Reading List
Currently reading:
- What the Dog Saw, by Malcolm Gladwell
To read (in no particular order):
- Generation A, by Douglas Coupland
- The Age of Spiritual Machines, by Ray Kurzweil
- The Singularity is Near, by Ray Kurzweil
- Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, by Jon Erickson
- Surreptitious Software
- Programming Clojure, by Stuart Halloway
Previous books read so far this year:
- Fearless, by Tim Lott
- Debug It!, by Paul Butcher
- Programming Scala, by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, and Bill Venners
- Predictably Irrational, by Daniel Ariely
- The Productive Programmer, by Neal Ford
- Ender in Exile, by Orson Scott Card
- Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer
- Eclipse, by Stephenie Meyer
- More Information Than You Require, by John Hodgman
- On Writing, by Stephen King
- The Gum Thief, by Douglas Coupland
- New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer
- Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
- Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
Reading List for 2008
I didn’t do a great job of keeping my 2008 reading list up-to-date, but here are some of the books I read in 2008:- Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
- The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
- Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, by Aaron Hillegass
- Soon I Will Be Invincible, by Austin Grossman
- Code Orange, by Caroline B. Cooney
- Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, by Wendy Mass
- The Foreshadowing, by Marcus Sedgwick
- Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter, by Phoebe Damrosch
- Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story, by Mary Downing Hahn
- Punching In, by Alex Frankel
- Jack’s Run, by Roland Smith
- Programming Erlang, by Joe Armstrong
- The Rails Way, by Obie Fernandez
- Rails Recipes, by Chad Fowler
- Agile Project Management with Scrum, by Ken Schwaber
- Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, by Esther Derby, Diana Larsen and Ken Schwaber
- Bulletproof Web Design, by Dan Cederholm
Reading List for 2007
A “mostly complete” list of the books I read in 2007 (in reverse chronological order):- Zack’s Lie, by Roland Smith
- Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert
- The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? by Philip Yancey
- The Best American Nonrequired Reading (2006), ed. Dave Eggers
- Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter
- Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons, by Tim Russert
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom
- From Java to Ruby, by Bruce Tate
- Don’t Make Me Think! (2nd ed.), by Steve Krug
- The Areas of My Expertise, by John Hodgman
- Agile Web Development with Rails (2nd ed.), by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson
- Practices of an Agile Developer, by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt
- Eleanor Rigby, by Douglas Coupland
- Driver’s Ed, by Caroline B. Cooney
