Sadly, I’m terrible about remembering to add the stinkin’ book to the list! Especially library books. I usually end up checking my Amazon.com and Kindle accounts to “remember” what I read. If there was a way to check my library check-outs, this list would be far longer!
So this page represents about two out of the three titles I actually read. Here are a few of my favorites, listed by genre.
(Update: I now keep track of books read in my Bullet Journal, and this works better for me than anything I’ve tried.)
(Linking up with Modern Mrs. Darcy)
This isn’t a picture of me, it’s my 10 year old daughter. The other day she decided it would be fun to stack up the books she read (this is about half of them, the others are on library shelves) last year.
Health
Alignment Matters: The First Five Years of Katy Says by Katy Bowman (reviewed here on my other blog, everyone with a human body should read this book, all others may skip)
Marketing/Blogging
This would be a tie between How to Blog for Profit (Without Selling Your Soul) by Ruth Soukup and Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work that Matters by Jon Acuff
Personal Growth
Say Goodbye to Survival Mode by Crystal Paine
Funny
Laughed out loud, a lot. Dad Is Fat by Jim Gaffigan. I love Jim especially because he’s a Dad of many and a homebirther/co-sleeper.
Time Management
What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast: And Two Other Short Guides to Achieving More at Work and at Home by Laura Vanderkam. I love Laura, even though I often disagree with her.
Best Paradigm-Shifter
I love books that tell me I am not so smart. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan
Parenting
Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids – but only because it confirmed what I already believe, which is a bit ego-boosting. The other winner is What’s Eating Your Child?: The Hidden Connection Between Food and Childhood Ailments
The One I Didn’t Want to End
David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell. I always go through a brief melancholia when I finish a Gladwell book!
What were your favorites?
(And I need to read more fiction!)
I read Dad is Fat – “laugh out loud in public” funny! I definitely wrote down a couple of your favorite picks and added them to my list; I generally end up looking back and realize I need to read a little more fiction, too, haha!
What I like too about Jim is he’s safe to listen to around my kids. That’s not true of most comedians.
What’s Eating Your Child? was definitely the beginning of a road to healing for our family! So thankful to have read that book this year as well! Thanks for sharing!
I’m a big non-fiction reader as well, and several on your list are on my to-read list. I love Jim Gaffigan, he cracks me up!
I understand what you mean about Gladwell, especially since it seems like recently his gaps between books have been HUGE! I remember you mentioning Scarcity earlier this year, and I’m so curious. I have the audiobook of Dad is Fat queued up and ready to go. And I just borrowed Ruth Soukup’s book and am interested in seeing if it lives up to the hype…. 🙂
LOVE that picture up top!