This page details my progress in a fifty book reading challenge to be completed between April 2011 and December 2011 (previous book reading years ran April to March).
List of books read in 2011
| # | Cover | Description | Finished | Rating  |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  |
Coaching To The Human Soul Ontological Coaching And Deep Change, Vol. 1 by Alan Sieler |
Not yet finished |  |
| 2. |  |
Good to Great by Jim Collins |
Not yet finished | |
| 3. |  |
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Revised Edition Includes New Material) by Steven D. Levitt An interesting series of questions similar in style to The Upside of Irrationality. Interesting to see an alternative reason for crime reduction discounting the ideas in Gladwell's Tipping Point. |
Not yet finished | |
| 4. |  |
Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist by Michael J. Fox About a man, his dreams and the obstacles he overcomes to reach them. |
2011-04-06 | |
| 5. |  |
How To Bounce When Others Break: The Top 10 Rules Of Resilient People by Steve W. Price Resilience is one of four core values taught at my daughters' school. As adults we don't hear the term so much. In this book Dr Prices lists his ten ways to become resilient. Many of us do have a level of reslience already built in to our makeup. I liked this book because it has ideas on how to firstly recognise where you are resiliently strong and secondly how to develop that muscle further. |
2011-04-21 | |
| 6. |  |
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl A good friend recommended this book and I'm glad he did. "Schindler's List" and "Band of Brothers" made the introductory section of the book more vivid and for me helped the meaning of the search for meaning come through. I find I'm already applying some of the principles learnt. |
2011-04-24 | |
| 7. |  |
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials) by Robert B. Cialdini Review on Quantum Gardener, read twice. |
2011-08-31 | |
| 8. |  |
The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris See my review titled Gorilla Delegation at The Buchan Institute. |
2011-09-05 | |
| 9. |  |
Personality Plus by Florence Littauer |
2011-09-21 | |
| 10. |  |
Cracking the Corporate Culture Code: Unwritten Ground Rules by Steve Simpson |
2011-09-27 | |
| 11. |  |
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson |
2011-10-28 | |
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Note: You may have noted above the number of books in the list doesn't match the number of books I said that I read. This has occurred because I've read one or more books multiple times during the year, but they are only shown as of the most recent read. You may also have seen dates outside the nominated reading year. Again, a book read in subsequent years will have a later date shown.
