My reading challenge (August Update)

Micael Carvalho
Aug 9, 2017 · 2 min read

Today is the “Book Lovers Day”. I have been a book lover since I learned to read, my parents didn’t have the money for fancies consoles and games, the internet was a dream, so books were the only way for me to travel and dream.

One of the objectives for this year was to read forty books. I knew that this would be a hard objective to conquest.

In the first three months of the year, I manage to read twelve books, which for me was really good. I needed to read more or less three books per months to be able to reach the forty books by the end of the year. Then in the end of Mars, I got a job. I started in April with a three-week formation in Bologna, and after I moved to Lisbon.

Due to this change in my life I left the books for the second plan, I didn’t have as much free time as before and the time outside the work I was doing other things.

In the end of July, my progress was 15/40 books. I was getting behind schedule. I decided to change again, to read more, during my daily commute to work and in the night before going to sleep.

Since the end of June I’ve read five books, so now I’m in the middle of my challenge.

Here, is a list of all the books that I’ve read this year:

  • On the Road — Kerouac, Jack
  • The Great Gatsby — Fitzgerald, F. Scott
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray — Wilde, Oscar
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People — Carnegie, Dale
  • The Call of the Wild — London, Jack
  • The Gospel According to Lazarus — Richard Zimler
  • The Girl on the Train — Paula Hawkins
  • The Richest Man in Babylon — Clason, George S.
  • O Segredo de Compostela — Santos, Alberto S.
  • The Alchemist — Coelho, Paulo
  • The Outsiders — Hinton, S. E.
  • The Road — McCarthy, Cormac
  • Of Mice and Men — Steinbeck, John
  • Lord of the Flies — Golding, William
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Doyle, Arthur Conan
  • The Brothers Karamazov — Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
  • Eating Animals — Safran Foer, Jonathan
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Harari, Yuval Noah
  • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE — Knight, Phil
  • I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad — Mekhennet, Souad

This is my list until now, I’m looking for new books to read, recommendations?

Micael Carvalho

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MSc Electrical Engineering. Photographer and writer. Ex. student in University of Coimbra and University of Ljubljana

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