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I’ve Read Exactly 40 Books Over the Past Two Years and These Are My Top 10 Titles
The 10 Best Books I’ve Read Over the Past Two Years
I read on my kindle every single day. I rent ebooks to my kindle from a library back in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where I grew up. If you don’t know this hack, I explain how it works and how much it’s saved over the past ten years of traveling and living abroad in this piece. (Books are between $10-15 bucks on average so you can do the math.)
Earlier this week I used the email notifications from my library to search back to the beginning of the year and record each title that I rented electronically and then finished. I did this same process at the beginning of 2022. What I found most surprising (and charming) this time around, on the second go at this new yearly ritual, is that I read the exact same amount of books in each of the past two years.
I read every morning and every evening, on average for about 45 minutes a day. It allows me to set the pace and tone for my day in the morning. In the evening, it allows my active mind to find a pillow, get lost in a story, and then drift into a dream state. I’ve read like this for the past two years.
Nevertheless, it’s still very surprising that my routine resulted in exactly 20 books finished two years in a…
