What are you reading?

Assessment of Children: Cognitive Foundations by Jerome Sattler<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Assessment-Children-Foundations-Jerome-Sattler/dp/0970267142/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Assessment-Children-Foundations-Jerome...</a><p>Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence, Third Edition by Alan S. Kaufman and Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Assessing-Adolescent-Adult-Intelligence-Third/dp/0471735531/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Assessing-Adolescent-Adult-Intelligenc...</a><p>What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought by Keith Stanovich<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Tests-Miss-Psychology/dp/030012385X/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Tests-Miss-Psycholog...</a><p>What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect by James R. Flynn<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Beyond-Flynn-Effect/dp/0521741475/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Beyond-Flynn-Effect/...</a><p>Handbook of Intelligence edited by Robert Sternberg<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Intelligence-Robert-Sternberg-PhD/dp/0521596483/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Intelligence-Robert-Sternberg...</a><p>and a host of related books about IQ testing and what it means, to prepare a working paper on the latest research on IQ testing.

Finishing "Atlas Shrugged". While ideas and the spirit of the book have aged only slightly, the way of writing seems way too pretentious for our times. But overall the book is interesting. From historic and ideological point of view.

I'm reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson for the third time, and understanding it more than the second time. It has wonderful technical digressions that seem aimed precisely at geeks/hackers. In fact, on the the main characters is a programmer, and another is a code-breaker in the military who sees an opportunity for geeky analysis in everything he sees. (There are also many accounts of military battles from a soldier's point of view to break the talking up.)

. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig<p>. Programming Clojure<p>. Little Schemer (re-reading)<p>. Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals by David Aronson

Rereading How to Win Friends and Influence People (once again). That book never ages. May very well be the best book ever written. I'm guessing most of you have read it, but if you haven't, I urge you to order it right away! It will be your best purchase in a long time.<p>Also just finished Genome (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Genome-Autobiography-Species-Chapters-P-S/dp/0060894083/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1251786710&#38;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Genome-Autobiography-Species-Chapters-...</a>). Good read, but there are better books in the category.

"How to Get Rich" by Felix Dennis ( <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Rich-Felix-Dennis/dp/0091912652" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Rich-Felix-Dennis/dp/009191265...</a> ) THE best get rich how-to guides that I've read (not that I've read too many of them, though :)

I got books like sheiks got oil. I'm swimming in them. I try to read a little from at least four books every day. (You'll have to look up these links yourself)<p>-----------------------------------------------------------<p>On my Kindle:<p>Anna Karenina, Tolstoy; Clean Code, Uncle Bob; Palm WebOS; Antoninus Meditations, Marcus Aurelius, Emperor; Never Eat Alone, and Other Secrets to Success, Ferrazzi<p>-----------------------------------------------------------<p>In my stack:<p>Daniel-X, James Patterson; Born To Run, Christopher McDougall; The Existential Jesus, John Carroll; Fear and Trembling - Repetition, Soren Kierkegaard<p>-----------------------------------------------------------<p>On the way in from Amazon: The Trusted Advisor, Maister; Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully, Weinberg; Rain Making: Attract New Clients No Matter What Your Field, Harding<p>-----------------------------------------------------------<p>I'm thinking about growing another pair of eyeballs so I can read two books at once. I'll let you know how the genetic engineering goes. (grin)

Omnivore's Dilemma. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omnivore%27s_Dilemma" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omnivore%27s_Dilemma</a>

"The Selfish Gene" by Dawkins. This was a result of asking my Twitter friends to decide between this and Art of War for me, and this won overwhelmingly. It's been a great read so far, and I'm really looking forward to learning more about how evolution and computer science can mix.

"The Four Steps to the Epiphany" by Steven Gary Blank<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/0976470705" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/09...</a>

"Anathem", by Neal Stephenson.<p>Don't be put off by its size, the book is great.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem</a>

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini

1. Programming Clojure (Not going too well)<p>2. Refactoring your Wetware (This is a very good book)<p>3. SICP (Just started looking into this to see if I can attempt to write the code in Clojure)

Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Code-Programmers-Transcendent-Software/dp/1400082463" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Code-Programmers-Transcendent...</a><p>The Design of Everyday Things <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/dp/0465067107/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1251771897&#38;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d...</a>

1. The Mythical Man Month (Some interesting essays, some dated)<p>2. The Art of Agile Development (First agile book to read, certainly interesting)<p>3. Object Oriented Perl (Very interesting stuff... I've read it a few times but keep flipping open to chapters and being in awe of the cleverness of the author)

Maverick - By Ricardo Semler of Semco. It's a must read book for every entrepreneur. I've read few business books, but this is one of those books I'll always recommend everyone with Founders at Work and Art of the Start.<p>It's a real story of Semco with great business lessons.

The Reasoned Schemer by Friedman, Byrd, and Kiselyov<p>Purely Functional Data Structures by Okasaki<p>Programming Language Pragmatics, 3rd ed by Scott<p>Fast Analytical Techniques for Electrical and Electronic Circuits by Vorperian

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

OO i love these threads.<p>I am currently reading "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro and its awesome so far (~150 pgs in). Just finished Zinn's "A people's history". Next up is "Atlas Shrugged" or "The Power of Babel" by John McWhorter.

I am reading <i>way</i> too many books at once. Not in danger of finishing them all, but in the last month I have read from:<p><pre><code> Technical: </code></pre> Armstrong, Programming Erlang<p>Oppenheim et al, Signals and Systems<p>Abelson and Sussman, SICP<p>The Fourier Transform and its Applications<p>Project Management for Construction<p><pre><code> Nontechnical: </code></pre> Russel, History of Western Philosophy<p>The Autobiography of Malcolm X<p>Schelling, Strategy of Conflict<p>The US Army Counterinsurgency Field Manual<p>Araki Photofile<p>...<p>All of them are too interesting.

<i>Edison : a Life of Invention</i>, Paul Israel (terribly dense condensation of a 6 volume biography... but it has all the facts. I don't know if Edison was a "genius", but he had lots of ideas, and he <i>did</i> them. BTW Tesla isn't mentioned at all, and the AC/DC controversy only peripherally, in terms of Western Union)<p>Just finished <i>iWoz</i>, by Woz. It's extremely casually written. He comes across as ego-centric but sadly without self-awareness even here, in autobiography (incidentally, I think the appropriate comic strip to represent Steve and Steve would be Calvin and Calvin. But I digress). The guy is a genius, there's some funny bits, and he gives some great advice: being able to think objectively gives you confidence, and independence of the opinions of others. Worth being reminded of when the pressure's on.<p><i>now to join the long tail of comments</i>

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll<p>Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges<p>Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain<p>The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education by Grace Llewellyn

Just finished The Time Traveler's Wife... Working on GEB, and Ulysses (also a simple French reader and Le Petit Prince since I'm just learning French).<p>I also got a book about Ulysses to help me glean as much as possible out of this intellectual and physical monstrosity of a book.

Network Algorithmics - George Varghese; Back of the Napkin - Dan Roam

Halfway into "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" and im liking it so far, specially its hindsights on philosophy and rationality.<p>"Beautiful Data", a couple of chapters, i like the "Beautiful" series cause you can take any chapter as a more or less isolated topic.

Starship Troopers. Began and finished off 1984 after all the hubbub about it recently on HN.

An introduction to probability - Vol I (William Feller)<p>Introduction to dynamic systems - David Luenberger

* Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life, by Winifred Gallagher (So-so. Pop-psychy, but interesting ideas.)<p>* 500 Essential Anime Movies: The Ultimate Guide, by Helen Mccarthy (Perhaps one doesn't actually <i>read</i> such a book, but graze.)<p>* Mister Blank Exhaustive Collection, by Christopher J. Hicks (Fun. Love the art.)<p>* Programming Cocoa with Ruby, by Brian Marick (Tonight I will likely crack this open and see how soon I can code something.)<p>* Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories, by Raymond Carver (Started in, will work slowly through the stories.)<p>Sitting on the floor, beckoning me:<p>* Sunnyside, by Glen David Gold<p>* The Invention of Air, by Steven Johnson

The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War, Brenan <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Labyrinth-Account-Political-Background/dp/0521398274" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Labyrinth-Account-Political-Ba...</a><p>Homage to Catalonia, Orwell <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Homage-Catalonia-George-Orwell/dp/0156421178/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1251784961&#38;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Homage-Catalonia-George-Orwell/dp/0156...</a>

Cabeza de Vaca's <i>Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America</i>

Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges. Always a delight, the two prefaces for the collection written decades apart are a must read (Amazon Look Inside hasn't got it. Don't know why.).

<i>McMafia</i> by Misha Glenny. Interesting read on globalization and organized crime as circumstances have materialized since the end of the Cold War.

IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation<p>Imitation of Life: How Biology Is Inspiring Computing<p>Programming in Python 3

<p><pre><code> The Machinery Of Freedom by David Friedman Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris </code></pre> I'm in the middle of writing a book on emulation, and I'm finding it really hard to read anything tech-wise these days. There's only so long you can see such material before you can't take it anymore, and my own book pushes me over that line most days.

1. The Annotated Turing - Charles Petzold 2. SICP (going very slow) 3. Findability - Peter Morville 4. Making Things Happen - Scott Berkun

Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight by David A. Mindell<p>Gray Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Reverse Engineers by Justin Seitz

Okasaki's "Purely Functional Data Structures"<p>Giola's "The History of Jazz"<p>Herbert's "Chapterhouse: Dune"

<i>Why's (poignant) guide to Ruby</i>. I have no interest in Ruby, I just wanted to read why's thing on paper instead of on the screen. Though with hindsight, it might have been cheaper to just print it.<p><i>Fisher vs. Spassky: inside the 1972 world chess championship</i>. It is crushing me with brute force.<p><i>consider Phlebas</i> by Iain M. Banks. War is hell.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (Taubes)<p>About 700 children's books (Assorted authors)

Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions<p>The Road to Reality (and I'll probably be able to post this for the next 3 or more threads of this type :)<p>Dead Until Dark (well when it comes in, certainly not going to buy this, and the library reserve goes nuts for books that spawn your popular vapire drama)

A friend of mine has been completely obsessed with the Discworld books. I just borrowed "Jingo" and was impressed with how mature it was.(Mature in the ideas presented. The humor is absurd and appropriately silly) Pratchett isn't quite as great as Douglas Adams but is certainly close enough.

Microsoft's Axum Programmers Guide (PDF). The language is beyond me, but I felt like going through it.<p><a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/D/5/BD51FFB2-C777-43B0-AC24-BDE3C88E231F/Axum%20Programmers%20Guide.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/D/5/BD51FFB2-C777-4...</a>

Technical:<p>- <i>Practical Common Lisp</i><p>- <i>Programming Clojure</i><p>Non technical:<p>- <i>Empire</i>, Antonio Negri &#38; Michael Hardt. A deep political and philosophical essay about the transition between modern and postmodern times.<p>- Various material about the International Situationist, an avant-garde political and artistic movement from the 60s.

My basic CS stuff:<p>Still at 'Real World Haskell'...and still not through the Monads part<p>Programming Clojure, started reading<p>Chris Okasaki's Thesis on 'Functional Data Structures'<p>O'Reilly's 'Algorithms in a Nutshell'<p>'Collective Intelligence', T. Segaran, O'Reilly<p>Some old Isaac Asimov books I found in my Landlord's cellar<p>R. L. Stevenson, re-reading 'Treasure Island' on Google Books

Psycho-Cybernetics <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Psycho-Cybernetics-New-More-Living-Life/dp/0671700758" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Psycho-Cybernetics-New-More-Living-Lif...</a><p>probably the best self-help book I've ever read.. Teaches a lot about how to think.

A Code of Jewish Ethics, Volume 2: Love Your Neighbor as Yourself, by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Code-Jewish-Ethics-Neighbor-Yourself/dp/1400048362" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Code-Jewish-Ethics-Neighbor-Yourself/d...</a>

The correct question is, "what are you reading _for_?" and the answer is "I'm reading 'Hee Haw: The Book.'"<p>Actually, it's "Matrix Methods in Data Mining and Pattern Recognition." Two years ago I would have torn through the math but now I'm, uh, less smart.

I'm currently reading "Persepolis," the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, and MIT Press' "A History of Modern Computing." I recently acquired a copy of Steven Levy's "Hackers," which I'd like to at least start before the end of the summer.

Second Treatise of Government - Locke On Liberty - Mill The Communist Manifesto - Marx &#38; Engels Eros &#38; Civilization - Marcuse Civilization and Its Discontents - Freud The Road To Serfdom - Hayak Milestones - Qutb

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.<p>and<p>The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes

The Candy Bombers, about the Berlin Airlift, the political and military conflicts surrounding the Airlift, and the Airlift pilot that started dropping candy for the kids near the airport.

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain De Botton<p>recommended in this thread: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=760771" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=760771</a>

Last three books I read were; Atlas Shrugged, Code Complete, The Mythical Man Month,<p>The three books I'm currently reading; flex and bison, Mastering Algorithms in C Expert C programming,<p>The next three books on the "to read" stack are; Cyptonomicom, The definitive guide to GCC, Managing projects with GNU make,<p>Did anyone else find "Code Complete" to be a bit repetitive, in places a bit redundant, and sometimes repetitive? I think the "pragmatic programmer" was a better read, and I could not put down "programming pearls"

Most recently, been doing some skill refreshing with Jon Bentley's "Programming Pearls" and Paul Graham's "ANSI Common Lisp".<p>Not too long ago, Pepper White's "The Idea Factory".

Growing up, I was a big fan of Robert Aspirin who wrote the Another Fine Myth series. I found out he died recently so I picked up his latest, Dragons Wild. It's a young adult novel but it was a fun, nostalgic read.<p>Prior to that it was House of Suns by Alistair Reynolds. Far-future sci-fi about a group of traders who travel at near-relativistic speeds from planet to planet over billions of years, watching human civilizations rise and fall.

<i>Ulysses</i>, haha.

Just finished "Heretics of Dune". Now starting "Chapterhouse: Dune". Both are Audiobooks I got from Audible.com. Great production for the whole series.

Agile Web Development with Rails. I'm up to Chapter 11 or so, if I remember right. Took a break to solve some puzzles for something completely unrelated. Hopefully I can get back to a chapter a night.<p>After that, I'll probably crack open the Flex 3 Cookbook that Mike Potter sent over. I still feel awful about not having read through that one yet, as Flex 4 is almost ready to be released.

. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance . Harvard Business Review - all the case studies . The Innovator's Dilemma . Ayn Rand++

Reading "Q for Mortals." Highly recommend it for ideas for your next Antlr project. Whitney is a sharp character.<p>Also trying my best to read some fiction - it's gotten progressively more difficult to do over the years (the programmer has become programmed). Best I could muster was to re-read "The First 20 Million is Always The Hardest" by Po Bronson. Precious read.

* The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It :: by Jonathan Zittrain<p>* The Elementary Particles :: by Michel Houellebecq

&#62; <i>I don't ever see this discussed here.</i><p>Nonsense :-).<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=749706" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=749706</a><p>Code Complete 2 [Chapter 7] (McConnell)<p>Test Driven: Practical TDD and Acceptance TDD for Java Developers [Chapter 2] (Koskela)<p>A friend is helping me with this one:<p>The Rebel [Chapter 2] (Camus)

Real World Haskell<p><a href="http://book.realworldhaskell.org/" rel="nofollow">http://book.realworldhaskell.org/</a>

Contemplative Science by B. Alan Wallace. It's about stripping out the analytical tools of Buddhism for study of the mind and creating a robust and consistent tool set for scientific inquiry into the nature of the subjective mind. Very interesting stuff IMO.

Michel Foucault <i>Security, Territory, Population (Lectures at the College De France)</i>

A re-read of the Wheel of Time series - kindof following along with the tor.com re-read (Which is worth checking out if you are a WoT fan). Going to push through the last 4 books in the next 2 months as Book 12 is coming out in Nov.

I'm also finishing Atlas Shrugged finally this week, having just finished The Fountainhead. Next on my list is Anthem, then I think I'll go back to some non-fiction for the next couple books... like Outliers and Capital and Freedom.

Currently reading: "infinite jest" (wallace) "how to rock climb" (john long)<p>On deck for winter: "god created the integers" (hawking) "critique of pure reason" (kant) "illuminatus trilogy" "a brief history of technology" (up to 1900)

Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch<p>The Hobbit<p>Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter by Thomas Cahill<p>I track my reading on Goodreads: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/enkrates" rel="nofollow">http://www.goodreads.com/enkrates</a>

Pride an Prejudice, until 4 in the morning last night. I'm sleepy now at work :)

Infinite Jest, as a long slow process.<p>The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo/The Girl who Played with Fire, each of which I found myself burning through in a day (the new definition of the genre of Swedish crime writing, which is amazing).

<i>Empires of the Silk Road</i> yesterday and <i>Inside Central Asia</i> today. Also <i>The Lightness of Being</i>, <i>A Savage War of Peace</i>, and <i>Confessions of an English Opium Eater</i>.

I'm one of the ones that has too many books on my reading list.<p>Programming in Scala - Odersky et al. Code Complete 2- re reading, its a good read actually Godel Escher Bach - Hofstadter

Ha! I'm the only one apparently reading Melville! I'm reading <i>Omoo</i>, his second book. I finished <i>Typee</i> last week and <i>Omoo</i> is the semi-sequel.

Just finished:<p>"The Great War for Civilisation" - Robert Fisk "Life on the Mississippi" - Mark Twain "3 Commando Brigade" - Ewen Southby-Tailyour "Anathem" - Neal Stephenson

<i>Computational Pharmacokinetics</i> by Anders Källén<p><i>Secrets of Consulting</i> by Gerald Weinberg<p><i>Le Ton Beau de Marot</i> by Douglas Hofstadter<p><i>Born to Win</i> by Muriel James and Dorothy Jongeward

I just finished The Brothers Karamazov. It was excellent.

Do folks here use Library Thing?<p><a href="http://www.librarything.com/home/jamesbritt" rel="nofollow">http://www.librarything.com/home/jamesbritt</a><p>(I've fallen behind in updates ...)

Fatal Revenant by Stephen Donaldson<p>The Art of Happiness by HH Dalai Lama

- <i>SICP</i> by Abelman, Sussman, and Sussman<p>- <i>The Black Company I: Glittering Stone</i> by Glen Cook<p>I try to stick to two books at a time -- one fiction, one nonfiction.

John von Neumann and the origins of modern computing

had my temporary fill of tech books, so:<p>on my bedstand is "when you are engulfed in flames"<p>and my next major read is probably "the gathering storm" once it comes out.

Go It Alone (<a href="http://www.brucejudson.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.brucejudson.com/</a>) by Bruce Judson<p>You can read it free online.

Humpty Dumpty in Oakland by Philip K. Dick<p>Sometimes a little bit of fiction is nice over the usual technical / theory books one might read :)

Read through _Untimely Thoughts_ a couple of weeks ago, have been meaning to pick up _The Great Melody_ by C.C. O'Brien.

* Practical Mathematics * Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student * Foundations of Arithmetic * Emerson's Essays

The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi<p>Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt

Infinite Jest (DFW)<p>Trading and Exchanges (Harris)

* Dynamics of Software Development<p>* Wireless Communications &#38; Networks<p>* Time Management for System Administrators

Founders At Work, On Lisp, SICP, Idoru, The Art of Racing In the Rain (Garth Stein)

C# in Depth: What you need to master C# 2 and 3 &#38; Introduction to Algorithms

Finished Amusing Ourselves to Death a week ago, now reading Cryptonomicon.

I've been trying to get through a book a week recently, and not quite succeeding. Here's the three I'm going through right now (no affiliate links):<p>Arabian Nights, Hussain Haddawy's translation. Hilarious and many life lessons, strongly recommended. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Arabian-Nights-New-Deluxe/dp/0393331660/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1251774786&#38;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Arabian-Nights-New-Deluxe/dp/039333166...</a><p>Healthy at 100, John Robbins. Just started, looks promising. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Healthy-100-Scientifically-Healthiest-Longest-Lived/dp/0345490118/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1251774809&#38;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Healthy-100-Scientifically-Healthiest-...</a><p>The Psychology of Self Esteem, Nathaniel Branden. Gosh, Branden's so smart, I just wish he'd use smaller words and sentences so I could get his general ideas faster. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Self-Esteem-Revolutionary-Approach-Self-Understanding/dp/0787945269/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1251774828&#38;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Self-Esteem-Revolutionary-A...</a><p>I just gave up on "Execution" by Larry Bossidy, it seems good but I wasn't connecting with it right now.<p>I read "Katsuno's Revenge and Other Tales of the Samurai" recently, which was a good, short book. It's like 120 pages, with six stories or so. A few of them were interesting, a few didn't speak to me, but overall worth a read. You'll learn some underpinnings of Japanese culture from it. (Also, it's only $9 on Amazon right now, can just add to cart for next order) - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Katsunos-Revenge-Other-Tales-Samurai/dp/0486447421/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1251774864&#38;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Katsunos-Revenge-Other-Tales-Samurai/d...</a><p>Finished "The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan" recently - very interesting, it's a look at the more political machinations and presents a dirtier, less ethical picture of the great strategists in the Sengoku era. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Samurai-Banner-Classics-Japanese-Literature/dp/0804837015/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1251774893&#38;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Samurai-Banner-Classics-Japanese-Liter...</a><p>Don't start with it if you're not familiar with the era, though, you'll get the general sense wrong. I'd recommend start with Eiji Yoshikawa if you like Japanese history and want to learn more - of course, start with "Musashi", which is fantastic. If you really like it, "Taiko" is good too.<p>Musashi (my favorite book, huge for people who have lots of potential and are having a hard time dealing with people close to them because of it) - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Musashi-Eiji-Yoshikawa/dp/4770019572/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1251774933&#38;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Musashi-Eiji-Yoshikawa/dp/4770019572/r...</a><p>Taiko (start with Musashi, if you like it a lot, pick up Taiko) - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Taiko-Eiji-Yoshikawa/dp/4770026099/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1251774959&#38;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Taiko-Eiji-Yoshikawa/dp/4770026099/ref...</a><p>Also, finished The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing which is the best business book I've read in a long time. Short, simple, to the point. Highly recommended. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/22-Immutable-Laws-Marketing-Violate/dp/0887306667/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1251774971&#38;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/22-Immutable-Laws-Marketing-Violate/dp...</a>

"The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman<p>"Goedel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter

"La reine morte" (The dead queen) by Henry de Montherland.

Inside the Mind of the Shopper - Herb Sorenson Born to Run

* Gödel, Escher, Bach<p>* The Pragmatic Programmer<p>* Programming Clojure<p>* Pragmatic Version Control Using Git

The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson.<p>An amazing book, very readable.

From Beirut to Jerussalem. Thomas Friedman.

Practical Django Projects 2nd edition

Ideas and Opinions - Albert Einstein

Haroun and the Sea of Stories :)

Art of the Start - Guy Kawasaki

Making of the Atomic Bomb

Gang Leader for a Day Cracking the GRE Personal Development for Smart People The Ultimate Sales Machine Finding Your Zone: Ten Core Lessons for Achieving Peak Performance in Sports and Life<p>Must-read-soon: Infinite Jest; Tribes; Influence; Made to Stick; Foundation Rails 2<p>There aren't enough hours in the day. I'm going to shift to a wake-up-at-6-am sleep schedule so I can become a more productive person and have more time to read. Anyway, back to work.

The Brothers Karamazov. Awesome, if only for the casually violent Russian realism that I loved in Преступление и Наказание.<p>As far as learning goes, I'm chugging through the FARs and the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge. I'm about to solo.<p>As far as computer tech stuff goes, I haven't picked up a book with hype (plus requisite clipart/bad drawings/abuse of color space) on the cover in years.<p>Edit: What's up with all the Ayn Rand? Misogyny, xenophobia and unvarnished greed aren't exactly admirable characteristics, and her books read like an apologist's how-to manual. My favorite example of a Rand fanboy now works (when last I checked) at a bowling alley in Santa Barbara, after loudly and memorably insisting that he didn't need liberal pansy friends like me, because he'd be the wealthiest tycoon alive.<p>Yeah.<p>I guess he has a stovepipe hat and a monocle now.

Maximum City - Suketu Mehta Shantharam - Gregory David Roberts