Each year, Goodreads reveals its top book across several categories including fiction, mystery & thriller, historical fiction, nonfiction, history & biography, and memoir & autobiography. How about business? No listings. You’d have to roll back to 2014 to find that list.
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47th Edition — December 29, 2019
Educated Was One of My Favorite Reads in 2019
I mostly read non-fiction. If it’s a non-business related, I gauge a book on its quality and value based on whether I recommend it to family and friends. That was the case for Tara Westover’s, Educated, a Memoir. A beautiful, but a painful story about a young woman on multiple journeys.
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Developing a Reading List
Think about the first business book you ever read. How did you stumble upon that title? I was doing audit work at a small TV station in Cape Girardeau, Missouri when my assistant recommended, Barbarians at the Gate. I loved it. The next book I read was also a referral by one of my bosses.
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46th Edition — December 22, 2019
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45th Edition — December 15, 2019
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44th Edition — December 8, 2019
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43rd Edition — December 1, 2019
Books That Take Me a Year to Read
I’m a slow reader. I took an Evelyn Wood speed reading course more than 25 years ago. I learned a few techniques to read more efficiently, but I’m still a slow reader. Still, I can plow through a book about weekly. But there are a few books that take me a year to read.
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42nd Edition — November 24, 2019