Book Lists (Episode II)

Finished Books:

• Smart Women Finish Rich
• How To Be a Woman
• Loving Frank
• Eat That Frog: 21 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
• Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir)
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life and Business

Smart Women Finish rich changed my life, and it deserves a post of its own. I run a business just fine, but when it came to personal finances I hated it and I knew that I should be in better shape then I was.  Turns out it was actually not as painful as I thought! I swear by this book.  The Power of Habit also changed my life (a few months of life changing books) because I figured out why I have the bad habits I have, and I actually CHANGED a few of them! I was pretty proud of myself.  And the others were also great for various reasons.  Eat that Frog can be summarized as: Do the one most important thing you have to do that day before 11am (i.e. the first thing in the morning).  How to Be a Woman, Lets Pretend this Never Happened (one of the funniest books I’ve read), and Loving Frank were also super.    The books I am currently reading:

• Personal Development:

1. The 4-Hour Workweek (54%)
2. The Effective Executive (70%)
3. A Year of Living Consciously
4. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity (52%)
5. HBR’s 10 Must Reads: On Managing Yourself (6%)
6. The Greatness Guide (50%)
7. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (11%)

• General Non Fiction:

1. Wild (8%)
2. In the Garden of Beasts (4%)
3. Growing Up Bin Laden (8%)
4. Catherine the Great (7%)
5. Steve Jobs (5%)
6. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (15%)
7. My Spiritual Journey (Haven’t Started)
8. Full Frontal Feminism (80%)
9. Drinking: A Love Story (3%)
10. The Intelligent Investor (3%)
11. Beating the Street (24%)
12. Istanbul: Memories and the City (15%)
13. Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey (7%)
14. Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (Not Started)
15. Classy (1%)

• Business:

1. HBR’s 10 Must Reads: Strategy (8%)
2. Good To Great (54%)
3. Stop Workplace Drama (39%)
4. Lead, Sell, or Get Out of the Way (36%)
5. The Brand Gap (17%)
6. Founders at Work (70%)
7. The Lean Startup (86%)
8. The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success (12%)
9. The Future Beyond Brands: Lovemarks (56%)
10. The Essential Drucker (Haven’t Started)
11. HR Transformation (10%)

• Fiction:

1. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (12%)
2. Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Trilogy (haven’t started)
3. The Bastard of Istanbul (11%)
4. Istanbul Passage (3%)