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Here is my reading log from January 2017. It has been a year since I last updated my reading logs here. But I am back. And with a new and improved clickable HTML table – as opposed to the images I was posting last year. Now, clicking on the book titles will take you to their Amazon pages via my affiliate link.

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The best fiction book I read in January is Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed. The world building is amazing. The plot is quite different, and the setting is muslim / arabic / desert. Something I just don’t get to read often. Very highly recommended for those who like well written, beautiful stories with unorthodox heroes. I am now eagerly waiting for the next instalment in this series. A very close runner-up was N.K.Jemisin’s The Fifth Season – again, the first book in the series.

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\"\"For my fiction pick, it has to be The E-Myth Revisited by Michel E.Gerber – just because of the sheer amount I learnt about starting and running a small-business. Practial, eminently useful and the timing for this information was just right – and so this book won over both Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harris and **

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Spark Joy by Marie Kondo**, both excellent books which I will be re-reading.

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<th style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;" width="14%">\n  Monday\n</th>\n\n<th style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;" width="14%">\n  Tuesday\n</th>\n\n<th style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;" width="14%">\n  Wednesday\n</th>\n\n<th style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;" width="14%">\n  Thursday\n</th>\n\n<th style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;" width="14%">\n  Friday\n</th>\n\n<th style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;" width="14%">\n  Saturday\n</th>
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<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  2\n</td>\n\n<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  3\n</td>\n\n<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  4<br /> <a style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 11px; color: #bd1818;" href="https://amzn.to/2onQEzL" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tribe</a><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sebastian Junger</span><br /> (library book)\n</td>\n\n<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  5\n</td>\n\n<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  6\n</td>\n\n<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  7\n</td>
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<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  9\n</td>\n\n<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  10\n</td>\n\n<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  11<br /> <a style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px; color: #bd1818;" href="https://amzn.to/2orcXXh" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sapiens</a><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Yuval Noah Harari</span><br /> (book)\n</td>\n\n<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  12\n</td>\n\n<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  13\n</td>\n\n<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  14\n</td>
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<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  16\n</td>\n\n<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  17\n</td>\n\n<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  18<br /> <a style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px; color: #bd1818;" href="https://amzn.to/2oxF5In" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Fifth Season</a><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">N.K.Jemisin</span><br /> (library ebook)\n</td>\n\n<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  19\n</td>\n\n<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  20\n</td>\n\n<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  21\n</td>
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<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  23<br /> <a style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px; color: #bd1818;" href="https://amzn.to/2p49dMt" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Spark Joy</a><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Marie Kondo</span><br /> (library book)\n</td>\n\n<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  24\n</td>\n\n<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; background-color: #ffff63;">\n  25<br /> <a style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px; color: #bd1818;" href="https://amzn.to/2oWa5my" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Throne of the Crescent Moon</a><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Saladin Ahmed</span><br /> (library book)\n</td>\n\n<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; background-color: #ffff63;">\n  26<br /> <a style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px; color: #bd1818;" href="https://amzn.to/2nD99Dx" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The E-Myth Revisited</a><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael E. Gerber</span><br /> (ebook)\n</td>\n\n<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  27\n</td>\n\n<td style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;">\n  28\n</td>
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\n January 2017\n

\n Sunday\n
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You can find all my previous Reading logs here

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