The Aeneid (translated by Robert Fagles) (fiction)

The 4-Hour Workweek (revised edition) (non-fiction)

In the queue:

The Ultimate Marketing Toolkit (non-fiction)

The Odyssey (translated by Robert Fagles) (fiction)

Read and recommended:

The Power of Less (non-fiction)

Along with The 4-Hour Workweek, there are no books that have greater transformed my business or day-to-day life. I cannot more strongly recommend these 2 books.

Getting Real (non-fiction)

Great ideas to think about for any small business.

Problem Solving 101 (non-fiction)

Originally intended as a children’s book, this gives a short overview of the basic problem-solving process.

Eragon (fiction)

When creating my evening routine habit, I wanted easy, imaginative fiction for reading before falling asleep. Eragon follows “archetypal” fictional patterns quite closely.

Twilight (fiction)

Similar to Eragon - imaginative fiction that was easy to read - I didn’t think I would enjoy this book.

The Secret Garden (fiction)

Ivanhoe (fiction) Review

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership (non-fiction)

The Power of Flow (non-fiction)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (fiction) Review

Not recommended:

Eldest (fiction)

Too long. Paolini should have cut about 200 pages from Eldest. So I did the favour for him, and skipped to the end.

Heroes of the Valley (fiction)

I gave it 60 pages. I didn’t like the morals, or the violent imagery. I wasn’t into the author Jonathan Stroud’s “clever” attempt at showing how legends are created. Having said that, he has a nice style.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (fiction)

I wish I had been able to continue reading the Reader’s Digest version with which I started. It would have been a) approx. 50 pages less, and b) had the bad language removed. (Surprise, when I’m reading a book I don’t want my ears to be assaulted.) Using bad language or violence is usually just a cheap way for an author to score points. It generally takes more skill to not depend on such things to create emotion in the reader.

101 Creative Problem Solving Techniques (non-fiction)

I found most of the techniques not that useful. Better would be a book that focused on just a few really important techniques, and explored them in more depth, methinks.