The following is a list of books I’ve read within the past couple of years (this should be a good way for me to track my reading and expand on the list of books I would love to read).  Books have been a great way for me to add some texture to my life.

Looking over the list I can tell that I need to read more novels and engage my imagination (suggestions are welcome)…. I’ll update the list periodically (probably every four months)

Personal Finance/Personal Growth

1)     Turn on the Green Lights in Your Life by Robert E Moore

2)     Get Your Message Across by John Diekman

3)     The Art of Getting Along with People by Cecil Osborne

4)     Dollars and Sense by Larry Burkett

5)     Multiple Streams of Income by Robert Allen

6)     Greatest Discovery by Earl Nightingale

7)     The Art of War by Sun Tzu

8)     Students of Life by Adrian Grant and Marvin Thomas

9)     The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

10)   The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

11)   What Makes the Great Great by Dennis Kimbro

12)   The Money Trap by Ron Gallen

13)   Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker

14)   Rich Dad Secrets by Robert Kiyosaki

15)   The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

16)   The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach

17)   Your Money or Your Life

18)   The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

19)   The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

20)   Go for No by Richard Fenton & Andrea Waltz

21)   The Top Ten distinctions between Millionaires and the Middle Class by Keith Smith

22)   Buffettology by Mary Buffett

23)   Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher

Global Affairs/History

1)     The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman

2)     African Civilizations by John Jackson

3)     Strategic Choice and International Relations by David Lake

4)     Global Political Economy by Robert Gilpin

5)     Comprehending and Mastering African Conflicts by Adebayo Adedeji

6)     Just and UnJust Wars by Michael Walzer

7)     Organizing for Foreign Policy Crises by Patrick Haney

8)     Politics Among Nations by Hans Morgenthau

9)     Modernization and Postmodernization by Ronald Inglehart

10)   The Clash of Civilizations by Samuel Huntington

11)   Sovereignity as Responsibility by Francis M. Deng

12)   Preventing Violent Conflicts by Michael Lund

13)   Liberia’s Civil War by Adekeye Adebajo

14)   Rethinking Social Policy by Christopher Jencks

15)   Mercenaries by Abdel-Fatau Musah

16)   Going Global by Marc Lindenberg

17)   Thomas Sankara Speaks by Thomas Sankara

18)   Intervention & Transnationalism in Africa by Thomas Callaghy

19)   Modern Africa by Basil Davison

20)   Che Guevara Speaks by Che Guevara

21)   The World Economy by Angus Maddison

22)   Civil Wars in Africa by Taisier Ali and Robert Matthews

23)   Understanding Third World Politics by B.C. Smith

24)   History of Africa by Kevin Shillington

25)   Africa’s Stalled Development by David Leonard

26)   One World by Peter Singer

27)   Demobilization in Sub-Saharan Africa by Kees Kingma

28)   African Politics and Society by Peter Schraeder

29)   Hot, Flat and Crowed by Thomas Friedman

30)   The China Price by Alexandra Harney

31)   A thousand barrels a second by Peter Tertzakian

Business/Marketing/Economics

1)     The Anatomy of Buzz by Emanuel Rosen

2)     The Black Swan: The impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Teleb

3)     Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

4)     Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer

5)     Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters by Alan Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa

6)     The Strategy Paradox by Michael Raynor

7)     Simplexity by Jeffrey Kluger

8)     Managing Brand Equity by David Aaker

9)     Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

10)   The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell

11)   Buying In by Rob Walker

12)   How Life Imitates Chess by Garry Kasparov

13)   Built to Last by Jim Collins

14)   Good to Great by Jim Collins

15)   Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb

16)   It’s not how good you are, it’s how Good you want to be by Paul Arden

17)   Whatever you think, Think the opposite by Paul Arden

18)   Influence : Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini

19)   Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman

20)   Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

21)   The Behavior Gap by Carl Richards

22)   Purple Cow by Seth Godin

23)   Winning by Jack Welch

24)   Why we buy by Paco Underhill

25)   Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

26)   You Inc by Harry Beckwith

27)   The Logic of Life by Tim Harford

28)   Meet you in Hell by Les Standiford

29)   The Perfume Scent by Chandler Burr

30)   The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki

Personal Reflections/Memoirs

1)     By Any Means Necessary by Malcolm X

2)     The Prince by Machiavelli

3)     Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School By Philip Delves Broughton

4)     The Autobiography of Malcolm X

5)     BEATING the ODDS Eddie Brown’s Investing and Life Strategies by Eddie Brown

6)     Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun by Reginald F. Lewis

7)     More Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey by Amy Jacques Garvey

8)     The Cosby Wit by Bill Adler

9)     A Remarkable Mother by Jimmy Carter

10)   The Black Book by El Hajj Malik El Shabazz

11)   The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe

12)   To Die For The People by Huey Newton

13)   My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

14)   Black Judas by John David Smith

15)   War Against The Panthers by Huey Newton

16)   The Final Speeches by Malcolm X

17)   The Bed of Procustes by Nassim Taleb

18)   The Essential Confucius by Thomas Clearly

19)   Words from a Master by Bruce Lee

20)   Banker to the Poor by Muhammad  Yunus

21)   New Rules by Bill Maher

22)   The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of life by Alice Schroeder

23)   Confessions of an economic hitman by John Perkins

24)   Proving Ground by David Tarver

Novels

1)     Dopefiend by Donald Goines

2)     Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

3)     Life Turns Man Up and Down by Kurt Thometz

4)     Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

5)     Born Fi Dead by Laurie Gunst

6)     Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas

7)     Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe