office Prank Book by Mae B. Fired
S - 30/5/18 *** - 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People by Susan M. Weinschenk
O - 4/6/18 ** - Option B by Sheryl Sandberg
R - 30/6/18 ***** - Rejection Proof: 100 Days of Rejection, or How to Ask Anything of Anyone at Anytime by Jia Jiang
A - 30/6/18 *** - Reclaim Your Brain: How to Calm Your Thoughts, Heal Your Mind, and Bring Your Life Back Under Control by Joseph A. Annibali
N - 31/5/18 *** - Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
G - 11/6/18 * - Writing Forensic Reports: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals by Daniel P. Greenfield
E - 30/6/18 *** - Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao (hide spoiler)]
Razzle Dazzle Rose
(view spoiler)[R - 1/7/18 *** - The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes
A - 4/6/18 ** - Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought by Andrew W. Lo
Z - 16/4/18 ***** - The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future by Theodore Zeldin
Z - 3/5/18 *** - The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin
L - 12/6/18 **** - Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions by Dan Millman
E - 1/7/18 *** - Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy
D - 10/6/18 **** - Hardcore Self Help: F**k Anxiety by Robert Duff
A - 11/6/18 ** - Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
Z - 11/5/18 ** - Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate by Spencer Rascoff
Z - 8/6/18 *** - Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self by Manoush Zomorodi
L - 1/7/18 *** - Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends by Tim Sanders
E - 1/7/18 *** - Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss by Joel Fuhrman
R - 1/6/18 *** - How Companies Win: Profiting from Demand-Driven Business Models No Matter What Business You’re In by Rick Kash
O - 1/6/18 *** - On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
S - 1/6/18 *** - Spotify, Music for Everyone: The meteoric rise of the world’s top streaming service by 50MINUTES.COM
E - 1/7/18 *** - Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge (hide spoiler)]
Macaroni and Cheese
(view spoiler)[M - 30/5/18 *** - 21 Days to a Big Idea!: Creating Breakthrough Business Concepts by Bryan Mattimore
A - 3/6/18 *** - Get Some Headspace: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day by Andy Puddicombe
C - 10/6/18 ***** - DALE CARNEGIE Premium Collection: The Art of Public Speaking, How to Win Friends and Influence People, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living & Lincoln the Unknown by Dale Carnegie
A - 5/6/18 *** - How to Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton
R - 1/7/18 ** - Follow Your Gut: How the Ecosystem in Your Gut Determines Your Health, Mood, and More by Rob Knight
O - 1/7/18 ** - Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian
N - 3/6/18 * - Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort by Franz Leopold Neumann
I - 1/7/18 *** - It's Not the Size of the Data -- It's How You Use It: Smarter Marketing with Analytics and Dashboards by Koen Pauwels
A - 5/6/18 *** - #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso
N - 4/6/18 ** - Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us by Donald K. Yeomans
D - 6/6/18 **** - Design to Grow: How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility by David Butler
C - 18/6/18 ** - Buy It, Rent It, Profit!: Make Money as a Landlord in ANY Real Estate Market by Bryan M. Chavis
H - 8/6/18 *** - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
E - 2/7/18 *** - The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene by Richard Dawkins
E - 2/7/18 *** - The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain by John Kounios
S - 12/6/18 **** - The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny by Robin S. Sharma
E - 2/6/18 *** - The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands by Eric Topol (hide spoiler)]
Booktastic Bookaholics
Colors Count
Duration: 1 Year
40/40 Part 6 ✔
Tropical Rain Forest
(view spoiler)[T - 2/7/18 *** - The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Fritjof Capra
R - 2/7/18 *** - The Rebel Rules: Daring To Be Yourself In Business by Chip Conley
O - 5/6/18 ** - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
P - 1/6/18 *** - Finally Happy: How to Easily Forge True and Enduring Happiness by Foster J.Pickton
I - 13/6/18 ***** - If You're Not First, You're Last: Sales Strategies to Dominate Your Market and Beat Your Competition by Grant Cardone
C - 2/6/18 * - A Treatise on Spherical Trigonometry - Its Application to Geodesy and Astronomy by John Casey
A - 5/6/18 **** - Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win by Sam Conniff Allende
L - 2/7/18 *** - Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating by Moira Weigel
R - 3/6/18 **** - Two Birds in a Tree: Timeless Indian Wisdom for Business Leaders by Ram Nidumolu
A - 5/6/18 ***** - Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny! by Anthony Robbins
I - 3/6/18 *** - In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed by Carl Honoré
N - 5/6/18 *** - Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler
F - 18/6/18 * - Your Nest Egg Game Plan: How to Get Your Finances Back on Track and Create a Lifetime Income Stream by Phil Fragasso
O - 6/6/18 ** - Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World by Nick Lane
R - 6/6/18 *** - Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose
E - 6/6/18 *** - Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes by Tom Rath
S - 3/6/18 * - Citing Atheists: Quotes of Agnosticism, Non-Theism, Skepticism, Irreligion, Free Thought, and Philosophy by Steve Dustcircle
T - 2/7/18 *** - Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin (hide spoiler)]
Purple Mountain’s Majesty
(view spoiler)[P - 2/6/18 ** - Devil Sent the Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America by Tom Piazza
U - 4/6/18 *** - The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
R - 2/6/18 *** - Represent Yourself in Court: How to Prepare & Try a Winning Case by Paul Bergman
P - 3/6/18 ** - Place and Phenomenology by Janet Donohoe
L - 13/6/18 **** - Personality Plus for Parents: Understanding What Makes Your Child Tick by Florence Littauer
E - 7/6/18 ** - To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov
M - 8/6/18 *** - Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman
O - 6/6/18 *** - What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey
U - 2/7/18 **** - The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone
N - 7/6/18 *** - The New Front Page by Tim Dunlop
T - 1/6/18 **** - Sell It Today, Sell It Now by Tom Hopkins
A - 7/6/18 ** - Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed by Alexis Ohanian
I - 6/6/18 *** - A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
N - 2/7/18 ** - The News: A User's Manual by Alain de Botton
S - 3/7/18 ** - The Good Stuff Cookbook by Spike Mendelsohn
M - 19/6/18 ** - Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz
A - 8/6/18 *** - Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done by Ian Ayres
J - 26/5/18 **** - You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life by Jeffrey M. Schwartz
E - 6/6/18 *** - What's Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life by Lise Eliot
S - 3/7/18 *** - A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World from Prehistory to Today by William J. Bernstein
T - 4/6/18 *** - The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket by Trevor Corson
Y - 30/5/18 *** - You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier (hide spoiler)]
Colors Count
Duration: 1 Year
40/40 Part 6 ✔
Tropical Rain Forest
(view spoiler)[T - 2/7/18 *** - The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Fritjof Capra
R - 2/7/18 *** - The Rebel Rules: Daring To Be Yourself In Business by Chip Conley
O - 5/6/18 ** - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
P - 1/6/18 *** - Finally Happy: How to Easily Forge True and Enduring Happiness by Foster J.Pickton
I - 13/6/18 ***** - If You're Not First, You're Last: Sales Strategies to Dominate Your Market and Beat Your Competition by Grant Cardone
C - 2/6/18 * - A Treatise on Spherical Trigonometry - Its Application to Geodesy and Astronomy by John Casey
A - 5/6/18 **** - Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win by Sam Conniff Allende
L - 2/7/18 *** - Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating by Moira Weigel
R - 3/6/18 **** - Two Birds in a Tree: Timeless Indian Wisdom for Business Leaders by Ram Nidumolu
A - 5/6/18 ***** - Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny! by Anthony Robbins
I - 3/6/18 *** - In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed by Carl Honoré
N - 5/6/18 *** - Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler
F - 18/6/18 * - Your Nest Egg Game Plan: How to Get Your Finances Back on Track and Create a Lifetime Income Stream by Phil Fragasso
O - 6/6/18 ** - Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World by Nick Lane
R - 6/6/18 *** - Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose
E - 6/6/18 *** - Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes by Tom Rath
S - 3/6/18 * - Citing Atheists: Quotes of Agnosticism, Non-Theism, Skepticism, Irreligion, Free Thought, and Philosophy by Steve Dustcircle
T - 2/7/18 *** - Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin (hide spoiler)]
Purple Mountain’s Majesty
(view spoiler)[P - 2/6/18 ** - Devil Sent the Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America by Tom Piazza
U - 4/6/18 *** - The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
R - 2/6/18 *** - Represent Yourself in Court: How to Prepare & Try a Winning Case by Paul Bergman
P - 3/6/18 ** - Place and Phenomenology by Janet Donohoe
L - 13/6/18 **** - Personality Plus for Parents: Understanding What Makes Your Child Tick by Florence Littauer
E - 7/6/18 ** - To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov
M - 8/6/18 *** - Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman
O - 6/6/18 *** - What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey
U - 2/7/18 **** - The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone
N - 7/6/18 *** - The New Front Page by Tim Dunlop
T - 1/6/18 **** - Sell It Today, Sell It Now by Tom Hopkins
A - 7/6/18 ** - Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed by Alexis Ohanian
I - 6/6/18 *** - A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
N - 2/7/18 ** - The News: A User's Manual by Alain de Botton
S - 3/7/18 ** - The Good Stuff Cookbook by Spike Mendelsohn
M - 19/6/18 ** - Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz
A - 8/6/18 *** - Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done by Ian Ayres
J - 26/5/18 **** - You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life by Jeffrey M. Schwartz
E - 6/6/18 *** - What's Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life by Lise Eliot
S - 3/7/18 *** - A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World from Prehistory to Today by William J. Bernstein
T - 4/6/18 *** - The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket by Trevor Corson
Y - 30/5/18 *** - You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier (hide spoiler)]
Nothing But Reading Challenges
April: ANZAC Challenge
Option 3: Spell it out
Warrant Officer: 13+ books
56/56 ✔
Melbourne
(view spoiler)[
M - 18/4/18 ** - A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever by Marianne Williamson
E - 18/4/18 *** - The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism by Calum Chace
L - 18/4/18 *** - The Louise Parker Method: Lean for Life by Louise Parker
B - 18/4/18 *** - Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay: The Business of Popular Music by Simon Napier-Bell
O - 18/4/18 ** - On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
U - 20/4/18 *** - The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
R - 19/4/18 *** - The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me About Life and Wealth by Richard Paul Evans
N - 20/4/18 *** - Beating Diabetes (a Harvard Medical School Book): Lower Your Blood Sugar, Lose Weight, and Stop Diabetes and Its Complications in Their Tracks by David M. Nathan
E - 18/4/18 ** - The Essential HR Handbook: A Quick and Handy Resource for Any Manager or HR Professional by Sharon Armstrong
(hide spoiler)]
Sydney
(view spoiler)[
S - 19/4/18 * - Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us by Will Storr
Y - 23/4/18 * - Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard
D - 19/4/18 ** - Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor
N - 23/4/18 ** - Neuro-Linguistic Programming for Dummies by Romilla Ready
E - 25/4/18 *** - Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business by Porter Erisman
Y - 25/4/18 *** - The Yes Book: The Art of Better Negotiation by Clive Rich
(hide spoiler)]
Canberra
(view spoiler)[
C - 21/4/18 *** - Curious English Words and Phrases: The truth behind the expressions we use by Max Cryer
A - 19/4/18 ** - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
N - 20/4/18 **** - The Cheese Trap: How Breaking a Surprising Addiction Will Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Get Healthy by Neal D. Barnard
B - 18/4/18 ** - Patient's Guide to Dental Implants by Tom Balshi
E - 20/4/18 **** - Escape Fat Trap for Life by Judith Wills
R - 20/4/18 *** - The Republic by Plato
R - 20/4/18 *** - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
A - 20/4/18 *** - Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
(hide spoiler)]
Perth
(view spoiler)[
P - 25/4/18 *** - Get a Financial Grip: A Simple Plan for Finacial Freedom by Pete Wargent
E - 21/4/18 ** - Extreme sports by Steve Shipside
R - 24/4/18 *** - The Road to Reinvention: How to Disrupt Your Organization Before the Competition Does by Josh Linkner
T - 24/4/18 **** - Ultimate Energy: How To Get From Tired To Inspired by Tricia Woolfrey
H - 20/4/18 ** - The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated by Helaine Olen
(hide spoiler)]
Darwin
(view spoiler)[
D - 17/4/18 **** - Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You by Daniel Priestley
A - 17/4/18 ** - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
R - 17/4/18 *** - Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds
W - 17/4/18 ** - Speed Reading: The Definitive Speed Reading Collection by Warren R. Sullivan
I - 17/4/18 * - Introduction to Molecular Energy Transfer by James T. Yardley
N - 18/4/18 ** - The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be by Moisés Naím
(hide spoiler)]
Adelaide
(view spoiler)[
A - 25/4/18 * - The Last Chance Millionaire: It's Not Too Late to Become Wealthy by Douglas R. Andrew
D - 25/4/18 *** - The Art of Deliberate Success by David Keane
E - 24/4/18 ** - Pioneering the Possible: Awakened Leadership for a World That Works by Scilla Elworthy
L - 23/4/18 ** - Why Is the Dalai Lama Always Smiling?: A Westerner's Introduction and Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Practice by Lama Tsomo
A - 27/4/18 **** - The $50 Weekly Shop by Jody Allen
I - 27/4/18 *** - It's Rising Time!: What It Really Takes To Reach Your Financial Dreams by Kim Kiyosaki
D - 26/4/18 ** - Facebook and Philosophy: What's on Your Mind? by D.E. Wittkower
E - 25/4/18 *** - Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
(hide spoiler)]
Hobart
(view spoiler)[
H - 21/4/18 ** - How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Richard Witt
O - 25/4/18 *** - The Overwhelmed Brain: Personal Growth for Critical Thinkers by Paul Colaianni
B - 20/4/18 *** - A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life by Brian Grazer
A - 25/4/18 **** - Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig
R - 26/4/18 ** - Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs by Noam Chomsky
T - 26/4/18 *** - Think Before You Like: Social Media's Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed by Guy P. Harrison
(hide spoiler)]
Brisbane
(view spoiler)[
B - 27/4/18 ** - Work Makes Me Nervous: Overcome Anxiety and Build the Confidence to Succeed by Jonathan Berent
R - 26/4/18 *** - Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life by Eric Greitens
I - 26/4/18 ** - I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World by James Geary
S - 24/4/18 ** - 101 Things Everyone Should Know About Economics: A Down and Dirty Guide to Everything from Securities and Derivatives to Interest Rates and Hedge Funds - And What They Mean For You by Peter Sander
B - 27/4/18 ***** - High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way by Brendon Burchard
A - 27/4/18 *** - Hello, My Name Is Awesome: How to Create Brand Names That Stick by Alexandra Watkins
N - 27/4/18 *** - Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts by Daniel Shapiro
E - 27/4/18 **** - Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours by Robert C. Pozen
(hide spoiler)]
April: ANZAC Challenge
Option 3: Spell it out
Warrant Officer: 13+ books
56/56 ✔
Melbourne
(view spoiler)[
M - 18/4/18 ** - A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever by Marianne Williamson
E - 18/4/18 *** - The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism by Calum Chace
L - 18/4/18 *** - The Louise Parker Method: Lean for Life by Louise Parker
B - 18/4/18 *** - Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay: The Business of Popular Music by Simon Napier-Bell
O - 18/4/18 ** - On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
U - 20/4/18 *** - The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
R - 19/4/18 *** - The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me About Life and Wealth by Richard Paul Evans
N - 20/4/18 *** - Beating Diabetes (a Harvard Medical School Book): Lower Your Blood Sugar, Lose Weight, and Stop Diabetes and Its Complications in Their Tracks by David M. Nathan
E - 18/4/18 ** - The Essential HR Handbook: A Quick and Handy Resource for Any Manager or HR Professional by Sharon Armstrong
(hide spoiler)]
Sydney
(view spoiler)[
S - 19/4/18 * - Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us by Will Storr
Y - 23/4/18 * - Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard
D - 19/4/18 ** - Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor
N - 23/4/18 ** - Neuro-Linguistic Programming for Dummies by Romilla Ready
E - 25/4/18 *** - Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business by Porter Erisman
Y - 25/4/18 *** - The Yes Book: The Art of Better Negotiation by Clive Rich
(hide spoiler)]
Canberra
(view spoiler)[
C - 21/4/18 *** - Curious English Words and Phrases: The truth behind the expressions we use by Max Cryer
A - 19/4/18 ** - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
N - 20/4/18 **** - The Cheese Trap: How Breaking a Surprising Addiction Will Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Get Healthy by Neal D. Barnard
B - 18/4/18 ** - Patient's Guide to Dental Implants by Tom Balshi
E - 20/4/18 **** - Escape Fat Trap for Life by Judith Wills
R - 20/4/18 *** - The Republic by Plato
R - 20/4/18 *** - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
A - 20/4/18 *** - Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
(hide spoiler)]
Perth
(view spoiler)[
P - 25/4/18 *** - Get a Financial Grip: A Simple Plan for Finacial Freedom by Pete Wargent
E - 21/4/18 ** - Extreme sports by Steve Shipside
R - 24/4/18 *** - The Road to Reinvention: How to Disrupt Your Organization Before the Competition Does by Josh Linkner
T - 24/4/18 **** - Ultimate Energy: How To Get From Tired To Inspired by Tricia Woolfrey
H - 20/4/18 ** - The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated by Helaine Olen
(hide spoiler)]
Darwin
(view spoiler)[
D - 17/4/18 **** - Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You by Daniel Priestley
A - 17/4/18 ** - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
R - 17/4/18 *** - Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds
W - 17/4/18 ** - Speed Reading: The Definitive Speed Reading Collection by Warren R. Sullivan
I - 17/4/18 * - Introduction to Molecular Energy Transfer by James T. Yardley
N - 18/4/18 ** - The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be by Moisés Naím
(hide spoiler)]
Adelaide
(view spoiler)[
A - 25/4/18 * - The Last Chance Millionaire: It's Not Too Late to Become Wealthy by Douglas R. Andrew
D - 25/4/18 *** - The Art of Deliberate Success by David Keane
E - 24/4/18 ** - Pioneering the Possible: Awakened Leadership for a World That Works by Scilla Elworthy
L - 23/4/18 ** - Why Is the Dalai Lama Always Smiling?: A Westerner's Introduction and Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Practice by Lama Tsomo
A - 27/4/18 **** - The $50 Weekly Shop by Jody Allen
I - 27/4/18 *** - It's Rising Time!: What It Really Takes To Reach Your Financial Dreams by Kim Kiyosaki
D - 26/4/18 ** - Facebook and Philosophy: What's on Your Mind? by D.E. Wittkower
E - 25/4/18 *** - Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
(hide spoiler)]
Hobart
(view spoiler)[
H - 21/4/18 ** - How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Richard Witt
O - 25/4/18 *** - The Overwhelmed Brain: Personal Growth for Critical Thinkers by Paul Colaianni
B - 20/4/18 *** - A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life by Brian Grazer
A - 25/4/18 **** - Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig
R - 26/4/18 ** - Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs by Noam Chomsky
T - 26/4/18 *** - Think Before You Like: Social Media's Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed by Guy P. Harrison
(hide spoiler)]
Brisbane
(view spoiler)[
B - 27/4/18 ** - Work Makes Me Nervous: Overcome Anxiety and Build the Confidence to Succeed by Jonathan Berent
R - 26/4/18 *** - Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life by Eric Greitens
I - 26/4/18 ** - I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World by James Geary
S - 24/4/18 ** - 101 Things Everyone Should Know About Economics: A Down and Dirty Guide to Everything from Securities and Derivatives to Interest Rates and Hedge Funds - And What They Mean For You by Peter Sander
B - 27/4/18 ***** - High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way by Brendon Burchard
A - 27/4/18 *** - Hello, My Name Is Awesome: How to Create Brand Names That Stick by Alexandra Watkins
N - 27/4/18 *** - Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts by Daniel Shapiro
E - 27/4/18 **** - Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours by Robert C. Pozen
(hide spoiler)]
Nothing But Reading Challenges
Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
Level 4a: 301-350 ✔
(view spoiler)[
301. - 16/4/18 432p ***** - The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future by Theodore Zeldin
302. - 17/4/18 336p ** - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
303. - 17/4/18 321p * - Introduction to Molecular Energy Transfer by James T. Yardley
304. - 17/4/18 107p ** - Speed Reading: The Definitive Speed Reading Collection by Warren R. Sullivan
305. - 17/4/18 219p **** - Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You by Daniel Priestley
306. - 17/4/18 458p *** - Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds
307. - 18/4/18 320p ** - The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be by Moisés Naím
308. - 18/4/18 299p ** - A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever by Marianne Williamson
309. - 18/4/18 397p ** - On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
310. - 18/4/18 224p *** - The Louise Parker Method: Lean for Life by Louise Parker
311. - 18/4/18 386p *** - Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay: The Business of Popular Music by Simon Napier-Bell
312. - 18/4/18 320p *** - The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism by Calum Chace
313. - 18/4/18 141p ** - Patient's Guide to Dental Implants by Tom Balshi
314. - 18/4/18 224p ** - The Essential HR Handbook: A Quick and Handy Resource for Any Manager or HR Professional by Sharon Armstrong
315. - 19/4/18 160p *** - The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me About Life and Wealth by Richard Paul Evans
316. - 19/4/18 411p * - Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us by Will Storr
317. - 19/4/18 304p ** - Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor
318. - 19/4/18 282p ** - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
319. - 20/4/18 358p *** - Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
320. - 20/4/18 224p **** - Escape Fat Trap for Life by Judith Wills
321. - 20/4/18 320p **** - The Cheese Trap: How Breaking a Surprising Addiction Will Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Get Healthy by Neal D. Barnard
322. - 20/4/18 334p *** - The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
323. - 20/4/18 272p *** - Beating Diabetes (a Harvard Medical School Book): Lower Your Blood Sugar, Lose Weight, and Stop Diabetes and Its Complications in Their Tracks by David M. Nathan
324. - 20/4/18 416p *** - The Republic by Plato
325. - 20/4/18 370p *** - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
326. - 20/4/18 256p ** - The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated by Helaine Olen
327. - 20/4/18 320p *** - A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life by Brian Grazer
328. - 21/4/18 249p ** - Extreme sports by Steve Shipside
329. - 21/4/18 296p ** - How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Richard Witt
330. - 21/4/18 448p *** - Curious English Words and Phrases: The truth behind the expressions we use by Max Cryer
331. - 23/4/18 276p ** - Why Is the Dalai Lama Always Smiling?: A Westerner's Introduction and Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Practice by Lama Tsomo
332. - 23/4/18 272p * - Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard
333. - 23/4/18 354p ** - Neuro-Linguistic Programming for Dummies by Romilla Ready
334. - 24/4/18 224p **** - Ultimate Energy: How To Get From Tired To Inspired by Tricia Woolfrey
335. - 24/4/18 256p ** - 101 Things Everyone Should Know About Economics: A Down and Dirty Guide to Everything from Securities and Derivatives to Interest Rates and Hedge Funds - And What They Mean For You by Peter Sander
336. - 24/4/18 400p ** - Pioneering the Possible: Awakened Leadership for a World That Works by Scilla Elworthy
337. - 24/4/18 256p *** - The Road to Reinvention: How to Disrupt Your Organization Before the Competition Does by Josh Linkner
338. - 24/4/18 234p ** - Confucius by Meher McArthur
339. - 25/4/18 352p *** - The Yes Book: The Art of Better Negotiation by Clive Rich
340. - 25/4/18 306p *** - Get a Financial Grip: A Simple Plan for Finacial Freedom by Pete Wargent
341. - 25/4/18 256p *** - Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business by Porter Erisman
342. - 25/4/18 368p * - The Last Chance Millionaire: It's Not Too Late to Become Wealthy by Douglas R. Andrew
343. - 25/4/18 551p *** - Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
344. - 25/4/18 640p **** - Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig
345. - 25/4/18 208p *** - The Overwhelmed Brain: Personal Growth for Critical Thinkers by Paul Colaianni
346. - 25/4/18 319p *** - The Art of Deliberate Success by David Keane
347. - 26/4/18 301p *** - Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life by Eric Greitens
348. - 26/4/18 254p ** - Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs by Noam Chomsky
349. - 26/4/18 380p *** - Think Before You Like: Social Media's Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed by Guy P. Harrison
350. - 26/4/18 320p ** - I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World by James Geary
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Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
Level 4a: 301-350 ✔
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301. - 16/4/18 432p ***** - The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future by Theodore Zeldin
302. - 17/4/18 336p ** - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
303. - 17/4/18 321p * - Introduction to Molecular Energy Transfer by James T. Yardley
304. - 17/4/18 107p ** - Speed Reading: The Definitive Speed Reading Collection by Warren R. Sullivan
305. - 17/4/18 219p **** - Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You by Daniel Priestley
306. - 17/4/18 458p *** - Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds
307. - 18/4/18 320p ** - The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be by Moisés Naím
308. - 18/4/18 299p ** - A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever by Marianne Williamson
309. - 18/4/18 397p ** - On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
310. - 18/4/18 224p *** - The Louise Parker Method: Lean for Life by Louise Parker
311. - 18/4/18 386p *** - Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay: The Business of Popular Music by Simon Napier-Bell
312. - 18/4/18 320p *** - The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism by Calum Chace
313. - 18/4/18 141p ** - Patient's Guide to Dental Implants by Tom Balshi
314. - 18/4/18 224p ** - The Essential HR Handbook: A Quick and Handy Resource for Any Manager or HR Professional by Sharon Armstrong
315. - 19/4/18 160p *** - The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me About Life and Wealth by Richard Paul Evans
316. - 19/4/18 411p * - Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us by Will Storr
317. - 19/4/18 304p ** - Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor
318. - 19/4/18 282p ** - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
319. - 20/4/18 358p *** - Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
320. - 20/4/18 224p **** - Escape Fat Trap for Life by Judith Wills
321. - 20/4/18 320p **** - The Cheese Trap: How Breaking a Surprising Addiction Will Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Get Healthy by Neal D. Barnard
322. - 20/4/18 334p *** - The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
323. - 20/4/18 272p *** - Beating Diabetes (a Harvard Medical School Book): Lower Your Blood Sugar, Lose Weight, and Stop Diabetes and Its Complications in Their Tracks by David M. Nathan
324. - 20/4/18 416p *** - The Republic by Plato
325. - 20/4/18 370p *** - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
326. - 20/4/18 256p ** - The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated by Helaine Olen
327. - 20/4/18 320p *** - A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life by Brian Grazer
328. - 21/4/18 249p ** - Extreme sports by Steve Shipside
329. - 21/4/18 296p ** - How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Richard Witt
330. - 21/4/18 448p *** - Curious English Words and Phrases: The truth behind the expressions we use by Max Cryer
331. - 23/4/18 276p ** - Why Is the Dalai Lama Always Smiling?: A Westerner's Introduction and Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Practice by Lama Tsomo
332. - 23/4/18 272p * - Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard
333. - 23/4/18 354p ** - Neuro-Linguistic Programming for Dummies by Romilla Ready
334. - 24/4/18 224p **** - Ultimate Energy: How To Get From Tired To Inspired by Tricia Woolfrey
335. - 24/4/18 256p ** - 101 Things Everyone Should Know About Economics: A Down and Dirty Guide to Everything from Securities and Derivatives to Interest Rates and Hedge Funds - And What They Mean For You by Peter Sander
336. - 24/4/18 400p ** - Pioneering the Possible: Awakened Leadership for a World That Works by Scilla Elworthy
337. - 24/4/18 256p *** - The Road to Reinvention: How to Disrupt Your Organization Before the Competition Does by Josh Linkner
338. - 24/4/18 234p ** - Confucius by Meher McArthur
339. - 25/4/18 352p *** - The Yes Book: The Art of Better Negotiation by Clive Rich
340. - 25/4/18 306p *** - Get a Financial Grip: A Simple Plan for Finacial Freedom by Pete Wargent
341. - 25/4/18 256p *** - Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business by Porter Erisman
342. - 25/4/18 368p * - The Last Chance Millionaire: It's Not Too Late to Become Wealthy by Douglas R. Andrew
343. - 25/4/18 551p *** - Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
344. - 25/4/18 640p **** - Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig
345. - 25/4/18 208p *** - The Overwhelmed Brain: Personal Growth for Critical Thinkers by Paul Colaianni
346. - 25/4/18 319p *** - The Art of Deliberate Success by David Keane
347. - 26/4/18 301p *** - Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life by Eric Greitens
348. - 26/4/18 254p ** - Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs by Noam Chomsky
349. - 26/4/18 380p *** - Think Before You Like: Social Media's Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed by Guy P. Harrison
350. - 26/4/18 320p ** - I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World by James Geary
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Nothing But Reading Challenges
Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
Level 4b: 351-400 ✔
(view spoiler)[351. - 26/4/18 285p ** - Facebook and Philosophy: What's on Your Mind? by D.E. Wittkower
352. - 27/4/18 110p *** - Hello, My Name Is Awesome: How to Create Brand Names That Stick by Alexandra Watkins
353. - 27/4/18 386p **** - The $50 Weekly Shop by Jody Allen
354. - 27/4/18 304p **** - Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours by Robert C. Pozen
355. - 27/4/18 336p *** - Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts by Daniel Shapiro
356. - 27/4/18 272p ** - Work Makes Me Nervous: Overcome Anxiety and Build the Confidence to Succeed by Jonathan Berent
357. - 27/4/18 356p *** - It's Rising Time!: What It Really Takes To Reach Your Financial Dreams by Kim Kiyosaki
358. - 27/4/18 288p ** - A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis
359. - 27/4/18 236p *** - Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends by Tim Sanders
360. - 27/4/18 352p ** - The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives by Stephen Buchmann
361. - 27/4/18 400p ***** - High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way by Brendon Burchard
362. - 29/4/18 392p *** - Hustle Believe Receive: An 8-Step Plan to Changing Your Life and Living Your Dream by Sarah Centrella
363. - 29/4/18 ** 736p - The Encyclopedia of Aphrodisiacs: Psychoactive Substances for Use in Sexual Practices by Christian Rätsch
364. - 1/5/18 *** 264p - Lonely Planet Dubai & Abu Dhabi by Lonely Planet
365. - 1/5/18 480p ** - Lonely Planet Scotland by Lonely Planet
366. - 1/5/18 224p *** - Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker
367. - 1/5/18 176p *** - Damn Good Advice (For People with Talent!): How To Unleash Your Creative Potential by America's Master Communicator, George Lois by George Lois
368. - 1/5/18 136p ***** - Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive by Kevin Horsley
369. - 1/5/18 332p **** - The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success by Andy McNab
370. - 1/5/18 232p **** - Get Things Done: What Stops Smart People Achieving More and How You Can Change by Robert Kelsey
371. - 1/5/18 368p *** - Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less by Robert I. Sutton
372. - 2/5/18 299p *** - The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
373. - 2/5/18 306p ***** - How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
374. - 2/5/18 196p ** - What's Stopping Me from Getting Ahead?: What Your Manager Won't Tell You about What It Really Takes to Be Successful by Robert Goldfarb
375. - 2/5/18 334p *** - When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn't the Life You Want by Mike Lewis
376. - 2/5/18 242p **** - Ask and You Will Succeed: 1001 Extraordinary Questions to Create Life-Changing Results by Kenneth D. Foster
377. - 3/5/18 288p **** - Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence—and How You Can, Too by Gary Vaynerchuk
378. - 3/5/18 224p ** - The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By by Ari Gold
379. - 3/5/18 216p ** - Paid Attention: Innovative Advertising for a Digital World by Faris Yakob
380. - 3/5/18 496p ***** - The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
381. - 3/5/18 368p *** - The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin
382. - 4/5/18 406p ** - Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock
383. - 4/5/18 272p *** - Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham
384. - 4/5/18 339p *** - Mind Chi: Re-Wire Your Brain in 8 Minutes a Day: Strategies for Success in Business and Life by Richard Israel
385. - 4/5/18 274p *** - The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career by Reid Hoffman
386. - 4/5/18 385p *** - Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest by Peter Huber
387. - 4/5/18 208p ** - A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter
388. - 5/5/18 304p **** - 250 Home Preserving Favorites: From Jams & Jellies to Marmalades & Chutneys by Yvonne Tremblay
389. - 5/5/18 243p ** - What Motivates Me: Put Your Passions to Work by Adrian Gostick
390. - 5/5/18 236p **** - Cultivating Curiosity by Evette Cordy
391. - 5/5/18 352p *** - Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder by Arianna Huffington
392. - 5/5/18 316p *** - Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
393. - 5/5/18 496p **** - A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness by Joseph A. Maciariello
394. - 5/5/18 224p *** - Stop Bitching Start Pitching by Marty Kellard
395. - 5/5/18 356p ** - Rich Brother Rich Sister: Two Different Paths to God, Money and Happiness by Robert T. Kiyosaki
396. - 6/5/18 304p *** - The Weekend Effect: The Life Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork by Katrina Onstad
397. - 6/5/18 250p *** - Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, cheaper than yours by Salim Ismail
398. - 6/5/18 304p ** - U Thrive: How to Succeed in College by Dan Lerner
399. - 6/5/18 242p **** - Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People by Joe Navarro
400. - 6/5/18 294p ** - Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum (hide spoiler)]
Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
Level 4b: 351-400 ✔
(view spoiler)[351. - 26/4/18 285p ** - Facebook and Philosophy: What's on Your Mind? by D.E. Wittkower
352. - 27/4/18 110p *** - Hello, My Name Is Awesome: How to Create Brand Names That Stick by Alexandra Watkins
353. - 27/4/18 386p **** - The $50 Weekly Shop by Jody Allen
354. - 27/4/18 304p **** - Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours by Robert C. Pozen
355. - 27/4/18 336p *** - Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts by Daniel Shapiro
356. - 27/4/18 272p ** - Work Makes Me Nervous: Overcome Anxiety and Build the Confidence to Succeed by Jonathan Berent
357. - 27/4/18 356p *** - It's Rising Time!: What It Really Takes To Reach Your Financial Dreams by Kim Kiyosaki
358. - 27/4/18 288p ** - A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis
359. - 27/4/18 236p *** - Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends by Tim Sanders
360. - 27/4/18 352p ** - The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives by Stephen Buchmann
361. - 27/4/18 400p ***** - High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way by Brendon Burchard
362. - 29/4/18 392p *** - Hustle Believe Receive: An 8-Step Plan to Changing Your Life and Living Your Dream by Sarah Centrella
363. - 29/4/18 ** 736p - The Encyclopedia of Aphrodisiacs: Psychoactive Substances for Use in Sexual Practices by Christian Rätsch
364. - 1/5/18 *** 264p - Lonely Planet Dubai & Abu Dhabi by Lonely Planet
365. - 1/5/18 480p ** - Lonely Planet Scotland by Lonely Planet
366. - 1/5/18 224p *** - Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker
367. - 1/5/18 176p *** - Damn Good Advice (For People with Talent!): How To Unleash Your Creative Potential by America's Master Communicator, George Lois by George Lois
368. - 1/5/18 136p ***** - Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive by Kevin Horsley
369. - 1/5/18 332p **** - The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success by Andy McNab
370. - 1/5/18 232p **** - Get Things Done: What Stops Smart People Achieving More and How You Can Change by Robert Kelsey
371. - 1/5/18 368p *** - Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less by Robert I. Sutton
372. - 2/5/18 299p *** - The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
373. - 2/5/18 306p ***** - How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
374. - 2/5/18 196p ** - What's Stopping Me from Getting Ahead?: What Your Manager Won't Tell You about What It Really Takes to Be Successful by Robert Goldfarb
375. - 2/5/18 334p *** - When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn't the Life You Want by Mike Lewis
376. - 2/5/18 242p **** - Ask and You Will Succeed: 1001 Extraordinary Questions to Create Life-Changing Results by Kenneth D. Foster
377. - 3/5/18 288p **** - Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence—and How You Can, Too by Gary Vaynerchuk
378. - 3/5/18 224p ** - The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By by Ari Gold
379. - 3/5/18 216p ** - Paid Attention: Innovative Advertising for a Digital World by Faris Yakob
380. - 3/5/18 496p ***** - The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
381. - 3/5/18 368p *** - The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin
382. - 4/5/18 406p ** - Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock
383. - 4/5/18 272p *** - Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham
384. - 4/5/18 339p *** - Mind Chi: Re-Wire Your Brain in 8 Minutes a Day: Strategies for Success in Business and Life by Richard Israel
385. - 4/5/18 274p *** - The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career by Reid Hoffman
386. - 4/5/18 385p *** - Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest by Peter Huber
387. - 4/5/18 208p ** - A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter
388. - 5/5/18 304p **** - 250 Home Preserving Favorites: From Jams & Jellies to Marmalades & Chutneys by Yvonne Tremblay
389. - 5/5/18 243p ** - What Motivates Me: Put Your Passions to Work by Adrian Gostick
390. - 5/5/18 236p **** - Cultivating Curiosity by Evette Cordy
391. - 5/5/18 352p *** - Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder by Arianna Huffington
392. - 5/5/18 316p *** - Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
393. - 5/5/18 496p **** - A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness by Joseph A. Maciariello
394. - 5/5/18 224p *** - Stop Bitching Start Pitching by Marty Kellard
395. - 5/5/18 356p ** - Rich Brother Rich Sister: Two Different Paths to God, Money and Happiness by Robert T. Kiyosaki
396. - 6/5/18 304p *** - The Weekend Effect: The Life Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork by Katrina Onstad
397. - 6/5/18 250p *** - Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, cheaper than yours by Salim Ismail
398. - 6/5/18 304p ** - U Thrive: How to Succeed in College by Dan Lerner
399. - 6/5/18 242p **** - Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People by Joe Navarro
400. - 6/5/18 294p ** - Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum (hide spoiler)]
The Challenge Factory
Hooray for Technology! E-Reader Challenge
Duration: May 1st to May 31st, 2018
Level: OMG, the guys in the white coats are coming...I'm Committed (20+ books)
80/80 ✔
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1 - 1/5/18 *** - Lonely Planet Dubai & Abu Dhabi by Lonely Planet
2 - 1/5/18 ** - Lonely Planet Scotland by Lonely Planet
3 - 1/5/18 *** - Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker
4 - 1/5/18 ***** - Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive by Kevin Horsley
5 - 2/5/18 *** - The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
6 - 2/5/18 ***** - How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
7 - 3/5/18 ** - Paid Attention: Innovative Advertising for a Digital World by Faris Yakob
8 - 3/5/18 ***** - The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
9 - 3/5/18 *** - The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin
10 - 5/5/18 *** - Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
11 - 5/5/18 **** - A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness by Joseph A. Maciariello
12 - 6/5/18 *** - Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, cheaper than yours by Salim Ismail
13 - 6/5/18 ** - U Thrive: How to Succeed in College by Dan Lerner
14 - 6/5/18 **** - Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People by Joe Navarro
15 - 6/5/18 ** - Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum
16 - 6/5/18 **** - DotCom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online by Russell Brunson
17 - 10/5/18 ** - The Inner Life of Animals: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World by Peter Wohlleben
18 - 10/5/18 ** - 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner
19 - 11/5/18 **** - 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
20 - 11/5/18 *** - The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between by Abigail Marsh
21 - 11/5/18 * - The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
22 - 11/5/18 ** - Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate by Spencer Rascoff
23 - 11/5/18 **** - 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success by Amy Morin
24 - 12/5/18 ** - The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere by Kevin Carey
25 - 12/5/18 *** - The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success by Emma Seppälä
26 - 12/5/18 ** - The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris
27 - 13/5/18 ** - The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
28 - 13/5/18 *** - The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
29 - 13/5/18 ** - The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger by Elizabeth Blackburn
30 - 14/5/18 *** - The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
31 - 14/5/18 ** - The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse by Mohamed El-Erian
32 - 15/5/18 *** - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
33 - 15/5/18 **** - Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It by Ian Leslie
34 - 15/5/18 *** - Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson
35 - 15/5/18 *** - On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History by Nicholas A. Basbanes
36 - 15/5/18 **** - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
37 - 15/5/18 *** - Co-Opetition by Adam M. Brandenburger
38 - 16/5/18 *** - Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't by Verne Harnish
39 - 16/5/18 ** - Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate by Vaclav Smil
40 - 16/5/18 ** - Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done by Jocelyn K. Glei
41 - 16/5/18 ** - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
42 - 16/5/18 **** - Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
43 - 16/5/18 **** - Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder
44 - 16/5/18 **** - Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
45 - 16/5/18 ***** - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
46 - 19/5/18 *** - Talent Magnetism: How to Build a Workplace That Attracts and Keeps the Best by Roberta Chinsky Matuson
47 - 19/5/18 ** - Talk Lean: Shorter Meetings. Quicker Results. Better Relations. by Alan Palmer
48 - 19/5/18 *** - The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo
49 - 19/5/18 *** - The As If Principle: The Radically New Approach to Changing Your Life by Richard Wiseman
50 - 19/5/18 *** - The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
51 - 19/5/18 ** - Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe by Greg Ip
52 - 20/5/18 **** - Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
53 - 20/5/18 * - Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie
54 - 20/5/18 *** - YouthNation: Building Remarkable Brands in a Youth-Driven Culture by Matt Britton
55 - 21/5/18 **** - How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler
56 - 21/5/18 ** - Energy: A Beginner's Guide by Vaclav Smil
57 - 21/5/18 *** - The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
58 - 21/5/18 ** - I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame by Brené Brown
59 - 21/5/18 *** - The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret by Richie Norton
60 - 21/5/18 ** - In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan
61 - 25/5/18 * - Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers by Lois P. Frankel
62 - 25/5/18 * - Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie
63 - 26/5/18 *** - The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch by Lewis Dartnell
64 - 26/5/18 *** - The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method by Allen Carr
65 - 26/5/18 ** - Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam
66 - 26/5/18 ** - Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us by David DeSteno
67 - 26/5/18 ** - Overcoming Mobbing: A Recovery Guide for Workplace Aggression and Bullying by Maureen Duffy
68 - 26/5/18 ** - Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram
69 - 26/5/18 **** - You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life by Jeffrey M. Schwartz
70 - 27/5/18 **** - The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment by Todd Kashdan
71 - 27/5/18 ** - Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward by Henry Cloud
72 - 27/5/18 ***** - How to Master the Art of Selling by Tom Hopkins
73 - 28/5/18 *** - I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains by Chuck Klosterman
74 - 28/5/18 ** - Educated by Tara Westover
75 - 28/5/18 ** - Targeted: How Technology Is Revolutionizing Advertising and the Way Companies Reach Consumers by Mike Smith
76 - 28/5/18 ** - Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David
77 - 29/5/18 ***** - 10 Days to Faster Reading by The Princeton Language Institute
78 - 29/5/18 ***** - Cashvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone by Drew Eric Whitman
79 - 29/5/18 **** - 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman
80 - 29/5/18 ** - The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win by Steven Gary Blank
(hide spoiler)]
Hooray for Technology! E-Reader Challenge
Duration: May 1st to May 31st, 2018
Level: OMG, the guys in the white coats are coming...I'm Committed (20+ books)
80/80 ✔
(view spoiler)[
1 - 1/5/18 *** - Lonely Planet Dubai & Abu Dhabi by Lonely Planet
2 - 1/5/18 ** - Lonely Planet Scotland by Lonely Planet
3 - 1/5/18 *** - Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker
4 - 1/5/18 ***** - Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive by Kevin Horsley
5 - 2/5/18 *** - The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
6 - 2/5/18 ***** - How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
7 - 3/5/18 ** - Paid Attention: Innovative Advertising for a Digital World by Faris Yakob
8 - 3/5/18 ***** - The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
9 - 3/5/18 *** - The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin
10 - 5/5/18 *** - Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
11 - 5/5/18 **** - A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness by Joseph A. Maciariello
12 - 6/5/18 *** - Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, cheaper than yours by Salim Ismail
13 - 6/5/18 ** - U Thrive: How to Succeed in College by Dan Lerner
14 - 6/5/18 **** - Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People by Joe Navarro
15 - 6/5/18 ** - Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum
16 - 6/5/18 **** - DotCom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online by Russell Brunson
17 - 10/5/18 ** - The Inner Life of Animals: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World by Peter Wohlleben
18 - 10/5/18 ** - 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner
19 - 11/5/18 **** - 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
20 - 11/5/18 *** - The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between by Abigail Marsh
21 - 11/5/18 * - The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
22 - 11/5/18 ** - Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate by Spencer Rascoff
23 - 11/5/18 **** - 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success by Amy Morin
24 - 12/5/18 ** - The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere by Kevin Carey
25 - 12/5/18 *** - The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success by Emma Seppälä
26 - 12/5/18 ** - The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris
27 - 13/5/18 ** - The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
28 - 13/5/18 *** - The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
29 - 13/5/18 ** - The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger by Elizabeth Blackburn
30 - 14/5/18 *** - The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
31 - 14/5/18 ** - The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse by Mohamed El-Erian
32 - 15/5/18 *** - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
33 - 15/5/18 **** - Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It by Ian Leslie
34 - 15/5/18 *** - Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson
35 - 15/5/18 *** - On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History by Nicholas A. Basbanes
36 - 15/5/18 **** - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
37 - 15/5/18 *** - Co-Opetition by Adam M. Brandenburger
38 - 16/5/18 *** - Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't by Verne Harnish
39 - 16/5/18 ** - Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate by Vaclav Smil
40 - 16/5/18 ** - Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done by Jocelyn K. Glei
41 - 16/5/18 ** - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
42 - 16/5/18 **** - Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
43 - 16/5/18 **** - Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder
44 - 16/5/18 **** - Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
45 - 16/5/18 ***** - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
46 - 19/5/18 *** - Talent Magnetism: How to Build a Workplace That Attracts and Keeps the Best by Roberta Chinsky Matuson
47 - 19/5/18 ** - Talk Lean: Shorter Meetings. Quicker Results. Better Relations. by Alan Palmer
48 - 19/5/18 *** - The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo
49 - 19/5/18 *** - The As If Principle: The Radically New Approach to Changing Your Life by Richard Wiseman
50 - 19/5/18 *** - The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
51 - 19/5/18 ** - Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe by Greg Ip
52 - 20/5/18 **** - Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
53 - 20/5/18 * - Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie
54 - 20/5/18 *** - YouthNation: Building Remarkable Brands in a Youth-Driven Culture by Matt Britton
55 - 21/5/18 **** - How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler
56 - 21/5/18 ** - Energy: A Beginner's Guide by Vaclav Smil
57 - 21/5/18 *** - The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
58 - 21/5/18 ** - I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame by Brené Brown
59 - 21/5/18 *** - The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret by Richie Norton
60 - 21/5/18 ** - In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan
61 - 25/5/18 * - Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers by Lois P. Frankel
62 - 25/5/18 * - Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie
63 - 26/5/18 *** - The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch by Lewis Dartnell
64 - 26/5/18 *** - The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method by Allen Carr
65 - 26/5/18 ** - Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam
66 - 26/5/18 ** - Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us by David DeSteno
67 - 26/5/18 ** - Overcoming Mobbing: A Recovery Guide for Workplace Aggression and Bullying by Maureen Duffy
68 - 26/5/18 ** - Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram
69 - 26/5/18 **** - You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life by Jeffrey M. Schwartz
70 - 27/5/18 **** - The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment by Todd Kashdan
71 - 27/5/18 ** - Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward by Henry Cloud
72 - 27/5/18 ***** - How to Master the Art of Selling by Tom Hopkins
73 - 28/5/18 *** - I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains by Chuck Klosterman
74 - 28/5/18 ** - Educated by Tara Westover
75 - 28/5/18 ** - Targeted: How Technology Is Revolutionizing Advertising and the Way Companies Reach Consumers by Mike Smith
76 - 28/5/18 ** - Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David
77 - 29/5/18 ***** - 10 Days to Faster Reading by The Princeton Language Institute
78 - 29/5/18 ***** - Cashvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone by Drew Eric Whitman
79 - 29/5/18 **** - 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman
80 - 29/5/18 ** - The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win by Steven Gary Blank
(hide spoiler)]
The Challenge Factory
May TCF Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1st to May 31st, 2018
59/59 ✔
May Day
(view spoiler)[M - 12/5/18 *** - Awakening the Entrepreneur Within: How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies by Michael E. Gerber
A - 5/5/18 ** - What Motivates Me: Put Your Passions to Work by Adrian Gostick
Y - 5/5/18 **** - 250 Home Preserving Favorites: From Jams & Jellies to Marmalades & Chutneys by Yvonne Tremblay
D - 1/5/18 *** - Damn Good Advice (For People with Talent!): How To Unleash Your Creative Potential by America's Master Communicator, George Lois by George Lois
A - 3/5/18 ** - The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By by Ari Gold
Y - 3/5/18 ** - Paid Attention: Innovative Advertising for a Digital World by Faris Yakob (hide spoiler)]
Cinco de Mayo
(view spoiler)[C - 3/5/18 **** - Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence—and How You Can, Too by Gary Vaynerchuk
I - 4/5/18 *** - Mind Chi: Re-Wire Your Brain in 8 Minutes a Day: Strategies for Success in Business and Life by Richard Israel
N - 4/5/18 *** - Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham
C - 2/5/18 ***** - How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
O - 6/5/18 *** - The Weekend Effect: The Life Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork by Katrina Onstad
D - 6/5/18 **** - DotCom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online by Russell Brunson
E - 1/5/18 *** - Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker
M - 12/5/18 *** - Fearless Leadership: How To Overcome Behavioral Blind Spots And Transform Your Organization by Loretta Malandro
A - 12/5/18 * - Analysis Without Paralysis by Babette E. Bensoussan
Y - 5/5/18 **** - A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness by Joseph A. Maciariello
O - 10/5/18 *** - Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (hide spoiler)]
Emerald
(view spoiler)[E - 5/5/18 **** - Cultivating Curiosity by Evette Cordy
M - 5/5/18 *** - Stop Bitching Start Pitching by Marty Kellard
E - 2/5/18 *** - The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
R - 3/5/18 ***** - The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
A - 2/5/18 **** - Ask and You Will Succeed: 1001 Extraordinary Questions to Create Life-Changing Results by Kenneth D. Foster
L - 1/5/18 *** - Lonely Planet Dubai & Abu Dhabi by Lonely Planet
D - 6/5/18 **** - Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People by Joe Navarro (hide spoiler)]
Taurus
(view spoiler)[T - 11/5/18 **** - Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich-And Why Most Don't by Donald J. Trump
A - 1/5/18 **** - The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success by Andy McNab
U - 1/5/18 ***** - Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive by Kevin Horsley
R - 1/5/18 **** - Get Things Done: What Stops Smart People Achieving More and How You Can Change by Robert Kelsey
U - 6/5/18 ** - U Thrive: How to Succeed in College by Dan Lerner
S - 4/5/18 ** - A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter (hide spoiler)]
Hawthorne
(view spoiler)[H - 4/5/18 *** - The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career by Reid Hoffman
A - 13/5/18 ** - The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
W - 2/5/18 ** - What's Stopping Me from Getting Ahead?: What Your Manager Won't Tell You about What It Really Takes to Be Successful by Robert Goldfarb
T - 13/5/18 ** - The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger by Elizabeth Blackburn
H - 5/5/18 *** - Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder by Arianna Huffington
O - 4/5/18 *** - Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest by Peter Huber
R - 5/5/18 ** - Rich Brother Rich Sister: Two Different Paths to God, Money and Happiness by Robert T. Kiyosaki
N - 5/5/18 *** - Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
E - 6/5/18 *** - Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, cheaper than yours by Salim Ismail (hide spoiler)]
Mother
(view spoiler)[M - 13/5/18 *** - The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
O - 14/5/18 *** - The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
T - 6/5/18 ** - Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum
H - 12/5/18 ** - The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris
E - 12/5/18 ** - The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere by Kevin Carey
R - 1/5/18 *** - Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less by Robert I. Sutton (hide spoiler)]
Star Wars
(view spoiler)[S - 12/5/18 *** - The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success by Emma Seppälä
T - 11/5/18 * - The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
A - 11/5/18 *** - The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between by Abigail Marsh
R - 10/5/18 ** - 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner
W - 4/5/18 ** - Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock
A - 11/5/18 **** - 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success by Amy Morin
R - 11/5/18 **** - 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
S - 10/5/18 * - Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work by Leslie A. Perlow (hide spoiler)]
Mizzle
(view spoiler)[M - 12/5/18 ***** - Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions That Will Help You See It and Seize It by John C. Maxwell
I - 10/5/18 ** - The Inner Life of Animals: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World by Peter Wohlleben
Z - 3/5/18 *** - The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin
Z - 11/5/18 ** - Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate by Spencer Rascoff
L - 2/5/18 *** - When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn't the Life You Want by Mike Lewis
E - 14/5/18 ** - The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse by Mohamed El-Erian (hide spoiler)]
May TCF Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1st to May 31st, 2018
59/59 ✔
May Day
(view spoiler)[M - 12/5/18 *** - Awakening the Entrepreneur Within: How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies by Michael E. Gerber
A - 5/5/18 ** - What Motivates Me: Put Your Passions to Work by Adrian Gostick
Y - 5/5/18 **** - 250 Home Preserving Favorites: From Jams & Jellies to Marmalades & Chutneys by Yvonne Tremblay
D - 1/5/18 *** - Damn Good Advice (For People with Talent!): How To Unleash Your Creative Potential by America's Master Communicator, George Lois by George Lois
A - 3/5/18 ** - The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By by Ari Gold
Y - 3/5/18 ** - Paid Attention: Innovative Advertising for a Digital World by Faris Yakob (hide spoiler)]
Cinco de Mayo
(view spoiler)[C - 3/5/18 **** - Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence—and How You Can, Too by Gary Vaynerchuk
I - 4/5/18 *** - Mind Chi: Re-Wire Your Brain in 8 Minutes a Day: Strategies for Success in Business and Life by Richard Israel
N - 4/5/18 *** - Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham
C - 2/5/18 ***** - How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
O - 6/5/18 *** - The Weekend Effect: The Life Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork by Katrina Onstad
D - 6/5/18 **** - DotCom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online by Russell Brunson
E - 1/5/18 *** - Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker
M - 12/5/18 *** - Fearless Leadership: How To Overcome Behavioral Blind Spots And Transform Your Organization by Loretta Malandro
A - 12/5/18 * - Analysis Without Paralysis by Babette E. Bensoussan
Y - 5/5/18 **** - A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness by Joseph A. Maciariello
O - 10/5/18 *** - Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (hide spoiler)]
Emerald
(view spoiler)[E - 5/5/18 **** - Cultivating Curiosity by Evette Cordy
M - 5/5/18 *** - Stop Bitching Start Pitching by Marty Kellard
E - 2/5/18 *** - The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
R - 3/5/18 ***** - The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
A - 2/5/18 **** - Ask and You Will Succeed: 1001 Extraordinary Questions to Create Life-Changing Results by Kenneth D. Foster
L - 1/5/18 *** - Lonely Planet Dubai & Abu Dhabi by Lonely Planet
D - 6/5/18 **** - Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People by Joe Navarro (hide spoiler)]
Taurus
(view spoiler)[T - 11/5/18 **** - Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich-And Why Most Don't by Donald J. Trump
A - 1/5/18 **** - The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success by Andy McNab
U - 1/5/18 ***** - Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive by Kevin Horsley
R - 1/5/18 **** - Get Things Done: What Stops Smart People Achieving More and How You Can Change by Robert Kelsey
U - 6/5/18 ** - U Thrive: How to Succeed in College by Dan Lerner
S - 4/5/18 ** - A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter (hide spoiler)]
Hawthorne
(view spoiler)[H - 4/5/18 *** - The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career by Reid Hoffman
A - 13/5/18 ** - The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
W - 2/5/18 ** - What's Stopping Me from Getting Ahead?: What Your Manager Won't Tell You about What It Really Takes to Be Successful by Robert Goldfarb
T - 13/5/18 ** - The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger by Elizabeth Blackburn
H - 5/5/18 *** - Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder by Arianna Huffington
O - 4/5/18 *** - Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest by Peter Huber
R - 5/5/18 ** - Rich Brother Rich Sister: Two Different Paths to God, Money and Happiness by Robert T. Kiyosaki
N - 5/5/18 *** - Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
E - 6/5/18 *** - Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, cheaper than yours by Salim Ismail (hide spoiler)]
Mother
(view spoiler)[M - 13/5/18 *** - The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
O - 14/5/18 *** - The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
T - 6/5/18 ** - Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum
H - 12/5/18 ** - The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris
E - 12/5/18 ** - The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere by Kevin Carey
R - 1/5/18 *** - Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less by Robert I. Sutton (hide spoiler)]
Star Wars
(view spoiler)[S - 12/5/18 *** - The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success by Emma Seppälä
T - 11/5/18 * - The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
A - 11/5/18 *** - The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between by Abigail Marsh
R - 10/5/18 ** - 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner
W - 4/5/18 ** - Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock
A - 11/5/18 **** - 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success by Amy Morin
R - 11/5/18 **** - 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
S - 10/5/18 * - Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work by Leslie A. Perlow (hide spoiler)]
Mizzle
(view spoiler)[M - 12/5/18 ***** - Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions That Will Help You See It and Seize It by John C. Maxwell
I - 10/5/18 ** - The Inner Life of Animals: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World by Peter Wohlleben
Z - 3/5/18 *** - The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin
Z - 11/5/18 ** - Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate by Spencer Rascoff
L - 2/5/18 *** - When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn't the Life You Want by Mike Lewis
E - 14/5/18 ** - The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse by Mohamed El-Erian (hide spoiler)]
Nothing But Reading Challenges
The May Tea Time Reading Challenge
Duration: May 1st to May 31st, 2018
Total: 118/118
60/60 ✔
Earl Grey
(view spoiler)[E - 1/5/18 *** - Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker
A - 5/5/18 ** - What Motivates Me: Put Your Passions to Work by Adrian Gostick
R - 4/5/18 *** - The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career by Reid Hoffman
L - 12/5/18 *** - Fearless Leadership: How To Overcome Behavioral Blind Spots And Transform Your Organization by Loretta Malandro
G - 3/5/18 **** - Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence—and How You Can, Too by Gary Vaynerchuk
R - 1/5/18 **** - Get Things Done: What Stops Smart People Achieving More and How You Can Change by Robert Kelsey
E - 5/5/18 **** - Cultivating Curiosity by Evette Cordy
Y - 5/5/18 **** - 250 Home Preserving Favorites: From Jams & Jellies to Marmalades & Chutneys by Yvonne Tremblay (hide spoiler)]
Oolong
(view spoiler)[O - 6/5/18 *** - The Weekend Effect: The Life Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork by Katrina Onstad
O - 10/5/18 *** - Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
L - 10/5/18 * - Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work by Leslie A. Perlow
O - 4/5/18 *** - Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest by Peter Huber
N - 4/5/18 *** - Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham
G - 3/5/18 ***** - The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene (hide spoiler)]
Herbal
(view spoiler)[H - 1/5/18 ***** - Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive by Kevin Horsley
E - 2/5/18 *** - The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
R - 2/5/18 ** - What's Stopping Me from Getting Ahead?: What Your Manager Won't Tell You about What It Really Takes to Be Successful by Robert Goldfarb
B - 12/5/18 * - Analysis Without Paralysis by Babette E. Bensoussan
A - 12/5/18 *** - Awakening the Entrepreneur Within: How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies by Michael E. Gerber
L - 4/5/18 ** - Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock (hide spoiler)]
Jasmine
(view spoiler)[J - 4/5/18 ** - A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter
A - 3/5/18 ** - The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By by Ari Gold
S - 16/5/18 ** - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
M - 5/5/18 *** - Stop Bitching Start Pitching by Marty Kellard
I - 4/5/18 *** - Mind Chi: Re-Wire Your Brain in 8 Minutes a Day: Strategies for Success in Business and Life by Richard Israel
N - 5/5/18 *** - Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
E - 6/5/18 *** - Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, cheaper than yours by Salim Ismail (hide spoiler)]
Peppermint
(view spoiler)[P - 12/5/18 ***** - Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions That Will Help You See It and Seize It by John C. Maxwell
E - 16/5/18 ***** - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
P - 3/5/18 ** - Paid Attention: Innovative Advertising for a Digital World by Faris Yakob
P - 16/5/18 ** - Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox to the Killer Bean of Calabar by Peter Macinnis
E - 12/5/18 ** - The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere by Kevin Carey
R - 5/5/18 ** - Rich Brother Rich Sister: Two Different Paths to God, Money and Happiness by Robert T. Kiyosaki
M - 11/5/18 **** - Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich-And Why Most Don't by Donald J. Trump
I - 10/5/18 ** - The Inner Life of Animals: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World by Peter Wohlleben
N - 12/5/18 ** - The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris
T - 16/5/18 **** - Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh (hide spoiler)]
Green
(view spoiler)[G - 1/5/18 *** - Damn Good Advice (For People with Talent!): How To Unleash Your Creative Potential by America's Master Communicator, George Lois by George Lois
R - 1/5/18 *** - Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less by Robert I. Sutton
E - 12/5/18 *** - The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success by Emma Seppälä
E - 14/5/18 *** - End Procrastination Now!: Get It Done with a Proven Psychological Approach by William Knaus
N - 15/5/18 *** - On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History by Nicholas A. Basbanes (hide spoiler)]
Lemon and Ginger
(view spoiler)[L - 2/5/18 *** - When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn't the Life You Want by Mike Lewis
E - 13/5/18 ** - The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger by Elizabeth Blackburn
M - 16/5/18 ** - The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency by Melody Beattie
O - 16/5/18 **** - Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder
N - 16/5/18 **** - Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
A - 2/5/18 **** - Ask and You Will Succeed: 1001 Extraordinary Questions to Create Life-Changing Results by Kenneth D. Foster
N - 6/5/18 **** - Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People by Joe Navarro
D - 2/5/18 ***** - How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
G - 16/5/18 ** - Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done by Jocelyn K. Glei
I - 15/5/18 *** - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
N - 15/5/18 **** - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
G - 1/5/18 **** - The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success by Andy McNab
E - 14/5/18 ** - The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse by Mohamed El-Erian
R - 6/5/18 **** - DotCom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online by Russell Brunson (hide spoiler)]
Chai
(view spoiler)[C - 14/5/18 **** - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
H - 5/5/18 *** - Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder by Arianna Huffington
A - 15/5/18 *** - Co-Opetition by Adam M. Brandenburger
I - 15/5/18 **** - Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It by Ian Leslie (hide spoiler)]
The May Tea Time Reading Challenge
Duration: May 1st to May 31st, 2018
Total: 118/118
60/60 ✔
Earl Grey
(view spoiler)[E - 1/5/18 *** - Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker
A - 5/5/18 ** - What Motivates Me: Put Your Passions to Work by Adrian Gostick
R - 4/5/18 *** - The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career by Reid Hoffman
L - 12/5/18 *** - Fearless Leadership: How To Overcome Behavioral Blind Spots And Transform Your Organization by Loretta Malandro
G - 3/5/18 **** - Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence—and How You Can, Too by Gary Vaynerchuk
R - 1/5/18 **** - Get Things Done: What Stops Smart People Achieving More and How You Can Change by Robert Kelsey
E - 5/5/18 **** - Cultivating Curiosity by Evette Cordy
Y - 5/5/18 **** - 250 Home Preserving Favorites: From Jams & Jellies to Marmalades & Chutneys by Yvonne Tremblay (hide spoiler)]
Oolong
(view spoiler)[O - 6/5/18 *** - The Weekend Effect: The Life Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork by Katrina Onstad
O - 10/5/18 *** - Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
L - 10/5/18 * - Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work by Leslie A. Perlow
O - 4/5/18 *** - Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest by Peter Huber
N - 4/5/18 *** - Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham
G - 3/5/18 ***** - The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene (hide spoiler)]
Herbal
(view spoiler)[H - 1/5/18 ***** - Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive by Kevin Horsley
E - 2/5/18 *** - The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
R - 2/5/18 ** - What's Stopping Me from Getting Ahead?: What Your Manager Won't Tell You about What It Really Takes to Be Successful by Robert Goldfarb
B - 12/5/18 * - Analysis Without Paralysis by Babette E. Bensoussan
A - 12/5/18 *** - Awakening the Entrepreneur Within: How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies by Michael E. Gerber
L - 4/5/18 ** - Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock (hide spoiler)]
Jasmine
(view spoiler)[J - 4/5/18 ** - A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter
A - 3/5/18 ** - The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By by Ari Gold
S - 16/5/18 ** - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
M - 5/5/18 *** - Stop Bitching Start Pitching by Marty Kellard
I - 4/5/18 *** - Mind Chi: Re-Wire Your Brain in 8 Minutes a Day: Strategies for Success in Business and Life by Richard Israel
N - 5/5/18 *** - Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
E - 6/5/18 *** - Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, cheaper than yours by Salim Ismail (hide spoiler)]
Peppermint
(view spoiler)[P - 12/5/18 ***** - Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions That Will Help You See It and Seize It by John C. Maxwell
E - 16/5/18 ***** - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
P - 3/5/18 ** - Paid Attention: Innovative Advertising for a Digital World by Faris Yakob
P - 16/5/18 ** - Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox to the Killer Bean of Calabar by Peter Macinnis
E - 12/5/18 ** - The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere by Kevin Carey
R - 5/5/18 ** - Rich Brother Rich Sister: Two Different Paths to God, Money and Happiness by Robert T. Kiyosaki
M - 11/5/18 **** - Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich-And Why Most Don't by Donald J. Trump
I - 10/5/18 ** - The Inner Life of Animals: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World by Peter Wohlleben
N - 12/5/18 ** - The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris
T - 16/5/18 **** - Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh (hide spoiler)]
Green
(view spoiler)[G - 1/5/18 *** - Damn Good Advice (For People with Talent!): How To Unleash Your Creative Potential by America's Master Communicator, George Lois by George Lois
R - 1/5/18 *** - Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less by Robert I. Sutton
E - 12/5/18 *** - The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success by Emma Seppälä
E - 14/5/18 *** - End Procrastination Now!: Get It Done with a Proven Psychological Approach by William Knaus
N - 15/5/18 *** - On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History by Nicholas A. Basbanes (hide spoiler)]
Lemon and Ginger
(view spoiler)[L - 2/5/18 *** - When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn't the Life You Want by Mike Lewis
E - 13/5/18 ** - The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger by Elizabeth Blackburn
M - 16/5/18 ** - The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency by Melody Beattie
O - 16/5/18 **** - Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder
N - 16/5/18 **** - Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
A - 2/5/18 **** - Ask and You Will Succeed: 1001 Extraordinary Questions to Create Life-Changing Results by Kenneth D. Foster
N - 6/5/18 **** - Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People by Joe Navarro
D - 2/5/18 ***** - How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
G - 16/5/18 ** - Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done by Jocelyn K. Glei
I - 15/5/18 *** - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
N - 15/5/18 **** - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
G - 1/5/18 **** - The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success by Andy McNab
E - 14/5/18 ** - The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse by Mohamed El-Erian
R - 6/5/18 **** - DotCom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online by Russell Brunson (hide spoiler)]
Chai
(view spoiler)[C - 14/5/18 **** - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
H - 5/5/18 *** - Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder by Arianna Huffington
A - 15/5/18 *** - Co-Opetition by Adam M. Brandenburger
I - 15/5/18 **** - Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It by Ian Leslie (hide spoiler)]
Nothing But Reading Challenges
The May Tea Time Reading Challenge
Duration: May 1st to May 31st, 2018
58/58 Part 2 ✔
Black
(view spoiler)[B - 15/5/18 *** - Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson
L - 1/5/18 *** - Lonely Planet Dubai & Abu Dhabi by Lonely Planet
A - 6/5/18 ** - Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum
C - 14/5/18 *** - The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
K - 11/5/18 * - The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (hide spoiler)]
White
(view spoiler)[W - 10/5/18 ** - 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner
H - 16/5/18 * - Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari
I - 19/5/18 ** - Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe by Greg Ip
T - 19/5/18 ** - Talk Lean: Shorter Meetings. Quicker Results. Better Relations. by Alan Palmer
E - 16/5/18 ** - Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate by Vaclav Smil (hide spoiler)]
Yellow
(view spoiler)[Y - 20/5/18 *** - YouthNation: Building Remarkable Brands in a Youth-Driven Culture by Matt Britton
E - 21/5/18 ** - Energy: A Beginner's Guide by Vaclav Smil
L - 1/5/18 ** - Lonely Planet Scotland by Lonely Planet
L - 19/5/18 *** - The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo
O - 19/5/18 *** - The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
W - 11/5/18 **** - 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman (hide spoiler)]
Rooibos
(view spoiler)[R - 3/5/18 *** - The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin
O - 25/5/18 * - Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie
O - 26/5/18 ** - Overcoming Mobbing: A Recovery Guide for Workplace Aggression and Bullying by Maureen Duffy
I - 21/5/18 ** - I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame by Brené Brown
B - 29/5/18 **** - 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman
O - 26/5/18 ** - Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us by David DeSteno
S - 11/5/18 ** - Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate by Spencer Rascoff (hide spoiler)]
Mate
(view spoiler)[M - 5/5/18 **** - A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness by Joseph A. Maciariello
A - 11/5/18 *** - The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between by Abigail Marsh
T - 19/5/18 *** - Talent Magnetism: How to Build a Workplace That Attracts and Keeps the Best by Roberta Chinsky Matuson
E - 28/5/18 ** - Educated by Tara Westover (hide spoiler)]
Blooming
(view spoiler)[B - 29/5/18 **** - A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
L - 20/5/18 * - Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie
O - 26/5/18 ** - Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram
O - 26/5/18 ** - Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam
M - 11/5/18 **** - 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success by Amy Morin
I - 21/5/18 ** - In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan
N - 21/5/18 *** - The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret by Richie Norton
G - 19/5/18 ***** - Get Off Your "but": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself by Sean Stephenson (hide spoiler)]
Honeybush
(view spoiler)[H - 16/5/18 *** - Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't by Verne Harnish
O - 20/5/18 ** - The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia by David E. Hoffman
N - 25/5/18 * - Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers by Lois P. Frankel
E - 26/5/18 *** - The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method by Allen Carr
Y - 20/5/18 **** - Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
B - 30/5/18 *** - 21 Days to a Big Idea!: Creating Breakthrough Business Concepts by Bryan Mattimore
U - 6/5/18 ** - U Thrive: How to Succeed in College by Dan Lerner
S - 30/5/18 *** - 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People by Susan M. Weinschenk
H - 27/5/18 ***** - How to Master the Art of Selling by Tom Hopkins (hide spoiler)]
Spearmint
(view spoiler)[S - 26/5/18 **** - You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life by Jeffrey M. Schwartz
P - 16/5/18 *** - Quid Pro Quo: What the Romans Really Gave the English Language by Peter Jones
E - 28/5/18 ** - Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David
A - 13/5/18 ** - The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
R - 25/5/18 *** - Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements for Australia & New Zealand by Reader's Digest
M - 13/5/18 *** - The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
I - 28/5/18 *** - I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains by Chuck Klosterman
N - 27/5/18 ** - Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward by Henry Cloud
T - 28/5/18 ** - Targeted: How Technology Is Revolutionizing Advertising and the Way Companies Reach Consumers by Mike Smith (hide spoiler)]
Pu-erh
(view spoiler)[P - 29/5/18 ***** - 10 Days to Faster Reading by The Princeton Language Institute
U - 27/5/18 **** - The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment by Todd Kashdan
E - 29/5/18 ***** - Cashvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone by Drew Eric Whitman
R - 29/5/18 ** - Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich
H - 21/5/18 **** - How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler (hide spoiler)]
The May Tea Time Reading Challenge
Duration: May 1st to May 31st, 2018
58/58 Part 2 ✔
Black
(view spoiler)[B - 15/5/18 *** - Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson
L - 1/5/18 *** - Lonely Planet Dubai & Abu Dhabi by Lonely Planet
A - 6/5/18 ** - Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum
C - 14/5/18 *** - The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
K - 11/5/18 * - The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (hide spoiler)]
White
(view spoiler)[W - 10/5/18 ** - 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner
H - 16/5/18 * - Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari
I - 19/5/18 ** - Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe by Greg Ip
T - 19/5/18 ** - Talk Lean: Shorter Meetings. Quicker Results. Better Relations. by Alan Palmer
E - 16/5/18 ** - Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate by Vaclav Smil (hide spoiler)]
Yellow
(view spoiler)[Y - 20/5/18 *** - YouthNation: Building Remarkable Brands in a Youth-Driven Culture by Matt Britton
E - 21/5/18 ** - Energy: A Beginner's Guide by Vaclav Smil
L - 1/5/18 ** - Lonely Planet Scotland by Lonely Planet
L - 19/5/18 *** - The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo
O - 19/5/18 *** - The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
W - 11/5/18 **** - 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman (hide spoiler)]
Rooibos
(view spoiler)[R - 3/5/18 *** - The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin
O - 25/5/18 * - Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie
O - 26/5/18 ** - Overcoming Mobbing: A Recovery Guide for Workplace Aggression and Bullying by Maureen Duffy
I - 21/5/18 ** - I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame by Brené Brown
B - 29/5/18 **** - 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman
O - 26/5/18 ** - Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us by David DeSteno
S - 11/5/18 ** - Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate by Spencer Rascoff (hide spoiler)]
Mate
(view spoiler)[M - 5/5/18 **** - A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness by Joseph A. Maciariello
A - 11/5/18 *** - The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between by Abigail Marsh
T - 19/5/18 *** - Talent Magnetism: How to Build a Workplace That Attracts and Keeps the Best by Roberta Chinsky Matuson
E - 28/5/18 ** - Educated by Tara Westover (hide spoiler)]
Blooming
(view spoiler)[B - 29/5/18 **** - A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
L - 20/5/18 * - Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie
O - 26/5/18 ** - Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram
O - 26/5/18 ** - Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam
M - 11/5/18 **** - 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success by Amy Morin
I - 21/5/18 ** - In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan
N - 21/5/18 *** - The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret by Richie Norton
G - 19/5/18 ***** - Get Off Your "but": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself by Sean Stephenson (hide spoiler)]
Honeybush
(view spoiler)[H - 16/5/18 *** - Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't by Verne Harnish
O - 20/5/18 ** - The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia by David E. Hoffman
N - 25/5/18 * - Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers by Lois P. Frankel
E - 26/5/18 *** - The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method by Allen Carr
Y - 20/5/18 **** - Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
B - 30/5/18 *** - 21 Days to a Big Idea!: Creating Breakthrough Business Concepts by Bryan Mattimore
U - 6/5/18 ** - U Thrive: How to Succeed in College by Dan Lerner
S - 30/5/18 *** - 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People by Susan M. Weinschenk
H - 27/5/18 ***** - How to Master the Art of Selling by Tom Hopkins (hide spoiler)]
Spearmint
(view spoiler)[S - 26/5/18 **** - You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life by Jeffrey M. Schwartz
P - 16/5/18 *** - Quid Pro Quo: What the Romans Really Gave the English Language by Peter Jones
E - 28/5/18 ** - Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David
A - 13/5/18 ** - The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
R - 25/5/18 *** - Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements for Australia & New Zealand by Reader's Digest
M - 13/5/18 *** - The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
I - 28/5/18 *** - I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains by Chuck Klosterman
N - 27/5/18 ** - Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward by Henry Cloud
T - 28/5/18 ** - Targeted: How Technology Is Revolutionizing Advertising and the Way Companies Reach Consumers by Mike Smith (hide spoiler)]
Pu-erh
(view spoiler)[P - 29/5/18 ***** - 10 Days to Faster Reading by The Princeton Language Institute
U - 27/5/18 **** - The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment by Todd Kashdan
E - 29/5/18 ***** - Cashvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone by Drew Eric Whitman
R - 29/5/18 ** - Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich
H - 21/5/18 **** - How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler (hide spoiler)]
Nothing But Reading Challenges
Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
Level 5a: 401-450 ✔
(view spoiler)[401. - 6/5/18 274p **** - DotCom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online by Russell Brunson
402. - 10/5/18 288p * - Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work by Leslie A. Perlow
403. - 10/5/18 309p *** - Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
404. - 10/5/18 288p ** - The Inner Life of Animals: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World by Peter Wohlleben
405. - 10/5/18 280p ** - 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner
406. - 11/5/18 357p **** - 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
407. - 11/5/18 240p **** - Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich-And Why Most Don't by Donald J. Trump
408. - 11/5/18 302p *** - The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between by Abigail Marsh
409. - 11/5/18 293p * - The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
410. - 11/5/18 288p ** - Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate by Spencer Rascoff
411. - 11/5/18 272p **** - 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success by Amy Morin
412. - 12/5/18 304p *** - Awakening the Entrepreneur Within: How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies by Michael E. Gerber
413. - 12/5/18 292p *** - Fearless Leadership: How To Overcome Behavioral Blind Spots And Transform Your Organization by Loretta Malandro
414. - 12/5/18 273p * - Analysis Without Paralysis by Babette E. Bensoussan
415. - 12/5/18 288p ** - The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere by Kevin Carey
416. - 12/5/18 224p *** - The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success by Emma Seppälä
417. - 12/5/18 462p ** - The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris
418. - 12/5/18 234p ***** - Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions That Will Help You See It and Seize It by John C. Maxwell
419. - 13/5/18 442p ** - The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
420. - 13/5/18 496p *** - The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
421. - 13/5/18 416p ** - The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger by Elizabeth Blackburn
422. - 14/5/18 703p *** - The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
423. - 14/5/18 320p ** - The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse by Mohamed El-Erian
424. - 14/5/18 256p *** - End Procrastination Now!: Get It Done with a Proven Psychological Approach by William Knaus
425. - 14/5/18 303p **** - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
426. - 15/5/18 205p *** - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
427. - 15/5/18 310p **** - Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It by Ian Leslie
428. - 15/5/18 327p *** - Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson
429. - 15/5/18 448p *** - On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History by Nicholas A. Basbanes
430. - 15/5/18 316p **** - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
431. - 15/5/18 304p *** - Co-Opetition by Adam M. Brandenburger
432. - 16/5/18 246p *** - Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't by Verne Harnish
433. - 16/5/18 352p *** - Quid Pro Quo: What the Romans Really Gave the English Language by Peter Jones
434. - 16/5/18 213p ** - Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate by Vaclav Smil
435. - 16/5/18 322p * - Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari
436. - 16/5/18 408 ** - The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency by Melody Beattie
437. - 16/5/18 240p ** - Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done by Jocelyn K. Glei
438. - 16/5/18 443p ** - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
439. - 16/5/18 256p ** - Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox to the Killer Bean of Calabar by Peter Macinnis
440. - 16/5/18 256p **** - Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
441. - 16/5/18 273p **** - Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder
442. - 16/5/18 246p **** - Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
443. - 16/5/18 288p ***** - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
444. - 19/5/18 228p *** - Talent Magnetism: How to Build a Workplace That Attracts and Keeps the Best by Roberta Chinsky Matuson
445. - 19/5/18 209p ** - Talk Lean: Shorter Meetings. Quicker Results. Better Relations. by Alan Palmer
446. - 19/5/18 551p *** - The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo
447. - 19/5/18 256p *** - The As If Principle: The Radically New Approach to Changing Your Life by Richard Wiseman
448. - 19/5/18 375p *** - The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
449. - 19/5/18 336p ** - Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe by Greg Ip
450. - 19/5/18 225p ***** - Get Off Your "but": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself by Sean Stephenson (hide spoiler)]
Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
Level 5a: 401-450 ✔
(view spoiler)[401. - 6/5/18 274p **** - DotCom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online by Russell Brunson
402. - 10/5/18 288p * - Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work by Leslie A. Perlow
403. - 10/5/18 309p *** - Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
404. - 10/5/18 288p ** - The Inner Life of Animals: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World by Peter Wohlleben
405. - 10/5/18 280p ** - 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner
406. - 11/5/18 357p **** - 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
407. - 11/5/18 240p **** - Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich-And Why Most Don't by Donald J. Trump
408. - 11/5/18 302p *** - The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between by Abigail Marsh
409. - 11/5/18 293p * - The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
410. - 11/5/18 288p ** - Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate by Spencer Rascoff
411. - 11/5/18 272p **** - 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success by Amy Morin
412. - 12/5/18 304p *** - Awakening the Entrepreneur Within: How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies by Michael E. Gerber
413. - 12/5/18 292p *** - Fearless Leadership: How To Overcome Behavioral Blind Spots And Transform Your Organization by Loretta Malandro
414. - 12/5/18 273p * - Analysis Without Paralysis by Babette E. Bensoussan
415. - 12/5/18 288p ** - The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere by Kevin Carey
416. - 12/5/18 224p *** - The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success by Emma Seppälä
417. - 12/5/18 462p ** - The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris
418. - 12/5/18 234p ***** - Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions That Will Help You See It and Seize It by John C. Maxwell
419. - 13/5/18 442p ** - The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
420. - 13/5/18 496p *** - The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
421. - 13/5/18 416p ** - The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger by Elizabeth Blackburn
422. - 14/5/18 703p *** - The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
423. - 14/5/18 320p ** - The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse by Mohamed El-Erian
424. - 14/5/18 256p *** - End Procrastination Now!: Get It Done with a Proven Psychological Approach by William Knaus
425. - 14/5/18 303p **** - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
426. - 15/5/18 205p *** - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
427. - 15/5/18 310p **** - Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It by Ian Leslie
428. - 15/5/18 327p *** - Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson
429. - 15/5/18 448p *** - On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History by Nicholas A. Basbanes
430. - 15/5/18 316p **** - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
431. - 15/5/18 304p *** - Co-Opetition by Adam M. Brandenburger
432. - 16/5/18 246p *** - Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't by Verne Harnish
433. - 16/5/18 352p *** - Quid Pro Quo: What the Romans Really Gave the English Language by Peter Jones
434. - 16/5/18 213p ** - Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate by Vaclav Smil
435. - 16/5/18 322p * - Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari
436. - 16/5/18 408 ** - The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency by Melody Beattie
437. - 16/5/18 240p ** - Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done by Jocelyn K. Glei
438. - 16/5/18 443p ** - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
439. - 16/5/18 256p ** - Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox to the Killer Bean of Calabar by Peter Macinnis
440. - 16/5/18 256p **** - Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
441. - 16/5/18 273p **** - Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder
442. - 16/5/18 246p **** - Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
443. - 16/5/18 288p ***** - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
444. - 19/5/18 228p *** - Talent Magnetism: How to Build a Workplace That Attracts and Keeps the Best by Roberta Chinsky Matuson
445. - 19/5/18 209p ** - Talk Lean: Shorter Meetings. Quicker Results. Better Relations. by Alan Palmer
446. - 19/5/18 551p *** - The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo
447. - 19/5/18 256p *** - The As If Principle: The Radically New Approach to Changing Your Life by Richard Wiseman
448. - 19/5/18 375p *** - The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
449. - 19/5/18 336p ** - Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe by Greg Ip
450. - 19/5/18 225p ***** - Get Off Your "but": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself by Sean Stephenson (hide spoiler)]
Nothing But Reading Challenges
Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
Level 5b: 451-500 ✔
(view spoiler)[451. - 20/5/18 336p **** - Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
452. - 20/5/18 352p * - Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie
453. - 20/5/18 320p *** - YouthNation: Building Remarkable Brands in a Youth-Driven Culture by Matt Britton
454. - 20/5/18 575p ** - The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia by David E. Hoffman
455. - 20/5/18 513p ** - The Compassionate Mind by Paul Gilbert
456. - 21/5/18 426p **** - How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler
457. - 21/5/18 192p ** - Energy: A Beginner's Guide by Vaclav Smil
458. - 21/5/18 324p *** - The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
459. - 21/5/18 305p ** - I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame by Brené Brown
460. - 21/5/18 294p *** - The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret by Richie Norton
461. - 21/5/18 688p ** - In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan
462. - 25/5/18 320p *** - Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements for Australia & New Zealand by Reader's Digest
463. - 25/5/18 288p * - Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers by Lois P. Frankel
464. - 25/5/18 224p * - Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie
465. - 25/5/18 335p **** - The Complete Book of Pickling: 250 Recipes from Pickles & Relishes to Chutneys & Salsas by Jennifer MacKenzie
466. - 26/5/18 340p *** - The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch by Lewis Dartnell
467. - 26/5/18 224p *** - The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method by Allen Carr
468. - 26/5/18 386p ** - Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam
469. - 26/5/18 288p ** - Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us by David DeSteno
470. - 26/5/18 256p ** - Overcoming Mobbing: A Recovery Guide for Workplace Aggression and Bullying by Maureen Duffy
471. - 26/5/18 256p ** - Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram
472. - 26/5/18 384p **** - You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life by Jeffrey M. Schwartz
473. - 27/5/18 304p **** - The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment by Todd Kashdan
474. - 27/5/18 256p ** - Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward by Henry Cloud
475. - 27/5/18 416p ***** - How to Master the Art of Selling by Tom Hopkins
476. - 28/5/18 214p *** - I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains by Chuck Klosterman
477. - 28/5/18 352p ** - Educated by Tara Westover
478. - 28/5/18 224p ** - Targeted: How Technology Is Revolutionizing Advertising and the Way Companies Reach Consumers by Mike Smith
479. - 28/5/18 288p ** - Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David
480. - 29/5/18 206p ***** - 10 Days to Faster Reading by The Princeton Language Institute
481. - 29/5/18 207p ***** - Cashvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone by Drew Eric Whitman
482. - 29/5/18 288p **** - 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman
483. - 29/5/18 281p ** - The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win by Steven Gary Blank
484. - 29/5/18 219p ** - Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich
485. - 29/5/18 368p **** - A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
486. - 30/5/18 378p ** - You Should Test That by Chris Goward
487. - 30/5/18 272p ** - Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design by Alvin E. Roth
488. - 30/5/18 242p *** - 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People by Susan M. Weinschenk
489. - 30/5/18 156p *** - 21 Days to a Big Idea!: Creating Breakthrough Business Concepts by Bryan Mattimore
490. - 30/5/18 221p *** - You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier
491. - 30/5/18 240p ***** - The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
492. - 30/5/18 240p ***** - The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
493. - 30/5/18 336p **** - The Leading Brain: Powerful Science-Based Strategies for Achieving Peak Performance by Friederike Fabritius
494. - 31/5/18 272p **** - How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age by Dale Carnegie
495. - 31/5/18 368p *** - I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
496. - 31/5/18 206p **** - The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play by Neil A. Fiore
497. - 31/5/18 976p *** - Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
498. - 1/6/18 320p *** - When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don't Get Along by Joshua Coleman
499. - 1/6/18 40p *** - Spotify, Music for Everyone: The meteoric rise of the world’s top streaming service by 50MINUTES.COM
500. - 1/6/18 83p *** - Finally Happy: How to Easily Forge True and Enduring Happiness by Foster J.Pickton (hide spoiler)]
Serious Reader Challenge for 2018
Level 5b: 451-500 ✔
(view spoiler)[451. - 20/5/18 336p **** - Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
452. - 20/5/18 352p * - Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie
453. - 20/5/18 320p *** - YouthNation: Building Remarkable Brands in a Youth-Driven Culture by Matt Britton
454. - 20/5/18 575p ** - The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia by David E. Hoffman
455. - 20/5/18 513p ** - The Compassionate Mind by Paul Gilbert
456. - 21/5/18 426p **** - How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler
457. - 21/5/18 192p ** - Energy: A Beginner's Guide by Vaclav Smil
458. - 21/5/18 324p *** - The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
459. - 21/5/18 305p ** - I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame by Brené Brown
460. - 21/5/18 294p *** - The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret by Richie Norton
461. - 21/5/18 688p ** - In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan
462. - 25/5/18 320p *** - Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements for Australia & New Zealand by Reader's Digest
463. - 25/5/18 288p * - Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers by Lois P. Frankel
464. - 25/5/18 224p * - Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie
465. - 25/5/18 335p **** - The Complete Book of Pickling: 250 Recipes from Pickles & Relishes to Chutneys & Salsas by Jennifer MacKenzie
466. - 26/5/18 340p *** - The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch by Lewis Dartnell
467. - 26/5/18 224p *** - The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method by Allen Carr
468. - 26/5/18 386p ** - Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam
469. - 26/5/18 288p ** - Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us by David DeSteno
470. - 26/5/18 256p ** - Overcoming Mobbing: A Recovery Guide for Workplace Aggression and Bullying by Maureen Duffy
471. - 26/5/18 256p ** - Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram
472. - 26/5/18 384p **** - You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life by Jeffrey M. Schwartz
473. - 27/5/18 304p **** - The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment by Todd Kashdan
474. - 27/5/18 256p ** - Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward by Henry Cloud
475. - 27/5/18 416p ***** - How to Master the Art of Selling by Tom Hopkins
476. - 28/5/18 214p *** - I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains by Chuck Klosterman
477. - 28/5/18 352p ** - Educated by Tara Westover
478. - 28/5/18 224p ** - Targeted: How Technology Is Revolutionizing Advertising and the Way Companies Reach Consumers by Mike Smith
479. - 28/5/18 288p ** - Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David
480. - 29/5/18 206p ***** - 10 Days to Faster Reading by The Princeton Language Institute
481. - 29/5/18 207p ***** - Cashvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone by Drew Eric Whitman
482. - 29/5/18 288p **** - 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman
483. - 29/5/18 281p ** - The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win by Steven Gary Blank
484. - 29/5/18 219p ** - Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich
485. - 29/5/18 368p **** - A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
486. - 30/5/18 378p ** - You Should Test That by Chris Goward
487. - 30/5/18 272p ** - Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design by Alvin E. Roth
488. - 30/5/18 242p *** - 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People by Susan M. Weinschenk
489. - 30/5/18 156p *** - 21 Days to a Big Idea!: Creating Breakthrough Business Concepts by Bryan Mattimore
490. - 30/5/18 221p *** - You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier
491. - 30/5/18 240p ***** - The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
492. - 30/5/18 240p ***** - The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
493. - 30/5/18 336p **** - The Leading Brain: Powerful Science-Based Strategies for Achieving Peak Performance by Friederike Fabritius
494. - 31/5/18 272p **** - How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age by Dale Carnegie
495. - 31/5/18 368p *** - I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
496. - 31/5/18 206p **** - The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play by Neil A. Fiore
497. - 31/5/18 976p *** - Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
498. - 1/6/18 320p *** - When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don't Get Along by Joshua Coleman
499. - 1/6/18 40p *** - Spotify, Music for Everyone: The meteoric rise of the world’s top streaming service by 50MINUTES.COM
500. - 1/6/18 83p *** - Finally Happy: How to Easily Forge True and Enduring Happiness by Foster J.Pickton (hide spoiler)]
The Challenge Factory
May TCF Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1st to May 31st, 2018
60/60 ✔
Sun
(view spoiler)[S - 16/5/18 *** - Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't by Verne Harnish
U - 16/5/18 ** - Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done by Jocelyn K. Glei
N - 15/5/18 *** - On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History by Nicholas A. Basbanes (hide spoiler)]
Lily
(view spoiler)[L - 16/5/18 * - Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari
I - 15/5/18 *** - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
L - 16/5/18 ** - The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency by Melody Beattie
Y - 16/5/18 ** - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (hide spoiler)]
Flowers
(view spoiler)[F - 14/5/18 **** - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
L - 19/5/18 *** - The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo
O - 19/5/18 *** - The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
W - 15/5/18 *** - Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson
E - 14/5/18 *** - End Procrastination Now!: Get It Done with a Proven Psychological Approach by William Knaus
R - 20/5/18 **** - Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
S - 19/5/18 ***** - Get Off Your "but": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself by Sean Stephenson (hide spoiler)]
Memorial Day
(view spoiler)[M - 16/5/18 ** - Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox to the Killer Bean of Calabar by Peter Macinnis
E - 15/5/18 **** - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
M - 29/5/18 **** - A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
O - 16/5/18 **** - Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder
R - 29/5/18 ** - Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich
I - 19/5/18 ** - Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe by Greg Ip
A - 19/5/18 *** - The As If Principle: The Radically New Approach to Changing Your Life by Richard Wiseman
L - 20/5/18 * - Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie
D - 16/5/18 **** - Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
A - 15/5/18 *** - Co-Opetition by Adam M. Brandenburger
Y - 20/5/18 *** - YouthNation: Building Remarkable Brands in a Youth-Driven Culture by Matt Britton (hide spoiler)]
Victoria Day
(view spoiler)[V - 16/5/18 ** - Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate by Vaclav Smil
I - 21/5/18 ** - I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame by Brené Brown
C - 15/5/18 **** - Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It by Ian Leslie
T - 27/5/18 ***** - How to Master the Art of Selling by Tom Hopkins
O - 20/5/18 ** - The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia by David E. Hoffman
R - 25/5/18 *** - Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements for Australia & New Zealand by Reader's Digest
I - 21/5/18 ** - In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan
A - 19/5/18 ** - Talk Lean: Shorter Meetings. Quicker Results. Better Relations. by Alan Palmer
D - 26/5/18 ** - Overcoming Mobbing: A Recovery Guide for Workplace Aggression and Bullying by Maureen Duffy
A - 21/5/18 **** - How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler
Y - 26/5/18 **** - You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life by Jeffrey M. Schwartz (hide spoiler)]
Armed Forces
(view spoiler)[A - 21/5/18 *** - The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
R - 21/5/18 *** - The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret by Richie Norton
M - 28/5/18 ** - Targeted: How Technology Is Revolutionizing Advertising and the Way Companies Reach Consumers by Mike Smith
E - 16/5/18 **** - Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
D - 26/5/18 ** - Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us by David DeSteno
F - 29/5/18 ** - The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win by Steven Gary Blank
O - 25/5/18 * - Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie
R - 26/5/18 ** - Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam
C - 20/5/18 ** - The Compassionate Mind by Paul Gilbert
E - 28/5/18 ** - Educated by Tara Westover
S - 28/5/18 ** - Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David (hide spoiler)]
Kentucky Derby
(view spoiler)[K - 26/5/18 *** - The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch by Lewis Dartnell
E - 21/5/18 ** - Energy: A Beginner's Guide by Vaclav Smil
N - 25/5/18 * - Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers by Lois P. Frankel
T - 19/5/18 *** - Talent Magnetism: How to Build a Workplace That Attracts and Keeps the Best by Roberta Chinsky Matuson
U - 27/5/18 **** - The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment by Todd Kashdan
C - 25/5/18 **** - The Complete Book of Pickling: 250 Recipes from Pickles & Relishes to Chutneys & Salsas by Jennifer MacKenzie
K - 28/5/18 *** - I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains by Chuck Klosterman
Y - 30/5/18 ** - You Should Test That by Chris Goward
D - 29/5/18 ***** - Cashvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone by Drew Eric Whitman
E - 26/5/18 *** - The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method by Allen Carr
R - 30/5/18 ** - Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design by Alvin E. Roth
B - 16/5/18 ***** - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
Y - 30/5/18 *** - You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier (hide spoiler)]
May TCF Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1st to May 31st, 2018
60/60 ✔
Sun
(view spoiler)[S - 16/5/18 *** - Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't by Verne Harnish
U - 16/5/18 ** - Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done by Jocelyn K. Glei
N - 15/5/18 *** - On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History by Nicholas A. Basbanes (hide spoiler)]
Lily
(view spoiler)[L - 16/5/18 * - Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari
I - 15/5/18 *** - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
L - 16/5/18 ** - The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency by Melody Beattie
Y - 16/5/18 ** - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (hide spoiler)]
Flowers
(view spoiler)[F - 14/5/18 **** - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
L - 19/5/18 *** - The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo
O - 19/5/18 *** - The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
W - 15/5/18 *** - Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson
E - 14/5/18 *** - End Procrastination Now!: Get It Done with a Proven Psychological Approach by William Knaus
R - 20/5/18 **** - Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
S - 19/5/18 ***** - Get Off Your "but": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself by Sean Stephenson (hide spoiler)]
Memorial Day
(view spoiler)[M - 16/5/18 ** - Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox to the Killer Bean of Calabar by Peter Macinnis
E - 15/5/18 **** - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
M - 29/5/18 **** - A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
O - 16/5/18 **** - Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder
R - 29/5/18 ** - Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich
I - 19/5/18 ** - Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe by Greg Ip
A - 19/5/18 *** - The As If Principle: The Radically New Approach to Changing Your Life by Richard Wiseman
L - 20/5/18 * - Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie
D - 16/5/18 **** - Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
A - 15/5/18 *** - Co-Opetition by Adam M. Brandenburger
Y - 20/5/18 *** - YouthNation: Building Remarkable Brands in a Youth-Driven Culture by Matt Britton (hide spoiler)]
Victoria Day
(view spoiler)[V - 16/5/18 ** - Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate by Vaclav Smil
I - 21/5/18 ** - I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame by Brené Brown
C - 15/5/18 **** - Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It by Ian Leslie
T - 27/5/18 ***** - How to Master the Art of Selling by Tom Hopkins
O - 20/5/18 ** - The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia by David E. Hoffman
R - 25/5/18 *** - Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements for Australia & New Zealand by Reader's Digest
I - 21/5/18 ** - In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan
A - 19/5/18 ** - Talk Lean: Shorter Meetings. Quicker Results. Better Relations. by Alan Palmer
D - 26/5/18 ** - Overcoming Mobbing: A Recovery Guide for Workplace Aggression and Bullying by Maureen Duffy
A - 21/5/18 **** - How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler
Y - 26/5/18 **** - You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life by Jeffrey M. Schwartz (hide spoiler)]
Armed Forces
(view spoiler)[A - 21/5/18 *** - The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
R - 21/5/18 *** - The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret by Richie Norton
M - 28/5/18 ** - Targeted: How Technology Is Revolutionizing Advertising and the Way Companies Reach Consumers by Mike Smith
E - 16/5/18 **** - Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
D - 26/5/18 ** - Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us by David DeSteno
F - 29/5/18 ** - The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win by Steven Gary Blank
O - 25/5/18 * - Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie
R - 26/5/18 ** - Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam
C - 20/5/18 ** - The Compassionate Mind by Paul Gilbert
E - 28/5/18 ** - Educated by Tara Westover
S - 28/5/18 ** - Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David (hide spoiler)]
Kentucky Derby
(view spoiler)[K - 26/5/18 *** - The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch by Lewis Dartnell
E - 21/5/18 ** - Energy: A Beginner's Guide by Vaclav Smil
N - 25/5/18 * - Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers by Lois P. Frankel
T - 19/5/18 *** - Talent Magnetism: How to Build a Workplace That Attracts and Keeps the Best by Roberta Chinsky Matuson
U - 27/5/18 **** - The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment by Todd Kashdan
C - 25/5/18 **** - The Complete Book of Pickling: 250 Recipes from Pickles & Relishes to Chutneys & Salsas by Jennifer MacKenzie
K - 28/5/18 *** - I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains by Chuck Klosterman
Y - 30/5/18 ** - You Should Test That by Chris Goward
D - 29/5/18 ***** - Cashvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone by Drew Eric Whitman
E - 26/5/18 *** - The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method by Allen Carr
R - 30/5/18 ** - Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design by Alvin E. Roth
B - 16/5/18 ***** - Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
Y - 30/5/18 *** - You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier (hide spoiler)]
The Challenge Factory
Ripped From the Headlines ~ June
June 1 - 30, 2018
Total: 88/148
39/48 Part 1
Two - 3/6/18 **** - Two Birds in a Tree: Timeless Indian Wisdom for Business Leaders by Ram Nidumolu
parents - 13/6/18 **** - Personality Plus for Parents: Understanding What Makes Your Child Tick by Florence Littauer
in - 3/6/18 *** - In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed by Carl Honoré
will - 2/6/18 *** - The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands by Eric Topol
finally - 1/6/18 *** - Finally Happy: How to Easily Forge True and Enduring Happiness by Foster J.Pickton
get - 3/6/18 *** - Get Some Headspace: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day by Andy Puddicombe
to - 5/6/18 *** - How to Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton
know - 6/6/18 *** - What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey
what - 9/6/18 *** - What Color Is Your Parachute? 2015 by Richard N. Bolles
empty - 14/6/18 *** - Karate The Art of "Empty-Hand" Fighting by Hidetaka Nishiyama
nest - 18/6/18 * - Your Nest Egg Game Plan: How to Get Your Finances Back on Track and Create a Lifetime Income Stream by Phil Fragasso
syndrome - 19/6/18 ** - A Simple Guide To Klinefelter Syndrome, Diagnosis, Treatment And Related Conditions by Kenneth Kee
like - 6/6/18 *** - Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose
On - 5/6/18 ** - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
ordered - 2/6/18 * - Ordered Porous Solids by Valentin Valtchev
to - 6/6/18 **** - Design to Grow: How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility by David Butler
move - 6/6/18 *** - Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes by Tom Rath
out - 9/6/18 **** - Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World by Kevin Kelly
of - 15/6/18 ***** - Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar
his - 8/6/18 *** - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
parents’ - 3/6/18 ** - Protecting Your Parents' Money: The Essential Guide to Helping Mom and Dad Navigate the Finances of Retirement by Jeff D. Opdyke
house - 11/6/18 * - Co-Active Leadership: Five Ways to Lead by Karen Kimsey-House
after - 1/6/18 * - After Heidegger? by Gregory Fried
living - 12/6/18 **** - Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions by Dan Millman
there - 6/6/18 *** - What's Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life by Lise Eliot
rent - 18/6/18 ** - Buy It, Rent It, Profit!: Make Money as a Landlord in ANY Real Estate Market by Bryan M. Chavis
free - 8/6/18 *** - Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman
eight - 30/6/18 ** - The Eight Immortal Healers: Taoist Wisdom for Radiant Health by Mantak Chia
the - 4/6/18 *** - The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket by Trevor Corson
reports - 3/6/18 * - Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort by Franz Leopold Neumann
and - 8/6/18 *** - Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self by Manoush Zomorodi
of - 4/6/18 *** - The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
near - 4/6/18 ** - Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us by Donald K. Yeomans
sent - 2/6/18 ** - Devil Sent the Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America by Tom Piazza
their - 7/6/18 ** - Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed by Alexis Ohanian
numerous - 2/6/18 * - A Treatise on Spherical Trigonometry - Its Application to Geodesy and Astronomy , with numerous examples by John Casey
eviction - 28/6/18 ** - Secrets To A Successful Eviction For Landlords And Rental Property Managers: The Complete Guide To Evicting Tenants Legally And Quickly by Carolyn Gibson
notices - 2/6/18 * - Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester
and - 8/6/18 *** - Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done by Ian Ayres
gave - 27/6/18 *** - The Airplane: How Ideas Gave Us Wings by Jay Spenser
Ripped From the Headlines ~ June
June 1 - 30, 2018
Total: 88/148
39/48 Part 1
Two - 3/6/18 **** - Two Birds in a Tree: Timeless Indian Wisdom for Business Leaders by Ram Nidumolu
parents - 13/6/18 **** - Personality Plus for Parents: Understanding What Makes Your Child Tick by Florence Littauer
in - 3/6/18 *** - In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed by Carl Honoré
will - 2/6/18 *** - The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands by Eric Topol
finally - 1/6/18 *** - Finally Happy: How to Easily Forge True and Enduring Happiness by Foster J.Pickton
get - 3/6/18 *** - Get Some Headspace: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day by Andy Puddicombe
to - 5/6/18 *** - How to Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton
know - 6/6/18 *** - What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey
what - 9/6/18 *** - What Color Is Your Parachute? 2015 by Richard N. Bolles
empty - 14/6/18 *** - Karate The Art of "Empty-Hand" Fighting by Hidetaka Nishiyama
nest - 18/6/18 * - Your Nest Egg Game Plan: How to Get Your Finances Back on Track and Create a Lifetime Income Stream by Phil Fragasso
syndrome - 19/6/18 ** - A Simple Guide To Klinefelter Syndrome, Diagnosis, Treatment And Related Conditions by Kenneth Kee
like - 6/6/18 *** - Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose
On - 5/6/18 ** - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
ordered - 2/6/18 * - Ordered Porous Solids by Valentin Valtchev
to - 6/6/18 **** - Design to Grow: How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility by David Butler
move - 6/6/18 *** - Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes by Tom Rath
out - 9/6/18 **** - Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World by Kevin Kelly
of - 15/6/18 ***** - Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar
his - 8/6/18 *** - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
parents’ - 3/6/18 ** - Protecting Your Parents' Money: The Essential Guide to Helping Mom and Dad Navigate the Finances of Retirement by Jeff D. Opdyke
house - 11/6/18 * - Co-Active Leadership: Five Ways to Lead by Karen Kimsey-House
after - 1/6/18 * - After Heidegger? by Gregory Fried
living - 12/6/18 **** - Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions by Dan Millman
there - 6/6/18 *** - What's Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life by Lise Eliot
rent - 18/6/18 ** - Buy It, Rent It, Profit!: Make Money as a Landlord in ANY Real Estate Market by Bryan M. Chavis
free - 8/6/18 *** - Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman
eight - 30/6/18 ** - The Eight Immortal Healers: Taoist Wisdom for Radiant Health by Mantak Chia
the - 4/6/18 *** - The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket by Trevor Corson
reports - 3/6/18 * - Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort by Franz Leopold Neumann
and - 8/6/18 *** - Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self by Manoush Zomorodi
of - 4/6/18 *** - The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
near - 4/6/18 ** - Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us by Donald K. Yeomans
sent - 2/6/18 ** - Devil Sent the Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America by Tom Piazza
their - 7/6/18 ** - Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed by Alexis Ohanian
numerous - 2/6/18 * - A Treatise on Spherical Trigonometry - Its Application to Geodesy and Astronomy , with numerous examples by John Casey
eviction - 28/6/18 ** - Secrets To A Successful Eviction For Landlords And Rental Property Managers: The Complete Guide To Evicting Tenants Legally And Quickly by Carolyn Gibson
notices - 2/6/18 * - Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester
and - 8/6/18 *** - Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done by Ian Ayres
gave - 27/6/18 *** - The Airplane: How Ideas Gave Us Wings by Jay Spenser
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My goal: 1000 books.
(It was originally 365, however I seemed to have increased my reading speed from last year. I may be biting off more than I can chew, but without stretching yourself, there can be no growth.)
Total Books: 900
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