Books I Read In 2014

I read 152 books in 2013 and decided to challenge my love for books, as well as learning, development and growth by setting a higher goal for 2014. In 2014, I planned to read at least 200 books and achieved it!

In the video below, you will see me recommending 10 of the 202 books I have read so be sure to watch it!

I decided to sort them into five categories:

Fun (completely random books I picked up or the sort of thing I read to pass time);
Spirituality (what I am into it but actually also fun for me);
Work (not necessarily related to my field but along the lines of business e.g. marketing, customer service, productivity etc);
Sexuality (I have added this label so you know this book is primarily about sexuality);
Relationship (self explanatory)

For those interested, this is a complete list of the books I have read in 2014 so far:

Jan 1 – The Manual (Relationship)
Jan 1 – The Progress Principle (Work)
Jan 1 – Cracked (Work)
Jan 2 – Gulp (Fun)
Jan 2 – Secrets of Gorgeous (Fun)
Jan 2 – In the Frame (Fun)
Jan 2 – My Daughter, My Friend (Fun)
Jan 2 – Love You Forever (Fun)
Jan 2 – The Nine Crying Dolls (Fun)
Jan 2 – Blue and White Japan (Fun)
Jan 3 – The Little Dictionary of Fashion (Fun)
Jan 3 – If We’re So In Love, Why Aren’t We Happy? (Relationship)
Jan 3 – Japanese Detail. Architecture (Fun)
Jan 3 – Sixties Style (Fun)
Jan 3 – Tales of Old Shanghai (Fun)
Jan 3 – The Prophet (Spirituality)
Jan 4 – Digestion (Work)
Jan 4 – You Blink Twelve Times A Minute (Work)
Jan 4 – Your Skin Weighs More Than Your Brain (Work)
Jan 4 – The Exciting Endocrine System (Work)
Jan 4 – Experience Shopping (Fun)
Jan 5 – Floral Franges (Fun)
Jan 5 – Qi! Chinese Secrets of Health, Beauty & Vitality (Work)
Jan 5 – A Courtesan’s Guide to Getting Your Man (Fun)
Jan 6 – Gateway to Perankan Culture (Fun)
Jan 6 – Living a Beautiful Life (Fun)
Jan 6 – Bringing Home the Birkin (Fun)
Jan 6 – Sark’s Journal and Play! Book (Fun)
Jan 6 – Some Country Houses and Their Owners (Fun)
Jan 13 – Grow Younger, Live Longer (Sexuality)
Jan 13 – Unthinking (Work)
Jan 13 – Simply Radiant (Sexuality)
Jan 20 – Content Rich (Work)
Jan 21 – The Love Diet (Sexuality)
Jan 21 – Body: Bones, Muscle, Blood and Other Body Party (Work)
Jan 21 – 1001 Ways to Empowerment (Spirituality)
Jan 22 – 365 Ways to Reduce Stress (Work)
Jan 23 – Eat That Frog! (Work)
Jan 23 – Secrets of Gorgeous (Sexuality)
Jan 23 – Body by John Farnton (Work)
Jan 23 – You and Your Body (Work)
Jan 23 – Why You Shouldn’t Eat Your Boogers (Work)
Jan 24 – Likeable Social Media (Work)
Jan 24 – Ctrl-Alt-Delete (Work)
Feb 2 – The Art of Money (Fun)
Feb 3 – The $100 Startup (Work)
Feb 3 – Drive (Work)
Feb 3 – Conscious Dating (Relationship) *
Feb 9 – Not Your Mother’s Rules (Work)
Feb 10 – The Values Factor (Work)
Feb 10 – The Charge (Work) *
Feb 10 – WomanCode (Sexuality) *
Feb 10 – To Sell is Human (Work)
Feb 11 – Love Miscellany (Fun)
Feb 15 – Geeky-Girly Innovation (Fun)
Feb 15 – Money: A Love Story (Work)
Feb 17 – Casanova (Fun)
Feb 17 – Happy, Healthy & Sexy (Sexuality)
Feb 17 – The Men’s Health Diet (Sexuality)
Feb 17 – Zilch (Work)
Feb 24 – The Big Moo (Work)
Mar 17 – The Artist’s Way (Work) *
Mar 30 – Style Statement (Work)
Mar 31 – How the Paper Fish Learned to Swim (Work)
April 1 – The Adweek Copywriting Handbook (Work)
April 1: The Desire Map (Work) *
April 2: The Art of Birth (Sexuality)
April 3: The Red Tent (Work)
April 4: Powerful and Feminine (Sexuality)
April 5: The Now Effect (Work)
April 5: The Mindfulness Revolution (Work)
April 9: Spiritual Partnership (Relationship)
April 9: Women Who Run With Wolves (Work) *
April 28: How to Heal Toxic Thoughts (Spirituality)
April 28: Medicine for the Earth (Spirituality)
April 29: Mastering the Rockefeller Habits (Work)
April 30: Gamestorming (Work)
May 1: The Lean Startup (Work)
May 2: The Ultimate Sales Machine (Work)
May 2: Pitch Anything (Work)
May 3: Work the System (Work)
May 4: After the Ecstasy, The Laundry (Spirituality)
May 9: It’s Easy Being Green (Work)
May 10: The Language of Love (Work)
May 10: The Ropes: Girls Have Rules, Women Know the Ropes (Work)
May 11: Insecure At Last (Fun)
May 14: Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex (Sexuality)
May 15: And the rest is history : the famous (and infamous) first meetings of the world’s most passionate couples (Fun)
May 15: The Female Thing: Dirt, envy, sex, vulnerability (Work)
May 16: Dealing with Dragons (Fun)
May 16: Difficult mothers: Understanding and Overcoming their Power (Work)
May 16: Sex, Meaning, and the Menopause (Sexuality)
May 17: Click: When we Knew We Were Feminists (Fun)
May 18: There’s no such thing as a dragon (Fun)
May 18: Ella Enchanted (Fun)
May 18: Women on Top (Work)
May 19: My Horizontal Life (Fun)
May 20: The First 20 Hours (Work)
May 22: Shades of Green: A (Mostly) Practical A-Z for the Reluctant Environmentalist (Work)
May 26: Train Your Brain To Get Rich (Work)
May 27: What Queen Esther Knew (Fun)
May 27: The As If Principle (Work)
May 28: Add More Ing to Your Life (Spirituality)
May 28: The Dark Side of Light Chasers (Spirituality)
June 8: Money Magic (Work) *
June 8: Serendipitously Rich (Work)
June 8: Coach Yourself to Wealth (Work)
June 9: Outsource Smart (Work)
June 15: Tribal Leadership (Work)
June 15: Lead (Work)
June 17: Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank (Work)
June 19: Pleasure Healing (Sexuality)
June 20: Transformational Leaders (Fun)
June 25: Train your brain to get rich (Work)
June 26: Bursting Loose from the Money Game (Work)
June 27: Energy Medicine for Women (Sexuality)
July 2: The Ultimate Happiness Prescription: 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment (Spirituality)
July 3: A Thousand Splendid Suns (Fun)
July 4: Eve: Memoirs of an International Sex Worker (Sexuality)
July 5: The Absolute Truth about Tantric Sex by Ian Oshlack (Sexuality)
July 6: The Orgasmic Diet (Sexuality)
July 7: One Million Mandalas (Spirituality)
July 7: Attracting Genuine Love (Sexuality)
July 10: Repetition : past lives, life, and rebirth (Spirituality)
July 26: The Laptop Millionaire (Work)
July 27: Dying to be me (Spirituality)
July 28: Green for Life (Fun)
1 Aug: Positive Energy (Spirituality)
2 Aug: Intuitive Healing (Spirituality)
3 Aug: I’m not in the mood (Sexuality)
4 Aug: Inside Her Pretty Little Head. Review here. (Work)
18 Aug: Take the Stairs. My blog post mentioning the book. (Work)
26 Aug: Female Urinary & Pelvic Diseases by Dr Siow Woei Yun (Sexuality)
7 Sept: I wish I’d known that earlier in my career : the power of positive workplace politics (Work)
8 Sept: Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution (Work)
8 Sept: Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History (Work)
9 Sept: Science of Being and Art of Living: Transcendental Meditation (Spirituality)
13 Sept: I wish I’d known that earlier in my career : the power of positive workplace politics (Work)
14 Sept: Sexier (Younger) You (Sexuality)
16 Sept: The Power of Noticing (Work)
17 Sept: The Rise of Superman (Work)
19 Sept: Indispensable (Work)
20 Sept: Wild Feminine (Sexuality)
2 Oct: Through Time Into Healing (Spirituality)
2 Oct: The Lady Boss (Work)
3 Oct: And Then One Morning (Fun)
11 Oct: Hard Times Require Furious Dancing (Fun)
11 Oct: The Leader’s Guide to Speaking with Presence (Work)
12 Oct: Do the Work (Work)
16 Oct: Authentic Leadership (Work)
18 Oct: Defining Moments (Work)
19 Oct: How to Become CEO (Work)
1 Nov: The Charisma Myth (Work)
2 Nov: Temptations in the Office (Work)
3 Nov: 60 Tips Fertility (Sexuality)
4 Nov: Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth (Sexuality)
5 Nov: Ex-Gay No Way (Sexuality) *
5 Nov: Sex and the Citadel (Sexuality)
7 Nov: My New Gender Workbook (Sexuality)
8 Nov: Sex and the Citadel (Sexuality)
8 Nov: The Joy Diet (Spirituality)
9 Nov: Women on a Wobble (Sexuality)
9 Nov: Slow Love (Sexuality)
9 Nov: The Magic (Spirituality) *
9 Nov: 365 Ways to Live the Law of Attraction (Spirituality)
9 Nov: The One-Minute Manager (Work)
13 Nov: 365 ways to live the law of attraction (Spirituality)
13 Nov: To Baby With Love (Sexuality)
14 Nov: Lost and Found (Sexuality)
14 Nov: Miracles, Momentum & Manifestation (Spirituality)
15 Nov: Daring Greatly (Work)
16 Nov: Just Who Will You Be? (Spirituality)
16 Nov: Wit’s End (Fun)
16 Nov: i Can Connect (Work)
19 Nov: WTF! Candid Conversations About Sex (Sexuality)
20 Nov: Model A Memoir (Fun)
29 Nov: Fanny Hill (Sexuality)
30 Nov: The Seven Daugters of Eve (Fun)
8 Dec: Secrets for Success and Happiness (Fun)
9 Dec: Find Your Rhythm (Fun)
10 Dec: Gerontological Counselling: An Introductory Handbook (Work)
12 Dec: The Power of Female Friendship (Relationship)
13 Dec: Why Men Earn More (Work)
13 Dec: The Laws of Money (Spirituality)
13 Dec: Psych Yourself Rich (Spirituality)
13 Dec: The Velvet Rage (Sexuality)
14 Dec: Dam-Burts of Dreams (Fun)
15 Dec: The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Fun)
15 Dec: The Lucifer Effect (Work)
16 Dec: The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse (Spirituality)
18 Dec: Why Men Are The Way They Are (Relationship)
19 Dec: Making Babies (Sexuality)
20 Dec: Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Fun)
21 Dec: My Planet (Fun)
21 Dec: Presence (Work)
21 Dec: Everyday Grace (Spirituality)
22 Dec: Say It Like Obama (Work)
23 Dec: Steering by Starlight (Spirituality)
24 Dec: Traveling at the Speed of Love (Spirituality)
26 Dec: Mind Over Medicine (Spirituality)
26 Dec: Hero (Spirituality)
27 Dec: How to Become a Scandal (Fun)

You may note that there are several books which I seem to have finished reading in one day. In reality, I am often reading several books at any one time and the date listed is the date I complete reading (which usually are when I have long stretches of time to read on my off days), not the day I started on a book.

The tally: Fun = 46; Work = 87; Sexuality = 34; Spiritality = 29; Relationship = 6 –> 202 books

If you want to be strict about it, what is personal and work related can be collapsed into:

Personal (Fun + Spiritality) = 75 books

Work (Work + Sexuality + Relationship) = 127 books

I devour to keep reading what I am interested in, to enjoy the process – to not just read for the sake of reading – and keep learning, growing and developing myself professionally and personally.

Top 10 Recommended Books From 2014

If you like to recommend that I read a book, or review yours, please drop me an email at drmarthalee@eroscoaching.com (I do reserve the final decision though. Wink.)

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