Summary: This was the year of David Foster Wallace. I tried to read/listen/absorb everything I could find on his work.
Reading List 2012
- Continuous delivery and DevOps A Quickstart Guide - Paul Swartout
- DevOps for Developers - Michael Hüttermann
- Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West- Cormac McCarthy
- Both Flesh and Not: Essays - David Foster Wallace
- Listen to This - Alex Ross
- So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love - Cal Newport
- The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns - Issenberg, Sasha
- Telegraph Avenue - Chabon, Michael
- Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age - Johnson, Steven
- Leaving the Atocha Station - Ben Lerner
- Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind - Alex Stone
- Understanding David Foster Wallace - Marshall Boswell
- Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays - David Hering
- Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace - D.T. Max
- Elegant Complexity - Greg Carlisle
- Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
- David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest - Stephen J. Burn
- Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing - Neal Stephenson
- The Book of Drugs: A Memoir - Mike Doughty
- Team Geek: A Software Developer’s Guide to Working Well with Others - Brian W. Fitzpatrick
- Ship It!: A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects - Jared Richardson
- The Developer’s Code: What Real Programmers Do - Ka Wai Cheung
- Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself - Rich Roll
- No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
- The Road - Cormac McCarthy
- Girl With Curious Hair - David Foster Wallace
- Musimathics: The Mathematical Foundations of Music, Volume 1 - Gareth Loy
- The Legacy of David Foster Wallace - Samuel Cohen
- Code Simplicity: The Science of Software Development - Max Kanat-Alexander
- Fitness for Geeks: Real Science, Great Nutrition, and Good Health - Bruce W. Perry
- The Art of Fielding - Chad Harbach
- Oblivion: Stories - David Foster Wallace
- The Broom of the System - David Foster Wallace
- Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
- Conversations with David Foster Wallace - Stephen J. Burn
- The Sugar Frosted Nutsack - Mark Leyner
- The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll’s Best-Kept Secret - Kent Hartman
- My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist - Mark Leyner
- The Tetherballs of Bougainville - Mark Leyner
- Managing Infrastructure with Puppet - James Loppe
- Pragmatic Version Control Using Git - Travis Swicegood
- Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman - Dave Hoover
- Et Tu, Babe - Mark Leyner
- Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog - Mark Leyner
- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men - David Foster Wallace
- Motti - Asaf Schurr
- The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Pale King - David Foster Wallace
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace
- On Writing - Stephen King
- Spiderland - Scott Tennent
- Consider the Lobster and Other Essays - David Foster Wallace
- Achieving Business Value from Technology: A Practical Guide for Today’s Executive - Tony Murphy
- Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace - David Lipsky
- The Elements of Style - William Strunk
- Skippy Dies - Paul Murray