Hello New Year – hello old me! But this is not another NY resolutions post. These are the books I decided I wanted to read and so I made a reading challenge for 2021. This will also serve me as a way to keep track of the books I I’m reading. Wanna join me?
I will come back and update the status of my books for 2021 regularly. Maybe you’ll find a title that will stir up your curiosity too! If you click on it, it will take you to the Goodreads page so you can see an excerpt and check the reviews.
21 books for 2021
Tell me your favourites in the comments so I know what to read next.
1β “Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant” by W. Chan Kim and RenΓ©e Mauborgne
2β “Ogilvy on Advertising” by David Ogilvy
3β”Building A Story Brand” by Donald Miller
4 β “The Execution Factor: The One Skill That Drives Success ” by Kim Perrel
5 β “ The Art of Digital Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Creating Strategic, Targeted, and Measurable Online Campaigns ” by Ian Dodson
6 β “Effective Seo and Content Marketing: The Ultimate Guide for Maximizing Free Web Traffic” by Nicolaos Papagiannis
7 β “How to stop worrying and start living” ~ Dale Carnegie
100% COMPLETED βοΈβοΈβοΈβοΈ // 05/02/2021
A book to keep at reach. It gives advice and a lot of personal experiences by different people so there must be someone who has a method to worry less that will resonate with you.
#mindset #lifestyle
8 β “The courage to be disliked” ~ Ichiro Kashimi and Fumitake Koga
75% COMPLETED
9 β “The Truths We Hold :An American Journey” ~ Kamala Harris
10 β “SELL LIKE CRAZY: How to Get As Many Clients, Customers and Sales As You Can Possibly Handle ” ~ Sabry Suby
11 β “Thinking, Fast and Slow ” ~ Daniel Kahneman
12 β “The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives ” by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Culture
13 β “How Not to Die : Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease” ~ Michael Greger M.D. with Gene Stone
14 β “The tipping point: How little things can make a big difference ” ~Malcolm Gladwell
15 β “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy ” ~ Jenny Odell
16 β “Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones ” ~ James Clear
17 β “The Laws of Human Nature ” ~ Robert Greene
18 β “Untamed” ~ Glennon Doyle
60% COMPLETED
19 β “Imagine it forward: Courage, Creativity and the Power of Change” ~ by Beth Comstock
100% COMPLETED // 24/01/21 βοΈβοΈβοΈ βοΈ
Although it took me a long time to read and I thought I wouldn’t make it to the end it happened to be worth it (but a couple of lockdowns happened in the meantime -is that a good excuse?)
What I value the most is its relevance, the innovation mindset and the insights about Beth’s work at GE and the resilience she shows in pursuing change and how she shares it and teaches.
#innovation #tech #mkt
Books To study / continuos reading in 2021
20 β “The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity ” by Ryan Holiday
21β “Mastering Fashion Buying and Merchandising Management” by David Shaw
Further additions
22β “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson
23 β “Norma Kamali: I Am Invincible ” by Norma Kamali
Unfinished Books / Pending / Older Want to Read (or even yet to start)
-1 β “The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever ” by Tery Agins
100% COMPLETED // 07/02/21 βοΈβοΈβοΈβοΈ
I should re-read it and I’ve just finished it. Nice dip into the fashion world and the history of the luxury / biggest name brands of today. It has a special way of interlinking the history of every fashion house, so smoothly that sometimes I forgot who we were talking about. But it’s a must I should recommend to my future self XD
-2 β “Nomad Capitalist: How to Reclaim Your Freedom with Offshore Bank Accounts, Dual Citizenship, Foreign Companies, and Overseas Investments ” by Andrew Henderson
-3 β “The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy ” by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
[TL;DR] As it is an endless list really, many books will just fall into the “I’ll never finish it” category. I won’t even add them here.
Recommendations
These are the books I found good enough to share around the blog in previous times. You’ll find them on:
β IMAGINATION, THE FORGOTTEN TOOL FOR CREATIVITY
β CREATIVE BOOKS FOR THE ARTIST IN YOU (1) & CREATIVE BOOKS FOR THE ARTIST IN YOU (2)
β Firstly 5 BOOKS I WANT TO READ BEFORE CHRISTMAS, FOR GIRLBOSSES and secondly BOOKS FOR THE GIRL BOSS β UPDATE
β 7 THINGS TO UNCOVER THIS JULY (MONTHLY LINKS TO CHECKOUT)
β Many good ones here : THINGS WORTH SHARING #AUGUST2019
β 5 THINGS WORTH SHARING β THE βAPRISOLATIONβ EDITION (EXPANDED)
β READ, LISTEN, WATCH ~ SEPTEMBER 20
Old time “favourites” (or those that most influenced my past self)
β “1984” by George Orwell
β ” The last lecture” by Randy Pausch