Reading
Here’s a list of books that I’ve been reading. I’ll try to keep this updated as I go, send me an email if you think of one I might enjoy based on what you see below!
Queued
- The Appeal
- The Care And Feeding Of Ideas: A Guide To Encouraging Creativity
- Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
- Home Wasn’t Built in a Day: Constructing the Stories of Our Families
- … more on my wishlist
August 2008
- When Germs Travel: Six major epidemics that have invaded America since 1900 and the fears they have unleashed
- Talking Back: What Students Know about Teaching
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
- Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
- A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
- The Blueprint: How the New England Patriots Beat the System to Create the Last Great NFL Superpower
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
- Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications
- Better Off: Flipping The Switch On Technology
- The Best of Technology Writing 2006
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
- The Design of Everyday Things
- Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
- Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design
- The Soul Of A New Machine
July 2007
- The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness
- Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin’ and Gunnin’ Phoenix Suns
- The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
- Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- Acts of Faith
June 2007
- Traveling Mercies
- Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days
- Micro-ISV: From Vision To Reality
- To End All Wars
- SR-71 Revealed: The Inside Story
May 2007
- The Architecture of Happiness
- Don’t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
- The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
- The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram
- Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero
- This Beautiful Mess
January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
- How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
- Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
- Status Anxiety
- The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
- Hardcore Java
- Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times
- Sojourner : An Insider’s View of the Mars Pathfinder Mission
May 2006
- The Selfish Gene
- Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist
- Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
April 2006
- Through Painted Deserts : Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- To Own A Dragon
- The Business of Software
- Me Talk Pretty One Day
Past
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- Fermat’s Enigma
- On Writing Well
- Six Easy Pieces
- The Code Book
- The Computational Beauty of Nature
- Silence
- Turtles, Termites & Traffic Jams
- Google Hacks
- Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
- Moneyball
- The Complexity of Cooperation
- Hidden Order
- Emergence: From Chaos to Order
- Prisoner’s Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory and the Puzzle of the Bomb
- Gandhi’s Truth: On The Origins of Militant Nonviolence
- The Day I Turned Uncool
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
- Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web
- The Clustered World: How We Live, What We Buy, and What It All Means About Who We Are
- The Age of Spiritual Machines
- The Future of Ideas
- Fast Food Nation
- Bots: The Origin of New Species
- Prey
- G�del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
- microserfs
- Weaving The Web
- Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software
- The Only Guide To A Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need
- Butterfly Economics