The more I read, the more I realize how ignorant I am...

... and that's a good reason to keep on reading. Let me explain!

Being aware of my ignorance is essential to keep me humble and make me continue to seek knowledge and personal growth.

I finished 61 books in 2018. I read 19 and listened to 42.

Audiobooks count too. Movies don't!

Special highlights go to Yuval Noah Harari and his 3 amazing thoughtful books (Sapiens, Homo Deus and 21 Lessons for the 21st century). 

Other favorites from the list below: #4 (I’m sucker for WWII), #7 (candid as heck), #13 (sexy Tina Fey), #26 (the other option depends on ourself), #29 (Beautiful Eva Allende), #30 (found myself in it), #36 (for anyone who loves to play the guitar, like me), #44 (Japanese literature is wisdom), #49 and #50 (Animal Power and Women Power), #51 (wow, Leo!) and #52 (to the world we live in).

Enjoy!

1.  Your Best Year by Michael Hyatt

2.  The more of less by Joshua Becker

3.  The ultimate X-men: hard lessons (comics)

4.  Beneath a scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan

5.  Blind willow, sleeping woman by Haruki Murakami 

6.  Pequenas tiranias -Aline Valek

7.  Do no harm: stories of life, death and brain surgery by Henry Marsh 

8.  New X-Men: ultimate collection (comics)

9.  A man called Ove by Fredrick Backman 

10.   The start-up of you by Reid Hoffman

11.   Big Magic, creative living beyond fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

12.   Planetary: Spacetime Archaeology by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday (comic)

13.   Bossypants by Tina Fey

14.   Rising Strong by Benee Brown 

15.   The girl with the lower back tattoo by Amy Schumer 

16.   Extraordinary X-Men: Apocalypse Wars 2

17.   Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson

18.   Ignore everybody and 39 other keys to creativity by Hugh Macleod. 

19.   Pitch perfect: how to say it right the first time, every time. By Bill Mcgown

20.   Macbeth - No fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels by  Ken Hoshine

21.   The secret healer by Ellin Carsta

22.   Bedwetter by Sarah Silverman

23.   The Pixar Touch by David A. Price

24.   I am an introvert by Joshua Moore

25.   Grit the power of passion and perseverance by Angela Duckworth

26.   Option B: facing adversity, building resilience and finding joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant

27.   How to write a book even if you flunked English liked I did by Vic Johnson

28.   Hemingway didn’t say that: the truth behind familiar quotations by Garson O’Toole

29.   Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

30.   Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking 

31.   Seriously...I’m kidding by Ellen Degeneris

32.   Interpreter of maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

33.   The writer’s process: Getting your brain in gear

34.   The price of inequality: How today’s divided society endangers the future by Joseph E. Stiglitz

35.   Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

36.   The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom

37.   The Power of Habit: Why we do what we do in life and business by Charles Duhigg

38.   Stoics and Epicurians by Daryl Hale and Lynn Redgrave

39.   Homo Deus, a brief history of tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

40.   The Hate U give by Angie Thomas

41.   Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant

42.   Churchill by Jacob Bannister

43.   They may not mean to, but they do by Cathleen Schine

44.   The Great Passage by Shion Miura

45.   P.S. from Paris by Marc Levy

46.   Yes, please by Amy Poehler

47.   Soulful Simplicity: how living with less can lead you to do more by Courtney Carver

48.   To kill a mocking bird by Harper Lee

49.   Animal Farms by George Orwell

50.   The Power by Naomi Alderman

51.   Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

52.   Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

53.   The hillside by Jane Smiley

54.   At the bottom of the lake by Sonya Larson

55.   Falls the shadow by Skip Horack

56.   There’s no place like home by Edan Lepucki

57.   Boca Raton by Lauren Groff 

58.   A brief history of time by Stephen Hawking 

59.   Young avengers & runaways: Civil War by Wells and Caselli

60.   Captivology: the science of capturing people’s attention by Ben Parr

61.   21 lessons for the 21st century by Yuval Noah Harari 

I borrow most books from Miami-Date Public Library and read them either on my Kindle or iPad or listen to them on my iPhone. Some I get for free, from Amazon Book of the Month. I buy a few too. Stop judging me!

I can listen to books on my commute, when I'm working out, working around the house or washing the car. I read them almost every night before bed, on weekends and whenever I am on an airplane or a hotel during a trip, which I had quite a few in 2018.

With that I'm behind on my Netflix series (House of Cards and Money Heist) and some of my HBO series and lots of recorded movies on my Xfinity TV.

But I am happy and waiting to see what 2019 will bring!

Happy readings!