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Books to make you Healthy, Wealthy and Wise in 2011

Let reading more be one of the new years’ resolutions that you keep in 2011.

Penguin has chosen 52 books to get you excited about reading this year. Whether you love fiction, want to exercise that grey matter, get to grips with your finances, attain the body beautiful or be a little wiser – this is the ultimate book list. With this definitive guide to Penguin’s top titles, there’s a new discovery to be made every week – and we’ve thrown in a few bonus titles if you’re really keen. Go forth and make 2011 your best-read yet!

Why not add our widget to your blog and share the challenge with your friends? Or print off your reading list below and chart your progress through Penguin’s 52 books to make you healthy, wealthy and wise by 2012!

October

Must read

Full Circle

£20.00

In Full Circle, Ellen MacArthur writes honestly about her life as one of the greatest sportswomen of all time, detailing the highs and lows of an incredible career.

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Full Circle

Healthy

Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives

£8.99

Tormented Hope explores the lives of nine prominent hypochondriacs - from Florence Nightingale via Marcel Proust to Andy Warhol - to illuminate the complex relationship between mind and body when gripped by the terror of illness.

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Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives

Wealthy

Whoops!

£9.99

We keep hearing about the financial crisis – and feeling the effects – but what actually happened? Whoops! cuts through the jargon and explains the quagmire of global economics in terms we can all understand.

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Whoops!

Wise

State of Emergency

£12.99

Early 1970s Britain was a strange place, fraught with tensions between gloom and pleasure that combined with explosive results. Dominic Sandbrook lovingly evokes the political, cultural and social milieus of that era, with a keen eye on how they shaped the world we live in today.

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State of Emergency

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