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1. Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
2. Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
3. Mindset: the New Psychology of Success (10%) by Carol S. Dweck
4. How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne (yes, I reread it!)
5. Lady in the Water: A Bedtime Story by M. Night Shyamalan
6. The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
7. White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple
8. It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be by Paul Arden
9. Mandarin Chinese: The Rough Guide (Dictionary Phrasebook) edited by Lexus
10. Places I Never Meant to Be (short stories) (50%) Edited by Judy Blume
11. Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School by Andrew Hallam
12. The Island of Doctor Moreau (10%) by H.G. Wells
13. Captives of the Flame (10%) by Samuel R. Delany
14. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (10%) by Jules Verne
15. Where Should You Invest? Answering the Biggest Questions in Personal Finance by Marvin Germo
16. The 5 Minute Investor (50%) by Michael Craig
17. How Full is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life by Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton
18. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
19. Dewey: the Small by Town Library Cat Who Touched the World (ongoing) by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
19-Dreamer of Dune: the Biography of Frank Herbert (10%)-Brian Herbert
20-Green Eggs and Ham-Dr. Seuss
21-A Series of Unfortunate Events Vol. 3: The Wide Window-Lemony Snicket
22-4,000 Questions for Getting to Know Anyone and Everyone (10%)-Barbara Ann Kipfer
23-Letters to a Young Contrarian-Christopher Hitchens
24-Shogun-James Clavell
25-The $100 Startup-Chris Guillebeau
26-The Gifts of Imperfection-Brené Brown
27-Hillbilly Elegy-J. D. Vance
28-What Should I Do With My Life?-Po Bronson
29-I Want That! How We All Became Shoppers (15%)-Thomas Hine
30-The Lexus and the Olive Tree (30%)-Thomas Friedman
31-When Breath Becomes Air-Paul Kalanithi
32-The Dilbert Future-Scott Adams
33-Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (15%)-Amy Chua
34-The Sparrow-Mary Doria Russell
35-Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife-Eben Alexander
36-Daring Greatly-Brené Brown
37-Your Money or Your Life-Joe Dominguez, Vicki Robin and Monique Tilford
38-Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy -Raghuram G. Rajan
39-The Simple Path to Wealth-J. L. Collins
40-Seven Brief Lessons on Physics-Carlo Rovelli
41-The Strange Library-Haruki Murakami
42-Grit: The Power of Passion and Perserverance-Angela Duckworth
43-The Slow Regard of Silent Things-Patrick Rothfuss
44-Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-Free Productivity (ongoing)-David Allen
45-Year One (ongoing)-Richard Reid
46. My Brilliant Friend
47. Learned Optimism
48. Sabine's Notebook
49. Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
50. The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives
51. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
52. Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
53. The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn't Have to Be Complicated
54. In Other Words
55. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
56. Spark Joy
57. The Rules Do Not Apply
58. The Millionaire Next Door
59. 1688: A Global History
60. Like Water for Chocolate
61. Coraline
62. 14 Years of Service in a Fabric-Covered Box
63. Bukidnon: the Philippine Frontier
64. What Color is Your Parachute? For Teens
65. The New Retirementality
66. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
67. How to Retire with Enough Money (and How to Know What Enough Is)
68. World Order
69. Men Without Women (short stories)
70. Norse Mythology
71. Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Acceleration
72. Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?
73. The Golden Mean
74. The Gryphon
75. Alexandria
76. The Morning Star
77. The Pharos Gate
78. The Happiness Equation
79. The World of Edena
80. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
81. The New Coffeehouse Investor
82. Heads I Win, Tails I Win
83. Vintage Murakami
84. Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
85. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explains the Hidden Side of Everything
86. The Millionaire Mind
87. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
88. Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
89. Time Travel: A History
90. The Power of No
91. Born for This
92. The New New Thing
93. The Famished Road
94. Alexander Hamilton
95. Enough: True Measures of Money, Business and Life
96. The Happiness Advantage
97. On Writing
98. Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
99. Tiny Beautiful Things
100. Payoff: the Hidden Logic that Shapes Our Motivations
101. A Monster Calls
102. You Can Buy Happiness (and It’s Cheap)
103. Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
104. I Work at a Public Library
105. The Casual Vacancy
106. The Sleeper and the Spindle
107. 40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World
108. Gold (short stories)
109. Narcissus and Goldmund
110. Koreatown: A Cookbook
111. Budget Bytes
112. The Wealthy Renter: How to Choose Housing That Will Make You Rich
113. So Good They Can't Ignore You
114. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
115. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
116. Liar's Poker
117. The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing (Second Edition)
118. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
119. The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
120. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails
121. Beren and Luthien
122. Unnatural Creatures (short stories)
123. The Clothing of Books
124. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (ongoing)
125. The Real Price of Everything (ongoing)
126. What Color is Your Parachute? 2016 Edition (ongoing)
I haven't finished all of them (I'll save the final percentages for December) but I certainly have completed at least 50 books, according to my geeky little personal spreadsheet :)