Reading List

I’m an avid reader, and my tastes are pretty eclectic.  I read fiction while vacationing and traveling, non-fiction during breakfast, and technical books in the evenings and on quiet weekends – I don’t watch much tv nor do I have cable. And if you want to be an enabler or see what’s next on my list check out my Amazon wishlist :)

Here are my latest reads (within the last 3 years):

Current Reading List:

  • Design for Hackers – David Kadavy
  • The Chocolate Connoisseur – Chloe Doutre-Roussel
  • The Sweet Life in Paris – David Lebovitz
  • The Mesh – Lisa Gansky
  • Wanderlust – Elisabeth Eaves
  • Low Stress Food – Joon Yung

Queued Up:

  • Smart & Gets Things Done – Joel Spolsky
  • Built to Last – Jim Collins
  • Good to Great – Jim Collins
  • Founders at Work – Jessica Livingston
  • Behind the Cloud – Mark Benioff
  • Creative Capital – Spencer E. Ante
  • Word of Mouth Marketing – Andy Sernovitz

Fiction/Fun:

  • Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child – Noel Fitch
  • Pilgrims – Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Dimanche and Other Stores – Irene Nemirovsky
  • Summer at Tiffany – Marjorie Hart
  • Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri
  • My Life in France – Julia Child
  • Mysteries of Pittsburgh – Michal Chabon
  • Stern Men – Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
  • New Moon – Stephenie Meyer
  • Julie & Julia – Julie Powell
  • The Last Voyage of Columbus – Martin Dugard
  • Founding Mothers – Cokie Roberts
  • Geography of Bliss – Eric Weiner
  • Sway: The Irresistable Pull of Irrational Behavior – Ori & Rom Brafman
  • Simply Irresistable – Ellen T. White

Business/Entrepreneurship/Career:

  • Good Boss, Bad Boss – Robert I. Sutton
  • Street Smarts – Norm Brodsky & Bo Burlingham
  • Rework – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
  • Making Ideas Happen – Scott Belsky
  • Delivering Happiness – Tony Hsieh
  • Mastering the VC Game – Jeffrey Bussgang
  • The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company – Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, James Noel
  • Great Demo! – Peter E. Cohen
  • Brand Sense – Martin Lindstrom
  • The Secret – Ken Blanchard & Mike Miller
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni
  • The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton M. Christensen
  • Made to Stick – Chip Heath & Dan Heath
  • Never Eat Alone – Keith Ferrazzi
  • Positioning – Al Ries & Jack Trout
  • Basic Black – Cathie Black
  • Secrets of Six Figure Women – Barbara Stanny
  • Getting to Yes – Roger Fisher & William Ury
  • Getting Things Done – David Allen

Programming/Design:

  • Agile Development with Rails – Samy Ruby & Dave Thomas
  • Mental Models – Indi Young
  • Building Social Web Applications
  • Clean Code – Robert C. Martin
  • Rockstar Programmers – Ed Burns
  • Test Driven Development – Thomas Hammell & Tom Snyder
  • The Laws of Simplicity – John Maeda
  • Design of Everyday Things – Donald Norman

Some of the blogs I read:

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  1. December 2nd, 2011

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