Reading
I love reading! I read before going to bed, at the gym, on the commute, on the sofa, in that cozy corner in our home office, at the coffeehouse, on a plane, in the toilet, in the toilet on the plane (no way), on the train, all-the-time. Here’s what I’m reading and have read in the past, plus some reviews (and I’ve also got a GoodReads if you’re into that).
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2022
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2021

The Science of Storytelling
by Will Storr

The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness #3)
by Joe Abercrombie

The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness #2)
by Joe Abercrombie

Battleground. (The Dresden Files #17)
by Jim Butcher

Peace Talks. (The Dresden Files #16)
by Jim Butcher

Skin Game. (The Dresden Files #15)
by Jim Butcher

Cold Days. (The Dresden Files #14)
by Jim Butcher

Ghost Story. (The Dresden Files #13)
by Jim Butcher

Changes. (The Dresden Files #12)
by Jim Butcher

Turn Coat. (The Dresden Files #11)
by Jim Butcher

Small Favor. (The Dresden Files #10)
by Jim Butcher

White Knight. (The Dresden Files #9)
by Jim Butcher

Proven Guilty. (The Dresden Files #8)
by Jim Butcher

Dead Beat. (The Dresden Files #7)
by Jim Butcher

Blood Rites. (The Dresden Files #6)
by Jim Butcher

Death Masks. (The Dresden Files #5)
by Jim Butcher

Summer Knight. (The Dresden Files #4)
by Jim Butcher

Grave Peril. (The Dresden Files #3)
by Jim Butcher

Fool Moon. (The Dresden Files #2)
by Jim Butcher

Storm Front. (The Dresden Files #1)
by Jim Butcher

Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld #6)
by Terry Pratchett

Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction
by Nick Montfort

Greenlights
by Matthew McConaughey

Anger: Taming a Powerful Emotion
by Gary Chapman

The Girl and the Mountain (The Book of the Ice #2)
by Mark Lawrence

The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential
by Wim Hof

How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
by Derek Sivers

The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle
by Steven Pressfield

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman

How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets
by Dana K. White

He Who Fights With Monsters #5
by Travis Deverell

He Who Fights With Monsters #4
by Travis Deverell

He Who Fights With Monsters #3
by Travis Deverell

He Who Fights With Monsters #2
by Travis Deverell

He Who Fights With Monsters: A LitRPG Adventure
by Travis Deverell

Edge World (Undying Mercenaries #14)
by B.V. Larson

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks

The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual
by Ward Farnsworth

Alien Covenant: Origins
by Dave Gray

Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think
by Dave Gray

Death's End (The Three Body Problem Series #3)
by Cixin Liu

The Dark Forest (The Three Body Problem Series #2)
by Cixin Liu

The Three Body Problem (The Three Body Problem Series #1
by Cixin Liu

Sex, Lies & Statistics: The truth Julie Bindel doesn't want you to read
by Brooke Magnanti

The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Conceps
by Shane Parrish

Sourcery (Discworld #5)
by Terry Pratchett
2020

Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius

Starsight
by Brandon Sanderson

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
by Ryan Holiday and Steven Hanselman

Functional Light JavaScript
by Kyle Simpson

Composing Software: An Exploration of Functional Programming and Object Composition in JavaScript
by Eric Elliott

The First 20 Hours: How To Learn Everything Fast
by Josh Kaufman

Learn You a Haskell For Great Good
by Miran Lipovaca

Haskell Programming From First Principles
by Christopher Allen and Julie Moronuki

Peek: Secrets From the New Science of Expertise
by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool

The Expanse #5. Nemesis Games
by James S. A. Corey

Accessibility for Everyone
by Laura Kalbag
Inclusive Components
by Heydon Pickering

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
by Malcolm Gladwell

The Expanse #6. Babylon's Ashes
by James S. A. Corey

The Expanse #7. Persepolis Rising
by James S. A. Corey

The Expanse #8. Tiamat's wrath
by James S. A. Corey

The Last Wish (The Witcher)
by Andrzej Sapkowski

Sword of Destiny (The Witcher)
by Andrzej Sapkowski

Blood of Elves. The Witcher #1
by Andrzej Sapkowski

Time of Contempt. The Witcher #2
by Andrzej Sapkowski

Baptism of Fire. The Witcher #3
by Andrzej Sapkowski

The Tower of Swallows. The Witcher #4
by Andrzej Sapkowski

The Lady of The Lake. The Witcher #5
by Andrzej Sapkowski

Season of Storms. The Witcher #6
by Andrzej Sapkowski

How to be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi

Sleeping Giants. The Themis Files #1
by Sylvain Neuvel

Waking Gods. The Themis Files #2
by Sylvain Neuvel

Only Human. The Themis Files #3
by Sylvain Neuvel

Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
by K Anders Ericsson

The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene

Hell Yeah or No. What's worth doing.
by Derek Sivers

Hjärnstark: Hur motion och träning stärker din hjärna
by Anders Hansen

Glass World. Undying Mercenaries #13
by B. V. Larson

Caffeine: How caffeine created the modern world.
by Michael Pollan

The Infinite Game
by Simon Sinek

The Last Days of August
by Jon Ronson

Managing Oneself
by Peter F. Drucker

Extreme Ownership (How US Navy seals lead and win)
by Jocko Willink

Med känsla för barns självkänsla
by Petra Krantz Lindgren

The Making of the Prince of Persia
by Jordan Mechner

The Little Book of Gratitude
by Dr. Robert A. Emmons

Equal Rites. Discworld #3
by Terry Pratchett

Mort. Discworld #4
by Terry Pratchett

The Coding Career Handbook
by Shawn Swyx Wang

The Girl and the Stars
by Mark Lawrence

14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers
by Zeno Rocha

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
by Eric Jorgenson

Non violent communication. A language of life.
by Marshall B. Rosenberg

A Man's Search for Meaning
by Victor E. Frankl

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Man Who Knew the Way To The Moon
by Todd Zwillich

Rhythm of War
by Brandon Sanderson

The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
by Seth Godin
2019

The Strange Case of Alchemist's Daughter The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club
by Theodora Goss

This is Marketing: You can't be seen until you learn to see.
by Seth Godin
An IDE called Vim
by Claudio Ribeiro

Mastering Vim: Building a Development Environment with Vim and Neovim
by Ruslan Osipov

The Colour Of Magic
by Terry Pratchett

Potträning på 3 dagar
by Michael Bergenstjerna och Sofia Bergenstjerna

The Lifechanging Magic of Tidying up
by Marie Kondo

Good Omens
by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Just Fucking Ship
by Amy Hoy

Storm World (Undying Mercenaries Vol 10)
by B.V. Larson

How to Fight a Hydra: Face Your Fears, Pursue Your Ambitions, and Become the Hero You Are Destined to Be
by Josh Kauffman

Skyward
by Brandon Sanderson

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
by Greg McKeown

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
by Cal Newport

Rendezvous with Rama
by Arthur C. Clarke

Armor World (Undying Mercenaries Vol 11)
by B. V. Larson

Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire Vol 1)
by Mark Lawrence

King of Thorns (Broken Empire Vol 2)
by Mark Lawrence

Emperor of Thorns (Broken Empire Vol 3)
by Mark Lawrence

Prince of Fools (Red Queen's War Vol 1)
by Mark Lawrence

The Liar's Key (Red Queen's War Vol 2)
by Mark Lawrence

No More Fatigue
by Jack Challem

The Wheel of Osheim (Red Queen's War Vol 3)
by Mark Lawrence

Red Sister (The book of the Ancestor 1)
by Mark Lawrence

Grey Sister (The book of the Ancestor 2)
by Mark Lawrence

Holy Sister (The book of the Ancestor 3)
by Mark Lawrence

Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do it Once and Do it Right
by Jamie Glowacki

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
by David Goggins

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
by Kevin Kelly

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design
by Robert C. Martin

Mercurial: The Definitive Guide
by Bryan O'Sullivan

Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software
by Max Kanat-Alexander

Speed Reading with the Right Brain: Read Faster by Reading Ideas Instead of Just Words
by David Butler

A Little Hatred
by Joe Abercrombie

Clone World
by B.V. Larson

Stillness is the Key
by Ryan Holiday

You're not so smart
by David McRaney

Life 3.0
by Max Tegmark

Leviathan Wakes. The Expanse vol 1
by James S.A. Corey

Caliban's War. The Expanse vol 2
by James S.A. Corey

Abaddon's Gate. The Expanse vol 3
by James S.A. Corey

Cibola Burn. The Expanse vol 4
by James S.A. Corey

Programming TypeScript
by Boris Cherny

The Light Fantastic (Discworld 2)
by Terry Pratchett

Managing Oneself
by Peter F Drucker

Extreme Ownership
by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

Alien 3
by William Gibson
2018

Machine World
by B. V. Larson

Death World
by B. V. Larson

Home World
by B. V. Larson

Rogue World
by B. V. Larson

Blood World
by B. V. Larson

The Magicians
by Lev Grossman

The Magician King
by Lev Grossman

The Magician's Land
by Lev Grossman

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by Matthew Walker

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
by Austin Kleon

The Magic of Thinking Big
by David Schwartz, Jason Culp, Simon & Schuster Audio

Artemis
by Andy Weir, Rosario Dawson, Audible Studios

Anathem
by Neal Stephenson

Dark World
by B.V. Larson

tmux 2: productive mouse-free development
by The Pragmatic Programmers - Brian P. Hogan

Practical Vim 2ed: Edit Text at the speed of thought
by Drew Neil

Modern Vim: Craft Your Development Environment with Vim 8 and Neovim
by Drew Neil

The Fifth Season (Broken Earth Trilogy)
by N.K.Jemisin

It doesn't have to be crazy at work
by Jason Fried, DHH

The Obelisk Gate (Broken Earth Trilogy)
by N.K.Jemisin

This is Marketing
by Seth Godin

Purple Cow
by Seth Godin

Unshakeable
by Tony Robbins

The Stone Sky (Broken Earth Trilogy)
by N. K. Jemisin

Mastering Vim Quickly
by Jovica Ilic

Option B: Facing adversity, building resilience and finding joy
by Sheryl Sandberg

Learning Vimscript the Hard Way
by Steven Losh

The VimL Primer: Edit Like a Pro with Vim Plugins and Scripts
by Benjamin Klein

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
by James Clear

The Wonder Weeks
by Frans X. Plooij, Hetty van de Rijt
2017

The Bands of Mourning: A Mistborn novel
by Brandon Sanderson

Essential Angular
by Victor Savkin

The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People
by Dan Buettner

TED Talk storytelling: 23 storytelling techniques from the best TED talks
by Akash Karia

Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind
by Yuval Noah Harari

Search Inside Yourself
by Chade Meng-Tan

1984
by George Orwell

We are legion (We are Bob)
by Dennis Taylor

What to expect when your wife is expanding
by Thomas Hill

The passage
by Justin Cronin

Opportunities
by Johan Eriksson

Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
by Tim Wu

How Google Works
by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg

First Year (Black Mage Book 1)
by Rachel E. Carter

For We Are Many (Bobiverse #2)
by Dennis Taylor

Apprentice (Black Mage Book 2)
by Rachel E. Carter

Candidate (Black Mage Book 3)
by Rachel E. Carter

Deep work: Rules for focused success in a distracted world
by Cal Newport

Old Man's War
by John Scalzi

Last Stand (Black Mage Book 4)
by Rachel E. Carter

Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley

The Ghost Brigades
by John Scalzi

The Road to Recognition
by Seth Price, Barry Feldman

Learning React: Functional Web Development with React and Redux
by Alex Banks, Eve Porcello

Pappalogi
by Manne Forsberg

Att föda utan rädsla
by Susanna Heli

Så här blir du miljönar i hängmatan
by Per H Börjesson

The New Evolution Diet: What our Paleolithic Ancestors Can Tell Us About Weight Loss, Fitness and Aging
by Professor Arthur De Vany

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose
by Tony Hsieh

Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
by Ryan Holiday

All These Worlds (Bobiverse #3)
by Dennis E Taylor

The Tattooed Ducchess (A Fire Beneath the Skin #2)
by Victor Guischler

A Painted Goddess
by Victor Guischler

Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child
by John Medina

Cracking the Coding Interview
by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

Oathbringer
by Brandon Sanderson

Steel World
by B. V. Larson

Dust World
by B. V. Larson

Leaders Eat Last
by Simon Sinek

A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms: Level Up Your Core Programming Skills
by Jay Wengrow

Building Progressive Web Apps: Bringing the Power of Native to the Browser
by Tal Ater

Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared M. Diamond

Tech World
by B. V. Larson
2016
- Elantris - Brandon Sanderson
- The Design of Everyday Things: Revised edition - Don Norman
- Programming Interviews Exposed - John Mongan
- In the Plex - Steven Levy (re-read)
- Show Your Work - Austin Kleon
- Valve Handbook for New Employees (re-read)
- Daggerspell - Katharine Kerr
- Talk like TED - Carmine Gallo
- DarkSpell - Katharine Kerr
- The Bristling Woods - Katharine Kerr
- How To Shoot a Video That Doesn’t Suck - Steve Stockman
- Reactive Programming with Rx.js - Sergi Mansilla
- The Dragon Revenant - Katharine Kerr
- Work Rules! Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead - Laszlo Bock
- Total Recall: My Unbelivable Life Story - Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Screw it! Let’s do it! Lessons In Life - Richard Branson
- The Rise of Endymion - Dan Simmons
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert T. Kiyosaki
- Ego is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday
- The Dip - Seth Godin (re-read)
- Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
- Sharp Ends: Stories From the World of the First Law - Joe Abercrombie
- Calamity - The Reckoners book 3 - Brandon Sanderson
- Poke The Box - Seth Godin
- The Ocean at the end of the lane - Neil Gaiman
- How to stay motivated - Zig Ziglar
- Anything you want: 40 lessons for the new entrepreneur - Derek Sivers
- Seveneves - Neal Stephenson
- Freedom - Daniel Suarez
- Uprooted - Naomi Novik
- All Marketers are Liars - Seth Godin
- Armada - Ernest Cline
- ng-book 2 - Nate Murray, Ali Lerner, Felipe Coury, Carlos Taborda
- Angular 2 Router - Victor Savkin
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - Angela Duckworth
- Count Zero - William Gibson
- The Zen of e-book marketing - Guido Henkel
- The Trusted Advisor - David H. Maister, Charles H. Green, Robert M. Galford
- Functional JavaScript - Michael Fogus
- Spell or High Water - Scott Meyer
- The subtle art of not giving a fuck - Mark Manson
- Badass: Making users awesome - Kathy Sierra
- Ink Mage
2015
- RESTful Web APIs - Leonard Richardson, Mike Amundsen, Sam Ruby
- 100 Things Every Designer Should Know About People - Susan Weinschenk
- The Art of Letting Go - Leo babauta
- Test Driven Development: By Example - Kent Beck
- The Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday
- 70-480: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 - Rick Delorme
- The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
- Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual - John Sonmez
- The War Of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
- Half the World - Joe Abercrombie
- SMACSS: Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS
- Snowcrash - Neal Stephenson
- The Left Hand Of God - Paul Hoffman
- The Last Four Things - Paul Hoffman
- The Beating of his Wings - Paul Hoffman
- Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time - Brian Tracy
- Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
- Princess Of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC4 Applications - Willian Penberthy
- From Good To Great: Why some companies make the leap… and others don’t - Jim Collins
- Trust me, I am lying: Confessions of a media manipulator - Ryan Holiday
- Gods of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Warlord of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Speed Reading: How to double or triple your reading speed in just one hour -Justing Hammond
- Speed Reading for Beginners - James T. Rose
- Exam Ref 70-487: Developing Windows Azure and Web Services - Ryan de Kort Milton
- Endymion - Dan Simmons
- The Sell: The Secrets of Selling Anything to Anyone - Fredrik Eklund
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the quest for a fantastic future - Ashlee Vance
- Leap First: Create Work that Matters - Seth Goding
- Mindfulness, a Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantric World
- Master and Commander - Patrick O’Brian (6th time I read this book XD)
- Half a War - Joe Abercrombie
- Daily Rituals - How Artists Work - Mason Currey
- Firefight - The Reckoners - Brandon Sanderson
- F*** Anxiety - Robert Duff Ph.D
- Authority: Become an Expert, Build a Following and Gain Financial Independence - Nathan Barry
- I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
- 2001 Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
- Lean UX - Jeff Gothelf
- Debt Updated and Expanded: The First 5000 years - David Graeber
- Shadows of Zambula - Robert E. Horward
- 2010: Odyssey Two - Arthur C. Clarke
- Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time - Jeff Sutherland
- User-Centered Design: A Developer’s Guide to Building User Friendly Applications - Travis Lowdermilk
- The Martian - Andy Weir
- The Dungeoneers - Jeffery Russell
- Shadows of Self - Brandon Sanderson
- Money: Master the Game, 7 Easy Steps to Financial Freedom - Tony Robbins
- Programming JavaScript Applications - Eric Elliott
2014
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life - Scott Adams
- The Opportunity Analysis Canvas - Dr. James V. Green
- The Stand - Stephen King
- Outliers, The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
- Enders Game - Scott Orson Card
- LINQ pocket reference - Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari
- Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
- Masters of Doom - David Kushner
- The Pomodoro Technique 3rd ed (updated and revised) - Francesco Cirillo
- Daemon - Daniel Suarez
- NoSQL Distilled - Pramod J. Sadalage
- Start Small, Stay Small - Rob Walling
- Free-to-Play: Making Money From Games You Give Away - Will Luton
- Railsea - China Mieville
- Why Marketing Yourself is Important - John Somnez
- The Dip - Seth Godin
- On Writing - Stephen King
- The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson (re-read xD)
- The New Psycho-Cybernetics - Maxwell Maltz
- Seductive Interaction Design - Stephen P. Anderson
- Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson
- Warren Buffet’s Management Secrets - Mary Buffet
- Startup - Kevin Ready
- Drive, The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Daniel H. Pink
- The Millionaire Fastlane - MJ De Marco
- The Passionate Programmer - Chad Fowler
- Infinity Blade: Awakening - Steven Sanderson
- Half a King (Shattered Sea) - Joe Abercrombie
- The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
- How to Win at the Sport of Business - Mark Cuban
- Principles of Object Oriented JavaScript - Nicholas C. Zackas
- Red Seas Under Red Skies - Scott Lynch
- What I Learned From Failure - Reginald Braithwaite
- Purple Cow - Seth Godin
- The Republic of Thieves - Scott Lynch
- Shark Tank Jump Start Your Business - Michael Parrish DuDell
- The Crystal Shard - The Legend of Drizzt Book IV - R.A. Salvatore
- Steelheart - Brandon Sanderson
- Streams of Silver - The Legend of Drizzt Book V - R.A. Salvatore
- The Halfling’s Gem - The Legend of Drizzt Book VI - R.A. Salvatore
- The Legacy - The Legend of Drizzt Book VII - R.A. Salvatore
- How Google Works - Eric Schmidt
- Flow: The Psychology of the Optimal Experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- The Art of Unit Testing: 2nd edition - Roy Osherove
- Die Empty - Todd Henry
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol Dweck
- Cirkeln - Sara B. Elfgren
- The Hacker Ethic: A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business - Pekka Himanen
- Off to Be a Wizard (Magic 2.0 Book 1) - Scott Meyer
- JavaScript Allongé - Reginald Braithwaite
2013
- Beginning Windows 8 Application Development, XAML edition - Kyle Burns
- Legion - Brandon Sanderson
- The Wheel of Time 14: A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson 1.. Notes to a Software Team Leader: Growing Effective Software Teams - Roy Osherove
- Pair programming Illuminated
- Assassin’s Apprentice - Robin Hobb
- How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
- JavaScript the Good Parts - Douglas Crockford
- The 4 Hour Body - Timothy Ferris
- Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb
- The Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov
- Bigger, Leaner, Stronger - Michael Matthews
- Assassin’s Quest - Robin Hobb
- Your money or your life - Vicki Robin
- Made to stick
- The tipping point
- Start with the why
- Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
- Wool omnibus - Hugh Howey
- Kafka on the shore - Haruki Murakami
- I will teach you to be rich - Ramit Sethi
- The Icarus deception - Seth Godin
- The millionaire next door
- Så här kan alla svenska bli miljonärer - Per Håkan Börjesson
- Så här blev Warren Buffet världens rikaste person - Per Håkan Börjesson
- Så här får du et rikt liv som pensionär - Per Håkan Börjesson
- The Art of Agile Development - James Shore
- Rework - Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
- The first 20 hours - Josh Kaufman
- The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business - Josh Kaufman
- The Opinionated Software Developer - Shawn Wildermuth
- Without Their Permission - Alexis Ohanian
- Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans
- Eloquent JavaScript - Adam Freeman
- El puente de los asesinos - Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- The Secret - Rhonda Byrne
2012
- In the Plex - Steven Levy
- Getting Results the Agile Way - J.D. Meier
- The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
- Zen to Done - Leo babauta
- How to Negotiate - Robert Mayer
- The Alloy of Law: A mistborn novel - Brandon Sanderson
- 7 habits of highly effective people - Stephen R. Covey
- Why do we get fat? - Gary Taubes
- A Short Victorious War - David Webber
- Easyway to stop smoking - Allen Carr
- The Body Fat Solution - Tom Venuto
- The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
- The Moder Scholar, A Way with Words I - Michael D.C. Drout
- The power of habits - Charles Duhigg
- Wine for Dummies - Ed McCarthy and Mary Ewing-Mulligan
- Tribes - Seth Godin
- Art of Readable code - Dustin Boswell and Trevor Foucher
- The pragmatic programmer - Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
- Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
- Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
- Stephen King - The dark tower (The wind through the KeyHole)
- What every body is saying - Joe Navarro
- Linchpin - Seth Godin
- Theory of fun - Raph Koster
- The Modern Scholar, A way with words II - Michael D.C. Drout
- Don’t make me think - Steve Krug
- Hyperion - Dan Simmons
- The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons
- Extreme Programing Explained - Kent Beck
- Apprenticeship Patterns - Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye
- Warbreakers - Brandon Sanderson
- Effective Programming: More Than Just Code - Jeff Atwood
- Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great Esther Derby
- Field Of Dishonor - David Weber
- The Phoenix Guard - Steven Brust
- Five Hundred Years After - Steven Brust
- Foundation - Isaac Asimov
- Neuromancer - William Gibson
- Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
- Red Country (Joe Abercrombie)
- Refactoring (Martin Fowler)
- Windows Phone 7.5 Unleashed - Daniel Vaughan
- How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes - Peter D. Schiff
- The 4 Hour Workweek - Timothy Ferris
- Temeraire: Tongues of Serpents - Naomi Novik
- Foundation And Empire - Isaac Asimov
- Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better - Doug Lemov
2011
- The Art of unit testing - Roy Osherove
- Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# - Robert C. Martin
- Clean Code: A Handbook of Software Craftsmanship - Robert C.Martin
- The Clean Coder - Robert C. Martin
- Buiding Wealth: A beginner’s guide to securing your financial future
- On Basilisk Station - David Weber
- The Honor of the Queen - David Weber
- Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions - Guy Kawasabi
- Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 - Steven Sanderson
- A Dance With Dragons - George R.R. Martin
- The Wise Man’s Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
- Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson
- The Well of Ascension - Brandon Sanderson
- The Hero of Ages - Brandon Sanderson
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe - Douglas Adams
- Life, The Universe And Everything - Douglas Adams
- So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish - Douglas Adams
And before…
For a complete lists of books that goes back in time to my tender childhood check my GoodReads profile. I think I’ve got most of them although there may be something missing.
Essays I’ve written
More Things I’d like to Read
- Better Web Typography for a better web
- The nature of code
- The developer advocacy handbook
- Designed for Use
- Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
- Seven Databases in Seven Weeks
- Technical Blogging
- The Agile Samurai
- [The Passionate Programmer][]
- Coders At Work
- Gamestorming
- Software Estimation
- Kanban from David Andersson
- Practices of an Agile Developer
- Software Craftsmanship
- Designing for emotion
- Code Complete
- Universal Principles of Design
- Out of our Minds (Ken Robinson)
- Valve handbook
- Personal Kanban
- 97 things every programmer/softwareArchitect should know
- Apress - Pro LINQ in C# 2010
- Seven Languages In Seven Weeks
- Lifehacker book
- Beautiful code
- Something about linux
- Something about python as sys admin/hacking
- Reactive Extensions
- Behavior driven development or Machine Specification
- A book apart design books
- Martin Fowlers!!!!!
- Pro Net Best Practices
- Read about NuGet
- Read book about .NET dependency injection
- Agile Practices, Patterns and Principles in C#
- Implementation Patterns -> Kent Beck
- Agile NET Development with SCRUM
- Digital Art in Photoshop
- The idea book
- Professional TDD, wrox
- HTML5 Game Development
- Test driven development, ken bent.
- Presentation Zen
- Learning how to draw in 30 days
- MoxyLand
- ZooCity
- The Book Thief
- Daggerspell series
- Game of Thrones and Philosophy.
- wikinomics, macrowikinomics
- The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders & Deceivers
- The Art of Deception
- David Allen - Making it all work, etc etc
- The Natural Way To Draw
Books On Hold (or most accurately abandoned)
- Non-fiction: Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Productivity: Tools of Titans - Tim Ferris
- User Experience: Emotional Design - Don Norman
- Programming: Growing object-oriented software guided by tests - Steve Freeman
- Science: A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawkings
- Philosophy: Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
- Programming: Pro Git 2 - Scott Chacon
- Programming: The Book of F#: Breaking Free with Managed Functional Programming - Dave Fancher
- Programming: Seven Databases in Seven Weeks - Eric Redmond
- Programming: Objective C Programming, The Big Nerd Ranch Guide - Aaron Hillegass
- Programming: Seven Languages In Seven Weeks - Bruce A. Tate
- Programming: Effective JavaScript - David Herman
- Programming: Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja - John Resig, Bear Bibeault
- Programming: [Domain Specific Languages - Martin Fowler
- Programming: [Pro .NET Best Practices - Stephen D. Ritchie
- Programming: [Gamification By Design - Gabe Zichermann
- Programming: ng-book
- Literature: Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
- Essay: Fluent in 3 months - Benny Lewis
- UX: Information Architecture for the Web and Beyond - Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld
- Programming: The Art of Unix Programming - Eric S. Raymond

Written by Jaime González García , dad, husband, software engineer, ux designer, amateur pixel artist, tinkerer and master of the arcane arts. You can also find him on Twitter jabbering about random stuff.