Last year I made it a New Years Resolution goal to read a book a week. I’ve actually had that goal for the past several years now but it wasn’t until this year that I started documenting all my reading so I’d actually know if I hit my mark. I did.
So if you ever want to know what a person like me reads, here you go. This list incorporates all my business and personal reading. The links will either go to my reviews of the books which I have already posted here on the blog or directly to the Amazon product page.
- How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter, Ann Coulter
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell
- Quantum Business, Bobbi DePorter with Mike Hernacki
- The Winning Attitude: Your Pathway to Personal Success, John C. Maxwell
- The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, John Grisham
- The 7 Best Things Happy Couples Do…plus one, John and Linda Freil
- True North: Discovering Your Authentic Leadership, Bill George
- Developing the Leaders Around You, John C. Maxwell
- Viral Copy: Trading Words For Traffic, Brian Clark (30-page printout)
- Which Sells Best: A quick Start Guide to Testing for Retailers, Bryan Eisenberg & Anthony Garcia (45-page printout)
- Knock Knock, Seth Godin (41-page printout)
- How to Increase Keyword Saturation (Without Destroying the Flow of Your Copy, Karon Thackston (34-page printout)
- 365 Ways to Motivate and Reward Your Employees Every Day – With Little or No Money, Dianna Podmoroff
- Next, Michael Crichton
- Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others, John C. Maxwell & Jim Dornan
- No B.S. Business Success: The No Holds Barred Kick Butt Take No Prisoners Tough and Spirited Guide, Dan Kennedy
- A Mind for Pool: How to Master the Mental Game, Philip B. Capelle
- Persuasion Architecture: Persuading Customers When They Ignore Marketing, Future Now, Inc. (60-page printout)
- Coaching Your Kids to Be Leaders: The Keys to Unlocking Their Potential, Pat Williams and John Wooden
- Search Engine Ranking Factors V2, SEOmoz (43-page printed web page)
- The Professional’s Guide to Link Building, SEOmoz (40-page printout)
- Deception Point, Dan Brown
- The Conversion Expert’s Workbook, FutureNow
- Guerrilla Marketing: Secrets for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business , Jay Conrad Levinson
- The Professional’s Guide to Keyword Research, SEOmoz (70 page printout)
- The New Art of War, Tactics, and Power, Rodney Ohebsion
- How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
- Save the Sale!, Bryan & Jeffrey Eisenberg (32 page printout)
- The Illustrated Guide to Building a Search Friendly Website, SEOmoz (35 page printout)
- Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines, National Cancer Institute (73 page printout)
- A Business Case for Usability, E-Consultancy (18-page printout)
- Online Lead Generation (B2C) 2007, E-Consultancy (32-page printout)
- Blog Profits Blueprint, Yaro Starak (55-page printout)
- People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.), Howard Zinn
- The Usability Kit, Gerry Gaffney and Daniel Szuc (350 page binder)
- Leadership, Rudolph Giuliani
- Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, Orson Scott Card
- Arrogance: Rescuing America From The Media Elite, Bernard Goldberg
- The Cluetrain Manifesto, Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger
- Reframe Your Life: Transforming Your Pain into Purpose, Stephen Arterburn
- Breaking the Idols of Your Heart: How to Navigate the Temptations of Life, Dan B. Allender & Tremper Longman III
- Facing Your Giants: The God Who Made a Miracle Out of David Stands Ready to Make One Out of You, Max Lucado
- Think Biblically!: Recovering a Christian Worldview, John MacArthur
- The Power of Simple Prayer: How to Talk with God about Everything, Joyce Meyer
- Deliver First Class Web Sites: 101 Essential Checklists, Shirley Kaiser
- The Perfect Post: Advanced Writing Skills for Pro Bloggers, Bill Hilton (50-page printout)
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell
- S.H.A.P.E.: Finding and Fulfilling Your Unique Purpose for Life, Erik Rees
- Skin, Ted Dekker
- Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Social Media Daily, Michelle MacPhearson (26-page printout)
- Professional Search Engine Optimization w/PHP, Jaimie Sirovich and Cristian Darie
- The Top 10 Distinctions Between Millionaires and the Middle Class, Keith Cameron Smith
- Holy Discontent: Fueling the Fire That Ignites Personal Vision, Bill Hybels
- Teaching Sells: Forget everything you know about making money online… and start making some, Brian Clark (22-page download)
- Social Media Optimization Strategies, SEOmoz (55-page download)
- Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
- Do It Wrong Quickly, Mike Moran
- Seinfeld on Marketing: 7 Marketing Lessons From the Cast of “The Show About Nothing”, Bill Gammel (14-page download)
- Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
- Online Retail 2006: User Experience Benchmarks, E-Consultancy (85-page download)
- Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve, Bernard Goldberg
- Search Engine Marketing Kit, Dan Thies & Dave Davies
- Personality Plus, Florence Littauer
- Viral Marketing and Linkbait on the Web, SEOmoz (46-page printout)
- The Shining, Stephen King
It’s quite the long list so I think this year I’ll start posting these reading lists monthly. If any of the links above are broken, just let me know so I can get it fixed. Happy reading in 2008!