How to read 52 books in 52 weeks (Julian Hosp’s 2018 reading challenge)

According to statistics, the majority of the population does not even read a book a year. On the other hand, one often hears that “successful” people read at least ten books a year. Whether these facts are true or not, they inspired me almost ten years ago to make me read at least 50 books each year. That’s how my “52 Books in 52 Week Challenge” came into being. In 2018 I had the “ten year anniversary” of this challenge. On the one hand, I wanted to introduce the 52 books that I read last year, on the other hand, I wanted to explain in a video how I actually manage to read 52 books in a year: Julian Hosp: 52 books in 52 weeks The key things are: Know why you want to read so many books. Know how many you really want to read. Don’t worry about how too much. Combine reading with listening. Use times in between to get extra reading in. PS .: On my YouTube channel [ ] you can find a detailed analysis of the books and the background of the reviews. In the list below you will find the title, the author and the star rating out of five possible stars. Note: the links to the books are affiliate links to Amazon. This means, should you buy a book from Amazon via one of these links you pay as normal and I get a small fraction of the sales revenue as a thank you from Amazon. Of course, there is no disadvantage for you. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjwO-iVuY1v1GlRwSWc0n50aBUh3ycZbG The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact — Chip Heath & Dan Heath 5/5: https://amzn.to/2sP4Y7I Finding my virginity: The New Autobiographie — Richard Brandson 2/5: https://amzn.to/2WrSVuB Principles: Life and Work — Ray Dalio 5/5: https://amzn.to/2Si6T2K Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari 5/5: https://amzn.to/2SeI5ZF Total Recall, my unbelievably True Life Story — Arnold Schwarzenegger 5/5: https://amzn.to/2SeI87N Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow — Yuval Noah Harari 5/5: https://amzn.to/2WtzDos The Kangaroo Chronicles — Marc-Uwe Kling 5/5: https://amzn.to/2G8D8LB This time is different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly 1/5: https://amzn.to/2S6dZaP Michael Jordan — The Life 5/5: https://amzn.to/2t1OYiV Effective Executive — Peter drucker 2/5: https://amzn.to/2G7ZpsI Chicken Soup for the Soul 2/5: https://amzn.to/2TkrPU9 Lean Six Sigma — Jim Hall 2/3: https://amzn.to/2sUCJ7A Ego is the Enemy — Ryan Holiday 3/5: https://amzn.to/2Bcz6hP Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury 4/5: https://amzn.to/2ThBSt6 12 Principles of Success & Fulfillment — H K Holevinsky 2/5: https://amzn.to/2G8jtLK 1984 — George Orwell 5/5: https://amzn.to/2WAnG0y 12 Rules For Life — Jordan B. Peterson 2/5: https://amzn.to/2Tj2Nol The Black Swan — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 3/5: https://amzn.to/2B8TO26 The greatest — Muhammad Ali 5/5: https://amzn.to/2MBMpNr Animal Farm — George Orwell 5/5: https://amzn.to/2S8v047 Das Känguru Manifest — Marc-Uwe Kling 5/5: https://amzn.to/2COZjmD Die Känguru — Offenbarung 3/5: https://amzn.to/2CMuWx7 QualityLand — Marc-Uwe Kling 5/5: https://amzn.to/2RT3Gr3 The Culture Code — Daniel Coyle 4/5: https://amzn.to/2BbNkPU Psychologie der Massen — Gustave Le Bon 4/5: https://amzn.to/2ME62V1 Poor Charlie’s Almanack — Charles T. Munger 5/5: https://amzn.to/2SjgdUo The New Tsar — Vladimir Putin 4/5: https://amzn.to/2CSh3xz Inspired — How to build tech products customers love 5/5: https://amzn.to/2CNRhue Recovery: Freedom from our Addictions — Russell Brand 1/5: https://amzn.to/2WsnEb1 I can’t make this up — Kevin Hart 5/5: https://amzn.to/2ME8v1L Men are from Mars, women from Venus — John Gray 4/5: https://amzn.to/2WsMY0k The Truth — Neil Strauss 5/5: https://amzn.to/2MEp0Ll The 5 Love Languages — Gary Chapman 4/5: https://amzn.to/2D1OvSr Extreme Ownership — Jocko Willink 5/5 (reread): https://amzn.to/2MEDx9z Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think — Hans Rosling 5/5: https://amzn.to/2TrVZEU Free Will — Sam Harris 4/5: https://amzn.to/2ME9sHn Die Känguru-Apokryphen — Marc-Uwe Kling (DE) 3/5: https://amzn.to/2UryjRv The Moral Landscape — Sam Harris 4/5: https://amzn.to/2MFYd11 Economy in One lesson — Henry Hazlitt 3/5: https://amzn.to/2CQqLAA The Most Important Thing — Howard Marks 4/5: https://amzn.to/2MEa3sB The Pleasure of Finding Things out — Richard P. Feynman 2/5: https://amzn.to/2TlKBdM Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman — Richard P. Feynman 3/5: https://amzn.to/2MDkeNY The World’s Greatest Generals — Napoleon Bonaparte 2/5: https://amzn.to/2TmbuOH Shoe Dog — Nike — Phil Knight 5/5: https://amzn.to/2Tg5OG2 Arianna Huffington: The Sleep Revolution 4/5: https://amzn.to/2CP0pPi Art of Learning — Josh Waitzkin 3/5: https://amzn.to/2Tq0WhT Team of Teams — General Stanley McChrystal 3/5: https://amzn.to/2MBRG7H Deep Work — Cal Newport 5/5: https://amzn.to/2B6Y3v6 Deep Thinking — Garry Kasparov 3/5: https://amzn.to/2MFMyiC 21 Lessons for the 21st Century — Yuval Noah Harari 4/5: https://amzn.to/2MKpdwB Brief Answers to the Gig Questions — Stephen Hawking 4/5: https://amzn.to/2WspPLJ Seriously, I‘m kidding — Ellen DeGeneres 2/5: https://amzn.to/2Wsq4GD By now, I’ve read over 500 books in my life so far. The lessons from these are immensely valuable to me these days. I hope this list inspires you to launch a similar challenge in 2019 for yourself as well! Let me know in the comments, if you are open to this and if you have already done something similar in the past. Are there perhaps any books which I should read in 2019? Let me know in the comments. If you like this post, please share it on Social Media and give me a thumbs up. Do you have any questions? Something unclear? Feedback? Or just a “thank you”? I’m always looking forward to your comment. Until next time, Julian Furthermore, here are my social media channels — would love to be connected: Twitter: http://twitter.com/julianhosp Instagram: http://instagram.com/julianhosp YouTube: http://youtube.com/julianhosp Dr. Julian Hosp ( ) is a world renown blockchain expert. He co-founded a Singapore based company that has received over 100M USD in funding. Prior Julian was a 10-year professional athlete and a medical doctor. www.julianhosp.com He is the author of several bestsellers such as „Cryptocurrencies simply explained” and “Blockchain 2.0 — more than just Bitcoin”, which have been translated into 15 languages and has sold over 100,000 copies: www.cryptofit.community He was named one of the world’s top Blockchain and Cryptocurrency experts and also works in blockchain groups with the European Union on topics such as regulation, social impact and economics. As a Speaker of the Washington Speakers Bureau, he is frequently invited to global tech and entrepreneur events as well as government summits around the world and he is also a regular commentator in the media on current blockchain trends, the future of cryptocurrency and best practices.