Books

I'm a lifelong bookworm. These are all the books I can remember reading. I'm only including books I've read cover-to-cover, so there are a lot of technical books that I've skimmed or read in part that aren't listed here. The links go to Amazon.

Books I've Read

2015

A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich (1935)
Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide by Kristin Marsicano, Bill Phillips, Chris Stewart (2014)
The Martian by Andy Weir (2014)

2014

A Cappella Arranging by Dylan Bell, Deke Sharon (2012)
Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. by Rob Delaney (2013)
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (2000)

2013

Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman (1983)
Dad Is Fat by Jim Gaffigan (2013)
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (2000)
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda (2004)
The Giver by Lois Lowry (1993)
The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film by J. W. Rinzler (2007)
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler (2013)

2012

11/22/63 by Stephen King (2011)
1776 by David McCullough (2006)
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow (2012)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett (1983)
Under the Dome by Stephen King (2009)

2011

Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth by Norman F. Cantor (2005)
Bossypants by Tina Fey (2011)
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold (2000)
From a Buick 8 by Stephen King (2002)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)
School of Fear by Gitty Daneshvari (2010)
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1) by Lemony Snicket (1999)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008)
The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company by David A. Price (2009)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006)

2010

A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle (1978)
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall (2009)
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace (1999)
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (2007)
On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
Peter and the Secret of Rundoon by Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson (2007)
Peter and the Shadow Thieves by Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson (2007)
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard (2005)
Thirteen by Richard K. Morgan (2007)
War by Sebastian Junger (2010)
Watchmen by Alan Moore (1987)
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris (2008)
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher (2008)

2009

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (2005)
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin (2007)
Evolution: The Triump of an Idea by Carl Zimmer (2006)
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris (1997)
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (1999)
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966)
Peter and the Star Catchers by Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson (2006)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, William Golding (2008)
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins (2009)
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein (2007)
The Wave by Walter Mosley (2005)

2008

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (2005)
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1963)
Naked by David Sedaris (1997)
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (1996)
Night by Elie Wiesel (1960)
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King (2000)
On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony (1983)
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis (2007)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1885)
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (1951)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979)
What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank (2004)

2007

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick (1977)
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (1998)
Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card (1996)
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (1995)
Falling Man by Don DeLillo (2007)
Folly and Glory by Larry McMurtry (2004)
Gasping for Airtime by Jay Mohr (2004)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (2007)
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron (2008)
Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers (2005)
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama (2006)
The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter (2002)
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough (1983)
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (2004)
The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin (2004)
The Prisoner of Guantanamo by Dan Fesperman (2007)
Xenocide by Orson Scott Card (1991)

2006

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson (2002)
By Sorrow's River by Larry McMurtry (2003)
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (1985)
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks (2006)
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson by Gore Vidal (2004)
Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends by Tim Sanders (2003)
Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry (2002)
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (1986)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (2003)
The Main in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (1962)
The Wandering Hill by Larry McMurtry (2003)

2005

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley (1990)
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1951)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (2005)
Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty by Scott Turow (2003)

2004

Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky (2004)
Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests by James Andrew Miller, Tom Shales (2002)
The Da Vinci Code by Robert Langdon (2003)
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 by Stephen Ambrose (2001)

2003

Effective Java - Programming Language Guide by Joshua Bloch (2002)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (2003)
The Object Primer: The Application Developer's Guide to Object Orientation and the UML by Scott W. Ambler (2001)

2001

Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando, Robert Lindsey (1994)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (2000)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (1999)
Pure Drivel by Steve Martin (1998)

2000

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (1998)
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone by J. K. Rowling (1997)
The Runaway Jury by John Grisham (1996)
Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel (2000)

1999

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan (1999)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (1994)
The Godfather by Mario Puzo (1969)

1998

Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
Carrie by Stephen King (1974)
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice (1985)
What to Expect the First Year by Heidi Murkoff (1989)

1997

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (1976)
Rising Sun by Michael Crichton (1992)
Sphere by Michael Crichton (1987)
What to Expect When You're Expecting by Heidi Murkoff (1984)

1996

All You Need to Know About the Music Business by Donald S. Passman (1995)
Firestarter by Stephen King (1980)
Misery by Stephen King (1987)
The Dead Zone by Stephen King (1979)
The Shining by Stephen King (1977)

1995

Different Seasons by Stephen King (1982)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1602)
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton (1969)
The Chamber by John Grisham (1994)
The Pelican Brief by John Grisham (1992)

1994

Congo by Michael Crichton (1980)
Night Shift by Stephen King (1978)
The Client by John Grisham (1993)

1993

A Time to Kill by John Grisham (1988)
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (1990)
Misery by Stephen King (1987)
The Firm by John Grisham (1991)

1992 and Earlier

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)
A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle (1973)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (1962)
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
An Actor Prepares by Konstantin Stanislavski (1936)
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (1939)
Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (1908)
Are You There God? It's Me Margaret by Judy Blume (1970)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1931)
Candide by Voltaire (1759)
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (1945)
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (1952)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (1948)
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury (1957)
Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (1911)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (1966)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861)
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (1864)
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1599)
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1862)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (1952)
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (1623)
Native Son by Richard Wright (1940)
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937)
On the Beach by Nevil Shute (1957)
Pardon Me, You're Stepping On My Eyeball by Paul Zindel (1976)
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (1911)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1597)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811)
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (1962)
Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster (1978)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876)
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley (1941)
The Black Stallion Returns by Walter Farley (1945)
The Cay by Theodore Taylor (1969)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis (1951)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis (1954)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis (1956)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (1950)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis (1955)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis (1953)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis (1952)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller (1953)
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947)
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1931)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (1937)
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells (1897)
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells (1896)
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950)
The Pearl by John Steinbeck (1947)
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck (1937)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis (1942)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss (1812)
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (1895)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1870)
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)

Currently Reading

The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement by Sharon McMahon (2024)
On Freedom by Timothy Snyder (2024)
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe (2022)
Mastering API Architecture: Design, Operate, and Evolve API-Based Systems by Matthew Auburn, Daniel Bryant, James Gough (2022)
Writing to Learn: How to Write and Think Clearly about Any Subject at All by WIlliam Zinsser (1988)
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems (1st Edition) by Matt Housley, Joe Reis (2022)
A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition by John Ousterhout (2021)
Kafka: The Definitive Guide: Real-Time Data and Stream Processing at Scale (2nd Edition) by Todd Palino, Krit Petty, Gwen Shapira, Rajini Sivaram (2021)
Understanding Distributed Systems, Second Edition: What Every Developer Should Know about Large Distributed Applications by Roberto Vitillo (2022)
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War by Howard French (2021)
Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures by Zhamak Dehghani, Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage (2022)