While talking with several people over the holidays I mentioned that I have read 48 books over 2010 and they give me a kind of stunned reaction.  So I decided to enumerate the exact list just to be sure.  How can I read so many books in one year?  Audiobooks!  Since I’m driving around a lot previewing properties and meeting clients, I have turned my car into what Zig Ziglar calls “Automobile University”. 

I have now become so obsessed that I have an Audiobook playing on my iPhone wherever I am — exercising and walking, while cooking dinner, waiting in line at Target, whatever.  Ok, so maybe not all of them are “books” per se, there are some like the Success Mastery Academy from Brian Tracy which is a live series seminar on 16 CDs, but you get the idea.  I’ll post a few words on some of the most memorable books shortly.

Challenge yourself in 2011 — how many books can you read?  You will be amazed at what you can learn.

-Mark

• The Saboteurs — W.E.B. Griffin
• Confidence — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
• The Greatest Salesman in the World — Og Mandino
• The Appeal — John Grisham
• The Audacity of Hope — Barack Obama
• Getting Things Done — David Allen
• Crazy for the Storm — Norman Ollestad
• State of Fear — Michael Crichton
• Prey — Michael Crichton
• The Chase — Clive Cussler
• The Bourne Legacy — Eric Van Lustbader
• Success Masters Academy — Brian Tracy
• Open — Andre Agassi
• Shattered Air — Bob Madgic
• Reinvention — Brian Tracy
• Rocket Men — Craig Nelson
• Deception Point — Dan Brown
• GTD (repeat) — David Allen
• Bolt — Dick Francis
• Under Orders — Dick Francis
• Busted — Edmund Andrews
• Fools Gold — Gillian Tett
• No One Would Listen — Harry Markopolos
• On The Brink — Henry Paulson
• State of Fear — Michael Crichton
• Timeline — Michael Crichton
• The Complete Negotiator — Gerard Nierenberg
• I Am Potential — Patrick Henry Hughes
• Mastering the Art of Selling Anything — Tom Hopkins
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Steven Covey
• Take Charge of Your Life — Jim Rohn
• Millionaire Next Door — Dr Thomas Stanley
• King of Torts — John Grisham
• Tuesdays with Morrie — Mitch Albom
• Highest Duty — Captain Chesley Sullenberger
• Peaks and Valleys — Spencer Johnson
• The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo — Stieg Larsson
• The One Minute Millionaire — Mark Victor Hansen
• After the Fire — Robin Gaby Fisher
• The Inheritance — David Sanger
• Good to Great — Jim Collins
• Tipping Point — Malcom Gladwell
• Impact — Douglas Preston
• The Terminal Man — Michael Crichton
• The Girl who Played with Fire — Stieg Larsson
• The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest — Stieg Larsson
• Stop Acting Rich: Start Living Like a True Millionaire — Dr Thomas Stanley
• Pirate Latitudes — Michael Crichton