It's always useful to expand one's repertoire: to read viewpoints which differ from yours, to delve into new subject matter and literary genres.
Recently, I came across an interesting web site, the Reading Lists.
Our mission is to get more people reading and taking control of their self education. We aim to discover the world's most inspiring and important books.
Paul Treagus, the site's founder elaborates:
My mission is to inspire more people to pick up a book and use them [he needs an editor] as the stepping stones they are to achieving huge success and having massive world impact. I have chosen the assembly of reading lists as my vehicle for achieving my dream.
He accomplishes this by interviewing people who have been successful in their endeavours and asking them to recommend books which are important to them.
There is a provision for individuals to nominate themselves for interviews. A drawback is that some use the web site as a vehicle to promote their own books and services. Self promotion is a fact of publishing life (e.g. payments to inflate book sales records, incentives for book reviewers to do book reviews and the like). The Reading Lists is transparent in this regard - a good thing.
Here is a sampling of books on offer:
George Monbiot
Doc Brown
David Papineau
Best advice: chose a list at random and commit to reading a few of the recommendations = no better way to climb out of a reading rut.
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