Non-fiction:<p><i>On Intelligence</i> - Jeff Hawkins<p><i>How To Create A Mind</i> - Ray Kurzweil<p><i>The Language Instinct</i> - Steven Pinker<p><i>The Origin of Wealth</i> - Eric Beinhocker<p><i>The Signal and the Noise</i> - Nate Silver<p><i>The Money Culture</i> - Michael Lewis<p><i>Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations</i> - David Warsh<p><i>Smart Machines: IBM's Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing</i> - John E. Kelly III and Steve Hamm<p><i>The Idea Factory</i> - Jon Gertner<p><i>Winning The Knowledge Transfer Race</i> - Michael J. English and William H. Baker<p><i>Wellsprings of Knowledge</i> - Dorothy Leonard-Barton<p><i>If Only We Knew What We Know</i> - Carla O'dell and C. Jackson Grayson<p>Started, but haven't finished yet:<p><i>The Discipline of Market Leaders</i> - Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema<p><i>Marketing Warfare</i> - Jack Trout and Al Ries<p><i>Naked Statistics</i> - Charles Wheelan<p><i>Wiki Management</i> - Rod Collins<p><i>Antifragile</i> - Nassim Nicholas Taleb<p><i>Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal</i> - Ayn Rand<p>Fiction:<p><i>NOS4A2</i> - Joe Hill<p>The first four books in the <i>Sandman</i> series by Neil Gaiman<p><i>Innocence</i> - Dean Koontz<p><i>Deeply Odd</i> - Dean Koontz<p><i>Doctor Sleep</i> - Stephen King<p><i>The Black List</i> - Brad Thor<p>Most of <i>The New Lovecraft Circle</i> - an anthology of Lovecraft mythos stories by contemporary writers<p>And started re-reading Asimov's <i>Foundation</i> last night. I've read the original trilogy before, but this time I intend to read all seven books. But I'm starting with Foundation and going to the end, before going back to the prequels.
'Graph Databases' by Ian Robinson, Jim Webber, and Emil Eifrem<p>'Hackers and Painters' by Paul Graham<p>'Virtual Reality' by Howard Rheingold<p>'Stack Computers: The New Wave' by Philip Koopman<p>'Thinking Forth' by Leo Brodie<p>'WIMP Programming for All on Acorn RISC Computers' by Lee Calcraft and Alan Wrigley<p>'Frank Herbert' by Timothy O'Reilly<p>'Modern Painters: volume 1' by John Ruskin<p>'Aratra Pentelici' by John Ruskin<p>'The Art and Craft of Drawing' by Vernon Blake<p>'The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci' by Dmitri Merezhkovsky ('romance' in the old sense of 'biographical novel')<p>'Prehistoric Avebury' by Aubrey Burl<p>'A Canticle for Leibowitz' by Walter M. Miller
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut
1984 by George Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
My Antonia by Willa Cather (1918)
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Heart is A Lonely Hunter by Carson Mccullers
The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Ulysses by James Joyce
Non-tech books, I read and liked in 2013:<p>Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini<p>$100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau<p>Anything Your Want by Derek Sivers<p>The Monk and the Riddle by Randy Komisar<p>Are You a Stock or a Bond? by Moshe Milevsky<p>The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks<p>Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In no particular order:<p>The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati<p>True Grit, Charles Portis<p>Thoughts, Marcus Aurelius<p>Its not all about me, Robin Dreeke<p>The unwinding, George Packer<p>Lives of the Laureates, William Breit<p>AntiFragile, Nassum Taleb
Loup Garous, which the internet tells me is by Natsuhiko Kyogoku. The only dystopia I've read which was both legitimately scary and utterly plausible.