Book-A-Week Is Done!

So really, the project ended up being to read 52 books in a year. Thinking about it that way, it doesn't sound like a huge accomplishment, but it was a pretty big deal to me. For the most part, I didn't read anything that would qualify as a "quick read." I discovered a number of different topics that were incredibly interesting throughout the project and sometimes got caught up reading multiple books on the same subject. It was all quite fascinating. There were a few books that I could have done without reading or they didn't really offer anything new. There was only one book that a struggled through because it just wasn't interesting. And there was only one book I started and absolutely had to toss it and pick up something else because it was so dumb.

This is the list of 52 books:

1. The 80/20 Principle
2. Rework
3. The Wisdom of Crowds
4. In Defense Of Food
5. The Know-It-All
6. A Walk In The Woods
7. Gang Leader For A Day
8. Being Wrong
9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
10. Through The Looking Glass
11. The Essential Drucker
12. When Genius Failed
13. Managing The Nonprofit Organization
14. Kitchen Confidential
15. The Effective Executive
16. Ah-Choo!
17. Crum
18. Half Empty
19. Born To Kvetch
20. The Talent Code
21. The Parents We Mean To Be
22. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
23. How Proust Can Change Your Life
24. Proust Was A Neuroscientist
25. Born To Run
26. Growing Up Laughing
27. Thomas Paine And The Promise Of America
28. Common Sense
29. The Prosperous Few And The Restless Many
30. Switch
31. Bringing Down The House
32. The Dead Beat
33. Super Crunchers
34. The Trial
35. Connected
36. The Sociopath Next Door
37. Making Ideas Happen
38. All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
39. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
40. The Myth of the Paperless Office
41. Filipino Women In Detroit
42. Media Control
43. The Pearl
44. The Almighty Black P Stone Nation
45. Julius Caesar
46. 10 Lessons To Transform Your Marriage
47. Bossypants
48. Moneyball
49. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
50. The Nazi Officer's Wife
51. Operation Family Secrets
52. The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States of America

This is the Google Spreadsheet I kept over the past year. There are hyperlinks to the books on Amazon, including how long it took me to read, etc.