What I Read in 2012

I am looking forward to a week off of work later this month and am planning to do a lot of reading.  I thought this would be a good time to look back at some of my favorites that I read in 2012.  This list could get really long, but I’m going to keep it to some of my favorites.  You can find my reading list on my LinkedIn Profile. I usually read about 10 books during the stretch from December 23-January 3 each year.  (If I don’t read, I don’t have anything to write about!) I would read more, but the only time I have each day is the hour (usually less) that I can keep my eyes open after I put my kids to bed.

So, if you are fortunate enough to have the time to read, here are some books that I found valuable that I read in 2012:

• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
• SPARK: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
• What to Eat
• Language Intelligence:  Lessons on Persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga
• The Element:  How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
• Teach Your Children Well
• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You (read a long time ago, but referenced many times in 2012)
• Within Our Reach: Solving the Mental Health Crisis
• The Elements of Mentoring
• The Blood Sugar Solution
• Triathlon 101 (read a LONG time ago, referenced regularly in 2012)
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other

Update as of 12/21/12
I just visited my LinkedIn profile to add a few more books to my reading list.  I guess they decided to remove this feature. Thanks for the notice LinkedIn.  I had over a 100 books listed there, and hadn’t written the information anywhere else.  Great.