Books of 2018

2018, you were better than most years, but for books I read during, you were the best since university.

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Books Read in 2018

🎖️= Books that had the greatest impact, highly recommended by me, greatly enjoyed.

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Business

Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results by Christina Wodtke

The 8 Dimensions of Leadership: DiSC Strategies for Becoming a Better Leader by Jeffrey Sugerman and Mark Scullard

🎖️Ego Free Leadership: Ending the Unconscious Habits that Hijack Your Business by Brandon Black

The Compassionate Achiever: How Helping Others Fuels Success by Christopher L. Kukk

🎖️Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling

Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude by Raymond M. Kethledge

If You Build It Will They Come? Three Steps to Test and Validate Any Market Opportunity by Rob Adams

No Fail Meetings by Michael Hyatt

The Five Dysfunction of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni

🎖️The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life by Bernard Roth

Visibility Marketing by David Avrin

Radical Candor by Kim Scott

SciFi

The Best Dark Rain: A Post-Apocalyptic Struggle for Life and Love by Marco Etheridge

Extinction Horizon (The Extinction Cycle, #1) by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Harden (Lee Harden Series Book 1) by D.J. Molles

🎖️All Systems Red (the Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells

🎖️Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries #2) by Martha Wells

🎖️Rouge Protocol (The Murerbot Diaries #3) by Martha Wells

🎖️Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries #4) by Martha Wells

The K2 Virus by Scott Rhine

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Serpent Road by J.L. Bourne

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Espionage Fiction

The Survivor (Mitch Rapp, #12) by Vince Flynn

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Historical Fiction

🎖️The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 

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On Writing

🎖️Ron Carlson Writes a Story by Ron Carlson

The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life by Marion Roach Smith

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Non-Fiction

Inside: One Woman’s Journey Through the Inside Passage by Susan Marie Conrad

🎖️The Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast by Bonnie Henderson

Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward

How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future by Steven Levitsky

🎖️Mindset: The Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck

🎖️The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance - What Women Should Know by Katty Kay

🎖️Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly

Making Sense of People: The Science of Personality Differences by Samuel Barondes

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert