I just can’t enough of books. And one day, perhaps I’ll buy myself one of those fancy e-readers or an iPad so I can read ebooks more quickly and easily — and eliminate one huge area of clutter in my house which is storing all the books I want to read!

The following list are books coming up next on my “To Read” list as 2012 draws near. I don’t know if I will find much time to read while we’re on vacation (cause I kinda hope to not be sitting in front of a computer most of the days) but the books are meant to help my mind, body, soul and businesses! 😉

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity — I actually started reading this book by David Allen already — and I have to say that even in the first 20 pages, I’ve learned new things and begun implementing new practices in my life that I love. Like finally learning a good way to integrate my Outlook Tasks to do list with my Evernote stuff — and not having a million things overlapping. And I seriously haven’t even gotten to the meat of the book yet!
  
• Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done — This is sort of a continuation of GTD, but the one thing I am always striving for in my life is to work more effectively so that I can prioritize what is important and fit everything into my days that I need to. I like that this book is broken down into 52 tips — which is one for each week of the new year!
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life — I first heard about this book several months ago and knew then that I had to read it. It’s the story of one family who left the norms of their life and moved out into the country to try a more sustainable life. They vowed that for one year, they’d only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. As you can imagine, the experience was more educational than they ever would have thought.
• All New Square Foot Gardening — A NOH reader, Jim, happened to remind me about square foot gardening and recommended I take a deeper look into it since it would work quite well in our raised beds in both the yard and the courtyard. So I am really looking forward to reading the updated version of the original manual on square foot gardening…and potentially finally having something to do with all those little strips of wood we’ve had laying around in our barn the last 5 years!
  
• Create Your Perfect Cleaning Schedule — I’m actually going to be talking about this ebook a lot more in January, but in case you are looking for a great way to get 2012 off to a clean start, you want to check out this ebook. It’s only $5.99 and written by the same cleaning savvy woman who writes I Dream of Clean.
• Everyday Paleo — As you may recall, we started eating a slow-carb diet about 6 months ago and trying to get in shape. When that kinda didn’t work according to plan, I started to think about ways to further increase our effectiveness with diet changes and/or our workouts. In the low-carb world, Paleo comes up A LOT. So I thought it would be prudent to explore the concept more and see what it has to offer. This book not only has a lot of info about Paleo itself, but also a bunch of recipes to get you going…which I think is always one of the hardest parts of a change in eating habits.
• Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us — Reading this book is actually homework for a business course I am taking so it will be interesting to see how Seth Godin goes into this concept of the Internet creating smaller social spheres of people.
  
• Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and Better — As you probably, Lifehacker.com is a great blog about finding tips and tricks to make your life better, easier and sometimes just downright cooler. But what you might not know is that they put together a pretty cool book with 59 tips to make you more efficient at work — whether you work from home, jet-set around the world or hang in a cubicle.
• 31 Days to a Better Blog — Darren Rowse is a bit of a blogging God, and he was kind enough to put together a 31-day course which guides you through the process of analyzing and improving your blog. It’s great for those getting started, or those who have been blogging for a while and just want to get back in touch with their blogging self. He’s just released a new version for 2012 and it’s fabulous!
• The last 3 Sookie Stackhouse novels — When I was laid up in the hospital after our car accident last year, Stefan brought me one of the books since I’d had them at home for months but never gotten around to read them. Let me warn you that they are awesome — far better than the show (which has many, many deviations from the books) and you will not want to put them down until you finish every last one of them. So at that point, Stefan said that I could not leave the couch until I had finished the first 8 books…and to be honest, I really needed those first few weeks of not really moving at all because 9 broken ribs in a row are less than comfortable!

What’s on your reading list for the end of 2011 and into 2012?

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