This is a history of the books I have read or am currently reading. I have listed these in a year-end review, but I thought some of you might want to see an actively updated list.
Currently Reading
UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship
Broken Angels
2020
Fun
Leviathan Wakes
Caliban’s War
Gods of Risk: An Expanse Novella
Abaddon’s Gate
The Vital Abyss
Cibola Burn
The Churn
Auberon
Nemesis Games
Babylon’s Ashes
Persepolis Rising
Tiamat’s Wrath
Altered Carbon
Bedtime Stories for Cynics
Personal Development
The $100 Startup
The Art of Conflict Management
Atomic Habits
Get Your Sh*t Together
How to Argue: Powerfully, Persuasively, Positively
I Hear You
Love Works.
Make It Stick
Man’s Search for Meaning
Payoff
Personality Isn’t Permanent
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Start with Why
Tools of Titans
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
The Unicorn Project
Verbal Judo
Working Successfully with Screwed-Up People
Other
The 3-Day Effect
Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
The Everything Store
The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon
Hit Refresh
Software/Career
A Programmer’s Guide to Computer Science
2019
Fun
Artemis
Atlas Shrugged
Freakonomics
God’s Debris
Ready Player One
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Return of the King
The Two Towers
Personal Development
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
48 Laws of Power
Can’t Hurt Me
The Checklist Manifesto
Drive
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
How to Fight a Hydra
How to Talk to Anyone
The Introvert’s Edge
Letting Go
Life Unlocked
Me, Inc.
The Power of Habit
Presence
Radical Acceptance
Rejection Proof
Self-Discipline: Develop Good Habit. Achieve Your Goals.
The Richest Man in Babylon
The Top 10 Rules for Success
The Undefeated Mind
Software/Career
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Beyond Legacy Code
Domain-Driven Design
Head First Design Patterns
The Imposter’s Handbook Season 2
The New One Minute Manager
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Part 1, Part 2 is for reference)
2018
Blogging
From Zero to Thousands of Target Blog Subscribers in 60 Days
Personal Development
The 5 Second Rule
Algorithms to Live By
Antifragile
As a Man Thinketh
Be Obsessed Or Be Average
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
The Compound Effect
The New Kingmakers
The Power of Now
Presence
Principles
Psycho-Cybernetics
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
Slipstream Time Hacking
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
Stop Being Lazy
The Subtle Are of Not Giving a F*ck
Unshakeable
Wait, What?
Willpower Doesn’t Work
Your One Word
Business
Crushing It!
The E-Myth Revisited
Zero to One
Fun
Fight Club
The Hobbit
The Sword of Shannara Trilogy
What If?
Health
Software/Career
Clean Architecture
Curious Moon
Modern API Design with ASP.NET Core 2
Writing High-Performance .NET Code
2017
Biographical/Entertaining
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Living with a Seal (I laughed a lot on this one)
Business
EntreLeadership (Free gift from CodeStock)
The Phoenix Project
Health
The Obesity Code (Very informational if you struggle with weight read this one)
Parenting
The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child
Personal Development
Think and Grow Rich
Boundaries
Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Banish Your Inner Critic
The Energy Bus
Eat That Frog!
The 10X Rule
Peak Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
Moonwalking with Einstein
Deep Work
Software/Career
SOLID Principles Succinctly
.NET Core Succinctly
Little ASP.NET Core Book
The Imposter’s Handbook
The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide