LIST: So Many Books, So Little Time.

I love to read, for business, education or pleasure. I have been reading form a very early age. I once read Violin by Anne Rice in one day. >ahhhh< just love to read!!!

You know that Twilight Zone where the little old mousey man with the coke bottle glasses is an avid reader and all he wants to do is be left in peace to read? Suddenly his wish is granted and he is the only one left on earth…and finally has time to read.
>sigh<
oh bliss! That would be me.

Ever want to get rid of me? Drop me into a library, bookstore or music store and I’m happy as a clam. Shoulda been a librarian.

Below is a list of business, philosophy, poetry, non fiction and fiction (includes anything from Sci-Fi to mysteries to classic and modern fiction to children’s books). This list comprises books I have read most likely more than once, keep for reference, found interesting, spawned a change in my direction or was so rich with beautiful phrases and details that I fell in love with the words. Many of the books you will find I have given as gifts or recommended. You will even find books for kids, there is a lot going on in kids fiction…after all, Alice in Wonderland wasn’t really written for kids. I have read the Harry Potter series and enjoyed them but while I probably won’t read them again, I will read Eragon and Eldest both by Christopher Paolini. Some books I go back to just for the comfort they bring. You will find a few by the same author, in that case they are listed together.

I’d love to start a discussion about some of the books on the list, if you’ve read them, what you thought. Love books of all kinds and want to share, bring it on! I promise not to be critical of your choices if you do the same for me.

Just a thought I caught flying by, what do you think?

Business Books

Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends by Tim Sanders

Trends (Tom Peters Essentials) by Tom Peters and Martha Barletta

Punk Marketing: Get Off Your Ass and Join the Revolution by Richard Laermer and Mark Simmons

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes by William Ury

The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t by Robert I. Sutton

Lead with Your Heart-Lewis Greene

Philosophy-ish Books

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book by Don Miguel Ruiz

Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives by Dan Millman

The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
The Celestine Vision by James Redfield

From Amma’s Heart (www.amma.org)

The Tao of the Defiant Woman by CJ Golden

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

Meaty Fiction

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

The Eight by Katherine Neville
(way before National Treasure and DiVinci Code and much better)

Mysteries

The Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries by Sue Grafton
(Kinsey’s character makes me laugh out loud)

Celtic Fiction
I love learning about Ireland… read any good books Celtic type books lately?

Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel by Kate Horsley

The Wild Irish: A Novel of Elizabeth I and the Pirate O’Malley by Robin Maxwell

The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga by Edward Rutherfurd

Classics

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père

Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Children’s Books

Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Eldest by Christopher Paolini

Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Gardening:

Crocket’s Victory Garden