Reading

2015 Jan 2015 A Game of Thrones Puppet Essentials: Felix, Frank Inherent Vice: Pynchon, Thomas Field Guide to the Distributed Deployment Stack Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore: Sloan, Robin Feb 2015 A Clash of Kings (1040p) The Magician’s Land The Broom of the System Mar 2015 The Sculptor: McCloud, Scott Child of God: McCarthy, Cormac Cloud System Administration Ansible Configuration Managment A Storm of Swords Crimes in Southern Indiana Ansible Up and Running: Preview Apr 2015 A Feast of Crows Before the Cut Vol 2: Rollins, Henry Me Being Me Is Exactly as Insane as You Being You May 2015 Here: McGuire, Richard Jun 2015 A Dance with Dragons The Martian My Struggle Vol 1 Jul 2015 Seveneves (Jun 20) Aug 2015 The Bone Clocks Math Geek: Rosen, Raphael Skink - No Surrender: Hiaasen, Carl Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: Dick, Phllip K. Sep 2015 Never Let Me Go: Ishiguro, Kazuo (Jul 27) Redshirts: Scalzi, John Turning Pro: Pressfield, Stephen Silver Screen Fiend: Oswalt, Patton Oct 2015 You: Grossman, Austin Lord of the Ralphs: McNally, John Born Standing Up: Martin, Steve Nov 2015 Afterparty: Gregory, Daryl Dec 2015 The Sisters Brothers: deWitt, Patrick Neuromancer: Gibson, William Between the World and Me: Coates, Ta-Nehisi Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Stores 2015

2014 Jan 2014 Infinite Jest Elegant Complexity Feb 2014 Team Geek The Son: Meyer, Philipp Apprenticeship Patterns The Goldfinch: Tartt, Donna Nagios Core Administration Monitoring w/ Ganglia Developers Code Mar 2014 Intro to Data Science Pragmatic Good Math Learn iPython Puppet 3 Cookbook Why We Fail Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker Season on the Brink Learning Web App Development A Unix Shell in Ruby 33 1/3 Selected Ambient Works II Apr 2014 Beatles: Rubber Soul Flash Boys: Lewis, Michael Creativity, Inc. Aphex Twin Ambient Works 33 1/3 May 2014 How Children Succeed Fletch and the Widow Bradley Fletch Won Fletch Carioca Fletch Fletch, Too Jun 2014 Confess, Fletch Bad Monkey Fletch’s Fortune A Grim Detail Job Recon Data Storage Networking Shop Class as Soulcraft Jul 2014 Tropical Depression: Shames, Laurence Ansible Configuration Management Aug 2014 Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Focus & Sharpen Your Creative Mind Son of Fletch Pro Puppet Sep 2014 The Magicians Oct 2014 Without Frontiers: Peter Gabriel Nov 2014 The Year Without Pants: Berkun, Scott Dec 2014 The Art of Small Talk The Magician King User Story Mapping Tenth of December: Saunders, George

Reading List 2013 Making Rumors: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album: Caillat, Ken 33 Minutes: Hasak-Lowy, Todd The Signal and the Noise: Silver, Nate Homeland: Doctorow, Cory The Rest is Noise: Ross, Alex Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles: Currie Jr, Ron Skin Tight: Hiaasen, Carl Wilco - Learning How to Die: Kot, Greg Double Whammy: Hiaasen, Carl The New Kingmakers: O’Grady, Stephen A Prefered Blur: Rollins, Henry A Mad Dash: Rollins, Henry McCain’s Promise: Wallace, David Foster Before the Chop: Rollins, Henry A Dull Roar: Rollins, Henry Broken Summers: Rollins, Henry Math Better Explained: Azad, Kalid Smile, You’re Traveling: Rollins, Henry Someone Could Get Hurt: Magary, Drew Black Coffee Blues: Rollins, Henry The First 20 Hours: Kaufman, Josh Do I Come Here Often?: Rollins, Henry Real Conversations, No. 1: Rollins, Henry American Rust: Meyer, Philipp Now Watch Him Die: Rollins, Henry Ethics of Big Data: Davis, Kord Strip Tease: Hiaasen, Carl Getting Started with Processing: Reas, Casey The Innocence Game: Harvey, Michael The Pale King: Wallace, David Foster Masters of Doom: Kushner, David Eminent Hipsters: Fage, Donald Zero to Maker: Lang, David Free Will: Harris, Sam Lying: Harris, Sam How Music Works: Byrne, David

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

Reading List 2011 The Calculus Diaries - Jennifer Ouellette 1958: The Year That Changed Everything - Fred Kaplan Microsound - Curtis Roads A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin Scorecasting - Tobias Moskowitz Switch - Chip Heath Ignore Everybody - Hugh MacLeod The War of Art - Steven Pressfield 10 Minute Toughness - Jason Selk The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande The Creative Habit - Twyla Tharp Evil Plans - Hugh MacLeod Programming Amazon EC2 - Jurg van Vilet The Talent Code - Daniel Coyle Emotional Intellegence 2.0 - Travis Bradberry A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kenndey Toole A Whole New Mind - Daniel Pink Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott God is Dead - Ron Currie Jr. Practicing: A Musician’s Return to Music - Glen Kurtz Coltrane: The Story of a Sound - Ben Ratliff Chasin’ the Trane - J.C. Thomas The House that Trane Built - Ashley Kahn Ascenion: John Coltane and his Quest - Eric Nisenson John Coltrane - Bill Cole A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album - Ashley Kahn John Coltrane: His Life and Music - Lewis Porter Talent is Overrated - Geoff Colvin Nudge - Richard Thaler Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins Web Operations - John Allspaw The Kingdom on the Waves - M.T. Anderson The Night Gardener - George Pelecanos Discover Your Inner Economist - Tyler Cowen Being Geek - Michael Lopp A Mathematician’s Lament - Paul Lockhart Anything You Want - Derek Sivers Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut Light House: A Trifle - William Monahan Biopunk - Marcus Wohlsen Little Brother - Cory Doctorow God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut The Magician King - Lev Grossman Ready Player One - Ernest Cline Vision Quest - Terry Davis The Fucking Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel - Dan Sinker Zombie Spaceship Wasteland - Patton Oswalt Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Reamde - Neal Stephenson Context - Cory Doctorow Medium Raw - Anthony Bourdain Blood, Bones and Butter - Gabrielle Hamilton Life on the Line - Grant Achatz Recording the Beatles - Kevin Ryan Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson Pragmatic Thinking and Learning - Andy Hunt Here, There and Everywhere - Geoff Emerick The Nerdist Way - Chris Hardwick All You Need is Ears - George Martin slideology - Nancy Duarte Power Ballads - Wil Boast Pulphead - John Jeremiah Sullivan A Vist from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan The Art of Unix Programming - Eric S. Raymond Everyday Scripting with Ruby - Brian Marick

Reading List 2010 Drive - Daniel Pink The Toy Collector - James Gunn After the Workshop - John McNally Spanking the Donkey - Matt Taibbi Anathem - Neil Stephenson The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing Vol 1 - M. T. Anderson Smells Like Dead Elephants - Matt Taibbi Switch - Chip & Dan Heath The Logic of Life - Tim Harford You Remind Me of Me - Dan Chaon Next - James Hynes The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace - David Lipsky Serious Barbecue - Adam Perry Lang Feed - MT Anderson The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford The Big Short - Michael Lewis Girl With Curious Hair - David Foster Wallace For The Win - Cory Doctorow Chicago: A Biography - Domnic Pacyga Bloom County: Vol II - Berkeley Breathed The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest - Stieg Larsson Florida Roadkill - Tim Dosey Outliers - Malcom Gladwell The Deep Blue Good-By - John D. MacDonald Fletch - Gregory McDonald Accidental Billionaires - Ben Mezrich The Woman - T. C. Boyle Kanban - David J. Anderson Nightmare in Pink - John D. MacDonald Fletch Won - Gregory McDonald A Purple Place for Dying - John D. MacDonald Medium Raw - Anthony Bourdain Web Operations - John Allspaw Being Geek - Michael Lopp The Creative Writers Survival Guide - John McNally Star Island - Carl Hiaasen The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins Moneyball - Michael Lewis Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins Perfecting Sound Forever - Greg Milner Where Good Ideas Come From - Steven Johnson Bear vs. Shark - Chris Bacholder Soul Minings - Daniel Lanois Listen to This - Alex Ross Considering David Foster Wallace - David Hering Kind of Blue - Ashley Kahn Everything Matters - Ron Currie, Jr.

Reading List 2009 Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud Reinventing Comics - Scott McCloud Practical Ruby for System Administration - André Ben Hamou Maximum Strength - Eric Cressey Starting Strength - Mark Rippetoe Pulling Strings with Puppet - James Turnbull Let’s Play Doctor - Mark Leyer and Billy Goldberg Emergency - Neil Strauss Moneyball - Michael Lewis The Art of Capacity Planing - John Allspaw The War of Art - Steven Pressfield The Pixar Touch - David Price Made to Stick - Chip Heath and Dan Heath Spaceman Blues - Brian Francis Slattery The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman Linked - Albert-Laszlo Barabasi The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles The Task of This Translator - Todd Hasak-Lowy Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain The Strain - Guillermo Del Toro & Chris Hogan The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb Scarecrow - Michael Connelly Sleeping With the Devil - Robert Baer Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace The Magicians - Lev Grossman Infinite Jest: A Reader’s Guide - Stephen Burn Brief Interviews With Hideous Men - David Foster Wallace The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard Superfreakonomics - Levitt & Dubner The Complete Game - Ron Darling Eating the Dinosaur - Chuck Klosterman The Great Derangement - Matt Taibbi Up in the Air - Walter Kirn The Book of Basketball - Bill Simmons Netherland - Joseph O’Neill

Counting down the weeks to finish up with classes. Hopefully when finished my available reading time will increase. My plans this year include knocking out a list of books that have been gathering dust on the shelves for a few years (I’m looking at you Thomas Wolfe). Reading List 2008 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The Halo Effect - Phil Rosenzweig Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo Gasping for Airtime - Jay Mohr Dreaming in Code - Scott Rosenberg The Search - John Battelle Four Days to Glory - Mark Kreidler Coltrane: The Story of a Sound - Ben Ratliff Friday Night Lights - H.G. Bissinger A Feast for Crows - George R. R. Martin Ultramarathon Man - Dean Karnazes Maverick - Ricardo Semler Here Comes Everybody - Clay Shirky The Art of Learning - Josh Waitzkin Bright Shiny Morning - James Frey The Delivery Man - Joe McGinnis Jr Little Brother - Cory Doctorow Tourist Season - Carl Hiaasen Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace Ghosts of Chicago - John McNally Brain Rules - Jon Mesina A Supposedly Fun Thing, I’ll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace Moving to Higher Ground - Wynton Marsalis American Scream - Cynthia True Super Crunchers - Ian Ayers Captives - Todd Hasak-Lowy Eat Me - Kenny Shopsin

Summary: I had originally planned on taking this year to focus on only reading a few select large books (Infinite Jest, Underworld, etc..) but there’s just too much out there I want to read. Reading List 2007 Talk Talk - T. C. Boyle The Children’s Hospital - Chris Adrian The Sleeping Dragon - Joel Rosenberg The Road - Cormac McCarthy The Immortal Game - David Shenk Sex, Drugs, and Coco Puffs - Chuck Klosterman Bad Haircuts - Tom Perrotta Killing Yourself to Live - Chuck Klosterman Fargo Rock City - Chuck Klosterman Joe College - Tom Perrotta IV - Chuck Klosterman America’s Report Card - John McNally A Fistfull of Fig Newtons - Jean Shepherd Freakonomics - Steven Levit & Stephen Dubner When I Was a Loser - Ed. John McNally The War of Art - Steven Pressfield Founders at Work - Jessica Livingston A Dull Roar - Henry Rollins Parasite Rex - Carl Zimmer Nature Girl - Carl Hiaasen Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis Little Children - Tom Perrotta Happy Endings - Jim Norton Tapping the Source - Kem Numm Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J. K. Rowling Youth in Revolt - C. D. Payne Population 487 - Michael Perry Managing Humans - Michael Lopp Ugly Americans - Ben Mezrich Bringing Down the House - Ben Mezrich Rigged - Ben Mezrich The Rest is Noise - Alex Ross Middlesex- Jeffery Eugenides

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