Reading brings me the greatest pleasure. Having never been an avid reader, I find life is pure joy when there is a book waiting for me to finish. Recently, and in the name of efficiency and time management, I have figured that I can read and exercise (or listen and exercise) at the same time. I use AirPods, and walk around 8 km of a perimeter fence using the Audible app. This takes about 1.5 hours. The books below are those I have managed to read in the last 12 months.
The titles are in no particular order, and all are available through Audible Australia.
Don’t judge a book by its cover
Links to reviews of books
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan
488 Rules for Life: The Thankless Art of Being Correct by Kitty Flanagan
Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
Scrublands by Chris Hammer
Silver by Chris Hammer
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce by Colm Tóibín
The Course of Love by Alain de Botton
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
Educated by Tara Westover
Sexual Intelligence: What We Really Want from Sex – and How to Get It by Marty Klein
Jacaranda by Mandy Magro
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
The Sisters by Dervla McTiernan
The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan
The Nowhere Child by Christian White
The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb
Someone Like You by Karly Lane
The White Girl by Tony Birch
Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
Open Wide by Melissa Ambrosini
The Dark Web by Geoff White , Bernard P. Achampong
We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life by Laura McKowen
This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life by Annie Grace
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
The Dry by Jane Harper
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené Brown
Waking Up by Sam Harris
Esther Perel’s Where Should We Begin?: The Arc of Love by Esther Perel
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton
Clearly, it is possible to read and exercise at the same time. I spend hours walking across the paddocks, around fence lines, doing nothing really but read (listen) to books. at that point, I will have managed my 10000 steps for the day.