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