Reading 100 books before 40

Awhile ago, I’ve decided to read 100 books before I hit forty. I’ve already read about 34 books in the last two years when I’ve decided to do this challenge and I think four years were remaining before the dreaded forty. Now that I have forty I just wanted to post the list out there 😀

Why read more books why not something else. I think reading is great to help structure your mind, discovers new word, and expand your imagination. I’m not the only one, look at Ryan Holiday on how and why you should read more or at Ramit Seti saying book being the best investment. I think reading make you a better reader too, you read faster, retain the information faster. Personally, I tend to read more non-fiction that fiction and read fiction faster. I managed to reach the fated 100 book before forty and even read a few more.

Here is the list of book from when I’ve started this to when I’ve finished it:

1. Don’t make me think
2. 4 hour work week 2st edition
3. Art of start
4. Nudge
5. Sway
6. I will teach you to be rich
7. 100$ startup
8. Montley Fool: The million dollars portfolio
9. Back of a napkin
10. The dip
11. Getting things done
12. 59 seconds
13. Linchpin
14. Rework
15. Game frame
16. Smart couple finish rich
17. Travailler sans y laisser sa peau
18. L’art de negocier
19. Les bon couples font les bon comptes
20. Influence
21. Predictably Irrational
22. How to win friend and influence people
23. Le grand voyage 1er partie 
24. Crowdsourcing
25. The game (neil strauss)
26. Game of throne (audio)
27. Clash of Kings (audio)
28. A storm of sword (audio)
29. A feast for crows (audio)
30. A Dance with dragons (audio)
31. 48 laws of power
32. Les Chevaliers de L’emeraudes: Feu dans le ciel
33. Choose yourself
34. Hunger games I

Prior 2015 (34 books 8 fictions 26 non fictions)

 (I realized here the in the last year or 2 I’ve read 34 book so I decided to make the push to 100)

2015 (26 books 13 fictions 12 non fictions) 

35. Hunger games III
36. Brave new world
37. 1984
38. The first 20h
39. L’or ménager
40. How Children succeed
41. Hitchhiker guide to the galaxy
42. CE – Les dragons de l’empereur noir
43. Lean Startup
44. Bird by bird
45. Restaurant à la fin du monde
46. La nuit des temps
47. The Flinch
48. Mastery
49. World war Z (audio)
50. Divergent
51. The martian (audio)
52. Geisha
53. Letter to a fiction writer
54. A la recherche du mouton sauvage
55. Principle 80/20
56. La vie, l’univers et le reste
57. The art of seduction (audio)
58. Moonwalking with Einstein
59. Warren Buffett, l’homme le plus riche du monde
60. Salut et merci pour le poisson

2016 (12 books, 4 fictions, 8 non-fictions)

61. Globalement inoffensif
62. Né pour gagner – Zig Ziglar
63. Déclin de la république romaine
64. Thirty million word
65. AC Underworld 
66. Just do the work
67. Ego is the enemy
68. Je suis ton père
69. Zero to one
70. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
71. The obstacle is the way
72. The war of art

2017 (20 books, 4 fictions, 16 non-fiction)

73. Deep work
74. Whole brain child
75. The subtle art of not giving a fuck 
76. Fahrenheit 451 
77. Nobody read your shit
78. Dale Carnegie – the 5 essential people skills
79. Instinct de survie
80. La mort d’Ivan Illitch
81. This will make you smarter (audio)
82. How to talk so kids will listen …
83. Money, master the game
84. Your first dollar
85. The daily stoic
86. Peaceful Parent, Happy kids
87. Barking up the wrong tree
88. Le horla
89. Your move 
90. Celtes et gaulois
91. Vercingétorix
92. La véritable histoire de Marc-Aurèle

2018 (12 books, 3 fictions, 9 non-fictions)

93. Sapien
94. Digital Fortress
95. Essentialism
96. Ready player one
97. Unshakeable
98. No drama discipline
99. Da Vinci Code (FR)
100. Recession Proof Graduate
101. Love yourself (59 pages)
102. Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
103. Principle by Ray Dalio
104. Factfulness

 Total: 104 books, 32 fictions, 72 non-fiction

All these 104 books were read cover to cover. 

These following were just skim and taken on out of curiosity: 

1. L’affiliation (Affiliate Marketing book)
2. How to web comic
3. Power of habit
4. The now habit (I don’t remember reading it)
5. Dangerous women (Only read GRRM story)
6. 4 hour body
7. 4 hour chef
8. Play for a living
9. SPQR
10. Tools of titan

Programming and Software engineering

I didn’t include programming and software engineering book since I usually jump around the book to read stuff I want to improve.

1. Effective java 
2. Hardcore java (prog)
3. Hibernate recipe (prog)
4. Clean code (prog) (Note: I did read it cover to cover, twice…) 
5. Clean coder
6. Code Complete
7. Web analytics (fr)
8. Google analytic (3rd edition)