Announcement:<\/strong>\u00a0 The annual Plutus Awards are up for 2020 nominations.\u00a0 These awards are given to celebrate excellence in financial media.\u00a0 If you enjoy the content we provide, we’d really appreciate it if you could nominate Modern FImily for Best Canadian Finance Content <\/em><\/strong>and Best New Personal Finance Blog<\/strong>.\u00a0 <\/em>You can submit your nomination here<\/a>.\u00a0 We know you’re busy with your own life but if you could take a few minutes out of your day to vote, we’d greatly appreciate it.\u00a0 Thank you FImily!<\/p>\n Last year I read 36 books so I decided the up the ante this year.\u00a0 At the beginning of the year I had set a goal to read 4 books per month (48 total) and I’m happy to report I’m ahead of schedule for the first half of the year with 30 books read so far.\u00a0 I definitely am paring back for this second half of the year as I already am feeling a bit burnt out but hope to reach my 48 total for the year.<\/p>\n The following books are in my original reading order and not in order of preference.\u00a0 After each title\/author I rank each book on a scale of 1 o 5 stars (5 being the best).\u00a0 At the end I provide my top 5.\u00a0 All opinions stated below are my own.\u00a0 I apologize in advance for the ugly view of these images – for whatever reason the cleaner Amazon images could not get posted properly.<\/p>\nOur January-June Reading List<\/h2>\n