How to Read 100 Books A Year

Does your reading list keep growing? Did you buy books that you’ve never read? It might be time to cross more books from your list this year than ever.
If you’re reading less than you want, you’re not the only one. A few years ago, I looked at my Goodreads page and noticed that I had read only five books that year. That realization frustrated me.
I love books, but since I graduated from college in 2011, I’d been reading fewer books every single year. My work and life got in the way of reading as much as I wanted.
Why read 100 books in a year? You read because you want to learn from other people’s experience. Otto von Bismarck put it best:
“Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.”
If you want to get anywhere in this world, you need to educate yourself, and to educate yourself you need to read-a lot. So, in this week’s video, I show you how I read 100 books using these 5 tactics:
1. Buy In Bulk: It costs money to buy books, and it costs you time to read them - I’m assuming you have both if you’re reading this. Everyone can make time. And if you don’t have money, find a way to make or save money.
2. A(always) B(e) R(eading): I read a minimum of 1 hour per day on weekdays and even more during the weekend and holidays.
Find a way to read around your schedule and your life situation. Don’t make excuses like you’re tired or too busy.
3. Read Relevant Books Only: Have you ever read a book that’s supposedly amazing and you don’t get it? Well, read books that are close to what’s going on in your life. There’s a book for everything you can think off.
4. Read Multiple Books Simultaneously: There are no rules to reading so you can do whatever you want. At times, I’m reading 5 books at once. I might read 50 pages of one book in the morning and then read another book in the afternoon.
5. Retain The Knowledge: Knowledge is only good if you use it. To retain knowledge, you need a system that helps you do that.
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[@lammiescencesignature.]

You’re amazing!!!! Thank you so much for always impacting and inspiring me and so many of us 🤍

[@dr.abhasrivastava7304]

Finished reading ur book today( road to better habits) loved it ,concise masterpiece 💛💛💛thanks for ur work😊

[@thibaultvandesompele7152]

Thanks for helping me out. Next year I am going to commit my self to read 2 books a week and apply your strategies and read a lot, I think it’s really smart to read multiple books at the time and I also like your highlighting strategy

[@DariusForoux]

Thanks for watching, Thibault! Glad it’s useful.

[@1growth733]

I really like your articles and videos..... I daily read them. They improve my life and thinking both. A huge fan of yours. Thank u for providing such a useful article..... Free

[@jpjp9111]

Sometimes to save my place I rip out the page of the book. It's easier to find a place that way.

[@iqbalfirdaus876]

Thanks for sharing, Darius. Now I know why the book stacks in my house never attract me to read a lot: they're belong to my father 🤣 and totally not relevant for me

[@DariusForoux]

Glad to hear it’s useful, Iqbal!

[@toobad41]

Great ideas Darius. I have always had more books to read than I have time for. But I do read all of the time. Recently I have tackling books with a goal in mind. Most of my reading is nonfiction and most have chapters. With that said I read one or two chapters a day. That is about 30 to 50 pages. I then pickup another book and do the same, another 30 to50 pages. I do have a book that is over 650 pages that may take more than a week to finish, but who cares?

[@priyankh.s8379]

Gud one...from india

[@hudatufail5850]

Reading more than one book at a time is a quite wonderful idea

[@user-oh6wb5rj2q]

But first.... my english is very bad and i need to find the definition of the foreign words most of the time. That takes up a lot of time and time to time im tired of it then i just stop reading.... now reading is tiring to me in this case. Anyway thanks for sharing.... Language is really important..... haizzzz sigh

[@jpjp9111]

I read about 4 pages an hour. I'm really terrible at reading. My solution is usually to listen to videos or audio books at a high speed. Thank you though.

[@hbbstn]

Is it me or you sound like a Southern American, although you're in Netherlands?

[@DariusForoux]

Haha!

[@areebbunny66]

Why you stop uploading video ?

[@DariusForoux]

I'm a writer! Video is not really my priority but I do enjoy creating these occasionally. Working on some new stuff now as well.