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Read 100 Books in 2018

I’ve been spending time cleaning house all day today. One of the items in need of organization, is the amount of books I’ve acquired over the years. I’ve sorted them into piles now, some that will be donated to the local library, some that I have an intention to read at some point but no drive to do so right now, and the rest are, well, part of the 100. This is my New Years resolution.

So my dedication to myself, to my mind, to the world at large, is to read 100 books in 2018.

If the average book is about 250 pages, that’s 25,000 pages in a year. While my son and I were in Costa Rica this past summer, he read over 4,000 pages in 4 weeks. So while this is a stretch for me, it is completely achievable given some concerted effort, and an absence of mindless Netflix.

The list isn’t quite done yet, so I’m soliciting ideas from friends and readers on what to add to this list. And if you’d like to join me, I’d love to chat about them as we dive through them. I’ll be tracking using Goodreads and the bookshelf will be 100 Books in 2018 bookshelf.

• Average book size is expected to be 300 pages
• 100 books would be roughly equivalent to 30,000 pages read for the year, and any book less or more will count toward the total, so the end count may be less than 100, or more, but it will be at least 30,000 pages.
• Audiobooks are perfectly legitimate and count toward the total.
• If I’ve gotten through at least a quarter of a book and decide it isn’t worth finishing it, it will count toward the goal and receive a review.
• Every book will come with a review of varying length.

The List

This post will be updated as new books make the list. I’ve linked to the books on Amazon with an affiliate link on them.

• √ Debt — David Graeber
• √ The Joy of Game Theory — Presh Talwalkar
• √ Ender’s Game — Orson Scott Card
• √ The Magus — John Fowles
• √ To Kill A Mockingbird — Harper Lee
• Recovery — Russell Brand
• A Man Called Ove — Fredrik Backman
• The Irresistible Consultant’s Guide to Winning Clients — David E. Fields
• Worm — Mark Bowden
• Louder Than Words — Joe Navarro
• The Last Lecture — Randy Pausch
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close — Jonathan Safran Foer
• Linchpin — Seth Godin
• Structuralism and Poststructuralism For Beginners — Donald D Palmer
• Postmodernism For Beginners — Jim Powell
• The Hacker Ethic — Pekka Himanen
• In Praise of Slowness — Honoré
• Alpha Dogs — Donna Fenn
• The Reason I Jump — Naoki Higashida
• The Minds of Boys — Gurian / Stevens
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — Robert M Pirsig
• The Epidemic — Robert Shaw M.D.
• Dark Matter — Blake Crouch
• Happy Kids Happy You — Sue Beever
• Reality Check — Guy Kawasaki
• Introducing Semiotics — Paul Cobley and Luza Jansz
• Gateway — frederik Pohl
• Inside Steve’s Brain — Leander Kahney
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius — Dave Eggers
• These Days — Jack Cheng
• The Myth of the Spoiled Child — Alfie Kohn
• Crypto — Steven Levy
• The Long Tail — Chris Anderson
• Count Zero — William Gibson
• The Fish That Ate the Whale — Rich Cohen
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven — Mitch Albom
• The Outsiders — S.E. Hinton
• The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing — Al Ries & Jack Trout
• Spook Country — William Gibson
• Bold — Peter H. Diamandis
• Gone With The Wind — Margaret Mitchell
• The Last Black Unicorn — Tiffany Haddish
• The Untethered Soul — Michael Singer
• Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson
• Code — Charles Petzold
• Accelerando — Charles Stross
• Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace
• Purple Cow — Seth Godin
• The Big Moo — Seth Godin
• Disruption — Jean-Marie Dru
• Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders
• Dune — Frank Herbert
• Uncommon Stock — Eliot Peper
• The Last Black Unicorn — Tiffany Haddish
• Night — Elie Wiesel

If you’re a Goodreads member, find me on there and you can follow along with my 100 Books in 2018 bookshelf.

What book should I add to this list for 2018?