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Currently on my reading list
Some free books from Amazon, some blog posts, some textbooks, some poetry.
Wool
Howey, Hugh
Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
Schneier, Bruce
Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work : The New Yorker
newyorker.com
The Last Night of the Earth Poems
Bukowski, Charles
If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does?
michaelnielsen.org
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (dual language Russian and English)
Nadezhda Voytinskaya
Wool 2 - Proper Gauge
Howey, Hugh
The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
Schell, Jesse
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Menneskehavn
Lindqvist, John Ajvide
Godel's Proof
Newman, James R.
Catch-22
Buckley, Christopher
How to Read a Book (A Touchstone book)
Adler, Mortimer J.
Art of Learning, The
Waitzkin, Josh
Action and habit
lesswrong.com
If You Want to Write
Ueland, Brenda
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Orwell, George
Presumed Dead
Lee, Henry
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Kafka, Franz
Shogun
Clavell, James
Predictable Success
McKeown, Les
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Utilitarianism
Mill, John Stuart
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Pirsig, Robert M.
Old Man and the Sea, The
Hemingway, Ernest
Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
Moon, Youngme
Design of Everyday Things
Norman, Don
The Name of the Rose
Eco, Umberto
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Thompson, Hunter S.
Fight Club: A Novel
Palahniuk, Chuck
Confessions of a Public Speaker
Scott Berkun
Surely Youre Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Feynman, Richard P.
Influence
Cialdini, Robert B.
Cognitive Surplus
Shirky, Clay
Coders at Work
Peter Seibel
The Happiness Hypothesis
Haidt, Jonathan
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Thomas, David
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition
Brooks, Frederick P.
The Emperor
Kapuscinski, Ryszard
Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone
Goulston M.D., Mark
Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation
Hogshead, Sally
The Paradox of Choice
Schwartz, Barry
A Mathematician's Apology
G. H. Hardy
The Naked Ape
Morris, Desmond
Everything is Illuminated
Foer, Jonathan Safran
Atlas Shrugged: (Centennial Edition)
Rand, Ayn
Cryptonomicon
Stephenson, Neal
Pulp
Bukowski, Charles
Factotum
Bukowski, Charles
In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman: Mathematics at the Limits of Computation
Cook, William J.
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Gleick, James
Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Great Wave:Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
Fischer, David Hackett
Risk
Gardner, Dan
The Crying of Lot 49
Pynchon, Thomas
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
The Jewel In The Crown (The Raj quartet)
Scott, Paul
The Armchair Economist [revised and updated May 2012]
Landsburg, Steven E.
Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy, 4th Edition
Sowell, Thomas
1Q84: Books 1 and 2
MURAKAMI, Haruki
A Short History Of Nearly Everything
Bryson, Bill
The Year of the Hare: A Novel
Paasilinna, Arto
The Psychology of Humor: An Integrative Approach
Martin, Rod A.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel
Chabon, Michael
Liar's Poker
Lewis, Michael
The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One
Rothfuss, Patrick
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Roach, Mary
Infinite Jest
Wallace, David Foster
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Chouinard, Yvon
The Colour Of Magic (Discworld Novels)
Pratchett, Terry
The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
Wilczek, Frank
The Gallic War : Seven Commentaries on The Gallic War with an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius (Oxford World's Classics)
Caesar, Julius
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
de Botton, Alain
The Power of Habit
Duhigg, Charles
The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
Hale, Benjamin
Life Of Pi
Martel, Yann
On the Road
Kerouac, Jack
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Lister, Timothy R.
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zzak commented Jul 1, 2012

old man and the sea was one of my favorite books growing up, excellent choice

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