Robin Brande, Author, Dog Lover, Coffee and Chocolate Addict. Living an Interesting Life.

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The 50-Book Challenge

Books read in 2008:

1. Walking the Gobi by Helen Thayer
2. I Ching Life by Wu Wei
3. Does the Soul Survive: A Jewish Journey to Belief in Afterlife, Past Lives & Living With a Purpose by Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz
4. The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size by Julia Cameron
5. I Ching Wisdom Volume One: Guidance from the Book of Answers by Wu Wei
6. Same Soul, Many Bodies by Brian Weiss
7. Only Love Is Real by Brian Weiss
8. Secrets of the Monarch by Allison DuBois
9. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
10. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
11. The Art of Living by Epictetus
12. Messages from the Masters by Brian Weiss
13. Secret Research Book
14. Secret Research Book
15. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
16. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
17. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
18. Barry Lyga’s new book in manuscript form (aren’t you jealous?)
19. Secret Research Book
20. Secret Research Book
21. Madapple by Christina Meldrum
22. Fortune and Glory by Brian Michael Bendis
23. Women & Money by Suze Orman
24. Secret Research Book
25. Secret Research Book