I've spent so much time looking for book recommendations, marking things that intrigued me and scattering them all about on several book lists. Now, I have one list, in PDF form complete with title, author, brief description, cover image and little boxes to check when I've completed them (or at least when I've bought them). And I can easily add to the list because I designed it in InDesign.

Look here, but be forewarned, drooling may result!!

http://www.mintandsage.com/pdfs/Ultimate_Book_List.pdf

Oh, and there are quite a few pages, so that's a warning for your download.

Oh, and I forgot to mention the types of books.....business, marketing, wedding photography, photography books, biographies, inspiration, a little humor and lots of goodnes.

Oh my goodness! When did you find the time to do that?! I'd love to have a list like that but the time...

Whoaaa............. I see I have a lot of catching up to do.

Ummm, let's just say I got side tracked. And that's my personality. I started going through things in my office to find something, I start organizing. I found a book and thought I should cross it off my list. Never found the original thing I was looking for, but then started making manuals for my associates and then thought about a book that I wanted them to read, so I went to B&N to order them (I have a member card). Then, while online, was sidetracked by some of the best sellers, thought I should add them to my wish list, but I didn't have any room left, checked OSP to see if someone else had recommended it so I knew I could find it later, no luck, started adding to thethingsiwant.com, then got sidetracked, my internet was being slow, and this was formed. That was all within a day. This is why I really do need a great assistant, because I am very ADD, easily sidetracked and then I get waaaaaay behind.

This is awesome! What a great list!

Nice work!

Man- I love reading... great list there- wiping the drool off now.
I love rich dad poor dad.. my husband bought me the cashflow game for my birthday years ago. Wish I played it more.

holy moly, thats a lot of books! I am way behind! Thanks for sharing that list with us!

You're welcome! I'm having a hard time deciding what to tackle first, but it's really inspiring me to give up TV and read more. I will definitely need to try that out! Thank you! I've printed it and put it in my Mint & Sage binder so I can keep it handy! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

That's awesome - you hit all of the ones on my list (or 90% I think... need to go back and check).... plus some more that haven't made it on there yet because they're sitting on my bookshelf unread still....

my favorites in 2008 so far...

Redeeming Love (OH MY GOODness... Am-A-Zing)
Travelers Gift
Meatball Sundae

Thanks for all the hard work putting this together!!

You should put these an an amazon store w/an affiliate account!
It's a GREAT list!

Get that list to work for you!

What is an affiliate account?

See.... Here IS MY booklist on AMAZON.com (as an example of how you can set this up... small referral fees are added to your amazon account and it eventually adds up so you get gift certificates to use on amazon or cash)

I have stuff on my "shop talk" site and MyFUNCamera GEAR & LEARNING pages.

You earn 4-6% on all purchases that go through your links. (you can get up to 6% if you have a certain # of orders in a month, but electronics & camera gear always stay at 4%).

It adds up! I don't make a ton off of mine, but when Amazon was one of the only places with D3s, that was a good month

Just SIGN UP and start building links & stores. You can put them on your blog sidebar or on your site

Groovy! Thanks ladies! That will take a lot of work though. Ha ha! Wish I'd known about this to start, I would have just done that. I couldn't find a suitable place to put a wish list and TheThingsIWant.com takes a long time if you are adding tons of stuff.

WOW! Awesome list of books and holy smokes there are a lot on there! Rock on!

Such a killer list! Thanks for sharing! I've heard about a bunch of these and based on your descriptions, I will have to check one or two out!

Thanks! I'm glad to share it! I put the descriptions there so I wouldn't forget, some titles are not easy to determine, and some descriptions make me want to read them, then it's easy to decide which ones to go for first! Now the true question is, how long will it take to read them all?

Sweet!! I love to read and this gives me some new ideas!!!

This list is just what I've been looking for. Thanks for sharing!

There is one book that I have had recommended up and down that I don't see on there. "Book Yourself Solid"awesome list btw =)