Below you will find the first 6 months of the books that I read in 2018. These are 1-51, the second half will be coming soon:

1. Marketing to the Affluent (3) – 1/1/18
2. Choosing Simplicity (4) – 1/4/18
3. Walden on Wheels (3) – 1/9/18
4. Beauty and the Beast (2) – 1/12/18
5. Real Food/Fake Food (5) – 1/13/18

   

   • Great book talking about the many different counterfeited foods around the world and how to determine the real stuff
6. 10% Happier (4) – 1/15/18
   • A beginner’s guide to meditation through the lens of a funny memoir about the News Anchor Dan Harris
   • I would recommend that anyone who has ever thought about meditating, or about bettering themselves, to read this
7. The Alchemist (3) – 1/17/18
   • “He never realized that people are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
8. Wild (5) – 1/21/18

   

   • Awesome book about a woman who through-hikes a portion of the PCT.
9. Around the World in Eighty Days (3) – 2/6/18
10. The Everything Store (3) – 2/11/18
    • Amazon’s origins: interesting.
11. The Most Important Thing (3) – 2/24/18
12. World Brain (3) – 3/4/18
    • “The devastation of the world’s forests, the replacement of pasture by sand deserts through haphazard cultivation, the waste and exhaustion of natural resources, coal, petrol, water, that is now going on, the massacre of important animals, whales, penguins, seals, food fish, should be matters of universal knowledge and concern.”
    • “Most of our young people come on to adult life, to employment, business and the rest of it, blankly ignorant even of the way in which money has changed slavery and serfdom into wages employment and of how its fluctuations in value make the industrial windmills spin or glad.”
13. How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds (4) – 3/5/18
14. Bhagavad Gita (2) – 3/6/18
15. Poor Richard’s Almanack (2) – 3/10/18
    • “A wolf eats sheep but now and then; ten thousands are devour’d by men.”
    • “Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.”
    • “All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful.”
    • “To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.”
    • “Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it is.”
    • “Death takes no bribes.”
    • “Gifts much expected are paid not given.”
16. The Communist Manifesto (3) – 3/11/18
    • The interesting parts of Communism: it doesn’t sound so bad on paper, the attempts in history have certainly left something to be desired, though…
17. Global Warming, A Very Peculiar History (4) – 3/11/18
18. Wanderlust (3) – 3/17/18
19. Enough (2) – 3/22/18
20. On the Road (4) – 3/24/18
    • Train-hopping and vagabonding with Jack London. Some interesting adventures.
21. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (4) – 4/7/18
22. Anything is Possible (3) – 4/10/18
23. Autobiography of a Yogi (4) – 4/15/18
24. Magic of Impromptu Speaking (3) – 4/17/18
25. 31 Days of Living Well and Spending Zero (3) – 4/18/18
26. How to Make People Like You (3) – 4/19/18
27. 31 Days to Radically Reduce Your Expenses (2) – 4/21/18
28. 101 Entrepreneurial Facts About 10 of the Most Successful Billionaires that Can Inspire You (3) – 4/23/18
29. A Beginner’s Guide to Investing (3) – 4/23/18
30. A Room of One’s Own (4) – 4/28/18
31. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (3) – 5/2/18
32. The Kindness of Strangers (3) – 5/5/18
    • One man’s travels across the United States without money or transportation.
33. The Exorcist (4) – 5/11/18
    • An amazing, chilling book, though with a pretty terrible ending.
34. Can I Retire Yet? (3) – 5/13/18
35. Can I Retire? (2) – 5/14/18
36. Your First 100 (3) – 5/14/18
37. Gods and Generals (4) – 5/20/18
    • If you like history, especially about the Civil War, this is a must read!
38. Degrees of Desperation (2) – 5/20/18
39. Break Through Your BS (2) – 5/26/18
40. Childhood’s End (4) – 5/26/18
    • Very interesting book about some alien overlords and the genesis of the dragon-like Satan
41. Dirt Poor and Lovin’ It (2) – 5/28/18
42. Hatchet (3) – 6/2/18
43. How to Make Passive Income & Retire Before 40 (2) – 6/2/18
44. Magic of Public Speaking (3) – 6/2/18
45. Choose Yourself! (4) – 6/7/18
46. In the Footsteps of Jesus (4) – 6/7/18
47. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (4) – 6/17/18
48. 100 Things Kansas Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die (3) – 6/17/18
49. The Best Ghost Stories Ever (2) – 6/20/18
50. The Little Giant Book of “True” Ghost Stories (2) – 6/24/18
51. Rediscovering Catholicism (3) – 6/26/18