Books I’ve Read

Below is a list of books I’ve read over the years. Some of the eariler dates may be off. (Last update: June 25, 2011)

Years

2011

  1. Continuous Testing: with Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript by Ben Rady, Rod Coffin
  2. No B.S. Price Strategy by Dan S Kennedy
  3. You Are Your Own Gym by Joshua Clark and Mark Lauren
  4. Linchpin by Seth Godin
  5. The Power of Less by Leo Babauta
  6. Zen To Done by Leo Babauta
  7. How to Write & Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit by Robert W Bly
  8. Value-Based Fees by Alan Weiss
  9. 1001 Ways To Relax by Susannah Marriott
  10. The 16 % Solution, Revised Edition: How to Get High Interest Rates in a Low-Interest World with Tax Lien Certificates by J.D. Joel S. Moskowitz
  11. Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
  12. Web Copy That Sells: The Revolutionary Formula for Creating Killer Copy That Grabs Their Attention and Compels Them to Buy by Maria Veloso
  13. The Eye of the World: Book One of ‘The Wheel of Time’ by Robert Jordan
  14. My Boys Can Swim!: The Official Guy’s Guide to Pregnancy by Ian Davis
  15. The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime by MJ DeMarco
  16. The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
  17. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  18. Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, Third Edition: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping – Now Revised and Updated by Robert M. Sapolsky
  19. Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
  20. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup by Rob Walling
  21. Small Changes Big Profits by Paul Hancox
  22. Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
  23. Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
  24. White Night (The Dresden Files, Book 9) by Jim Butcher
  25. Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
  26. White Night (The Dresden Files, Book 9) by Jim Butcher
  27. Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, Book 8) by Jim Butcher
  28. Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
  29. Death Masks: Book Five of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
  30. Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
  31. Blood Rites: Book Six of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
  32. Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
  33. Thrive: The Vegan Nutrition Guide to Optimal Performance in Sports and Life by Brendan Brazier
  34. Online Income Blueprints Vol. 1: 14 Internet Entrepreneurs Reveal The Secrets To Their Online Success by James B. Allen
  35. Quarter Share by Nathan Lowell
  36. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  37. The New World by Patrick Ness
  38. The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss
  39. Phenomenal Girl 5 (Elite Hands of Justice) by A. J. Menden
  40. Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content by Mark Levy
  41. The Crown Conspiracy: The Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan
  42. Avempartha (The Riyria Revelations, Vol. 2) by Michael J. Sullivan
  43. Nyphron Rising: The Riyria Revelations (Volume 3) by Michael J. Sullivan
  44. The Emerald Storm (The Riyria Revelations, Vol. 4) by Michael J. Sullivan
  45. Wintertide (The Riyria Revelations, Vol. 5) by Michael J. Sullivan
  46. No B.S. Direct Marketing: The Ultimate, No Holds Barred, Kick Butt, Take No Prisoners Direct Marketing for Non-direct Marketing Businesses by Dan Kennedy
  47. Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, Book 2) by Jim Butcher
  48. Storm Front (The Dresden Files, Book 1) by Jim Butcher
  49. Meditation Now or Never by Steve Hagen
  50. Sheepfarmer’s Daughter (The Deed of Paksenarrion, Book 1) by Elizabeth Moon

2010

  1. The Thoughtworks Anthology by Thoughtworks
  2. Bright of the Sky by Kay Kenyon
  3. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
  4. The Wealthy Freelancer by Steve Slanwhite
  5. No B.S. Wealth Attraction for Entrepreneurs by Dan S. Kennedy
  6. Authority Rules – The 10 Rock Solid Elements of Effective Online Marketing by Brian Clark
  7. Raw Food Made Easy: For 1 or 2 by Jennifer Cornbleet
  8. The Ultimate Sales Letter by Dan S. Kennedy
  9. Desperate Buyers Only 2010 by Alexis Dawes
  10. Good and Fast Content Creation Formula by Alexis Dawes
  11. The Paradise War by Stephen R Lawhead
  12. Don’t Just Roll The Dice – A usefully short guide to software pricing by Neil Davidson
  13. Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn
  14. How to Launch the **** out of Your Ebook by Dave Navarro
  15. Confessions of a Public Speaker by Scott Berkun
  16. The Thoughtworks Anthology: Essays on Software Technology and Innovation by ThoughtWorks, Inc.
  17. Overtime: A Tor.com Original by Charles Stross
  18. Buddhism Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen
  19. Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today by David P Clark
  20. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
  21. His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
  22. Web Design for Developers by Brian Hogan
  23. The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
  24. Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin
  25. Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
  26. Coders at Work by Peter Seibel
  27. No BS Business Success by Dan Kennedy
  28. The Maritime Northwest Garden Guide by Seattle Tilth
  29. No BS Time Management for Entrepreneurs by Dan Kennedy
  30. Ruby Best Practices by Gregory T Brown
  31. The End of Overeating by David A Kessler, MD
  32. Rich Woman by Kim Kiyosaki
  33. Your Money: The Missing Manual by J.D. Roth
  34. The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
  35. Newtons Cannon by J Gregory Keyes
  36. Kneadlessly Simple by Nancy Baggett
  37. What Einstein Told His Cook 2 by Robert L. Wolke
  38. Bernard Clayton’s New Complete Book of Breads by Bernard Clayton
  39. No Need To Knead by Suzanne Dunaway
  40. Slow-Cooker Cookbook by
  41. What Einstein Told His Cook by Robert L Wolke
  42. Purple Cow by Seth Godin
  43. Eat for Health by Joel Fuhrman, MD
  44. Go Dairy Free by Alisa Marie Fleming
  45. Your Portable Empire by Pat O’Bryan
  46. Breakfast in Bridgetown by Paul Gerald

2009

  1. Eat to Live by Joel Fuhrman, MD
  2. Beyond Booked Solid by Michael Port
  3. Almost Vegetarian by Diana Shaw
  4. Oregon Nature Weekends by Jim Yuskavitch
  5. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
  6. Good To Great by Jim Collins
  7. Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson
  8. Living Green: The Missing Manual, 1st Edition by Nancy Conner
  9. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg
  10. Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky’s Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent by Joel Spolsky
  11. Living Green: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner
  12. The Web Startup Success Guide by Bob Walsh
  13. All new Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew
  14. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
  15. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
  16. The Joy of Simple Living by Jeff Davidson
  17. Your Body: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald
  18. Pulling Strings with Puppet by James Turnbull
  19. Glasshouse by Charles Stross
  20. Duct Tape Marketing by John Jantsch
  21. Newton’s Wake by Ken MacLeod
  22. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
  23. Million Dollar Consulting Toolkit by Alan Weiss
  24. Nightfall by Isaac Asimov & Robert Silverberg
  25. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
  26. Rain Making by Ford Harding
  27. Nemesis by Isaac Asimov
  28. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
  29. The Nomadic Developer: Surviving and Thriving in the World of Technology Consulting by Aaron Erickson
  30. The Twitter book by Tim O’Reilly, Sarah Milstein
  31. Herbs & Spices the cook’s reference by Jill Norman
  32. Quick-fix vegetarian by Robin Robertson
  33. Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel by Scott Adams
  34. New Book of Herbs by Jekka McVicar
  35. Everyday Cheapskates by Mary Hunt
  36. Garden Anywhere by
  37. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  38. The Time Machine by H.G Wells
  39. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  40. The Principles of Project Management by Meri Williams
  41. From Russia, With Love by Ian Fleming
  42. You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming
  43. The Rodale Book of Composing by Rodale

2008

  1. Advanced Rails by Brad Ediger
  2. Lead Generation on the Web by Thomas Myer
  3. Implementation Patterns by Kent Beck
  4. Head First Software Development by Dan Pilone and Russell Miles
  5. The Productive Programmer, 1st Edition by Neal Ford
  6. Flight Plan: How to Achieve More, Faster Than You Ever Dreamed Possible by Brian Tracy
  7. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager by Michael Lopp
  8. Using memcached: How to scale your website easily by Josef Finsel
  9. Pragmatic Version Control Using Git by Travis Swicegood
  10. Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt
  11. Advanced Rails Recipes by Mike Clark
  12. Classic adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  13. On Her Majesty’s secret service by Ian Fleming
  14. For your eyes only by Ian Fleming
  15. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
  16. The creative habit : learn it and use it for life : a practical guide by Twyla Tharp
  17. Cut to the chase– and 99 other rules to liberate yourself and gain back the gift of time by Stuart Levine
  18. How to succeed as a lifestyle entrepreneur : running a business without letting it run your life by Gary Schine
  19. How to form a Corporation LLC or Partnership in Oregon by W Dean Brown
  20. Small is the New Big by Seth Godin
  21. Meatball Sundae by Seth Godin
  22. Sleeping with Your Business Partner: Communications for Couples in Business Together by Dr. Mike Gross
  23. Refactoring: Ruby Edition (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) by Jay Fields
  24. Rails Pocket Reference by Eric Berry
  25. Getting Started in Computer Consulting by Peter Meyer
  26. The IT Consultant : A Commonsense Framework for Managing the Client Relationship by Rick Freedman
  27. The E-Myth Contractor: Why Most Contractors’ Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber
  28. A Writer’s Coach: The Complete Guide to Writing Strategies That Work by Jack R. Hart
  29. Rich Dad’s Increase Your Financial IQ: Get Smarter with Your Money (Rich Dad’s) by Robert T. Kiyosaki
  30. The Productive Programmer (Theory in Practice (O’Reilly)) by Neal Ford
  31. Deploying Rails Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide by Ezra Zygmuntowicz
  32. Getting Started in Consulting, Second Edition by Alan Weiss
  33. The Rails Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) by Obie Fernandez
  34. The Business of Software: What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and Survive in Good Times by Michael A. Cusumano
  35. Million Dollar Consulting: The Professional’s Guide to Growing a Practice by Alan Weiss
  36. Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude: How to Find, Build and Keep a YES! Attitude for a Lifetime of SUCCESS by Jeffrey Gitomer
  37. How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling by Frank Bettger
  38. Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World (Pragmatic Programmers) by Venkat Subramaniam
  39. The Ruby Way, Second Edition: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming (2nd Edition) by Hal Fulton
  40. The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin

2007

  1. RJS Templates for Rails by Cody Fauser
  2. Practical Development Environments by Matt Doar
  3. Open Source .NET Development by Brian Nantz
  4. Wicked Cool Shell Scripts by Dave Taylor
  5. The Dilbert principle by Scott Adams
  6. Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review by Jason Cohen
  7. Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional by Christian Hellsten
  8. Ruby Phrasebook (Developer’s Library) by Jason D. Clinton
  9. JavaScript(TM) Phrasebook (Developer’s Library) by Christian Wenz
  10. PHP Phrasebook (Developer’s Library) by Christian Wenz
  11. Get Clients Now!: A 28-day Marketing Program for Professionals, Consultants, And Coaches by C. J. Hayden
  12. Linux Phrasebook (Developer’s Library) by Scott Granneman
  13. The Ten-Day MBA: A Step-By-step Guide To Mastering The Skills Taught In America’s Top Business Schools by Steven A. Silbiger
  14. The Joy of Simple Living: Over 1,500 Simple Ways to Make Your Life Easy and Content– At Home and At Work by Jeff Davidson
  15. Book Yourself Solid by Michael Port
  16. Ajax on Rails by Scott Raymond
  17. Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance (2nd Edition) by Lennard Zinn
  18. Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself by Daniel H. Pink
  19. Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully by Gerald M. Weinberg
  20. Ruby Cookbook (Cookbooks (O’Reilly)) by Lucas Carlson
  21. Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day by Gina Trapani
  22. The Belgariad, Vol. 1 (Books 1-3): Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, Magician’s Gambit by David Eddings
  23. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
  24. Ringworld by Larry Niven
  25. Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert
  26. Ender’s Game (Ender, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card

2006

  1. Web Services on Rails by Kevin Marshall
  2. Death March, Second Edition by Edward Yourdon
  3. The Art of SQL by Stephane Faroult; Peter Robson
  4. Rubyisms in Rails by Jacob Harris
  5. Rails Cookbook by Rob Orsini
  6. Practical Standards for Microsoft® Visual Basic .NET by James Foxall
  7. Programming Visual Basic 2005 by Jesse Liberty
  8. Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Building Robots by Gareth Branwyn
  9. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler; Kent Beck; John Brant; William Opdyke; Don Roberts
  10. Visual FoxPro to Visual Basic® .NET by Les Pinter
  11. Linux Desktop Hacks by Nicholas Petreley and Jono Bacon
  12. Linux Cookbook by Carla Schroder
  13. Mind Performance Hacks by Ron Hale-Evans
  14. Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Edition by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
  15. Web Site Cookbook by Doug Addison
  16. Ship it!: A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects by Jared Richardson, Will Gwaltney, Jr
  17. Rapid GUI Development with QtRuby by Caleb Tennis
  18. Rails Recipes by Chad Fowler
  19. Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit, 2nd Edition by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas with Matt Hargett
  20. Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management by Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby
  21. Peopleware : productive projects and teams by Tom DeMarco
  22. Ubuntu Hacks : Tips & Tools for Exploring, Using, and Tuning Linux (Hacks) by Kyle Rankin
  23. How to Start a Home-Based Web Design Business, 2nd (Home-Based Business Series) by Jim Smith
  24. IRC Hacks by Paul Mutton
  25. Linux Annoyances for Geeks by Michael Jang
  26. Just Say No to Microsoft: How to Ditch Microsoft and Why It’s Not as Hard as You Think by Tony Bove
  27. Mac OS X Panther Hacks (Hacks) by Rael Dornfest
  28. Linux Server Hacks, Volume Two : Tips & Tools for Connecting, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting (Hacks) by Bill Von Hagen
  29. Linux Desktop Hacks (Hacks) by Nicholas Petreley
  30. The Art of SQL by Stephane Faroult
  31. Eric Sink on the Business of Software (Expert’s Voice) by Eric Sink
  32. Open Sources 2 by Chris Dibona
  33. SQL Cookbook (Cookbooks (O’Reilly)) by Anthony Molinaro
  34. Linux Server Hacks : 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools by Rob Flickenger
  35. Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality by Bob Walsh
  36. Statistics Hacks : Tips & Tools for Measuring the World and Beating the Odds by Bruce Frey
  37. GNU Emacs Pocket Reference by Debra Cameron
  38. Network Security Hacks by Andrew Lockhart
  39. Version Control with Subversion by C. Michael Pilato
  40. Robot Builder’s Bonanza, Third Edition (Robot Builder’s Bonanza) by Gordon McComb
  41. Knoppix Hacks by Kyle Rankin
  42. Extreme Programming Explained : Embrace Change (2nd Edition) by Kent Beck
  43. Windows XP Hacks, Second Edition by Preston Gralla
  44. Python Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition by Mark Lutz
  45. Python in a Nutshell by Alex Martelli
  46. The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky by Joel Spolsky
  47. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change by Kent Beck
  48. Mind Performance Hacks : Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain (Hacks) by Ron Hale-Evans
  49. The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun
  50. CSS Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O’Reilly)) by Eric A Meyer
  51. Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky
  52. Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary by Linus Torvalds
  53. The Zen of CSS Design : Visual Enlightenment for the Web (Voices That Matter) by Dave Shea
  54. Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham
  55. Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life by David Allen
  56. Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas
  57. Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide, Second Edition by Dave Thomas
  58. Code Complete, Second Edition by Steve McConnell
  59. Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
  60. Foundation (Foundation Novels (Paperback)) by Isaac Asimov
  61. On Writing by Stephen King
  62. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart
  63. The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide by Douglas Adams

2005

  1. Learning SQL by Alan Beaulieu
  2. Make Easy Money with Google: Using the AdSense Advertising Program by Eric Giguère
  3. Open Source for the Enterprise by Dan Woods and Gautam Guliani
  4. Web Site Measurement Hacks by Eric T. Peterson
  5. Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative by Pete McBreen
  6. Visual Basic.Net Programming for Business by Philip A. Koneman
  7. Personal investing by Wilbur W Widicus
  8. Introduction to managerial accounting by Jeannie M. Folk
  9. COBOL for the 21st Century, 10th Edition by Nancy Stern
  10. Financial Accounting by James D. Stice
  11. Ultimate Start-Up Directory (Ultimate Start-Up Directory) by James Stephenson
  12. Microsoft Office Access 2003: Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques by Gary B. Shelly
  13. Microsoft Office 2000: Introductory Concepts and Techniques, Enhanced (Shelly, Gary B. Shelly Cashman Series.) by Gary B. Shelly
  14. Real Estate Finance and Investments (Real Estate Finance and Investments) by William B Brueggeman
  15. Extreme Programming for Web Projects (The XP Series) by Doug Wallace
  16. Sams Teach Yourself Ruby in 21 Days by Mark Slagell
  17. Web Design Garage (Garage) by Marc Campbell
  18. Peopleware Papers, The: Notes on the Human Side of Software by Larry L. Constantine
  19. Fundamentals of Financial Management: Concise Edition with Student CD-ROM by Eugene F. Brigham
  20. Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration by Stephen P. Berczuk
  21. My Job Went to India (Pragmatic Programmers) by Chad Fowler
  22. Stylin’ with CSS : A Designer’s Guide by Charles Wyke-Smith
  23. Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers by Mary Poppendieck
  24. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass
  25. Time Management for System Administrators by Thomas A Limoncelli
  26. Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion by Mike Mason
  27. The Ruby Way by Hal Fulton
  28. Learning GNU Emacs, Third Edition by Debra Cameron
  29. Mind Hacks : Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain (Hacks) by Tom Stafford
  30. Learning Python, Second Edition by Mark Lutz
  31. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt
  32. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 20th Anniversary Edition by Frederick P. Brooks
Chirk HR     Reuse your existing job applicants »