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#HRCYED NonFiction Reading List

This is what I’m planning to read for the HRCYED Nonfiction Prompt:

  • Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy – Ed. Richard Brian Davis
  • Thick – Tressie McMillan Cottom
  • The Awful End of Prince William the Silent – Lisa Jardine
  • Dogtripping – David Rosenfelt
  • Integral Psychology – Ken Wilber

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HRCYED Participation Kick-Off Post

If you haven’t heard of it, the Hardest Reading Challenge You’ll Ever Do is abbreviated as #HRCYED and is running around on the Book-Tube community. Am I part of that community? Not really. I watch a few here and there, but I’m not a particular participant in reviewing, nor do I make videos. 

What do I do? I read and I write. So, am I going to propose my own books against some of the challenges? You betcha. 

Have I ever met a major challenge that will make my life difficult? Nope. 

Am I going to write up my proposed reading lists so you can all see how badly I fail? Yes. 

This is me officially letting it be known that I’m doing this challenge. It’s supposed to be a year-long challenge, so we’ll see how long I last. 

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Books to Read- July 2025

  • Slayground – Richard Stark
  • Deadly Edge – Richard Stark
  • Hunter – Mercedes Lackey
  • Articulating Design Decisions – Tom Greever
  • Managing Up – Mary Abbajay
  • The Art of Coaching – Elena Aguilar
  • The No Complaining Rule – Jon Gordon
  • Only the Paranoid Survive – Andrew S Grove
  • The Power of Consistency – Weldon Long
  • A Trucker’s Tale – Ed Miller

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Books to Read- June 2025

  • The Wealth Choice – Dennis Kimbro
  • No BS Marketing to the Affluent – Dan S Kennedy
  • Acres of Diamonds – Russell H Conwell
  • Super Mario – Jeff Ryan
  • Free to Focus – Michael Hyatt
  • Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni
  • Million Dollar Habits – Brian Tracy
  • Plan Your Year Like a Millionaire – Rachel Rodgers
  • Butcher’s Moon – Richard Stark
  • Plunder Squad – Richard Stark

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Books to Read- May 2025

  • The Power of Positive Leadership -Jon Gordon
  • The 10X Mentor – Grant Cardone
  • Pitch Anything – Oren Klaff
  • The 12 Week Year – Brian P Moran and Michael Lennington
  • This is Your Mind on Plants – Michael Pollan
  • Existentially Challenged – Yahtzee Croshaw
  • Mythos – Stephen Fry
  • Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs – Roger Lederer
  • A Darker Shad of Magic – VE Schwab
  • The Unemployed Millionaire – Matt Morris & Wallace Wang

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Books to Read- April 2025

  • H is for Hawk – Helen Macdonald
  • Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come – Jessica Pan
  • Buffet – Roger Lowenstein
  • The Caesars Palace Coup – Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap
  • Who – Geoff Smart and Randy Street
  • The 6 Habits of Growth – Brendon Burchard
  • Homo Dues – Yuval Noah Harari
  • The Manager’s Path – Camille Fournier
  • Hook Point – Brendan Kane
  • Men Without Work – Nicholas Eberstadt

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Books to Read- March 2025

  • Amplify Your Influence – Rene Rodriguez
  • Who Not How – Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy
  • The Problem of Pain – CS Lewis
  • The Devils of Loudon – Aldous Huxley
  • The Old Ways – Robert Macfarlane
  • The Five – Hallie Rubenhold
  • The Year of Less – Cait Flanders
  • The Medici – Paul Strathern
  • Grandma Gatewood’s Walk – Ben Montgomery
  • The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women – Elizabeth Norton

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Books to Read- February 2025

  • The Business of Blood – Kerrigan Byrne
  • Rolling in the Deep – Mira Grant
  • Magic for Beginners – Kelly Link
  • The Man Who Wasn’t There – Anil Ananthaswamy
  • Ghostwritten – David Mitchell
  • Getting More – Stuart Diamond
  • The Introvert Advantage – Marti Olsen Laney 
  • Tribe of Mentors – Timothy Ferris
  • The High 5 Habit – Mel Robbins
  • One Year to an Organized Life – Regina Leeds

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Books to Read- January 2025

  • The Four Tendencies – Gretchen Rubin
  • The Are of Taking it Easy – Brian King
  • Why Design Matters – Debbie Millman
  • All the Wandering Light – Heather Fawcett
  • The Death of Jane Lawrence – Caitlin Starling
  • Cursed Bunny – Bora Chung
  • The Hollow Places – T. Kingfisher
  • Dressed in Smoke – Ambrose Ibsen
  • Song for the Unraveling of the World – Brian Evenson
  • A Front Page Affair – Radha Vatsal

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Books to Read- December 2024

  • Making a Living without a Job – Barbara Winter
  • Change Anything – Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, and David Maxfield
  • Unthink – Erik Wahl
  • Focus – Daniel Goleman
  • Life Would Be Perfect if I Lived in That House – Meghan Daum
  • Overworked and Overwhelmed – Scott Eblin
  • Originals – Adam Grant
  • Smarter Faster Better – Charles Duhigg
  • Tools of Titans – Timothy Ferris
  • Messy – Tim Harford

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