Book List
Past and present reads. Bolded-titles were faves. See esp. Greatest Books
Books read in 2024
- Jason Pargin: I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom ISBN:9781250285959
- Robin Sloan: Moonbound ISBN:0374610606
- Eliot Peper: Cumulus ISBN:1532707193
- Eliot Peper: Foundry ISBN:979-8862887198
- taogaming: Draco Malfoy and the Practice of Rationality
- qntm: Ra ISBN:979-8514084241
- Steven Heller: Monsters and Magical Sticks: There's No Such Thing as Hypnosis? ISBN:1935150634
- Eliot Peper: Breach (Peper Analog) ISBN:1542044618
- Eliot Peper: Borderless (Peper Analog) ISBN:1503904733
- Eliot Peper: Bandwidth (Peper Bandwidth, Peper Analog) ISBN:1503954609
- Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir: Death Check (Volume 2) (Remo Williams)
- Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir: Created The Destroyer (Volume 1) (Remo Williams)
- Steven Brust: Jhereg
- (various): Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation - Christopher S. Hyatt & William S. Burroughs & Timothy Leary & Robert Anton Wilson & Aleister Crowley & Pete Carroll & Phil Hine & Antero Alli & Genesis P-Orridge & Joseph C. Lisiewski. ISBN:1935150340
- Cory Doctorow: The Bezzle (Martin Hench) ISBN:9781250865878
- Richard Rumelt: The Crux
- Open source guide to building full-stack apps using Serverless and React: (2022-02-02) Open source guide to building full-stack apps using Serverless and React
Books read in 2023
- Carson Gross: Building Hypermedia Systems
- John Scalzi: Starter Villain ISBN:0765389223 fun, also parts take place in Barrington IL
- W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne: Blue Ocean Strategy feels like largely about new-product-development in "mature" big companies, not sure how applicable elsewhere
- Aidan Truhen (Nick Harkaway): The Seven Demons ISBN:0593311620
- Aidan Truhen (Nick Harkaway): The Price You Pay ISBN:9780525434986 wow crazy ultraviolence; toots
- re-read other Zoey Ashe books
- David Wong: Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia (Zoey-Ashe 3) ISBN:1250285933
- Nick Harkaway: Titanium Noir ISBN:9780593535363 toots
- Cory Doctorow: Lost Cause ISBN:9781035902231, the Canadian Miracle
- Cory Doctorow: How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism ISBN:1736205900
- Cory Doctorow: The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation ISBN:9781804291245
- Michiko Aoyama: What You Are Looking For Is in the Library ISBN:1335005625, reviewed and recommended by Robin Sloan
- Lou Downe: Good Services: How to Design Services that Work ISBN:9063695438
- Maggie Bullock: The Kingdom of Prep
- some Jack Reacher books/stories
- Elmore Leonard: Riding the Rap
- Elmore Leonard: Pronto
- Steven Johnson: Future Perfect
- Cory Doctorow: Red Team Blues (Martin Hench) ISBN:1250865859 - finished it same day I bought it, good fun
- re-read Unicorn Project
- re-read Great Good Place
- Nick Harkaway: Gnomon ISBN:978-1-473-53954-9 (toots)
- Elmore Leonard: Get Shorty and Be Cool
- re-read jackpot duo, having finally seen Peripheral series
- re-read Metrozone series
- Rob Fitzpatrick: The Mom Test https://www.momtestbook.com/
Books read in 2022
- Eden Robins: When Franny Stands Up ISBN:1728256003
- re-read This is not a Game (Dagmar series)
- John Shirley: City Come A-Walkin' ISBN:1568581912
- Iain Banks: Player of Games (Culture series) ISBN:0316005401
- re-read Microserfs
- Eliot Peper: Reap3r ISBN:1735016519
- Gabrielle Zevin: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow ISBN:0593321200
- Arlene F Marks: Genius Asylum ISBN:1770531238
- comics: Steed and Mrs. Peel Vol. 1: A Very Civil Armageddon ISBN:1608863069; Spy x Family vol1/2 ASIN:B088W7RWXS; Modesty Blaise - La Machine
- re-read Annabel Scheme
- qntm: There Is No Antimemetics Division ISBN:979-8721503788
- re-read Halting State
- Robin Sloan: Suitcase Clone - tweets
- April Dunford: Obviously Awesome
- (more Jesse Stone)
- Neal Stephenson: Termination Shock (climate change, geo-engineering) ASIN:B0941WBTYL
- Kelly Gardiner: Goddess (La Maupin) ISBN:0732298881
- Cory Doctorow: Attack Surface ISBN:1250757533 (Little Brother book 3) (bought it when it came out, but reality was too depressing to read it then)
- (more junk)
- Marc Stiegler: Triple Cross ASIN:B09C2L7N2R, then Double Tap (Dread-Nought)
- A. C. Fuller: parts of Crime Beat series
- various junk: Spenser, Reacher...
- Charlie Stross: Annihilation Score (LaundryFiles-6) ASIN:B00RW1VO14
- Martha Wells: Rogue Protocol (Murderbot-3)) ASIN:B0756JSWGL
Books read in 2021
- Lee Child: Killing Floor (ugh), Die Trying (a bit better) (Jack Reacher series)
- Martha Wells: Artificial Condition (Murderbot-2)) ASIN:B075DGHHQL)
- another Spenser
- Colin Conway: The Blind Trust 509 Crime Stories ISBN:1697630367
- Martin Kihn: House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time ISBN:0446696382
- Anthony Eichenlaub: Grandfather Anonymous (Old Code Book 1) ISBN:1950542130
- Visakan Veerasamy: re-read Friendly Ambitious Nerd, read pre-prints of High-Voltage Living, Constructive ADHD, and Long Games
- Roslan Mohd Noor: 21 Immortals ISBN:1950691403
- more Jesse Stone, Travis McGee
- S L Huang: Critical Point (Cas Russell #3) ISBN:9781250180360
- Bruce Sterling: Robot Artists and Black Swans ASIN:B08HVLFXNV
- re-read JPod
- Viktor Frankl: Man's Search for Meaning
- Tim Dorsey: Cadillac Beach then Hammerhead Ranch Motel (Serge Storms)
- Eli Goldratt: Isn't It Obvious book about retail - ISBN:0884271943 ASIN:B00408ALES
- Martha Wells: All Systems Red (Murderbot)
- re-read Reamde, Pattern Recognition
- John Gaspard: Ambitious Card, Bullet Catch (Eli Marks)
- more Spenser, more Travis McGree
- Dashiell Hammett: Thin Man; Red Harvest
- John D MacDonald: Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee)
- Dick Francis: Smokescreen
- John D MacDonald: Deep Blue Good-by (Travis McGee)
- John Higgs: I Have America Surrounded (Tim Leary) ASIN:B009KZM2KW
- Erik Hoel: The Revelations ISBN:1419750224
- Robert B Parker: Now and Then (Spenser) ISBN:0425224147
- Zane Mitchell: Drunk on a Plane: The Misadventures of a Drunk in Paradise: Book 1 ASIN:B07MKFW4G7
- Steve Hely: How I Became a Famous Novelist ISBN:0802170609
- Clarke Ching: CorkScrew Solutions ISBN:979-8550678107
- Michael Sloan: The Equalizer meh
- Robert B. Parker: Jesse Stone Sea Change
- David Wong: Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick ISBN:1250195799 (Zoey Ashe-2)
Books read in 2020
- Rebecca Cantrell: other 2 Joe Tesla books
- Dave Stewart: Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This ASIN:B00XIYG8VA
- Colin Conway: The Long Cold Winter 509 Crime Stories ASIN:B07TTKLC42
- Colin Conway: The Side Hustle 509 Crime Stories ASIN:B07MK7PV34
- Chris Porteau: Optional Retirement Plan ASIN:B07Y8PSH1K
- Robert Anton Wilson: (re-read) Historical Illuminatus Chronicles
- Rebecca Cantrell: The World Beneath (Joe Tesla book 1) ASIN:B00GWNT3UW
- Gregory Mcdonald: Fletch's Moxie
- Kim Stanley Robinson: The Ministry for the Future ISBN:978-0316300131
- Kate M. Williams: The Babysitters Coven ISBN:0525707379
- SL Huang: Null Set (Cas Russell) ISBN:1250180309
- re-read Sterling Distraction
- re-read Metrozone series
- Grant Morrison: Kill Your Boyfriend
- Charles Hugh Smith: Adventures of the Consulting Philosopher ASIN:B07G7R9Y9B meh
- Karl Schroeder: Stealing Worlds ISBN:9780765399984 DAC for Whole Earth
- Rob Thomas: Veronica Mars: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line
- Erin Morgenstern: Night Circus ISBN:9780307744432
- Marc Stiegler: BrainTrust (Stiegler BrainTrust) (book1 = Harmony of Enemies ISBN:164202001X) followed by rest of series: Crescendo of Fire, Rhapsody for the Tempest, Ode to Defiance, BrainTrust: Requiem
- David Wong: Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits ISBN:1250097754 (Zoey Ashe-1)
- William Gibson: Agency ISBN:110198693X (Jackpot Series)
- Brandt Legg: The Last Librarian ISBN:1935070126
- Cory Doctorow: Radicalized ISBN:1250229251 incl "Unauthorized Bread" (DRM - see blog)
Books read in 2019
- Samuel Shem: Man's 4th Best Hospital ISBN:1984805363 tweets
- Gene Kim: Unicorn Project ISBN:1942788762 https://itrevolution.com/the-unicorn-project/
- Delicious Tacos: Finally, Some Good News ISBN:1790356229
- Robert Goldsborough: Archie Meets Nero Wolfe ISBN:1453270973
- SL Huang: Zero-Sum Game (Cas Russell) ASIN:B078X1FD6C
- another Jesse Stone
- Neal Stephenson: Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel ISBN:0008168830 (REAMDE sequel)
- Ray Kurzweil: Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine (Kurzweil Danielle)
- Robert B. Parker: multiple Jesse Stone books
- J. D. Lasica: Catch and Kill ISBN:1091667969
- Robert Goldsboro: Archie meets Nero Wolfe ASIN:B009VR4SSI
- Karl Schroeder: The Million (seq to Lockstep) ISBN:1250185424
Books read in 2018
- William Hertling: Kill Switch (sequel to Kill Process) ISBN:1942097069
- Scott Frost: The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes ISBN:0671744003 (TwinPeaks)
- Robin Sloan: Sourdough ISBN:9780374203108 tweet-quotes
- Karl Schroeder: Lockstep ISBN:03953097
- Kathy Sierra: Bad-Ass ISBN:1491919019
- Doc List: Lightbringers and Lamplighters ASIN:B07GNVVCLW
- re-read Metrozone Series
- Nova Jacobs: The Last Equation of Isaac Severy ISBN:1501175122 fun
- Robert B. Parker: Paper Doll (Spenser series) ISBN:9780831753320
- Clarke Ching: Bottleneck Rules ISBN:1983022691
- Peter Diamandis: Bold ISBN:1476709580
- (MetaRead): Peter Diamandis: Bold ISBN:1476709580 (rare case where meta-read got me to get full book)
- Erin Claiborne: A Hero at the End of the World ISBN:0990484408 meh
- Micah Joel: Level-Up ISBN:1980709114
- Daniel Suarez: Change Agent ISBN:1101984678
- (MetaRead): Timothy Ferriss: Tools of Titans ISBN:1785041274
- (MetaRead): Taleb SITG: Nassim Taleb book: Skin In The Game ISBN:0241300657
- (MetaRead): Eyal Hooked: Nir Eyal: Hooked ISBN:1591847788
- Walter Jon Williams: Diamonds from Tequila (Dagmar series-4) ASIN:B0761HCWJ5 (really story/novella)
Books read in 2017
- Neal Stephenson (and Nicole Galland): The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. ISBN:0062409166 some great bits, but meh
- Robin Sloan: Ajax Penumbra: 1969 (Kindle Single) ASIN:B00EWZC8QI Mr. Penumbra prequel
- Rob Reid: After On ISBN:1524798053
- KLF: 2023: A Trilogy ISBN:0571338089
- Michael Schrage: Who Do You Want Your Customers To Become? ASIN:B008HRM9X4
- Bruce Sterling: Pirate Utopia ISBN:1616962364
- Chet Richards: Certain to Win: The Strategy of John Boyd, Applied to Business ISBN:1413453767
- Robin Sloan: Mr Penumbra's Twenty Four Hour Book Store ISBN:1250037751
- Chuck Palahniuk: Phoenix ASIN:B00LLO83IK
- Thomas Pynchon: Inherent Vice ISBN:0143117564
- Cory Doctorow: WalkAway ISBN:0765392763 ASIN:B01FQQ47OC Prequel to Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom
- Doree Shafrir: Startup: A Novel ISBN:0316360384 I didn't find any of the characters sympathetic.
- Neal Stephenson: REAMDE (re-read)
- Erik Dietrich: Developer Hegemony https://leanpub.com/developerhegemony
- Michael RN Jones: Accidental Detective (Victor Locke) ASIN:B06X9JKCLN
- Veronica Roth: Divergent ISBN:0062024035
- MIcah Dubinko: Winning At Life even when you feel like poop ISBN:1544674988
- Patrick Vlaskovits, Neil Patel: Hustle ISBN:1623367166
- Michael Underwood: Hexomancy (Ree Reyes) ISBN:9781476757810
Books read in 2016
- Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Jackie Bavaro: Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology ISBN:0984782818
- Warren Ellis: Normal ISBN:0374534977 (asylum of futurists)
- Tucker Max: Mate: Become the Man Women Want (Max-Mate) ISBN:0316375365
- William Hertling: Kill Process ISBN:1942097034
- Thomas Pynchon: Bleeding Edge ISBN:1594204233
- JD Kaplan: Scary Girls ISBN:150571527X
- Madeline Ashby: vN: The First Machine Dynasty ISBN:9780857662620
- Micah Joel: Deception Fault and rest of "Comp-Sci-Fi" series
- Clarke Ching: Rocks Into Gold ISBN:9780956150509
- David Louis Edelman: InfoQuake ISBN:1591024420
- Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club ISBN:0393327345
- Vernor Vinge: Rainbows End (re-read) ISBN:0330451944
- Neal Stephenson: Seven Eves ISBN:0062334514
- AlexanderD: Significant Digits (HPMOR sequel) http://www.anarchyishyperbole.com/p/significant-digits.html
- Eliezer Yudkowsky: A Girl Corrupted by the Internet is the Summoned Hero?! ISBN:0692642757
- Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, and others (for EFF): Pwning Tomorrow link
- Ron Jeffries: The Nature Of Software Development ISBN:1941222374
- Jerry Weinberg: Agile Impressions https://leanpub.com/jerrysblog
- Annelie Wendeberg: Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes ASIN:B00KNI33AI
- SL Huang: Zero Sum Game ISBN:0996070036
- TR Goodman: Abigail Abernathy: All-Night Analytical Engine Analyst ASIN:B00ET8F7IE
- Vinay Gupta: Mother Of Hydrogen
- David Marusek: MyMorningGlory ASIN:B0073NDY5K (FlashFiction/Thin Book)
Books read in 2015
- Robert Goldsborough: Archie Meets Nero Wolfe ISBN:1453270973
- Mary Doria Russell: The Sparrow ISBN:0449912558
- Warren Ellis: Dead Pig Collector ASIN:B00DXINHYW
- Charlie Stross: Rhesus Chart ISBN:0425256561
- Michael Underwood: Celebromancy (Ree Reyes) ISBN:9781451698145
- Micah Joel: Misfits 2.0 http://micahjoel.info/geeks/ and others
- Ramez Naam: Apex (Nexus Series) ISBN:0857664018
- Venkatesh Rao: BreakingSmart Season1 http://breakingsmart.com/season-1/ 2015-08-01-RaoBreakingSmartSeason1
- William Hertling: Turing Exception (Hertling Singularity Series)
- Michael Underwood: Geekomancy (Ree Reyes) ASIN:B007SNRRP8 Anyone passionate about something can be a magician, focus their emotional energy into impossible effects. (Magick)
- Pendelton Wallace: Hacker For Hire ASIN:B00KH3Z53W meh
- Benjamin Otto: HereBe ASIN:B00DU6ARJA On one side, you’ve got the people who want to empower, who want to make people free and let our humanity run wild in new and exciting ways... And on the other, there are the people who want to farm us. (Free Lunch)
- Ernest Cline: Ready Player One ISBN:0307887448
- David Simpson: Sub Human (Post Human #1) ASIN:B00H0D5NTI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Simpson_%28Post-Human_Series%29
- Scott Adams: How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life ISBN:1591847745
- Chris Sims, Hillary Louise Johnson: Scrum A Breathtakingly Brief And Agile Introduction ASIN:B007P5N8D4
- Clarke Ching: Rolling Rocks Downhill ISBN:1505446511 Takes Eli Goldratt approach to pitching Iterative Agile Software Development for a new product being created by a mature company.
- Simon Morden: The Petrovitch Trilogy/Metrozone Series ISBN:9780316242592, The Curve Of The Earth ISBN:031622006X then the (free) prequel stories collection Thy Kingdom Come
Books read in 2014
- Kevin Fanning: Jennifer Love Hewitt Times Infinity ASIN:B00381AIP0 As you'd expect kinda funny, but more at the idea than the actual execution. link
- Neal Stephenson/others: Hieroglyph Stories ISBN:0062204696
- Kaye Wagner: Legendary Detective At The Worlds End (Volume 1) ISBN:0615946178 a number of really broken sentences, but fun story.
- Mike Fishbein: Where Startup Ideas Come From ISBN:1500815896
- William Gibson: The Peripheral ASIN:B00INIXKV2 ISBN:0399158448 (Jackpot Series). Excellent. But is it Digital Philosophy or Time Travel?
- Kevin Dewalt: Beginning Customer Development https://app.convertkit.com/kevindewalt/beginning-customer-development_ebook
- Karl Schroeder: Lady Of Mazes ISBN:0765350785
- Roy Choi (Kogi Korean): LA Son ISBN:0062202634
- Belinda Barnet: Memory Machines The Evolution Of Hypertext ISBN:1783083441
- Charlie Huston: Skinner ISBN:0316133728
- Daniel Suarez: In-Flux ISBN:0525953183
- Shlok Vaidya: Siri (Siri) ASIN:B00A6FJ56E Apple Computer discovering Desktop Fab as Anti Fragile answer to China Supply Chain risk
- Gary Stager: Invent To Learn ISBN:0989151107
- Marshall Brain: The Meaning Of Life meh, well intentioned but soft http://d2bb.org/meaning-of-life.htm
- Marshall Brain: Manna Two Visions Of Humanitys Future
- Adrian Hon: History Of The 21st Century In 100 Objects ASIN:B00EX8QRPM http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/
- Mike Speegle: Something Greater Than Artifice http://2013.realtimeconf.com/part-one/
- Clyde Dsouza: Memories With Maya ISBN:1482514885 HUD, AI, Transhumanism
- James Altucher: Choose Yourself ISBN:1490313370
Books read in 2013
- Bruce Sterling: Distraction (Sterling Distraction) (re-read) ISBN:0553576399
- Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch: APE Author Publisher Entrepreneur - How To Publish A Book ISBN:0988523108
- Peter Meyers: Breaking The Page
- Alexis Ohanian: Without Their Permission ISBN:1455520020
- Jake Hartnell: 23rd Century Romance
- Gene Kim et al: Phoenix Project ISBN:9780988262591 (DevOps novel similar to Eli Goldratt's The Goal)
- Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides et al: How Data Science Is Transforming HealthCare ASIN:B008Y1O0M6
- Tim Clark: Business Model You ISBN:1118156315
- William Hertling: Last Firewall (Hertling Singularity Series)
- (re-read Grumby)
- Bruce Sterling: Gothic High Tech (just the bits I can find online)
- Ramez Naam: Crux (Nexus Series) ISBN:0857662961
- Steven Wolfe: The Obligation (Space Migration) http://theobligationbook.com/ (6 endowments/archetypes: Explorer, Settler, Inventor, Builder, Visionary, Protector
- Robert Paterson: You Don't Need A Job (The Rise of the Network)
- Fuck Yes (re-read)
- Ramez Naam: Nexus (Nexus Series) ISBN:0857662937
- William Hertling: AI Apocalypse (Hertling Singularity Series)
- William Hertling: Avogadro Corp (Hertling Singularity Series)
- Howard Rheingold: Mind Amplifier
- Bruce Sterling: Love Is Strange ASIN:B00ASBPAWY futurists
- Steven Gould: Jumpers
- Shane Mac: StopWithTheBs (BullShit) - would have been better as a series of blog posts, rather than locking up in a book
- Charlie Stross: Apocalypse Codex ISBN:1937007464
- Cal Newport: How To Be A High School Superstar ISBN:0767932587
- Leonard Richardson: Constellation Games ISBN:9781936460243
- Cory Doctorow: Homeland (Little Brother sequel)
- MetaRead: Where Good Ideas Come From, Future Perfect, So Good They Can't Ignore You
- David Brin: Existence ISBN:0765303612
Books read in 2012
- Mark Teppo: Sinner and Dreamer (Mongoliad prequels)
- Jon Evans: Invisible Armies pretty good
- Cory Doctorow: Pirate Cinema meh, but maybe better for Young Adult
- Cory Doctorow and Charlie Stross: Rapture Of The Nerds ISBN:0765329107 fun but seemed to stretch a bit long
- Jon Evans: Swarm (UAV) free, cool http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/24466/swarm
- Peter Watts: Blind Sight free http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
- Karl Schroeder: Ventus
- Rod Rees: Demi-Monde Winter ISBN:1849163022
- Daniel Suarez: Kill Decision ISBN:978-0-525-95261-9 (UAV) pretty good, but not as great as Daemon
- Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality awesome!
- Tony Wagner: Creating Innovators ISBN:9781451611496 excellent
- Jonathan Fields: Career Renegade ISBN:0767927419
- Jim Munroe: Everyone In Silico
- Joshua Klein: Roo'd
- James Altucher: I Was Blind But Now I See
- Walter Jon Williams: Fourth Wall (ARG, Dagmar series Num3) ISBN:0316133396
- Jonathan Fields: Uncertainty ISBN:159184424X
- Leo Babauta: The Little Guide to Un-ProcrastinatIon http://zenhabits.net/un-procrastinate/
- Neal Stephenson: The Mongoliad http://www.mongoliad.com/
Books read in 2011
- Dmitry Orlov: Reinventing Collapse ISBN:0865716064
- Neal Stephenson: QuickSilver (re-read)
- Peter Sims: Little Bets ISBN:1439170428 not thrilled
- Neal Stephenson REAMDE ISBN:0061977969 not bad, but slightly disappointed (actually I loved the first 1/3, but felt like it kinda jumped-the-shark once the terrorist killed the mafiyah
- Arthur De Vacy: New Evolution Diet ISBN:1605291838
- Atul Gawande: Checklist Manifesto ISBN:0312430000
- Charlie Stross: Rule34 ISBN:1841497738 Good though reminded me too much at times of Daemon
- Jerry Weinberg: Aremac Project ISBN:0932633706 and Aremac Power ISBN:1453722165, then FreshmanMurders ISBN:1453700153
- Iain Banks: Transition ISBN:0316071986
- Frederick Reiken: Day For Night ISBN:0316077569
- Andy Kessler: Eat People ISBN:1591843774
- Robert Sawyer: WWW: Wake ISBN:0441016790
- Timothy Ferriss: Four Hour Body meh
- Iain Banks: Consider Phlebas ISBN:9780316005388 (Culture Series)
- Rob Walling: Start Small Stay Small
- Ash Maurya: Running Lean
- Daniel Greenberg: Free At Last (Sudbury School) ISBN:1888947004
- Walter JonWilliams: Deep State (ARG, Dagmar series Num2) ISBN:0316098043
- The Unidentified; InterWorld (Young Adult)
- Walter Jon Williams: This Is Not A Game (ARG, Dagmar Series Num1)
Books read in 2010
- Stieg Larsson: Girl With The Dragon Tattoo etc. series
- Andy Kessler: Grumby ISBN:098271632X - When Google reaches the limits to the Wisdom Of Crowds?
- Gregory Mcdonald: Flynn's World ISBN:0375422366
- Peter Abrahams: Into The Dark (EchoFalls-3) ISBN:0606001654 (Young Adult)
- Blue Balliett: Chasing Vermeer ISBN:0439372976 (Young Adult) fun references to Charles Fort
- William Gibson: Zero History ISBN:0399156828 (then re-read Pattern Recognition and Spook Country)
- Peter Abrahams: Behind The Curtain ISBN:0060737042 (Young Adult)
- 39 clues: Into The Gauntlet (Young Adult/tween)
- The Coolest School In America ISBN:1578861861 about the creation of the EdVisions Minnesota New Country School
- Charlie Stross: The Fuller Memorandum ISBN:044101867X
- Tom Evslin: The Interpreters Tale (short story, Kindle only)
- Stieg Larsson: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ISBN:0307454541
- Suzie Boss: Reinventing Project Based Learning ISBN:156484238X
- Steve Martin: Born Standing Up ISBN:1416553649
- Peter Abrahams: Reality Check (Young Adult) ISBN:0061227684
- Peter Abrahams: Down The Rabbit Hole (Young Adult) ISBN:0060737034
- Joel Fuhrman: Eat To Live ISBN:0316735507
- Robin Sloan: Mr Penumbra's Twenty Four Hour Book Store
- Robin Sloan: Annabel Scheme http://robinsloan.com/annabel-scheme
- W Chan Kin: Blue Ocean Strategy ISBN:1591396190 blech
- Dani Kollin: Unincorporated Man ISBN:0765318997
- Cory Doctorow: For The Win (Young Adult) ISBN:0765333848
- Sean Brodrick: Ultimate Suburban Survival Guide (Survivalism) ISBN:0470463163
- Cody Lundin: When All Hell Breaks Loose (Survivalism) ISBN:142360105X
- Neil Strauss: Emergency (Survivalism) ISBN:0060898771
- Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan ISBN:1416971734
- John Barnes: Directive51 ISBN:044101822X
- Lenore Skenazy: Free Range Kids ISBN:0470471948
- Ben Bova: LaughLines ISBN:1416555609
- Eleanor Davis: The Secret Science Alliance and the Copy Cat Crook ISBN:1599903962
- Rick Riordan: 39 Clues (series ongoing)
- Jason Fried: ReWork ISBN:0307463745
- Ken Robinson: The Element ISBN:0670020478
- Eric Jackson: The PayPal Wars ISBN:0977898431
- Ben Bova: The Star Crossed ISBN:0441780466
- Paolo Bacigalupi: Pump Six and other Stories ISBN:159780133X
- Ben Bova: CyberBooks ISBN:0812503198
- Daniel Suarez: Daemon ISBN:0525951113 and Freedom Tm ISBN:0525951571
- Douglas Rushkoff: LifeInc
Books read in 2009
- Ted Nelson: Geeks Bearing Gifts ISBN:0578004380
- Douglas Coupland: Generation A ISBN:0307357724 enjoyable/breezy, but left me a bit un-sated.
- Gary V: Crush It ISBN:0061914177
- Andrew Clements: Report Card and Extra Credit (Young Adult)
- Grace Llewelyn: Teenage Liberation Handbook ISBN:0962959170 UnSchooling
- Cory Doctorow: Makers ISBN:9780765312792
- Holly Black et al: Geektastic ISBN:0316008095
- Charlie Stross: Saturns Children
- Clayton Christensen: Innovators Prescription: ISBN:0071592083
- Michael Pollan: In Defense Of Food ISBN:0143114964
- Robert Rodriguez: Rebel Without A Crew ISBN:0452271878
- Steve Blank: Four Steps To The Epiphany
- Bruce Sterling: Caryatids ISBN:0345460626
- William Wimsatt: NoMorePrisons ISBN:1887128115 see 2009-03-09-UniversityPlanetEarth
- William Goldman: The Big Picture ISBN:1557834067 (Film Industry)
- re-reading Charlie Stross Atrocity Archives
- Charlies Stross: Jennifer Morgue ISBN:0441016715
- Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers
- re-read Charlie Stross Halting State, Scott Westerfeld So Yesterday
Books read in 2008:
- Adam Cohen: The Perfect Store: Inside EBay ISBN:9780316164931
- Clayton Christensen: Disrupting Class
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Manga Edition ISBN:0470823380 2008-11-19-BusinessComicBooks
- Dan Pink: The Adventures of Johnny Bunko 2008-11-19-BusinessComicBooks
- Marcus Buckingham: The Truth About You
- Seth Godin: Tribes 2008-10-20-GodinTribes
- Dan Brown (mr DaVinci Code): DigitalFortress ISBN:0552151696 found it in a ReCycling bin. A breezy read, but rather lame in terms of character depth/inner-life.
- John Thackara: In The Bubble ISBN:0262701154
- Trenton Lee Stewart: Mysterious Benedict Society ISBN:0316003956 Good Kids Books catch, esp first 1/3 where "team" is being selected
- Jules Feiffer: Man In The Ceiling ISBN:0062059076 In Kids Books: fun in bits, but rather sad/depressing/slow overall.
- Neal Stephenson: Anathem
- Daniel Nissanoff: Future Shop: How to Trade Up to a Luxury Lifestyle Today ISBN:014311221X (importance of Auction markets): hated it
- Richard K Morgan: BrokenAngels ISBN:0345457714 and WokenFuries ISBN:0-575-07652-6 of Takeshi Kovacs series
- Russell Ackoff, Daniel Greenberg: Turning Learning Right Side Up ISBN:9780132346498
- Rudy Rucker: PostSingular ISBN:9780765317414
- Cory Doctorow: Little Brother ISBN:0765319853 awesome
- Richard K Morgan: Altered Carbon ISBN:9780345457691 excellent now I have to read his other stuff, esp other Takeshi Kovacs
- PJ O'Rourke: On The Wealth Of Nations: Books That Changed the World ISBN:0802143423 - Very disappointing. Like a marginally humourous Cliffs Notes of Adam Smith. Notes critiques of Free Market, but things that quoting Smith if refutation/proof, rather than trying to explain things at a meaningful/complex level. Pointless. Though does have interesting bit about emergence of burgher/free-trader group in Europe.
- Anders (ed.): Years Best SF12 (Short Story) ISBN:0061252085 (include Rudy Rucker "Chu" story mentioned at 2005-09-20-StrossAccelerandoResimulated)
- Charlie Stross: Toast (Short Story collection) ISBN:0809556030 - lots of fun, themes that came up in Halting State, etc. (including another source of "Lobsters").
- Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody ISBN:9781594201530
- David Brin, Rudy Rucker, others: Live Without A Net ISBN:0451459458
- Kyle Macdonald: One Red Paperclip ISBN:0307353168 - The ultimate Barter story (not scalable, it was mainly Spectacle), with guest appearances by Alice Cooper and Corbin Bernsen
- John Holt: Teach Your Own ISBN:0738206946
- Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions ISBN:0262134743 Didn't love it. It smells (and is bound like) an Interaction Design Text-Book destined to be foisted on D-School students to prepare their IDEO indoctrination. It's often enjoyable to read interviews with people who've accomplished things, but it's hard to learn anything Actionable from them. Has DVD and website.
- Re Wired (Post-CyberPunk Anthology) ISBN:1892391538]] excellent, includes some Charlie Stross and Cory Doctorow I'd already read. The commentary bits I found rather useless.
- Charlie Stross: Atrocity Archives ISBN:0441013651
- Earl Mac Rauch: Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension ISBN:0743442482 (fun, but movie if funner)
- Charlie Stross: Halting State ISBN:0441014984
Books read 2007
- John Holt: Instead Of Education ISBN:1591810094
- Mitchel Resnick: Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams ISBN:0262680939 grr no index
- Charlie Stross: Glass House ISBN:0441015085 oooh yummy brainsalad
- Jeff Conklin: Dialogue Mapping ISBN:0470017686
- John Robb: Brave New War ISBN:9780471780793
- Robert Ferrigno: Prayers For The Assassin ISBN:0-743-27289-7 rather cheesy
- Steven Johnson: Ghost Map ISBN:1594489254
- Robert Putnam: Bowling Alone ISBN:0743203046
- William Gibson: Spook Country ISBN:9780399154300 excellent, though some of the repetitive phrasing is irritating. Note Cargo Container role.
- Charlie Stross: The Family Trade ISBN:0765348217 a little too lite, like cheesy fantasy - I kept expecting a unicorn to appear. And frustrating lack of closure, unless of course you read the rest of the series.
- Seth Godin: The Dip ISBN:1591841666 (Godin Dip)
- Erik Larson: Devil In The White City ISBN:0375725601
- Sam Ruby and Leonard Richardson: Restful Web Services ISBN:0596529260 awesome
- Timothy Ferriss: Four Hour Work Week ISBN:0786158964
Books read 2006
- Jessica Livingston: Founders At Work ISBN:1590597141 awesome
- Stuart Skorman: Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur ISBN:0787987328 lite but pointless (by the co-founder of Elephant Pharm which closed down Feb'2009)
- Vernor Vinge: Rainbows End ISBN:0312856849 excellent
- Douglas Coupland: JPod ISBN:0671874349 kinda creepy characters
- Phillip J Eby: You Version2 http://dirtsimple.org/products/index.html
- Charlie Stross: Iron Sunrise ISBN:0441012965 sequel to Singularity Sky
- Fred Siegel: The Future Once Happened Here ISBN:1893554104
- Michael Gerber: EMyth Revisited ISBN:0887307280 (done, but want to blog it more)
- John Ratey: Shadow Syndromes ISBN:0553379593 (re-reading; ADD, depression, anxiety, etc.)
- Judy Breck: 109 Ideas for Virtual Learning ISBN:1578862809
- Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point
- William Thomas: Life Worth Living (Eden Alternative) ISBN:1889242098
- James Othmer: The Futurist ISBN:038551722X
- Charlie Stross: Singularity Sky ISBN:0441010725
- Steve Farber: Radical Leap ISBN:0793185688
- Douglas Rushkoff: Get Back In The Box ISBN:0060758694
Books read 2005
- Samuel Shem: Mount Misery ISBN:0449911187 - sequel to House Of God
- Rudy Rucker: Flex And The Elixir ISBN:0765310597 lotsa fun, I have to be more tolerant of my clumsy Number Two Son.
- Chad Fowler: My Job Went To India ISBN:0976694018
- Jim McCarthy: Software For Your Head ISBN:0201604566
- Cory Doctorow: Someone Comes To Town... ISBN:0765312786 - very bizarre combination of WiFi/Cell Phone debates with surreal fantasy that would make Jorge Luis Borges proud.
- Charlie Stross: Accelerando ISBN:0441012841 - Excellent. I rather prefer the pre-Singularity bits
- Christopher Phillips: Socrates Cafe ISBN:0393049566 see 2004-04-08-PhillipsSocratesCafe
- John Markoff: What The Dormouse Said ISBN:0670033820 see 2005-05-02-MarkoffDormouse
- Seth Godin: All Marketers Are Liars
- John Hagel: The Only Sustainable Edge ISBN:1591397200
- Jane Jacobs: Cities And The Wealth Of Nations
- Jim Loehr: The Power of Full Engagement ISBN:0743226755 (Jihi heard him speak at work)
- IFTF: Health and HealthCare 2010 ISBN:078795974X
- Michael Crichton: State Of Fear
- Seth Godin: Free Prize Inside ISBN:1591840414
- Douglas Coupland: Microserfs ISBN:0060987049 (re-read)
- Cory Doctorow: Eastern Standard Tribe (re-read, actually bought paperback)
- Mark Hyman, Mark Liponis: Ultra Prevention ISBN:0743448839 (didn't finish, but put it aside - unless you spend big bucks on tests and (their) interpretation of the results, you end up with an infinite number of suggested lifestyle changes. They're upfront about saying you don't have to do all of them, but (a) without the tests you're prioritizing in the dark, and (b) the overall impression is hopeless-guilt-inducing...
- Adam Zickerman: Power Of Ten (Super Slow)
- Mark Pilgrim: Dive Into Python ISBN:1590593561 - excellent at covering the basics, and letting you know about some nice functions in the standard library. But a lot of the more indirect functions (lambda, etc.) seem annoyingly obtuse, and my current attitude is that they should probably be avoided unless you really need them, like if you're building some abstract framework...
Books read 2004
- Michael N Kennedy: Product Development for the Lean Enterprise ISBN:1892538091 - skimmed it, not really in the mood for BigCo Innovation models. Prod Dev as different from Lean Manufacturing.
- Neal Stephenson: The System Of The World (Baroque Cycle) - the trilogy seemed to move faster as it went along. Enjoyed all bits quite a lot.
- Iain Banks: The Business ISBN:0754023060 - disappointing. Nothing seems to be happening, then everything gets wrapped up too fast in a weird way.
- Max Barry: Jennifer Government ISBN:1400030927 - rather enjoyable anti-AnarchIst screed. Seemingly anti-AnarchoCapitalist, but really anti-CorporatIst.
- Scott Westerfeld: So Yesterday ISBN:159514000X - lots of fun, semi-guilty pleasure; sneaky making the father of a Cool Hunter to be an Epidemiologist; "older" woman sounds like Dee Dee Gordon
- Clayton Christensen: The Innovators Solution ISBN:1578518520
- Ernesto Sirolli: Ripples From The Zambezi ISBN:0865713979
- Peter Lamborn Wilson: Pirate Utopias ISBN:1570270244
- Kevin Roberts: Love Marks ISBN:1740454200
- Neal Stephenson: The Confusion ISBN:0060523867 (The Baroque Cycle)
- Bruce Sterling: Zenith Angle ISBN:0-345-46061-8
- Tom Peters: Re-Imagine ISBN:078949647X
- Kurt Andersen: Turn Of The Century ISBN:0385335040 - very enjoyable; I found the bits on NYC life to be most engaging
- Don Tapscott: Digital Capital ISBN:1578511933
- David Schmaltz: Blind Men ISBN:1-57675-253-4
- James Howard Kunstler: Home From Nowhere ISBN:0684837374 - good ranting about the emptiness of suburbia/Edge City
Books read 2003
- Cory Doctorow: Eastern Standard Tribe
- Ray Oldenburg (editor): Celebrating the Third Place ISBN:1569246122 not recommended
- Neal Stephenson: Quick Silver ISBN:0380977427
- Erik Benson: Man Versus Himself ISBN:0595283535
- Peter Small: Web Presence at http://www.stigmergicsystems.com/wp/
- Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential ISBN:0060934913 2003-08-29-KitchenConfidential - Made me want to run up to Les Halles for lunch. More of a collection of essays than a coherent book, but still a good inside look at the Restaurant Industry. (Related recommendation: Peter Greenaway flick "The Cook The Thief...")
- Spalding Gray: Morning Noon And Night ISBN:0374527210 - if your woman is pissed have her read this - she'll appreciate you a lot more...
- William Gibson: Pattern Recognition ISBN:0399149864
- Warren Ellis: Transmetropolitan (compiled first year) (plus some back issues of ***Global Frequency***)
- Peter Small: Ultimate Game Of Strategy ISBN:027364999X
- Gary Wolf: Wired: A Romance ISBN:0375502904 - rather thin, doesn't evoke any intense feelings unless the reader unleashes his own longing.
- Roger L Simon: The Lost Coast - ok Moses Wine novel, not greatest
- Helen De Witt: Last Samurai ISBN:0786887001 hysterical
- Jane Jacobs: Systems Of Survival ISBN:0679748164
- Roger Schank: Coloring Outside The Lines ISBN:0060930772 about Educating Kids
- Michael Crichton: Prey ISBN:0066214122
- Bruce Sterling: Zeitgeist ISBN:0553576410
- Daniel Quinn: Ishmael ISBN:0553375407 really annoying
- Peter Small: Entrepreneurial Web ISBN:027365036X
- Cory Doctorow: Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom : an excellent page-turner (actually, scroll-button-presser, since I read it on my Pilot). Need to eventually blog some detailed thoughts about its scenario. ISBN:0765304368
Books read 2002-earlier
- Mike Wallace: New Deal For New York ISBN:0972315519
- Daniel Quinn: Beyond Civilization ISBN:0609805363
- Patricia Volk: Stuffed: Not bad, but rather weak, other family/food books (Ruth Reichl) are probably better. ISBN:0375411062
- Robert Heinlein: Stranger In A Strange Land ISBN:0441790348, Revolt In 2100 ISBN:0671577808
- Arnold Kling: Under The Radar ISBN:0738207748
- Pekka Himanen: Hacker Ethic (mediocre, just read my summary) ISBN:037575878X
- Steven Johnson: Emergence - good, reminiscent of James Gleick's Chaos, but not quite that good. Maybe better if you haven't been exposed to the gestalt before... ISBN:0684868768
- Richard Dooling: Brain Storm: entertaining, but not great. I'll probably sell mine
- Jerry Weinberg: More Secrets Of Consulting: excellent ISBN:0932633528
- Neal Stephenson: Cob Web (again): great
- Christopher Hitchens: Letters To A Young Contrarian: has some good bits, but a bit thin. Borrow it. ISBN:0465030327
- Bobos In Paradise: ISBN:0684853787
- Harry Potter: thought it was thin on story and character. The later volumes are supposedly better.
- Prime Directive (trekkie book) (Nov'01)
- John Taylor Gatto: Underground History Of American Education ISBN:0945700040 (Nov'01): a bit bizarre (heavy conspiracy theory), but definitely a voice that needs hearing
- Brenda Laurel: Utopian Entrepreneur ISBN:0262621533 pretty good, but frustrating (half-stories, not even juicy details)
- Joe Queenan: Balsamic Dreams: bits of entertainment, but feels just like a series of (repetitive) columns, not a real book.
- Bo Leuf and Ward Cunningham: Wiki Way ISBN:020171499X
Books in my to-read/finish pile
- Martin Cagan: Empowered (Cagan Empowered) ISBN:111969129X
- Erika Hall: Conversational Design ISBN:1937557677
- Ichiro Kishimi: Courage to Be Disliked ISBN:1501197274 - sold by tweetstorm by Visakan Veerasamy
- Martin Cagan: Inspired (Cagan Inspired) ISBN:1119387507
- Jane McGonigal: SuperBetter
- Jake Knapp: Design Sprint book
- Taylor Pearson: End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5 ASIN:B010L8SYRG https://taylorpearson.me/eojbook/
- Robert Scoble and Shel Israel: Fourth Transformation ISBN:9671035809 (Augmented Reality)
- Donald Reinertsen: The Principles Of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development ISBN:1935401009
- Jez Humble: Lean Enterprise ISBN:1449368425
- Gabriel Weinberg: Traction ASIN:0976339609
- Peter Thiel: Zero To One ISBN:0804139296
- Michael Ellsberg: The Education Of Millionaires ISBN:1591844207
- Yong Zhao: World Class Learners ISBN:1452203989
- Cal Newport: How To Be A High School Superstar ISBN:0767932587
- Rich Zubaty: What Men Know That Women Don't: How to Love Women Without Losing Your Soul ISBN:1589390393 (Men And Women)
- Helen De Witt: Your Name Here
- Orhan Pamuk: My Name Is Red ISBN:0375706852 (recommended by Helen De Witt)
- Mary Kurcinka: Raising Your Spirited Child ISBN:0060923288
- Brett Mc Laughline: Head First OOAD ISBN:0596008678 boy I wish there were a book focusing on this for Web App development.
- Pat Kane: Play Ethic ISBN:0333907361
- David Heinemeier Hansson and Dave Thomas: Agile Web Development With Rails ISBN:097669400X
- Rudy Rucker: Life Box ISBN:1560257229
- Tom Kelley (IDEO): Art of Innovation ISBN:0-385-49984-1
- Thierry Bardini: BootStrapping ISBN:0804737231 about Douglas Engelbart
- John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge: The Company : A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea ISBN:0679642498
- Vernor Vinge: The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge ISBN:0312875843
- Steven Johnson: Mind Wide Open ISBN:0743241657
- (various): Visualizing Argumentation (see Argumentation Visualization)
- Michael Chabon: McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales* ISBN:140003339X
- Robert Horn: Mapping Hypertext ISBN:0962556505
- Rem Koolhaas: SMLXl ISBN:1885254865
- Robert D Atkinson: Past and Future of America's Economy
- Ann Florini: Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World
- Ricardo Semler: Maverick ISBN:0446670553 and The Seven Day Weekend ISBN:0712677909
- Richard Rogers: Cities For A Small Planet ISBN:0813335531
- Vaclav Smil: Energies ISBN:026269235X
- Philip Yam: Pathological Protein: Mad Cow ISBN:0387955089
- Richard Florida: Rise of the Creative Class ISBN:0465024769
- Richard E Caves: Creative Industries: Contracts between Art and Commerce ISBN:0674008081
- Leonardo Da Vinci museum catalog ISBN:0300098782
- Christopher Hitchens: Unacknowledged Legislation ISBN:1859843832
- lots of Jane Jacobs and Christopher Alexander (just received the first volume of the Nature Of Order); Delirious New York by Rem Koolhaas
- various Peter Lamborn Wilson (have read bulk of Hakim Bey), Gone To Croatan
- Joseph Tainter: Collapse Of Complex Societies ISBN:052138673X
- Jared Diamond: Guns Germs And Steel ISBN:0393317552
- Steve Litt: Rapid Learning http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/rl.htm
- Autobiography of Ben Franklin
- John Ratey: Users Guide To The Brain
- David Landes: Wealth And Poverty Of Nations ISBN:0393040178
- Robert Allen: One Minute Millionaire ISBN:0609609491
- Jacques Vallee: Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist ISBN:091590473X
Books I should go back and finish
- Thomas P Hughes: Rescuing Prometheus ISBN:0679411518
- Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
- Norman Mailer: Harlot's Ghost
- lots of others, oh the guilt
Books I should buy someday
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