2019 was a year of reading, for me. I loved books as a child and young adult, but found that motherhood had stopped my daily practise of reading so it's a delight to get back to it.
As a Marketing Consultant and business owner myself, I do tend to find myself reading a lot of social science books, but I also love political books and books on what it is to be a woman.
I have written before about how I decided to take up an Instagram challenge '52 books in 52 weeks' and my efforts in 2018 - I managed 25 then. So fast forward to January 2019 and I decided to try again.
I wrote another piece earlier in 2019 How to read more books and this is the next part in that story.
So here are books 53-103 if you are looking for any reading inspiration for 2020
53. What's Your Excuse for not succeeding as an Artist - Deborah Henry-Pollard
54. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
55. Dad You Suck - Tim Dowling
56. How to Be a Woman - Caitlin Moran
57. The Wrong Knickers - Bryony Gordon
58. TED Talks - Chris Anderson
59. Thrive - Arianna Huffington
60. The Assshole Survival Guide - Robert Sutton
61. The Icarus Deception - Seth Godin
62. His Day is Done - Maya Angelou
63. Bergerac's Jersey - John Nettles
64. Small Fry - Lauren Brenan-Jobs
65. Work Like a Woman -Mary Portas
66. You Tubers - Chris Stokel-Walker
67. Man Up - Rebecca Asher
68. Poke the Box - Seth Godin
69. Making it all work - David Allen
70. The Lady and the Van - Alan Bennett
71. Ordinary People - Sally Rooney
72. Mad Girl - Bryony Gordon
73. Parenting the sh*t out of life - Anna and Matt Whitehouse
74. Union Stories - Zadie Smith
75. This is Marketing - Seth Godin
76. Corbyn - Richard Seymour
77. Everyday Sexism - Laura Bates
78. Antisemitism - Deborah Lipstadt
79. The Age of Survelliance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff
80. The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
81. Atomic Habits - James Clear
82. The Cockroach - Ian McEwan
83. Birthday Girl - Haruiki Murakami
84. Make your bed - William H McRaven
85. The Joy of Work - Bruce Daisley
86. The Audacity of Hope - Barak Obama
87. The Communist Manifesto -Karl Marx
88. Farewell Speeches - Barak and Michelle Obama
89. Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls - Elena Favilli
90. How to See - Thich Nhat Hanah
91. The Algebra of Happiness - Scott Galloway
92. My Life, Our Times - Gordon Brown
93. The Power of Social Intelligence - Tony Buzan
94. Speak Truth to Power - Jess Phillips MP
95. The Secret Life of Cows - Rosamund Young
96. The Influence - Robert B. Cialdini
97. 168 Hours - Laura Vanderkam
98. Rising Strong - Brene Brown
99. The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo
100. Outer Order, Inner Calm - Gretchen Rueben
101. To my sons - Bear Grylls
102. Brain Hack - Neil Pavitt
103. The One Thing - Gary Keller
Audio Books
In 2019 I listened to some audio books as well, which I mainly do in the car
1. My thoughts Exactly- Lily Allen
2. Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
3. The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie
4. The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton
5. The President is Missing - Bill Clinton and James Patterson
6. A Journey - Tony Blair
7. Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport
8. The Secrets of NOWISM: How to Thrive in An Age of Opportunities - Dr. Max Mckeown
9. Everything I know about Love - Dolly Alderton
10. Grit- Angela Drucker
11. The 4 hour workweek - Tim Ferris
12. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
13. Dare Not Linger - Nelson Mandela and Mandla Langa
14.New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World - Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans
15. Moments of Lift - Melinda Gates
16. Being Brilliant - Andy Copeland and Andy Whittaker
So there we have it that was my 2019 in books and audio books.
If you would like me to tell you more about any of these books or recommend a few based on a theme let me know!
Thanks for reading
Shona
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