My Reading List
I read a lot. I track my reading in Goodreads. Below are some statistics I've compiled over the last few years.
| Year | Total | Pages | Pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 32 (72*) | 10,196 | 318-page book / 5.1 days |
| 2020 | 40 | 14,949 | 373-page book / 9.1 days |
| 2019 | 101 | 32,200 | 318-page book / 3.6 days |
| 2018 | 74 | 25,906 | 350-page book / 4.9 days |
| 2017 | 76 | 27,588 | 363-page book / 4.8 days |
| 2016 | 83 | 27,155 | 327-page book / 4.4 days |
| 2015 | 38 | 12,007 | 315-page book / 9.6 days |
| 2014 | 69 | 21,435 | 310-page book / 5.3 days |
Listed below are all 513 books I have logged on Goodreads with their star ratings, grouped by month. The linked title goes to my review.
Some titles do not have a star rating, usually because I felt I was the wrong audience for the book, in which case I didn't think it was fair to rate it.
When my rating of a book was at least 20% higher or lower than the average of other Goodreads users, I noted the variance.
June 2021
We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
Eliot Higgins
272
★★★★★
May 2021
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
282
★★★★★
The Federal Budget: Politics, Policy, Process
Allen Schick
345
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
Michael Lewis
256
★★★★
Solo
William Boyd
322
★★★★★
Bookstores: a Celebration of Independent Booksellers
Stuart Husband
256
★★★★★
Art of Atari
Tim Lapetino
352
★★★★★
Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal
Ben Sasse
288
★★★★★
Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century
Michael A. Hiltzik
512
★★★★★
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
244
★★★★
The Seine: The River that Made Paris
Elaine Sciolino
370
★★★★★
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
Erika Engelhaupt
N/A
★★★★
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
Nir Eyal
N/A
★★★
Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget
David Wessel
208
★★★★
April 2021
The Second Mountain
David Brooks
384
★★★★
The Road to Character
David Brooks
320
★★★★
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
Clayton M. Christensen
286
★★★★
Is God anti-gay?: And other questions about homosexuality, the Bible and same-sex attraction
Sam Allberry
93
★★★★★
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Deirdre Mask
336
★★★★
The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
Martin Seymour-Smith
N/A
★★★
Trustworthy: How the Smartest Brands Beat Cynicism and Bridge the Trust Gap
Margot Bloomstein
N/A
★★★★★
A History of Reading
Alberto Manguel
372
★★★
March 2021
Content Mapping: Unlocking the Power of Content to Increase Engagement, Leads and Sales
Henry Adaso
N/A
★★★
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
Roman Mars
400
★★★★★
February 2021
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Tom Standage
336
★★★★
A Philosophy of Software Design
John Ousterhout
190
★★★★★
The Grid: Electrical Infrastructure for a New Era
Gretchen Bakke
288
★★★★
A Book of Uncommon Prayer: 100 Celebrations of the Miracle & Muddle of the Ordinary
Brian Doyle
128
★★★★★
What If Jesus Was Serious?: A Visual Guide to the Teachings of Jesus We Love to Ignore
Skye Jethani
N/A
★★★★★
The Laundromat: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite
Jake Bernstein
368
★★★★
January 2021
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
768
★★★
Philosophical Engineering: Toward a Philosophy of the Web
Harry Halpin
216
December 2020
One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder for the Spiritual and Nonspiritual Alike
Brian Doyle
250
★★★★★
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr
513
★★★★★
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Geoffrey B. West
481
★★★★
Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy
Bill Gates
496
★★★★
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
Martin Fowler
431
★★★★★
Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome
Will Bulsiewicz
400
★★★
The Road Ahead
Bill Gates
286
★★★★★
November 2020
Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams
Richard Banfield
248
With: Reimagining the Way You Relate to God
Skye Jethani
224
★★★★★
C# 9 and .NET 5: Modern Cross-Platform Development: Build intelligent apps, websites, and services with Blazor, ASP.NET Core, and Entity Framework Core using Visual Studio Code
Mark J. Price
N/A
★★★★★
Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life: A Former CIA Officer Reveals Safety and Survival Techniques to Keep You and Your Family Protected
Jason Hanson
272
★★
The Bible Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
D.K. Publishing
352
★★★★★
Escape Velocity: Free Your Company's Future from the Pull of the Past
Geoffrey A. Moore
240
★★★
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
Andy Greenberg
368
★★★★
Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value
Melissa Perri
N/A
★★★★★
October 2020
September 2020
One Year Book of Psalms, NLT
William J. Petersen
768
Structured Writing: Rhetoric and Process
Mark Baker
N/A
August 2020
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
206
★★★★
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
Carl T. Bergstrom
336
★★★★
The Magician's Nephew
C.S. Lewis
221
★★★
Pandora's Star
Peter F. Hamilton
768
★★★★
Every Body Matters: Strengthening Your Body to Strengthen Your Soul
Gary L. Thomas
272
★★★★
July 2020
The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions That Shape Our World
Ziya Tong
366
★★★★★
Mindhacker: 60 Tips, Tricks, and Games to Take Your Mind to the Next Level
Ron Hale-Evans
416
★★★
June 2020
The Science of Storytelling
Will Storr
N/A
★★★★
Design Systems: A practical guide to creating design languages for digital products
Alla Kholmatova
288
★★★★
Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
Ashley Mears
320
★★★★★
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
288
★★★★★
Me: Elton John Official Autobiography
Elton John
N/A
★★★★★
May 2020
A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life
Brian Grazer
320
★★★★
Dune
Frank Herbert
604
★★★
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
Kevin Simler
408
★★★★
The Lions of Lucerne
Brad Thor
512
★★
April 2020
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Melanie Mitchell
336
★★★★
How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
Felix Dennis
N/A
★★
The Context Marketing Revolution: How to Motivate Buyers in the Age of Infinite Media
Mathew Sweezey
N/A
★★★
March 2020
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou
339
★★★★★
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
W. Chan Kim
240
★★★★
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan
450
★★★
February 2020
January 2020
December 2019
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
317
★★★★★
Digital Methods
Richard Rogers
280
★★★
Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies
Charles G. Koch
288
★★★
Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution
Karl W. Giberson
256
★★★★★
The New Edge in Knowledge: How Knowledge Management Is Changing the Way We Do Business
Carla O'dell
231
★★★
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Atul Gawande
208
★★★★★
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
Francis S. Collins
294
★★★★★
The Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet
Richard Panek
256
★★★
Measure What Matters
John E. Doerr
N/A
★★★★
The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
Paul C.W. Davies
272
★★★★
Chasing Excellence: A Story about Building the World's Fittest Athletes
Ben Bergeron
N/A
★★★★
The Victorian Internet
Tom Standage
240
★★★★★
The Humanity of God
Karl Barth
96
The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday
Rob Walker
256
★★★★★
What It Means to Be a Democrat
George S. McGovern
N/A
★★★★
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
John McPhee
208
★★★
Letters from a Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father's Questions about Christianity
Gregory A. Boyd
N/A
★★★★★
Why I Left, Why I Stayed: Conversations on Christianity Between an Evangelical Father and His Humanist Son
Tony Campolo
176
★★★★★
The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
Ian Morgan Cron
238
★★★
How Jesus Changed the World: An Illustrated Guide to the Undeniable Influence of Christ
Christopher D. Hudson
288
★★★★★
Impossible to Ignore: Creating Memorable Content to Influence Decisions
Carmen Simon
288
★★★★★
November 2019
Practical Recommender Systems
Kim Falk
432
Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
Lizzie O'Shea
N/A
★★★★
Even in Our Darkness: A Story of Beauty in a Broken Life
Jack Deere
288
★★★★★
Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
Francis Chan
187
★★★★
Artificial Intelligence Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction
Tom Taulli
N/A
★★★
Designing Bots: Creating Conversational Experiences
Amir Shevat
348
★★★★
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Steven Johnson
299
★★★★★
Conversational Marketing: How to Grow Leads, Shorten Sales Cycles, and Improve Your Customers' Experience with Real-Time Conversations
David Cancel
250
★★★★
The Age of Intent: Using Artificial Intelligence to Deliver a Superior Customer Experience
P.V. Kannan
N/A
★★★★
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Sven Birkerts
272
★★★★
Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others
Steven Furtick
240
★★★★
The Case for Christ
Lee Strobel
367
★★★★
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
534
★★★
October 2019
A Skeptic's Guide to Faith: What It Takes to Make the Leap
Philip Yancey
272
★★★★★
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Jordan B. Peterson
409
★★★
The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder
416
★★★
September 2019
Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era
Saul Austerlitz
352
★★★★★
The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Erik Larson
447
★★★★★
How to Write About Contemporary Art
Gilda Williams
264
★★★★
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Donella H. Meadows
240
★★★★★
Mergers & Acquisitions from A to Z
Andrew J. Sherman
N/A
★★★★★
August 2019
Acquired: Now What?: Embrace the flux and uncertainty of M&A and become a savvy and bulletproof business professional.
Keno Vigil
N/A
★★
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
Gabriel Weinberg
354
★★★★★
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
531
★★★★★
Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets
Al Ramadan
272
★★★★
July 2019
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
Darrell Bricker
304
★★★★
A People's History of Computing in the United States
Joy Lisi Rankin
336
★★★
Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy--and How to Make Them Work for You
Geoffrey G. Parker
352
★★★★
Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Henry Hazlitt
218
★★★★
90 Minutes at Entebbe
William Stevenson
216
★★★
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein
352
★★★★
June 2019
Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average
Joseph T. Hallinan
221
★★★
Crushed: Why Guys Don't Have to Make or Break You
Jessie Minassian
208
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel
195
★★★
Delta-V
Daniel Suarez
437
★★★★★
No More Silos: Metadata Strategy for Online Publishers
Michael C. Andrews
410
May 2019
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
Meik Wiking
289
★★★★★
You Don't Know JS: this & Object Prototypes
Kyle Simpson
174
Why you need a content team and how to build one
Rachel McConnell
N/A
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
Melinda French Gates
273
★★★★
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
562
★★★★★
Simply Brilliant: Powerful Techniques to Unlock Your Creativity and Spark New Ideas
Bernhard Schroeder
224
★★★
CSS Master
Tiffany B Brown
354
★★★
CSS: The Definitive Guide
Eric A. Meyer
1123
★★★★★
FreeDarko Presents: The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History
Bethlehem Shoals
223
★★★★★
Data Driven: Harnessing Data and AI to Reinvent Customer Engagement
Tom Chavez
256
★★★
April 2019
The Last Magician
Lisa Maxwell
500
★★★
Hacking Marketing: Agile Practices to Make Marketing Smarter, Faster, and More Innovative
Scott Brinker
288
★★★★
The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy
Chris Bailey
304
★★★★
Complexity: A Guided Tour
Melanie Mitchell
349
★★★★★
The Machine That Changed The World
James P. Womack
N/A
★★★
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Atul Gawande
288
★★★
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
462
★★★★★
March 2019
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence
Christopher M. Andrew
960
★★★
Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide
Alex Reinhart
176
★★★★★
Designing Distributed Systems: Patterns and Paradigms for Scalable, Reliable Services
Brendan Burns
149
Change Agent
Daniel Suarez
416
★★★★
We Are The Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
256
★★★★★
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
James P. Carse
N/A
★★★
Learning to See Version 1.3
Mike Rother
102
February 2019
How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
Brian McCullough
400
★★★★
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
N/A
★★★★★
Educated
Tara Westover
334
★★★★★
Legion versus Phalanx
Myke Cole
288
The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle
Steven Pressfield
168
★★★★
Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism
John Patrick Leary
N/A
★★★
January 2019
The Idea Book
Fredrik Haren
303
★★★★
11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era
Nilofer Merchant
88
★★
The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
Bill Simmons
736
★★★★
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Chris Voss
274
★★★★
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
384
★★★★★
God's Secretaries : The Making of the King James Bible
Adam Nicolson
281
★★★★
The Inquiring Organization: How Organizations Acquire Knowledge and Seek Information
Chun Wei Choo
248
★★★
Sugar: A Bittersweet History
Elizabeth Abbott
464
★★★★★
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
Mark Forsyth
205
★★★★★
Bitwise: A Life in Code
David Auerbach
304
★★★★
The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
Joshua Cooper Ramo
352
★★
The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge
Manuel Lima
208
★★★★
Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last
David Edwards
288
★★
December 2018
Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, Endorphin Levels
Loretta Graziano Breuning
238
★★★
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan
636
★★★★★
The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth
Fred Reichheld
224
★★★
Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s Greatest Art Heist
Stephen Kurkjian
272
★★★
Stand Firm: Resisting the Self-Improvement Craze
Svend Brinkmann
152
★★★
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small: Being the Third Edition of Systemantics
John Gall
314
★★
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places
Jeff Speck
312
★★★★★
Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond
David Nickle
299
★★★★★
November 2018
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
Russell Kirk
534
★★★★★
The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
Gene Kim
437
★★★★★
Digital Dollars and Cents: A Virtual CFO’s Playbook to help Digital Companies Create a Financial Roadmap to Success
Jody Grunden
N/A
★★★
Ready to Be a Thought Leader: How to Increase Your Influence, Impact, and Success
Denise Brosseau
N/A
★★★
Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
Neal Ford
190
★★★★
I'll Be There for You: The One about Friends
Kelsey Miller
304
★★★★★
LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
P.W. Singer
416
★★★★★
October 2018
Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
Steven Johnson
256
★★
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Phil Knight
400
★★★★★
Conceptual Models: Core to Good Design
Jeff Johnson
110
★★★
Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension
Samuel Arbesman
240
★★★★★
Traction
Gino Wickman
N/A
★★★★★
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
Christopher W. Alexander
224
★★★★
The Way of the Web Tester: Reduce Bugs, Increase Quality, Have Fun
Jonathan Rasmusson
180
★★★★
September 2018
Legacy
James A. Michener
174
★★★
Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals
Ken Ballen
305
★★
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
J.R.R. Tolkien
366
★★★
August 2018
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner
496
★★★
Working with MediaWiki
Yaron Koren
314
★★★★★
July 2018
What's In The Bible: The Story Of God Through Time And Eternity
R.C. Sproul
N/A
Dracula
Bram Stoker
488
★★★★★
The Screwtape Letters
C.S. Lewis
223
★★★★
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
117
★★★★
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
Don Tapscott
368
★★★
Node.js Design Patterns
Mario Casciaro
N/A
★★★★★
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
797
★★★★
June 2018
Node.Js the Right Way: Practical, Server-Side JavaScript That Scales
Jim R. Wilson
148
The Win Without Pitching Manifesto
Blair Enns
N/A
★★★★★
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
274
★★★★★
The Thinker's Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving
Morgan D. Jones
384
★★★★
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport
296
★★★★
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
Steve Corbett
232
★★★★★
How to Make Small Talk: Conversation Starters, Exercises, and Scenarios
Melissa Wadsworth
160
May 2018
A Legacy of Spies
John le Carré
264
★★★
The Love of the Last Tycoon
F. Scott Fitzgerald
169
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
181
★★★★★
Whiteboard Selling: Empowering Sales Through Visuals
C. Sommers
256
★★★
Node.js in Action
Mike Cantelon
416
★★★★★
Learning Node: Moving to the Server-Side
Shelley Powers
N/A
★★★★★
Instant Npm
Juzer Ali
N/A
★★★★★
The Art of Conversation: A Guided Tour of a Neglected Pleasure
Catherine Blyth
N/A
★★★
Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups—Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000
Jason Calacanis
288
★★★★★
How Clients Buy: A Practical Guide to Business Development for Consulting and Professional Services
Tom McMakin
272
★★★★★
April 2018
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
193
★★
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Steven Pinker
576
★★★★
March 2018
Introduction to Information Behaviour. Nigel Ford
Nigel Ford
224
★★★★
Content Design
Sarah Richards
224
★★★★★
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch
206
★★★★
The Imposter's Handbook
Rob Conery
463
★★★★
Diplomacy
Henry Kissinger
912
★★★★★
On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World
John Hughes Wilson
N/A
★★★★
February 2018
Are You Sleeping
Kathleen Barber
326
★★★★
The Economists' Diet: The Surprising Formula for Losing Weight and Keeping It Off
Christopher Payne
320
★★★★★
Designing Connected Content: Plan and Model Digital Products for Today and Tomorrow
Carrie Hane
N/A
★★★★★
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
336
★★★★★
Java Pocket Guide: Instant Help for Java Programmers
Robert Liguori
290
★★★★★
January 2018
Why Geography Matters More Than Ever
H.J. de Blij
368
★★★★
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Mark Manson
224
★★★
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
Tim Marshall
256
★★★
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
Rosa Brooks
448
★★★
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoğlu
529
★★★
Holy Bible, NIV
Anonymous
1281
★★★★★
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
Annie Jacobsen
540
★★★
Live from New York: An Oral History of Saturday Night Live
Tom Shales
608
★★★★★
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Ron Chernow
832
★★★★★
December 2017
Not Dead Yet: The Memoir
Phil Collins
371
★★★★
Product Demos That Sell: How to Deliver Winning SaaS Demos
Steli Efti
N/A
★★★★
The Art of SaaS
Ahmed Bouzid
N/A
Interface
Neal Stephenson
640
★★★★
Linked Data
David Wood
336
★★★★
November 2017
October 2017
Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
Laszlo Bock
406
★★★★
Hit Refresh
Satya Nadella
273
★★★
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Jimmy Soni
384
★★★★★
The Cold War: A World History
Odd Arne Westad
710
★★★★★
The Weekend Effect: The Life Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork
Katrina Onstad
304
★★★
The Story of Writing
Andrew Robinson
225
★★★
September 2017
Just Courage: God's Great Expedition for the Restless Christian
Gary A. Haugen
148
★★
The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
272
★★★
August 2017
You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
David McRaney
302
★★★★
Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge
Cass R. Sunstein
271
★★★★★
Project Management for Humans
Brett Harned
N/A
★★★★
Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff
276
Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle
Jeff Flake
N/A
★★★★
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
366
★★
July 2017
Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
Mark Bowden
610
★★★★★
Intuition at Work: Why Developing Your Gut Instincts Will Make You Better at What You Do
Gary Klein
N/A
★★★★
Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World
John Man
320
★
Diffusion of Innovations
Everett M. Rogers
576
★★★★★
Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions
Gary Klein
352
★★★★
Metadata
Jeffrey Pomerantz
256
★★★★★
The Book of Strange New Things
Michel Faber
500
★★★★
June 2017
Structured Analytic Techniques For Intelligence Analysis
Richards J. Heuer Jr.
368
★★★
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Ben Macintyre
364
★★★★★
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg
480
★★★★
Prey
Michael Crichton
507
★★★★★
Airframe
Michael Crichton
431
★★★★★
Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future
Joichi Ito
231
★★★★
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink
320
★★★★
May 2017
Domain-Driven Design Reference: Definitions and Pattern Summaries
Eric Evans
88
★★★★
Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos
Heidi K. Gardner
N/A
★★★
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Edward S. Herman
412
★★★
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
303
★★
Metadata Basics for Web Content: The Unification of Structured Data and Content
Michael C. Andrews
N/A
★★★★
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Philip E. Tetlock
352
★★★★★
Web Content Management: A Collaborative Approach
Russell Nakano
N/A
★★★
The Formation of the Christian Biblical Canon
Lee Martin McDonald
N/A
★★★★
Website Product Management
David Hobbs
120
★★★★★
Typologies and Taxonomies: An Introduction to Classification Techniques
Kenneth D. Bailey
96
The Problem of War in the Old Testament
Peter C. Craigie
128
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck
276
★★★
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
Tom Nichols
272
★★★★
April 2017
The Gutenberg Revolution
John Man
320
★★★
Don't Know Much About® the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned
Kenneth C. Davis
560
★★★★★
Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
Alex Wright
350
★★★★★
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
Abraham Flexner
104
★★★★★
New York 2140
Kim Stanley Robinson
624
★★★
Drupal for Humanists
Quinn Dombrowski
N/A
★★★★
An Introduction to Community & Public Health
James F. McKenzie
638
★★★★★
Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss
Colin B. Burke
384
★★★★★
Relevant Search: With Examples Using Elasticsearch and Solr
Doug Turnbull
250
★★★★★
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Chip Heath
305
★★★★★
March 2017
How to Read the Bible Book by Book: A Guided Tour
Gordon D. Fee
448
★★★★
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
Annie Jacobsen
560
★★★
Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository: A Full Lifecycle Guide
David Marco
416
★★★
Holy Bible: The New King James Version
Anonymous
1536
The Myths of Innovation
Scott Berkun
N/A
★★★★★
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
Douglas Stone
348
★★★★★
February 2017
Content Management Systems
Dave Addey
N/A
★★★★
The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
Charles H. Vogl
216
★★★★
The Manchurian Candidate
Richard Condon
358
★★★★★
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
Lewis Dartnell
340
★★★★
The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air Disasters
Christine Negroni
288
★★★
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
499
★★★★
Cloud Computing
Nayan B. Ruparelia
N/A
★★★★★
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
438
★★
January 2017
The Intelligent Conversationalist: 31 Cheat Sheets That Will Show You How to Talk to Anyone About Anything, Anytime
Imogen Lloyd Webber
416
★★★
Introduction to Metadata
Murtha Baca
96
★★★
Author Experience
Rick Yagodich
178
★★★★
Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World
Pagan Kennedy
288
★★★★
Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up
William Poundstone
352
★★★★★
December 2016
Integrative Document and Content Management: Strategies for Exploiting Enterprise Knowledge
Michael Middleton
554
★★
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Kim Zetter
406
★★★★★
Dancing With Myself
Billy Idol
352
★★★★★
How to Read the Bible Like a Seminary Professor: A Practical and Entertaining Exploration of the World's Most Famous Book
Mark Yarbrough
368
★★★★
Causation: A Very Short Introduction
Stephen Mumford
128
★★★
Managing Content in the Cloud - Enterprise Content Management 2.0
Tom Jenkins
318
★★
Chaos: A Very Short Introduction
Leonard A. Smith
180
★★★
EPUB 3 Best Practices
Matt Garrish
375
★★★★
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction
John H. Holland
112
★★★★
Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis
191
★★★★★
November 2016
Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results
Christina Wodtke
N/A
★★★
Metadata for Content Management: Designing Taxonomy, Metadata, Policy and Workflow to Make Digital Content Systems Better for Users.
David Diamond
184
★★★★★
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
Eric Evans
560
★★★★★
The Social Guidebook to Norway, An Illustrated Introduction
Julien S. Bourrelle
143
★★★★
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild
351
★★★★★
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
Sam Newman
262
★★★★
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling
759
★★★
How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
Kevin Ashton
N/A
★★★★
Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization
Elaine Svenonius
255
★★★★
The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World
Walter Kiechel III
368
★★★★
October 2016
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
324
★★★
The Purpose Economy, How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community is Changing the World
Aaron Hurst
288
★★
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
189
★★★★
Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy
Ann Rockley
365
★★★★
The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business
Duff McDonald
400
★★★★
The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
Keith Houston
N/A
★★★★★
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Sherry Turkle
448
★★★★
The Mindful Diet: How to Transform Your Relationship with Food for Lasting Weight Loss and Vibrant Health
Ruth Wolever
342
★★★★
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Nicholson Baker
370
★★★★
The Content Management Handbook
Martin White
224
★★★★
The Myth of the Paperless Office
Abigail J. Sellen
245
★★★★
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
Thomas Sowell
304
★★★★
Reality: A Plain-Talk Guide to Economics, Politics, Government and Culture
Mike Rosen
402
★★★★
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
Barry Schwartz
265
★★★★★
Digital and Marketing Asset Management
Theresa Regli
240
★★★★★
September 2016
The Essentials of Persuasive Public Speaking
Sims Wyeth
192
★★★
Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg
400
★★★★
The Tacit Dimension
Michael Polanyi
108
★★★
The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
Chris McChesney
296
★★★★★
The Power of Community: CrossFit and the Force of Human Connection
Allison Wenglin Belger
272
★★★
Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure
Ingrid Burrington
N/A
★★★★
A Piece of Cake
Cupcake Brown
472
★★★★★
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
374
★★★★★
Destiny: Step into Your Purpose
T.D. Jakes
272
★
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
Larissa MacFarquhar
336
★★★
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Robert Shea
805
★★
August 2016
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
472
★★★★★
July 2016
The 21st-Century Intranet [With 30-Day Evaluation Version of Radnet]
Jennifer Stone Gonzalez
N/A
★★★★★
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
279
★★
Remote: Office Not Required
David Heinemeier Hansson
256
★★★
How to Research
Loraine Blaxter
287
★★★★
June 2016
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People
Susan M. Weinschenk
242
★★★★
Managing Chaos: Digital Governance by Design
Lisa Welchman
N/A
★★★★
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
Leonard Shlain
496
★★★★
Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language and Life
Jeremy Campbell
N/A
★★★
The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld
Jamie Bartlett
320
★★★★
Intelligent Content: A Primer
Ann Rockley
144
★★★★★
Inside the Box: The Culture, Science, and Sweat of the CrossFit Revolution
T.J. Murphy
224
★★★★
Pretentiousness: Why It Matters
Dan Fox
144
★★★
May 2016
How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times
Roy Peter Clark
272
★★★
The Art of Thinking Clearly
Rolf Dobelli
384
★★★★
Git for Humans
David Demaree
134
★★★★★
April 2016
Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All
William Zinsser
272
★★★
March 2016
Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches
Carl Anderson
N/A
★★★★
The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers
Gillian Tett
304
★★★
A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin
835
★★★★★
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
William Zinsser
336
★★★★★
February 2016
The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
Walter Mischel
336
★★★★
Digital Asset Management: Content Architectures, Project Management, and Creating Order Out of Media Chaos
Elizabeth Keathley
196
Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans
Simon Head
N/A
★★
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
Stewart Brand
252
★★★★★
A Man Named Dave
Dave Pelzer
339
★
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J.K. Rowling
652
★★★★
The Joy of Half a Cookie: Using Mindfulness to Lose Weight and End the Struggle with Food
Jean Kristeller
288
★★★★
The Conservative's Handbook: Defining the Right Position on Issues from A to Z
Phil Valentine
N/A
★★★★★
January 2016
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
Cesar A. Hidalgo
256
★★★★
Why New Systems Fail: Theory and Practice Collide
Phil Simon
264
★★★★
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Martin Ford
352
★★★★
Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python
Joel Grus
N/A
★★
Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
Antonio J. Méndez
310
★★★
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
571
★★★★★
Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus
John Ortberg
219
★★★★★
Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare
246
★★★★★
December 2015
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
635
★★★★
Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts—Becoming the Person You Want to Be
Marshall Goldsmith
244
★★★
Crimes Against Logic: Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists, and Other Serial Offenders
Jamie Whyte
176
★★★★
The Art of Slow Writing: Reflections on Time, Craft, and Creativity
Louise DeSalvo
336
★★★★★
Larry Bond's First Team
Larry Bond
469
★★★
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
Bill Buford
318
★★★
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
152
★★
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Mindy Kaling
222
★★★
Singletasking: Get More Done One Thing at a Time
Devora Zack
N/A
★★
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
Daniel J. Levitin
528
★★★
November 2015
Nets, Puzzles, and Postmen: An Exploration of Mathematical Connections
Peter M. Higgins
247
★★★★
Bad Land: An American Romance
Jonathan Raban
384
★★★★
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Ian Ayres
260
★★★
Getting Started With Ghost
Kezz Bracey
152
★★★★
From Memex to Hypertext
Vannevar Bush
367
★★★★
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
729
★★★
BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
John Palfrey
288
★★★
Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest
Finn Brunton
144
★★
The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? the Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World
Richard Stearns
N/A
★★★
October 2015
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Thomas C. Foster
336
★★★★
Enterprise Search
Martin White
192
★★★
Humans Are Underrated: Proving Your Value in the Age of Brilliant Technology
Geoff Colvin
248
★★★★
September 2015
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War
P.W. Singer
404
★★★
August 2015
July 2015
What Christians Believe: The Foundation Series Volume One
Kenneth N. Myers
198
★★★★
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
Simon Garfield
N/A
★★★★
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
John Markoff
310
★★★
Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus
Kyle Idleman
215
★★★★
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
Michael Booth
416
★★★★★
Laura Werlins Cheese Essentials: An Insider's Guide to Buying and Serving Cheese
Laura Werlin
272
★★★
jQuery Cookbook: Solutions & Examples for jQuery Developers
Cody Lindley
480
★★★★
June 2015
Primates of Park Avenue
Wednesday Martin
248
★★★★
Another Ending
Sara Whitley
309
★★★★
May 2015
The Head Game: High-Efficiency Analytic Decision Making and the Art of Solving Complex Problems Quickly
Philip Mudd
288
★★★★
April 2015
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
Cal Newport
288
★★★★★
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
219
★★★
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Charles Wheelan
304
★★★★★
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Jon Gertner
N/A
★★★★
March 2015
February 2015
January 2015
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson
293
★★★★★
December 2014
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
Neil Strauss
431
★★★★★
100 Ideas that Changed the Web
Jim Boulton
216
★★★★
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
337
★★★★
The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells
192
★★★★★
Bitcoin for the Befuddled
Conrad Barski
249
★★★★
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
227
★★★★
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
268
★★★★★
1984
George Orwell
328
★★★★★
November 2014
Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity
Mark A. Noll
352
★★★
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works
Erik Spiekermann
208
★★
The 20% Doctrine: How Tinkering, Goofing Off, and Breaking the Rules at Work Drive Success in Business
Ryan Tate
208
★★★
Race Against The Machine
Erik Brynjolfsson
N/A
★★★★
Manna
Marshall Brain
79
★★
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Walter Isaacson
542
★★★★★
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
1392
★★★★
Architecture for Dummies
Deborah K. Dietsch
344
★★
October 2014
Taming Text: How to Find, Organize, and Manipulate It
Grant S. Ingersoll
322
★★★
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J.K. Rowling
870
★★★
Developing Analytic Talent: Becoming a Data Scientist
Vincent Granville
336
★
September 2014
Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything
Peter Morville
198
★★
The Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World
Allen W. Dulles
304
★★★
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Jeff Speck
312
★★★★★
The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company
Charles G. Koch
N/A
★★
Processing The News: How People Tame The Information Tide
Doris A. Graber
300
★★★★★
The Carpenter: Build a Winning Team
Jon Gordon
176
★★
How Now Shall We Live?
Charles W. Colson
656
★★★★
August 2014
The 5 Love Languages
Gary Chapman
N/A
★★★★★
Learning to Breathe Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness
J.C. Herz
368
★★★★★
Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
Christopher Steiner
N/A
★★★
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz
304
★★★★
What To Do When There's Too Much To Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 a Minutes Day
Laura Stack
192
★★★★
Business Adventures
John Brooks
408
★★★★
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Michael Lewis
288
★★★★★
The News: A User's Manual
Alain de Botton
272
★★★★
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself
Andrew Pettegree
445
★★★
Word Up! How to Write Powerful Sentences and Paragraphs
Marcia Riefer Johnston
270
★★★★
Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
Alex Harris
N/A
★★★★
July 2014
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Michael Lewis
218
★★★
Programmer's Guide to Drupal
Jennifer Hodgdon
114
★★★★★
June 2014
The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
Nina Teicholz
496
★★★★
Drupal for Designers
Dani Nordin
328
★★★
Rework
Jason Fried
279
★★★
Heart [Not Hype]
Tom Henderson
116
★★★★★
A Technique for Producing Ideas
James Webb Young
64
★★★★
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Roger Fisher
224
★★★★★
The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
Ray Oldenburg
384
★★★★
Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds
Carmine Gallo
288
★★★
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
Andrew Blum
294
★★★★★
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Marcus Luttrell
390
★★★
Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation
Steven Johnson
326
★★★★★
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
Katie Hafner
304
★★★★
May 2014
Emotional Intelligence 2.0
Travis Bradberry
255
★★★
Fitness Confidential
Vinnie Tortorich
250
★★★★★
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg
375
★★★
The Choice: The Christ-Centered Pursuit of Kingdom Outcomes
Gary G. Hoag
126
★★★
April 2014
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
242
★★★★★
Epic Content Marketing: How to Tell a Different Story, Break Through the Clutter, and Win More Customers by Marketing Less
Joe Pulizzi
332
★★★★★
March 2014
Classification Made Simple
Eric J. Hunter
N/A
★★★★
How to Influence People
John C. Maxell
182
★★★★
Asking: A 50-Minute Guide to Everything Board Members, Volunteers, and Staff Must Know to Secure the Gift
Jerold Panas
108
★★★★
The Consulting Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Expand a Seven-Figure Consulting Practice
Alan Weiss
288
★★★★★
The Third Conversion
R. Scott Rodin
N/A
★★★★★
February 2014
Body of Work: Finding the Thread that Ties Your Career Together
Pamela Slim
256
★★★
The Power of Focus
Jack Canfield
336
★★
January 2014
Do the Work
Steven Pressfield
2
★★
Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
Keith Ferrazzi
309
★★★★
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Clay Shirky
N/A
★★★★★
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
Geoffrey A. Moore
211
★★★★
11 Birthdays
Wendy Mass
272
★★★★
