2011 Books for Mentoring

2011 book for mentoring? What's that? 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 2011 books for mentoring – 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.

Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Series

1. Foundation
2. Foundation and Empire
3. Second Foundation
4. Foundation’s Edge
5. Foundation and Earth
6. 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.

1. Phantom Prospect
2. Restless Soul
3. False Horizon
4. The Other Crowd
5. The Oracle’s Message
6. Tears of the Gods

Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games Trilogy

1. The Hunger Games Boxed Set
2. Catching Fire
3. Mockingjay

The Hunger Games is This Year’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Catching Fire and Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Other Books

1. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
2. Enchantment, Guy Kawasaki
3. The Way of the Samurai, Inazo Nitobe
4. How to Read Like a Professor, Thomas Foster
5. The Rime of The Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
6. The Collectibles, James Kaufman
7. Hold Tight, Harlan Coben
8. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie
9. Four Seasons The Story of a Business Philosophy, Isadore Sharp
10. How to Write & Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit, Bob Bly
11. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam, Translated by Edward Fitzgerald
12. Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
13. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
14. Analects of Confucius
15. Keeper of the Light, Diane Chamberlain
16. A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
17. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
18. Evil Plans, Hugh MacLeod
19. Poke the Box, Seth Godin
20. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D H Lawrence
21. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
22. Empire State of Mind, Zack O’Malley Greenburg
23. The Big Leap, Gay Hendriks
24. The Gambler, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
25. Geronimo’s Story of His Life, S. M. Barrett
26. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
27. A Short History of the World, J. Milnor Dorey
28. Greek Gods and Heroes, Robert Graves
29. Stories from Greek Drama, Winifred Mulley
30. The Hypnotist, Lars Kepler
31. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
32. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
33. Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte