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#150Books Reading List

I am challenging myself to read 150 books in 2014. I will use the Twitter hashtag #150Books to indicate reviews of the books I read and posts related to reading.

booksI will update my monthly reading list below. I plan to list 12 books each month, recognizing that the list is likely to change during the month as things arise that I want/need to read.

I would love for you to accept the challenge with me or provide me with your reading recommendations. You can do that on my reading challenge post, on Facebook or on Twitter.

January (14 books read)

1. The Lies We Told (Read my full review.)

2. Burnout: The Cost of Caring

3. Help for the Haunted: A Novel (Read my full review.)

4. The Wicked Girls: A Novel (Read my full review.)

5. Unstuff Your Life!: Kick the Clutter Habit and Completely Organize Your Life for Good

6. Practice to Deceive

7. Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin (Read my full review.)

8. The Girl in the Park

9. The Wrong Mother

10. Bitch on Wheels: The Sharon Nelson Double Murder Case (Read my full review.)

11. May We Be Forgiven

12. ATTITUDE 101

13. Zen To Done: The Ultimate Simple Productivity System

14. No One You Know

There were three books I started this month that I didn’t finish because I thought they were boring. They were:

  • Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping,
  • The Diary and
  • How To Be a Good Wife.

February (10 books read)

1. Finding the Space to Lead: A Practical Guide to Mindful Leadership

2. Do the Work

3. Reconstructing Amelia (Read my full review.)

4. Human Remains

5. How to Deliver a TED Talk: Secrets of the World’s Most Inspiring Presentations

6. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

7. My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind

8. An Abundance of Katherines (Read my full review.)

9. Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind

10. When I Found You

March (12 books read)

1. Another Life Altogether

2. Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer–America’s Deadliest Serial Murderer (Read my full review.)

3. Shattered

4. Eye Contact

5. The Comfort of Lies

6. Newtown: An American Tragedy

7. My Abandonment (Read my full review.)

8. Strange Fits of Passion

9. Daddy’s Girl

10. Bird in Hand

11. The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Doto Get More of It

12. The Caller

April (9 books read)

1. Social Media Marketing: A Strategic Approach

2. Dead by Sunset 

3. Where or When

4. The Next Time You See Me

5. SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life: A Four-Step Guide to Getting Unstuck

6. Keep Quiet

7. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

8. Safe with Me: A Novel

9. The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

May (11 books read)

1. Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

2. Dear Girls Above Me: Inspired by a True Story

3. Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

4. Women Who Think Too Much: How to Break Free of Overthinking and Reclaim Your Life

5. Amy and Isabelle

6. One Day

7. Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave

8. Heart Like Mine

9. If I Can’t Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children

10. The Girl Factory: A Memoir

11. Still Life with Bread Crumbs

June (10 books read)

1.  The Wife

2. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

3. A Rose For Her Grave

4. In Cold Blood

5. Against Her Will: The Senseless Murder of Kelly Ann Tinyes

6. Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son

7. One True Thing

8. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

9. Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know

10. Relationships 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know

July (13 books read)

1. Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love

2. If I Stay

3. Why Can’t I Be You

4. All Fall Down

5. Silence

6. Broken Silence

7. Everything I Never Told You

8. The Girls from Corona del Mar

9. Unholy Messenger: The Life and Crimes of the BTK Serial Killer

10. One Plus One

11. Imperfect Justice Updated Ed: Prosecuting Casey Anthony

12. Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

13. Where We Belong

August (10 books read)

1. Landline

2. For Women Only, Revised and Updated Edition: What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men

3. For Men Only, Revised and Updated Edition: A Straightforward Guide to the Inner Lives of Women

4. The Girl in 6E

5. Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult’s Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It’s Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner

6. What She Left Behind

7. Fear of Our Father: The True Story of Abuse, Murder, and Family Ties

8. People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo–and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up

9. I’ll Be Right There

10. My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict’s Attempt to Discover If Not Being A Dumb Ass Is the New Black; Or, A Culture-Up Manifesto

September (10 books read)

1.  Positive: A Memoir

2. Mean Streak

3. How to Win Friends & Influence People (rereading for class)

4. Habit Stacking: 97 Small Life Changes That Take Five Minutes or Less

5. If You Really Loved Me

6. The 10 Habits of Highly Successful Women

7. The Cellar

8. Big Little Lies

9. Lethal Intent

10. What I Know For Sure

October (13 books read)

1. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (A post I wrote about this book.)

2. On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft (rereading for class)

3. Work Happy: What Great Bosses Know (rereading for class)

4. To-Do List Makeover: A Simple Guide to Getting the Important Things Done

5. Fatal Jealousy: The True Story of a Doomed Romance, a Singular Obsession, and a Quadruple Murder

6. How Reading Changed My Life

7. Adultery

8. The Want-Ad Killer

9. The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer

1o. Getting Life: An Innocent Man’s 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace

11. How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

12. Meet Me at Emotional Baggage Claim

13. The Drowning House

November (13 books read)

1. Lust Killer

2. Growing Up Amish

3. The Witness

4. Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenet and the City of Boulder

5. The Silent Wife (Read full review)

6. The Silent Sister

7. It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens

8. Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned”

9. Pretty Little Killers: The Truth Behind the Savage Murder of Skylar Neese

1o. Under the Light of the Moon: Wisconsin, Notorious USA

11. Sharp Objects

12. Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair

13. Fatal Vision

December

1. Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery

2. Journalism of Ideas: Brainstorming, Developing, and Selling Stories in the Digital Age

3. Spin Sucks: Communication and Reputation Management in the Digital Age (Que Biz-Tech) (reading with a class)

4. On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (reading with a class)

5. Looking for Alaska (Read my full review.)

6. Defending Jacob

7. Self-Improvement 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know

8. Sh*t My Dad Says

9. I Suck at Girls

10. Between Good and Evil: A Master Profiler’s Hunt for Society’s Most Violent Predators

11. Under Your Skin

12. And When She Was Good

13. The Woman Code: 20 Powerful Keys to Unlock Your Life

14. Ugly Girls

15. How Successful People Think

16. Under Cover of the Night: A True Story of Sex, Greed and Murder

17. The Good Girl

18. Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think

19. The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play

20. You

21. Happily Ever After

22. Have a New Teenager by Friday: From Mouthy and Moody to Respectful and Responsible in 5 Days

23. Dangerous Girls

24. Mentoring 101

25. Make Today Count: The Secret of Your Success Is Determined by Your Daily Agenda

I will decide in December if I plan to complete a reading challenge next year. I’ll be sure to let you know. Until then, happy reading!

 

Disclosure of Material Connection: Some of the links in the post above are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will add value to my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

 

 

 

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