During these past two years I read some 80-100 books -some big, some tiny, many in audio book format- watched some 30-odd documentaries and read scores of research papers (my estimate is somewhere over 1000!). I really enjoy the audio book format and have gone so far as to have some large books done in audio book for me – Ah, the magic of Craigslist.
Many of the books I read these past two years I have on a little list of mine – I’ve recently started to add the approximate date I finished reading them. I also have a bunch of books queued up for reading and others where I picked and read a bit here and a bit there. If I remember some book I forgot, I’ll add it – It would help if I actually went back though the backups of the digital part of my library, but I just don’t have time to do that now.
Here is the list of the books (and some audio books) I read these past two years:
Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching—–Alan Watts
Body Language—–Allan Pease
Handwriting Analysis—–Amend
Idiot’s guide to body langugae—–Andersen
Accounting and Finance for Non-Specialists—–Atrill
Psychology of Acievement—–Brian tracy
Five Love Languages—–Chapman
Superflirt—–Cox
Superdate—–Cox
How to Win Friends and influence people—–Dale Carengie
Emotional Intelligence—–Daniel Goleman
Working with Emotional Intelligence—–Daniel Goleman
Get anyone to do anything—–David Lieberman
77 Laws of Approaching Women—–DeAngelo
Approaching Women in Bars and Clubs Full—–DeAngelo
Attraction Isn’t a choice—–DeAngelo
Cocky Comedy—–DeAngelo
DeAngelo Stuff – Interviews—–DeAngelo
Deep Inner Game—–DeAngelo
Double your Dating—–DeAngelo
How to have Women Start Talking to you—–DeAngelo
Mastery 1/2—–DeAngelo
Mastery 2/2—–DeAngelo
On being a man—–DeAngelo
Power Sexuality—–DeAngelo
Sedona Method—–Dwoskin
The Power Of Now —– Eckhart Tolle
Smart Thinking—–Edward DeBono
The Rules I—–Ellen Fein
The Rules II—–Ellen Fein
Palm Reading—–Fairchild
Provocative Therapy—–Farrelly
Body Language—–Fast
Rebuilding—–Fisher
Getting The Love You Want—–Hendrix
Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience—–Hughes
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway—–Jeffers
Marketing Management—–Kotler
Services Marketing, People, Technology, Strategy—–Lovelock
Marketing Research Essentials—–McDaniel
Power Astrology—–McNaughton
Beyond Fear—–Miguel Ruiz
Mastery of Love—–Miguel Ruiz
Rewriting the Storyteller Workshop—–Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements—–Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements Companion—–Miguel Ruiz
Voice of Knowledge—–Miguel Ruiz
How to Make people like you in 90 seconds or less—–Nicholas Boothman
Saving your second marriage before it begins—–Parrot
The Procastinator’s Handbook—–Rita Emmett
Community making and peace—–Scott Peck
Conciousness and pain—–Scott Peck
Mythology and human nature—–Scott Peck
People of the lie—–Scott Peck
Taste for Mystery—–Scott Peck
The different drum—–Scott Peck
The Road Less Traveled—–Scott Peck
Operations Management—–Slack
Consumer Behaviour—–Solomon
Freakonomics—–Steven Levitt
Infinite Self—–Stuart Wilde
Silent Power—–Stuart Wilde
Mystery Method—–Tyler Durden
How to read a person like a book—–Unknown
Organizational Behavior: Core Concepts—–Veccio
Divorce Remedy—–Weiner-Davis
Here is the list of books still in my queue. Some of these I’m dying to read, some are likely to sit here forever. My current book is “The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins – finally!
Book Queue
Sperm Wars—–Baker
Radical Honesty—–Blanton
Feeling Good—–Burns
Influence—–Cialdini
Vital Lies Simple Truths: The Psychology of Self-Deception—–Daniel Goleman
The Selfish Gene—–Dawkins
Love Signals: A Practical Field Guide to Body Language—–Givens
Comedy Writing Secrets—–Helitzer
ReMarried With Children—–LeBey
The Emotional Incest Syndrome—–Love
Managing Change—–Palmer
Money Advice for your sucessful remarriage—–Schiff
Seven Masters, One Path: Meditation Secrets—–Selby
The Game—–Strauss
The Art of Speed Reading People—–Tieger
Fake: Forgery Lies and eBay—–Walton
Of note here is that some of these books I read are simply outstanding. Some others are absolutely horrible – some are practical, some are only good as paperweights – some enhanced my understading of other areas and tied concepts together, others made me that much dumber (paging Mr. Wilde). There were many epiphanies along the way and places where I could see different approaches to the same subjects – there is actually a couple of differen themes the books are all centered on – No, randomness if not a theme. I did not really read any fiction books, although we can consider handwriting analysis and other more fringe titles as fiction depending on how strict we get.
