Summary: Since I had accumulated a huge backlog of unread books, I had planned out my reading for the entire year. A minimum of a book a week.
Update: I got dragged down by a couple of slow books (I’m looking at you Thomas Friedman) and school took up a lot of time, I missed by goal by about 14 books.
Reading List 2006
- Time Management for System Administrators - Thomas Limoncelli
- A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
- Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
- Chaos - James Gleick
- Vision Quest - Terry Davis
- An Unfinished Season - Ward Just
- A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
- The One Minute Manger - Kenneth Blanchard
- 21 Dog Years - Mike Daisey
- What Your CEO Wants You to Know - Ram Charam
- Slack - Tom DeMarco
- Staggerford - Jon Hassler
- Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem
- Inside Delta Force - Eric L. Haney
- Protect Your Windows Network - Jesper M. Johansson
- The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman
- Mind Performance Hacks - Ron Hale-Evans
- Spunk & Bite - Arthur Plotnik
- The Razor’s Edge - W. Somerset Maugham
- The Nasty Bits - Anthony Bourdain
- Project X - Jim Shepard
- Men and Cartoons - Jonathan Lethem
- Indecision - Ben Kunkel
- White Teeth - Zadie Smith
- America’s Report Card - John McNally
- Mind Wide Open - Stephen Johnson
- Nightwatch - Sergei Lukyanenko
- Mysteries of Pittsburgh - Michael Chabon
- Tooth and Claw - T.C. Boyle
- Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories - Jean Shepherd
- American Skin - Don DeGrazia
- Sideways - Rex Pickett
- This Boy’s Life - Tobias Wolff
- Why Do Me Fall Asleep After Sex - Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg
- Everything Bad is Good for You - Steven Johnson
- Wilco: Learning How to Die - Gret Kot
- A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin