Apart from planning your budgets, why not go the library or book store and find a book to read. The list below offers some suggestions:

China’s Mobile Economy: Opportunities in the Largest and Fastest Information Consumption Boom
—Winston Ma (John Wiley & Sons, 2016; nonfiction)

The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
—Joshua Cooper Ramo (Little, Brown and Company, 2016; nonfiction)

Ordinary Grace
—William Kent Krueger (Atria Books, 2014; fiction)

Fundamentals of Press Brake Tooling
—Ben Rapien (Hanser, 2010; nonfiction)

Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
—Robert H. Frank (Princeton University Press, 2016; nonfiction)

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
—Phil Knight (Scribner, 2016; nonfiction)

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces that Will Shape Our Future

—Kevin Kelly (Viking Books, 2016; nonfiction)

Between the World and Me
—Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau, 2015; nonfiction)

Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman
—Brooke Hauser (HarperCollins Publishers, 2016; nonfiction)

The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us
—Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan (PublicAffairs, 2016; nonfiction)

The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
—Joshua Cooper Ramo (Little, Brown & Company, 2016; nonfiction)

The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing
—Benjamin Graham (Harper Business, 2006; nonfiction)

Australia’s Second Chance
—George Megalogenis (Penguin Books Australia, 2015; nonfiction)

The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas
—G. Richard Shell and Mario Moussa (Penguin Books, 2008; nonfiction)

The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time
—Arianna Huffington (Harmony, 2016; nonfiction)

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
—Nelson Mandela (Back Bay Books, 1995; nonfiction)

The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics
—Sean Wilentz (W.W. Norton & Company, 2016; nonfiction)

Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
—Gregory Boyle (Free Press, 2011; nonfiction)

Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower
—Henry M. Paulson (Twelve, 2015; nonfiction)

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
—Nick Bostrom (Oxford University Press, 2014; nonfiction)

Who Gets What—and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
—Alvin E. Roth (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015; nonfiction)

Cryptonomicon
—Neal Stephenson (Avon Books, 2002; fiction)

Global Energy Interconnection
—Zhenya Liu (Academic Press, 2015; nonfiction)