Adventures With Alex

25) 2018 Books Read (July – December)

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  1. Where Bigfoot Walks (5) – 7/8/18
    • A phenomenal naturalist book about the Pacific Northwest through the lens of Bigfoot.
  2. Lincoln on Leadership (4) – 7/9/18
    • Great book on the importance of leaders and leadership: the entire book is the antithesis of the current commander in chief…
  3. Wytches, Vol. 1 (2) – 7/12/18
  4. Diet for a New America (5) – 7/14/18
    • AMAZING BOOK! This book shows the evils of the meat, egg, and dairy industry in relation to environmental destruction, animal suffering, and the science behind the ill-effects caused by eating these substances
  5. As You Like It (3) – 7/15/18
  6. The Insanity of God (3) – 7/15/18
  7. Trickle Down Theory and Tax Cuts for the Rich (2) – 7/15/18
  8. Winesburg, OH (2) – 7/22/18
  9. The Wild Duck (3) – 7/22/18
  10. Tobacco Road (1) – 7/27/18
  11. Dave Ramsey’s Complete Guide to Money (3) – 7/31/18
  12. A Country Year (3) – 8/4/18
  13. Self-Reliance (2) – 8/5/18
  14. Your Best Year Ever (4) – 8/11/18
  15. Real Happiness (3) – 8/14/18
  16. The Answer to the Riddle is Me (4) – 8/19/18
  17. Urban Farming (2) – 8/24/18
  18. Why I Am Not a Christian (4) – 8/26/18
  19. 48 Days to the Work You Love (4) – 9/2/18
  20. The Urban Farmer (4) – 9/3/18
    • If you are interested in urban farming in any capacity, you should definitely read this! This explains how to make $80K on under an acre of land.
  21. Heart Berries (3) – 9/8/18
  22. You Can Buy Happiness (and It’s Cheap) (4) – 9/10/18
    • “Remember…life is short. Do what you love and help others, too. It’s natural to think you’ll be happy if you conform to the norm. I don’t think that’s true. It’s okay to be yourself. This is just a small reminder: don’t lose track of your dreams.”
  23. The Art of Work (4) – 9/19/18
    • “The path to your dream is more about following a direction than arriving at a destination.”
    • “Some risks are worth taking and…as we take them, opportunities often open up.”
  24. The 21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires (4) – 9/26/18
    • “Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.”
    • “What kind of a world would my world be if everyone in it were just like me.”
  25. The Animal Manifesto (4) – 10/1/18
    • “You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. – Ralph Waldo Emerson”
    • “In the big picture, when all nonhuman beings thrive, we thrive too.”
    • “Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. – Albert Einstein”
    • “As Margaret Mead noted: ‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.”
  26. Anthem (4) – 10/6/18
    • “’no matter how hard people fight against you, believing in what you’re doing will eventually result in victory.’ – Anthem”
    • “My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”
    • “There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men.”
    • “At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him…for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right.”
    • “Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will stay alive on this earth.”
  27. The Analects (2) – 10/7/18
    • “Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good.”
    • “To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.”
    • “Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.”
  28. After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring (3) – 10/10/18
    • “No one came out of the Holocaust looking worse than God. He is compassionate the theologians used to say! He hates evil, the claimed! Omnipotent, they said!…Not this time, not six million times.”
  29. The Secret Habit of Sorrow (3) – 10/11/18
  30. Crunch Point (4) – 10/13/18
  31. The Shaman and Ayahuasca (3) – 10/14/18
  32. Be a Millionaire Next Year (2) – 10/18/18
  33. The Thief Lord (4) – 10/20/18
  34. Tropic of Cancer (2) – 10/22/18
  35. Dear White America (4) – 10/27/18
  36. Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take Their Stuff (3) – 11/1/18
  37. Ten Pages to Change Your Life (2) – 11/3/18
  38. Looking for Alaska (4) – 11/4/18
    • “I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, ‘I want to go, too! I want to go, too!’ And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: ‘We are all going.’”
    • “How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?”
    • “Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.”
  39. Crush It! (4) – 11/4/18
  40. Keepers of the Spring (4) – 11/18/18
    • All about the world’s water situation. This book is a thorough discussion of what the current status is on this, and how to improve our future.
  41. You’re Married to Her? (3) – 11/24/18
  42. Your Money or Your Life (5) – 11/29/18
    • If you want to completely change your life around money, you need to read this book!
  43. The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader (2) – 12/1/18
  44. The Traveler’s Gift (4) – 12/2/18
    • “Guard your associations carefully, David. Anytime you tolerate mediocrity in your choice of companions, you become more comfortable with mediocrity in your own life.”
    • “Only a fool refuses the counsel of wise men.”
    • “if you worry about what other people think of you, then you will have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own.”
    • “A person without a dream never had a dream come true.”
  45. Purple Cow (3) – 12/8/18
    • “Being safe is risky.”
  46. The Stranger (3) – 12/9/18
    • “Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.”
  47. I Don’t Like My Life, but I Love It (2) – 12/9/18
  48. Addicted (3) – 12/16/18
  49. Early Retirement Extreme (4) – 12/16/18
    • This book is basically a textbook, but it is worth a read, and could completely change your situation. If you take Jacob’s advice, you could retire in 7 years or less, though this obviously will require a complete change in your thinking.
  50. Focal Point (3) – 12/20/18
  51. Aelian’s On the Nature of Animals (3) – 12/25/18
  52. The Mindful Vegan (2) – 12/31/18

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