Reading gives me great pleasure, so I spend a lot of time indulging myself. I also find that I am mentored by the books that I read, even novels, and books often shape my thinking. I try to read many different genres in a quest to be more creative in my thinking. I recently discovered that the books that I read were not as diverse as I thought, if you look at where the authors originate from.
Below is a list of some of the books that I have enjoyed this year, how many on the list have you read? This is a sampling because I have read over 150 books since the start of 2011. If I have reviewed the book, I have included the link to the review. From now on, when you read, assume that the book that you are reading is an invisible mentor and try to glean as much as possible from it.
Cover of The Hunger Games
Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Series
- Foundation
- Foundation and Empire
- Second Foundation
- Foundation’s Edge
- Foundation and Earth
- Forward the Foundation
Review of Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
A Look at Foundation’s Edge, Foundation and Earth and Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov
After reading most of the books from the Foundation series, I started to enjoy science fiction and fantasy more.
Alex Archer’s Rogue Angel Series
Alex Archer is a pen name for a number of authors who write the books which come out every other month. The books will unlikely win any literary award but I happen to like the protagonist Anja Creed. Trouble finds Anja wherever she goes, and I like the books best when she uses her brain to get her out of tight situations. She has inherited Joan of Arc’s sword, which she uses in fights. Anja is a globetrotting archaeologist.
- Phantom Prospect
- Restless Soul
- False Horizon
- The Other Crowd
- The Oracle’s Message
- Tears of the Gods
Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games Trilogy
- The Hunger Games Boxed Set
- Catching Fire
- Mockingjay
The Hunger Games is This Year’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Catching Fire and Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Other Books
- The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
- Enchantment, Guy Kawasaki
- The Way of the Samurai, Inazo Nitobe
- How to Read Like a Professor, Thomas Foster
- The Rime of The Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Collectibles, James Kaufman
- Hold Tight, Harlan Coben
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie
- Four Seasons The Story of a Business Philosophy, Isadore Sharp
- How to Write & Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit, Bob Bly
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam, Translated by Edward Fitzgerald
- Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
- The Art of War, Sun Tzu
- Analects of Confucius
- Keeper of the Light, Diane Chamberlain
- A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
- Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
- Evil Plans, Hugh MacLeod
- Poke the Box, Seth Godin
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D H Lawrence
- The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
- Empire State of Mind, Zack O’Malley Greenburg
- The Big Leap, Gay Hendriks
- The Gambler, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Geronimo’s Story of His Life, S. M. Barrett
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
- A Short History of the World, J. Milnor Dorey
- Greek Gods and Heroes, Robert Graves
- Stories from Greek Drama, Winifred Mulley
- The Hypnotist, Lars Kepler
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
- Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte
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