You can skip below this text to find the list of my recommended books. There are tricks to reading a lot of books which most people don't realize. But before that, one disclaimer, don't ask people who don't know you for book recommendations. They don't know you to make a recommendation that you will read but will still make a recommendation (often on the basis of what is popular or what they liked or what they think you should read). The first one is to not force yourself to read a book that you automtically don't find yourself wanting to turn pages of quickly. For every book I read, there are about 10 books that I skip after only reading a few pages. This is normal. You can't force yourself to eat foods that make you vomit and then complain that you're having a hard time eating enough. You solve this part by checking out a lot of books. The people you see standing in bookstores are not standing there to look cool, they're going through the first few pages of a lot of books to find one they might like. And you don't even need to go to a physical bookstore now to do this. You can open the book on Goodreads and then scroll down to the Quotes section and just go through the quotes from that book and see if it they are interesting enough to you to try and read them. Find 10 books like this that you migth like and then download all of them at once with the assumption that you are only going to find one of them worth completing. And start going through them one by one and discard quickly the ones that you don't like. Try to avoid the self help because it will feel interesting but will be entirely a waste of time. The second trick is to not try to read one book at a time. It gets too monotonous and you will likely end up procrastinating on continuing it. You need at least two that are different from each other so you can procrastinate by reading the other one when the first one starts getting too monotonous and keep switching between them. The third trick is to fill bigger chunks of time with reading instead of doomscrolling. You don't have to stop doomscrolling but you know there are chunks of time in your day that are too long for doomscrolling on apps. You can try to fill them with reading instead of making out time especially for reading. These chunks include while you're waiting for food, while you're trying to go to sleep, while you're waiting on some task to be completed. The fourth trick is that you don't actually have to try to understand every part of the book that is difficult. You can just keep moving and they will make sense in retrospect like the mystery parts in a novel but applies to every kind of book including non-fiction. The fifth trick is that you don't actually have to consciously try to remember every part of what you read. This happens automatically as you connect what you read with what you already know. When you start reading, you won't have much to connect it to and will have trouble trying to remember most parts but that is fine. You solve this problem by moving faster and not slower. This problem fixes it self. It is much easier to understand and remember you 20th book than it is to understand and remember your first book. And your brain compresses infromation anyways. So you remember the generalities you learn from it and not necessarily the exact specifics.