A book is a device to ignite the imagination- Alan Bennett
Reading is something I used to do ardently when I was growing up. Encyclopedia's, cartoons, fiction etc were commonplace. I moved away from it thanks to all the "stuff" life threw at me and I ended up using the standard " I dont have time!" excuse.
But since last year I have made it a point to start going back to my roots of reading. My reading effectively focuses on 4-5 main buckets: Fiction/light-reading, Fitness, Dance, Music, Photography and some general self-help/philosophy. Below is a list of books I am or have read segregated into specific groups. All of them are good reads, cause at the end of the day, they have ignited my imagination.
Dance
Inside Ballet Technique by Valerie Grieg
Dance Anatomy by Jaqui Haas
Fitness
First by Rich Froning
Sandbag Training by Josh Henkin
Olympic weightlfting by Greg Everett
Evolution by Joe Manganiello
Stretching Anatomy by Nelson and Kokkonen
End of back pain by Patrick Roth
Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink
Self-Help/General
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Mastery by George Leonard
Lead to Succeed and You Won't Manage to Fail by Corey Grant
How to create a mind by Ray Kurzwell
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Difficult Conversations by Stone, Patton
Quiet by Susan Cain
Grilling For Dummies
The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking By Dale Carnegie
Photography
Photographically speaking by David DuChemin
Fiction
Immortals of Meluha- Shiva Trilogy- Amish