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. … [Read more...]
2011 Books for Mentoring
December 9, 2011 by Avil Beckford
Filed Under: Book List, Book Review/Summary, Mentor Yourself, Summareview Tagged With: A Doll's House, A Short History of the World, Agatha Christie, Agnes Grey, Alex Archer, Analects of Confucius, Anne Brontë, Bob Bly, books for mentoring, D H Lawrence, Diane Chamberlain, Empire State of Mind, Enchantment, Evil Plans, F Scott Fitzgerald, Foundation, Foundation series, Four Seasons: The Story of a Business Philosophy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gay Hendriks, Geronimo’s Story of His Life, Greek Gods and Heroes, Gustave Flaubert, Guy Kawasaki, Harlan Coben, Henrik Ibsen, Hold Tight, How to Read Like a Professor, How to Write & Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit, Hugh MacLeod, Inazo Nitobe, Isaac Asimov, Isadore Sharp, J. Milnor Dorey, James Kaufman, Keeper of the Light, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lao Tzu, Lars Kepler, Madame Bovary, Oscar Wilde, Poke the Box, Randy Pausch, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Robert Graves, S. M. Barrett, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Seth Godin, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stories from Greek Drama, Sun Tzu, Tao Te Ching, The Art of War, The Big Leap, The Collectibles, The Gambler, The Great Gatsby, The Hypnotist, The Last Lecture, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Rime of The Ancient Mariner, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam - Translated by Edward Fitzgerald, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Way of The Samurai, Thomas Foster, Winifred Mulley, Zack O'Malley Greenburg
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