MY READING LIST

To demonstrate the tips in items 3 and 4 in my reading habits, these are the books I have read in August and the ones I intend to read from September, 2020 to June, 2021. 

3. List of Books I have read 
➡️ AUGUST, 2020

i. Lewis Carroll's Alice Adventures in the Wonderland (3:40AM to 4:45AM) 09/08/2020

ii. Andrew Walker's ‘Eat the Heart of the Infidel (09/08/2020 to 13/08/2020)

iii. Chinelo Okparanta’s Happiness Like Water
(15/08/2020 to 16/08/2020) 

iv. Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt 
(22/08/2020 to 23/08/2020)

v. Chinweizu's Anatomy of Female Power (25/08/2020 to 26/08/2020) 

vi. Harry Henderson's Privacy in the Information Age 
(29/08/2020 to 30/08/2020)

4. List of books I want to read
➡️ SEPTEMBER, 2020
PROFESSIONAL BOOKS 

i. Rebecca Boden, Debbie Epstein and Jane Kenway's Building your Academic Career (08/09/2020 to 09/09/2020) 
ii Ron Fry's How to Study 
iii. Anna Wierzbicka's Imprisoned in English 
iv Godfrey Ashe's The Art of Writing made Simple 
v George Kelling's Language: Mirror, Tool and Weapon 
vi Sara Mills' Language and Sexism 

➡️ OCTOBER, 2020 
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT 

i. Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus
ii Mathew Walker's Why we sleep 
iii. Malcom Gladwell's Talking to Strangers
iv Michael Cox's The Mixer 
v. Robert Cialdini's Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
vi Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friend and Influence People

➡️ NOVEMBER, 2020
NON-AFRICAN FICTIONS AND NON-FICTIONS

i. Harper Lee's To kill a Mockingbird 
ii. Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot 
iii. Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles 
iv. Alexandre Dumas' Three Musketeers
v. William Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra 
vi. William Shakespeare's Julio Cesar 

➡️DECEMBER, 2020 
AFRICAN FICTIONS AND NON-FICTIONS

i. Chinua Achebe's There was a Country 
ii. Chinua Achebe's Anthills of Savanah 
iii. Wole Soyinka's You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A memoir 
iv. Wole Soyinka's Ibadan: The Penkelemesi's Year 
v. Wole Soyinka's Isara 
vi. Wole Soyinka's The Bacchae of Euripides

➡️JANUARY, 2021 
HISTORICAL/POLITICAL NOVELS 

i. Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost
ii. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah's Kwame Nkrumah's Politico-Cultural Thought and Policies 
iii. Toyin Falola's Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Politics and Secular Ideologies 
iv. Karl Maier's This House has Fallen: Nigeria in Crisis 
v. Toyin Falola and Matt Childs' The Yorùbá Diaspora in the Atlantic World 
vi. Richard Bourne's Nigeria - A New History Of A Turbulent Century

➡️FEBRUARY, 2021
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

i. Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People 
ii. Tim LaHaye's Why you Act the Way you Do 
iii. James Clear's Atomic Habits 
iv. Dalai Lama's The Art of Happiness 
v. Jim Collins' Good to Great 
vi. Lell Lowndes' How to Talk to Anyone 

➡️ MARCH, 2021
PROFESSIONAL BOOKS

i.Eija Ventola and Arsenio Guijarro's The World Told and the World Shown 
ii. John Palfrey and Urs Gasser's Born Digital 
iii. Richard Hoggart's Everyday Language and Everyday Life 
iv. James Lull's Evolutionary Communication:An Introduction 
v. Terry Eagleton's Ideology 
vi. Derek Bickerton's Adam's Tongue 

➡️APRIL, 2021
NON-AFRICAN FICTIONS AND NON-FICTIONS

i. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch. 
ii. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
iii. Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House 
iv. Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities 
v. Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist 
vi. James Joyce's Ulysses

➡️ MAY, 2021 

AFRICAN FICTIONS AND NON-FICTIONS
i. Elnathan John's Born on a Tuesday
ii. Emezi Akwaeke's Freshwater
iii. Chibundu Onuzo's Welcome to Lagos
iv. Noviolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names 
v. Nadifa Mohamed's Black Mamba Boy 
vi. Sefi Attah's Everything Good will Come 

➡️JUNE, 2021 
HISTORICAL/POLITICAL NOVELS 

i. Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa 
ii. Ronen Bergman's Rise and Kill First 
iii. Anthony Giddens' Runaway World 
iv. Mike Smith's Boko Haram 
v. Michael Peel's A Swamp Full of Dollars 
vi. Stephen Kinzer's A Thousand Hills 

➡️JULY, 2021
PROFESSIONAL BOOKS 

i. Tom Reichert and Jacqueline Lambiase's Sex in Advertising 
ii. Mark Graham and William Dutton's Society and Internet 
iii. Uli Windisch's Speech and Reasoning in Everyday Life 
iv. Naomi Baron's Always On
v. Diane Watt's Amoral Gower 
vi. Keith Alan and Kate Burridge's Forbidden Words 

➡️ AUGUST, 2021
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT 

➡️ SEPTEMBER, 2021
NON-AFRICAN FICTIONS AND NON-FICTIONS

➡️ OCTOBER, 2021
AFRICAN FICTIONS AND NON-FICTIONS

i. Wole Soyinka's A Dance of the Forest 
ii. Wole Soyinka's The Trial of Brother Jero
iii. Wole Soyinka's A Play of Giants 
iv. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat 
v. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Cross 
vi.Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow.
vii. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood 

➡️ NOVEMBER, 2021
HISTORICAL/POLITICAL NOVELS

➡️ DECEMBER, 2021
PROFESSIONAL BOOKS

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