Jananas

I’m going to take Julien up on his challenge to read a book every week in 2010 (so 52 books this year). I’m using this page to make my commitment public, to help keep me on track, and to make note of what I’ve read. I often have two books on the go – one business and one pleasure (for before bed).

Books that I’ve read in 2011 (please scroll down for the latest and greatest):

1. February 20th – Tim Ferriss’ Four Hour Body
2. March 20th – Hugh McLeod’s Evil Plan
3. March 24th – Cinda Williams Chima’s The Warrior Heir
4. March 30th – Cinda Williams Chima’s The Wizard Heir
5. April 10th – Cinda Williams Chima’s The Dragon Heir
6. April 15th – Tom Rath’s Strengths Finder 2.0
7. April 15th – Ellis Peters’ The Sanctuary Sparrow
8. April 28th – Ellis Peters’ The Devil’s Novice
9. May 2nd – Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher Isherwood, Patanjali’s How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali
10. May 17th – Paul T. Mason & Randi Kreger’s Stop Walking on Eggshells
11. June 5th – Michael Scott’s The Warlock
12. June 7th – private (UTBM)

Books that I’ve read in 2010 (please scroll down for the latest and greatest):

1. January 1st – Hugh McLeod’s Ignore Everybody
2. January 5th – Angie Sage’s Septimus Heap Book Five: Syren
3. January 7th – Stephen Baker’s the Numerati
4. January 12th – Knitting Yarns and Spinning Tales: a Knitter’s Stash of Wit and Wisdom
5. January 13th – John Ralston Saul’s Voltaire’s Bastards
6. January 15th – Chris Brogan & Julien Smith’s Trust Agents
7. January 20th – Bernadine Evaristo’s Blonde Roots
8. January 25th – Neil Gaiman’s Fragile Things
9. January 27th – Roger Martin’s The Design of Business
10. January 29th – The Art of War, the Denma Translation
11. January 29th – Nick Griffith’s The Daredevil Book for Dogs (a Parody)
12. January 31st – Douglas Adam & Terry Jones’ Starship Titanic
13. February 2nd – Angie Sage’s Septimus Heap: The Magykal Papers
14. February 3rd – Nicholas Christakis & James Fowler’s Connected
15. February 5th – Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs
16. February 12th – C.D. Payne’s Youth in Revolt
17. February 13th – Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring
18. February 15th – Joe Hyam’s Zen in the Martial Arts
19. February 22th – David Allen’s Getting Things Done
20. February 23rd – Michael Scott’s The Alchemyst
21. February 27th – Michael Scott’s The Magician
22. February 27th – Jon Katz’ A Dog Year
23. March 1st – Diana Wynne Jones’ Enchanted Glass
24. March 2nd – Michael Scott’s The Sorceress
25. March 4th – Bill Bryson’s Shakespeare: the world as a stage
26. March 4th – Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince
27. March 5th – Kate Atkinson’s When Will There Be Good News?
28. March 6th – Malcolm Gladwell’s The Outliers
29. March 13th – Bill Bryson’s The Mother Tongue: english and how it got that way
30. March 21st – Miyamoto Musashi’s A Way to Victory, the annotated Book of Five Rings translation by Hidy Ochiai
31. March 24th – the RZA’s The Tao of Wu
32. March 25th – Mary Stewart’s The Hollow Hills
33. March 30th – Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave
34. April 5th – Mary Stewart’s The Last Enchantment
35. April 17th – Matt Ruff’s Set This House in Order
36. April 25th – Dan Falk’s In Search of Time
37. May 2nd – Mary Stewart’s The Wicked Day
38. May 4th – Tim Hurson’s Think Better
39. May 13th -  James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of the Crowds
40. May 18th – Ted Rogers’ Relentless
41. May 29th – Michael Scott’s The Necromancer
42. May 30th – Michael Malone’s Handling Sin
43. June 2nd – Guy Gavriel Kay’s Under Heaven
44. June 4th – Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink
45. June 9th – Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
46. June 10th – Seth Godin’s Linchpin
47. June 12th – Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes
48. June 17th – Donald Miller’s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
49. June 19th – Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments: City of Glass
50. June 20th – Pamela Slim’s Escape from Cubicle Nation
51. June 24th – Steven Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner’s SuperFreakonomics
52. June 29th – Eoin Colfer’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: And Another Thing
53. July 1st – Michael Gruber’s Valley of Bones
54. July 7th – Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind
55. July 8th – Daniel Pink’s Drive
56. July 11th – Sherri Elliott’s Ties to Tattoos: Turning Generational Differences into a Competitive Advantage
57. July 11th – Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities
58. July 18th – Michael Gruber’s The Book of Air and Shadows
59. July 24th – Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational
60. July 30th – Kathy Reichs’ 206 Bones (it was an airport book!!)
61. August 16th – Stella Rimington’s At Risk
62. August 20th – Stella Rimington’s Secret Asset
63. August 22nd – Stella Rimington’s Illegal Action
64. August 30th – Susan Kay’s Phantom
65. September 23rd – Dan Ariely’s The Upside of Irrationality
66. September 30th – Ian Rankin’s Witch Hunt
67. October 11th – Lev Grossman’s The Magicians
68. October 24th – Ian Rankin’s Watchmen
69. November 3rd – Malcolm Gladwell’s What the Dog Saw
70. November 12th – Robert Sutton’s Good Boss, Bad Boss
71. December 8th – Eknath Easwaran’s translation of The Upanishads
72. December 12th – Iain Banks’ Surface Detail
73. December 15th – Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel
74. December 20th – Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan
75. December 29th – Ian Rankin’s Bleeding Heart

List of books that I’d like to read:

I don’t currently have a copy of these on my bedside table, but have been meaning to read them. Consider this my reminder post it note to myself. Please feel free to suggest books that you’d think that I’d like!

1. the long tail
2. anything by charles saunders pierce
3. change by design – tim brown
4. paper towns – john green
5. a confederacy of dunces by john kennedy toole