Book Lists: The Graveyard

So I’ve decided to take some advice that I’ve read and make a graveyard for all the books that I started that I don’t want to finish right now.  Maybe ever.  I have to come to terms with the fact that I don’t like some of these books (or I already got what I wanted out of them and don’t want to finish them), and maybe one day I will but right now sitting on my reading list, it’s just too overwhelming.

The Graveyard (RIP- maybe one day I will finish you…)

Personal Development

1. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity (52%)
2. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (11%)
3. Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship With an Entrepreneur (12%)

General Non Fiction

1. Wild (8%)
2. Her: A Memoir (6%)
3. In the Garden of Beasts (4%)
4. Growing Up Bin Laden (8%)
5. Catherine the Great (7%)
6. Steve Jobs (5%)
7. My Spiritual Journey (Haven’t Started)
8. Drinking: A Love Story (24%)
9. The Intelligent Investor (10%)
10. Beating the Street (27%)
11. Istanbul: Memories and the City (15%)
12. Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey (17%)
13. Classy (50%)
14. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (35%)

Business

1. For the Win: How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business (10%)
2. Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Can Achieve Extraordinary Results (34%)
3. Mastering Communication At Work: How To Lead, Manage, and Influence (8%)
4. Stop Workplace Drama (39%)
5. Lead, Sell, or Get Out of the Way (36%)
6. The Brand Gap (18%)
7. HR Transformation (10%)
8. Richard Branson: Losing My Virginity (3%)
9. Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit: The Secrets of Building a 5 Star Customer Service Organization (18%)

Fiction

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

 

So here is my  new list:

• Personal Development:

1. HBR’s 10 Must Reads: On Managing Yourself (6%)
2. The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, And Living The Good Life (10%)
3. The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide To Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, And Becoming Superhuman (21%)
4. Mastery (8%)
5. Are you Really Listening: Keys to Successful Communication (23%)
6. The Well Spoken Woman: Your Guide To Looking and Sounding Your Best (20%)
7. Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Great Teams, and Why People Follow (1%)

• General Non Fiction:

1. Googled: The End of the World as we Know It (18%)
2. The First 20 Minutes: The Surprising Science of How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smarter, And Live Longer (10%)
3. Thinking, Fast and Slow (14%)
4. Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong: Why We Love France But Not The French (20%)
5. Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind The Scenes of a New China (32%)
6. Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior (15%)
7. The Jordan Rules: The Inside Story of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls (15%)
8. The Art of War (38%)
9. Toughness: Developing True Strength on and Off the Court (30%)
10. Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective (1%)
11. Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made (1%)
12. Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and LIfe (35%)
13. Flip the Switch and Lose the Weight: Proven Strategies to Fuel Your Metabolism And Burn Fat 24 Hours a Day (17%)
14. Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos (3%)
15. The Finishing Touch: Perfecting the Art of Accessorizing (39%)
16. I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a  Happy Life Without Kids (1%)
17. Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay Dance Bars (25%)
18. Inside Steve’s Brain (30%)

• Business:

1. HBR’s 10 Must Reads: Strategy (9%)
2. HBR: On Managing Yourself (6%)
3. The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success (16%)
4. The Essential Drucker (Haven’t Started)

• Fiction:

1. Immortals of Meluha (90%)
2. And The Mountains Echoed (11%)