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My goal in 2023 was to read FEWER books than the 80 I read in 2022, with a greater diversity than my typical steady diet of self-help, marketing, and speaking books I've spent the majority of the last 25 years reading. I succeeded, as you can read here: https://speakanddeliver.blogspot.com/2024/01/books-read-in-2023.html.
In 2024, I was again less concerned with volume, but still wanting to increase diversity. The list is below - just 37 - all on Kindle. As for diversity, you can be the judge.
Kindle
101 Podcast Episode Templates - David Hooper - 242
Big Podcast - David Hooper - 436
Sell From the Stage - Sam Crowley - 70
Star Trek: Brave & the Bold: Book One - Keith DeCandido - 288
Star Trek: Brave & the Bold: Book Two - Keith DeCandido - 278
Humanities Cry for Change - Kate Heartsong - 278
Star Trek: The Captain's Daughter - Peter David - 303
Art Matters - Neil Gaiman - 112
Attract & Keep Customers for Life - Terry Begue - 174
Pure Vulnerability - Kevin Snyder - 63
Think Differently - Kevin Snyder - 172
Paid to Speak - Kevin Snyder - 224
Star Trek: Cold Equations Book I: The Persistence of Memory - David Mack - 390
Star Trek: Cold Equations Book II: Silent Weapons - David Mack - 342
Star Trek: Cold Equations Book III: The Body Electric - David Mack - 342
Star Trek: Coda Book I: Moments Asunder - Dayton Ward - 351
Star Trek: Coda Book II: The Ashes of Tomorrow - James Swallow - 356
Star Trek: Coda Book III: Oblivions Gate - David Mack - 432
Stop Procrastinating Tomorrow - Mary C. Kelly - 97
Success Unleashed: Mastering Your Life's Purpose - JP Bachmann - 141
Adventures of a Telegraph Boy - Horatio Alger - 242
Digging For Gold - Horatio Alger - 230
Make 'em Laugh and Take Their Money - Dan Kennedy - 236
The Science of Motivation - Brian Tracy - 248
24 - 6047 pages
Clearly, I got onto a bit of a Star Trek Kick, and I have about 10 more sitting in my Kindle right now. Easy reads, and usually quite fun. My college professor introduced me to Ragged Dick from Horatio Alger 37 years ago, and I found a compilation of all of his writing for .99 cents on Kindle, so I'm treating myself to those as well - fictional stories that are somewhat self-help oriented, and always uplifting.
Audible
My Name is Barbra - Barbra Streisand - 48:17
13 158:48 hours
Willpower - Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney - 9:17
A Disability History of the United States - Kim E. Neilsen - 7:35
Psycho-Cybernetics - Maxwell Maltz - 12:16
Peak Mind - Amishi P. Jha - 8:38
Change - Damon Centola - 9:50
The Motivation Master Coach - Earl Nightingale, Jim Rohn, etc - 11:57
The Obesity Code - Dr. Jason Fung - 10:09
$100M Leads - Alex Hormozi - 6:00
Selling to the Affluent - Matt Oxley - 6:19
Day Trading Attention - Gary Vaynerchuck - 8:24
Thinking Big - Ziglar, Brown, Iverson and more - 13:06
Champion Minded - Alistair McCaw - 7:00
My Name is Barbra was easily my favorite listen, even as long as it was - she narrated it herself, and the recording included bits of songs here and there. Really in-depth - and made me want to watch more of her movies. Which I really haven't done this year, outside of Funny Girl, which I had never seen.
I also read 11 comic omnibus compilations on Kindle - Silver Age Green Lantern I-IV, Bronze Age Swamp Thing I-VI, Thor Visionaries Vol III, and X-Men, the Phoenix Saga.
I didn't read an entire real, tangible book, however. I'm about 30 percent through Einstein by Walter Isaacson, though. It's a tough read, since I really know nothing about physics, even as he tries to dumb it down for the reader.
There were plenty of tangible books on my reading list that kept getting bumped, which I want to get to in 2025 - 27 of them, in fact, though many are quite long, including a Benjamin Franklin biography. We'll see how I do.
Any recommendation from y'all?
There were plenty of tangible books on my reading list that kept getting bumped, which I want to get to in 2025 - 27 of them, in fact, though many are quite long, including a Benjamin Franklin biography. We'll see how I do.
Any recommendation from y'all?
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