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I love reading! I read before going to bed, at the gym, on the commute, on the sofa, in that cozy corner in our home office, at the coffeehouse, on a plane, in the toilet, in the toilet on the plane (no way), on the train, all-the-time. Here’s what I’m reading and have read in the past, plus some reviews (and I’ve also got a GoodReads if you’re into that).

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2021

The Science of Storytelling book cover

The Science of Storytelling
by Will Storr

The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness #3) book cover

The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness #3)
by Joe Abercrombie

The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness #2) book cover

The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness #2)
by Joe Abercrombie

Battleground. (The Dresden Files #17) book cover

Battleground. (The Dresden Files #17)
by Jim Butcher

Peace Talks. (The Dresden Files #16) book cover

Peace Talks. (The Dresden Files #16)
by Jim Butcher

Skin Game. (The Dresden Files #15) book cover

Skin Game. (The Dresden Files #15)
by Jim Butcher

Cold Days. (The Dresden Files #14) book cover

Cold Days. (The Dresden Files #14)
by Jim Butcher

Ghost Story. (The Dresden Files #13) book cover

Ghost Story. (The Dresden Files #13)
by Jim Butcher

Changes. (The Dresden Files #12) book cover

Changes. (The Dresden Files #12)
by Jim Butcher

Turn Coat. (The Dresden Files #11) book cover

Turn Coat. (The Dresden Files #11)
by Jim Butcher

Small Favor. (The Dresden Files #10) book cover

Small Favor. (The Dresden Files #10)
by Jim Butcher

White Knight. (The Dresden Files #9) book cover

White Knight. (The Dresden Files #9)
by Jim Butcher

Proven Guilty. (The Dresden Files #8) book cover

Proven Guilty. (The Dresden Files #8)
by Jim Butcher

Dead Beat. (The Dresden Files #7) book cover

Dead Beat. (The Dresden Files #7)
by Jim Butcher

Blood Rites. (The Dresden Files #6) book cover

Blood Rites. (The Dresden Files #6)
by Jim Butcher

Death Masks. (The Dresden Files #5) book cover

Death Masks. (The Dresden Files #5)
by Jim Butcher

Summer Knight. (The Dresden Files #4) book cover

Summer Knight. (The Dresden Files #4)
by Jim Butcher

Grave Peril. (The Dresden Files #3) book cover

Grave Peril. (The Dresden Files #3)
by Jim Butcher

Fool Moon. (The Dresden Files #2) book cover

Fool Moon. (The Dresden Files #2)
by Jim Butcher

Storm Front. (The Dresden Files #1) book cover

Storm Front. (The Dresden Files #1)
by Jim Butcher

Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld #6) book cover

Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld #6)
by Terry Pratchett

Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction book cover

Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction
by Nick Montfort

Greenlights book cover

Greenlights
by Matthew McConaughey

Anger: Taming a Powerful Emotion book cover

Anger: Taming a Powerful Emotion
by Gary Chapman

The Girl and the Mountain (The Book of the Ice #2)  book cover

The Girl and the Mountain (The Book of the Ice #2)
by Mark Lawrence

The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential book cover

The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential
by Wim Hof

How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion book cover

How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
by Derek Sivers

The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle book cover

The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle
by Steven Pressfield

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living book cover

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman

How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets book cover

How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets
by Dana K. White

He Who Fights With Monsters #5 book cover

He Who Fights With Monsters #5
by Travis Deverell

He Who Fights With Monsters #4 book cover

He Who Fights With Monsters #4
by Travis Deverell

He Who Fights With Monsters #3 book cover

He Who Fights With Monsters #3
by Travis Deverell

He Who Fights With Monsters #2 book cover

He Who Fights With Monsters #2
by Travis Deverell

He Who Fights With Monsters: A LitRPG Adventure book cover

He Who Fights With Monsters: A LitRPG Adventure
by Travis Deverell

Edge World (Undying Mercenaries #14) book cover

Edge World (Undying Mercenaries #14)
by B.V. Larson

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War book cover

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks

The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual book cover

The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual
by Ward Farnsworth

Alien Covenant: Origins book cover

Alien Covenant: Origins
by Dave Gray

Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think book cover

Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think
by Dave Gray

Death's End (The Three Body Problem Series #3) book cover

Death's End (The Three Body Problem Series #3)
by Cixin Liu

The Dark Forest (The Three Body Problem Series #2) book cover

The Dark Forest (The Three Body Problem Series #2)
by Cixin Liu

The Three Body Problem (The Three Body Problem Series #1 book cover

The Three Body Problem (The Three Body Problem Series #1
by Cixin Liu

Sex, Lies & Statistics: The truth Julie Bindel doesn't want you to read book cover

Sex, Lies & Statistics: The truth Julie Bindel doesn't want you to read
by Brooke Magnanti

The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Conceps book cover

The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Conceps
by Shane Parrish

Sourcery (Discworld #5) book cover

Sourcery (Discworld #5)
by Terry Pratchett

2020

Meditations book cover

Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius

Starsight book cover

Starsight
by Brandon Sanderson

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living book cover

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
by Ryan Holiday and Steven Hanselman

Functional Light JavaScript book cover

Functional Light JavaScript
by Kyle Simpson

Composing Software: An Exploration of Functional Programming and Object Composition in JavaScript book cover

Composing Software: An Exploration of Functional Programming and Object Composition in JavaScript
by Eric Elliott

The First 20 Hours: How To Learn Everything Fast book cover

The First 20 Hours: How To Learn Everything Fast
by Josh Kaufman

Learn You a Haskell For Great Good book cover

Learn You a Haskell For Great Good
by Miran Lipovaca

Haskell Programming From First Principles book cover

Haskell Programming From First Principles
by Christopher Allen and Julie Moronuki

Peek: Secrets From the New Science of Expertise  book cover

Peek: Secrets From the New Science of Expertise
by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool

The Expanse #5. Nemesis Games book cover

The Expanse #5. Nemesis Games
by James S. A. Corey

Accessibility for Everyone book cover

Accessibility for Everyone
by Laura Kalbag

Inclusive Components book cover

Inclusive Components
by Heydon Pickering

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know book cover

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
by Malcolm Gladwell

The Expanse #6. Babylon's Ashes book cover

The Expanse #6. Babylon's Ashes
by James S. A. Corey

★★★★★
The Expanse #7. Persepolis Rising book cover

The Expanse #7. Persepolis Rising
by James S. A. Corey

★★★★★
The Expanse #8. Tiamat's wrath book cover

The Expanse #8. Tiamat's wrath
by James S. A. Corey

★★★★★
The Last Wish (The Witcher) book cover

The Last Wish (The Witcher)
by Andrzej Sapkowski

Sword of Destiny (The Witcher) book cover

Sword of Destiny (The Witcher)
by Andrzej Sapkowski

★★★☆☆
Blood of Elves. The Witcher #1 book cover

Blood of Elves. The Witcher #1
by Andrzej Sapkowski

★★★★★
Time of Contempt. The Witcher #2 book cover

Time of Contempt. The Witcher #2
by Andrzej Sapkowski

★★★★★
Baptism of Fire. The Witcher #3 book cover

Baptism of Fire. The Witcher #3
by Andrzej Sapkowski

★★★★★
The Tower of Swallows. The Witcher #4 book cover

The Tower of Swallows. The Witcher #4
by Andrzej Sapkowski

★★★★★
The Lady of The Lake. The Witcher #5 book cover

The Lady of The Lake. The Witcher #5
by Andrzej Sapkowski

★★★★★
Season of Storms. The Witcher #6 book cover

Season of Storms. The Witcher #6
by Andrzej Sapkowski

★★★★★
How to be an Antiracist book cover

How to be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi

★★★★★
Sleeping Giants. The Themis Files #1 book cover

Sleeping Giants. The Themis Files #1
by Sylvain Neuvel

★★★★★
Waking Gods. The Themis Files #2 book cover

Waking Gods. The Themis Files #2
by Sylvain Neuvel

★★★☆☆
Only Human. The Themis Files #3 book cover

Only Human. The Themis Files #3
by Sylvain Neuvel

★★★☆☆
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise book cover

Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
by K Anders Ericsson

★★★★★
The 48 Laws of Power book cover

The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene

Hell Yeah or No. What's worth doing. book cover

Hell Yeah or No. What's worth doing.
by Derek Sivers

★★★★★
Hjärnstark: Hur motion och träning stärker din hjärna book cover

Hjärnstark: Hur motion och träning stärker din hjärna
by Anders Hansen

★★★★★
Glass World. Undying Mercenaries #13 book cover

Glass World. Undying Mercenaries #13
by B. V. Larson

★★★★
Caffeine: How caffeine created the modern world. book cover

Caffeine: How caffeine created the modern world.
by Michael Pollan

★★★★
The Infinite Game book cover

The Infinite Game
by Simon Sinek

★★★★
The Last Days of August book cover

The Last Days of August
by Jon Ronson

★★★☆☆
Managing Oneself book cover

Managing Oneself
by Peter F. Drucker

★★★☆☆
Extreme Ownership (How US Navy seals lead and win) book cover

Extreme Ownership (How US Navy seals lead and win)
by Jocko Willink

★★★★★
Med känsla för barns självkänsla book cover

Med känsla för barns självkänsla
by Petra Krantz Lindgren

★★★★★
The Making of the Prince of Persia book cover

The Making of the Prince of Persia
by Jordan Mechner

★★★★★
The Little Book of Gratitude book cover

The Little Book of Gratitude
by Dr. Robert A. Emmons

★★★★★
Equal Rites. Discworld #3 book cover

Equal Rites. Discworld #3
by Terry Pratchett

★★★★★
Mort. Discworld #4 book cover

Mort. Discworld #4
by Terry Pratchett

★★★★★
The Coding Career Handbook book cover

The Coding Career Handbook
by Shawn Swyx Wang

★★★★
The Girl and the Stars book cover

The Girl and the Stars
by Mark Lawrence

★★★★★
14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers book cover

14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers
by Zeno Rocha

★★★★
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness book cover

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
by Eric Jorgenson

★★★★★
Non violent communication. A language of life. book cover

Non violent communication. A language of life.
by Marshall B. Rosenberg

★★★★★
A Man's Search for Meaning book cover

A Man's Search for Meaning
by Victor E. Frankl

★★★★★
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life book cover

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

★★★★
The Man Who Knew the Way To The Moon book cover

The Man Who Knew the Way To The Moon
by Todd Zwillich

★★★★★
Rhythm of War book cover

Rhythm of War
by Brandon Sanderson

★★★★★
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work book cover

The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
by Seth Godin

★★★★

2019

The Strange Case of Alchemist's Daughter The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club book cover

The Strange Case of Alchemist's Daughter The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club
by Theodora Goss

This is Marketing: You can't be seen until you learn to see. book cover

This is Marketing: You can't be seen until you learn to see.
by Seth Godin

An IDE called Vim book cover

An IDE called Vim
by Claudio Ribeiro

Mastering Vim: Building a Development Environment with Vim and Neovim book cover

Mastering Vim: Building a Development Environment with Vim and Neovim
by Ruslan Osipov

The Colour Of Magic book cover

The Colour Of Magic
by Terry Pratchett

Potträning på 3 dagar book cover

Potträning på 3 dagar
by Michael Bergenstjerna och Sofia Bergenstjerna

The Lifechanging Magic of Tidying up book cover

The Lifechanging Magic of Tidying up
by Marie Kondo

Good Omens book cover

Good Omens
by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Just Fucking Ship book cover

Just Fucking Ship
by Amy Hoy

Storm World (Undying Mercenaries Vol 10) book cover

Storm World (Undying Mercenaries Vol 10)
by B.V. Larson

How to Fight a Hydra: Face Your Fears, Pursue Your Ambitions, and Become the Hero You Are Destined to Be book cover

How to Fight a Hydra: Face Your Fears, Pursue Your Ambitions, and Become the Hero You Are Destined to Be
by Josh Kauffman

Skyward book cover

Skyward
by Brandon Sanderson

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less book cover

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
by Greg McKeown

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World book cover

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
by Cal Newport

Rendezvous with Rama book cover

Rendezvous with Rama
by Arthur C. Clarke

Armor World (Undying Mercenaries Vol 11) book cover

Armor World (Undying Mercenaries Vol 11)
by B. V. Larson

Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire Vol 1) book cover

Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire Vol 1)
by Mark Lawrence

King of Thorns (Broken Empire Vol 2) book cover

King of Thorns (Broken Empire Vol 2)
by Mark Lawrence

Emperor of Thorns (Broken Empire Vol 3) book cover

Emperor of Thorns (Broken Empire Vol 3)
by Mark Lawrence

Prince of Fools (Red Queen's War Vol 1) book cover

Prince of Fools (Red Queen's War Vol 1)
by Mark Lawrence

The Liar's Key (Red Queen's War Vol 2) book cover

The Liar's Key (Red Queen's War Vol 2)
by Mark Lawrence

No More Fatigue book cover

No More Fatigue
by Jack Challem

The Wheel of Osheim (Red Queen's War Vol 3) book cover

The Wheel of Osheim (Red Queen's War Vol 3)
by Mark Lawrence

Red Sister (The book of the Ancestor 1) book cover

Red Sister (The book of the Ancestor 1)
by Mark Lawrence

Grey Sister (The book of the Ancestor 2) book cover

Grey Sister (The book of the Ancestor 2)
by Mark Lawrence

Holy Sister (The book of the Ancestor 3) book cover

Holy Sister (The book of the Ancestor 3)
by Mark Lawrence

Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do it Once and Do it Right book cover

Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do it Once and Do it Right
by Jamie Glowacki

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds book cover

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
by David Goggins

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future book cover

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
by Kevin Kelly

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier book cover

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design book cover

Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design
by Robert C. Martin

Mercurial: The Definitive Guide book cover

Mercurial: The Definitive Guide
by Bryan O'Sullivan

Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software book cover

Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software
by Max Kanat-Alexander

Speed Reading with the Right Brain: Read Faster by Reading Ideas Instead of Just Words book cover

Speed Reading with the Right Brain: Read Faster by Reading Ideas Instead of Just Words
by David Butler

A Little Hatred book cover

A Little Hatred
by Joe Abercrombie

Clone World book cover

Clone World
by B.V. Larson

Stillness is the Key book cover

Stillness is the Key
by Ryan Holiday

You're not so smart book cover

You're not so smart
by David McRaney

Life 3.0 book cover

Life 3.0
by Max Tegmark

Leviathan Wakes. The Expanse vol 1 book cover

Leviathan Wakes. The Expanse vol 1
by James S.A. Corey

Caliban's War. The Expanse vol 2 book cover

Caliban's War. The Expanse vol 2
by James S.A. Corey

Abaddon's Gate. The Expanse vol 3 book cover

Abaddon's Gate. The Expanse vol 3
by James S.A. Corey

Cibola Burn. The Expanse vol 4 book cover

Cibola Burn. The Expanse vol 4
by James S.A. Corey

Programming TypeScript book cover

Programming TypeScript
by Boris Cherny

The Light Fantastic (Discworld 2) book cover

The Light Fantastic (Discworld 2)
by Terry Pratchett

Managing Oneself book cover

Managing Oneself
by Peter F Drucker

Extreme Ownership book cover

Extreme Ownership
by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

Alien 3 book cover

Alien 3
by William Gibson

2018

Machine World book cover

Machine World
by B. V. Larson

★★★★
Death World book cover

Death World
by B. V. Larson

★★★★
Home World book cover

Home World
by B. V. Larson

★★★★
Rogue World book cover

Rogue World
by B. V. Larson

★★★★
Blood World book cover

Blood World
by B. V. Larson

★★★★
The Magicians book cover

The Magicians
by Lev Grossman

★★★☆☆
The Magician King book cover

The Magician King
by Lev Grossman

★★★☆☆
The Magician's Land book cover

The Magician's Land
by Lev Grossman

★★★☆☆
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams book cover

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by Matthew Walker

★★★★
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative book cover

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
by Austin Kleon

★★★★★
The Magic of Thinking Big book cover

The Magic of Thinking Big
by David Schwartz, Jason Culp, Simon & Schuster Audio

★★★☆☆
Artemis book cover

Artemis
by Andy Weir, Rosario Dawson, Audible Studios

★★★★
Anathem book cover

Anathem
by Neal Stephenson

★★★★★
Dark World book cover

Dark World
by B.V. Larson

★★★★
tmux 2: productive mouse-free development book cover

tmux 2: productive mouse-free development
by The Pragmatic Programmers - Brian P. Hogan

★★★★
Practical Vim 2ed: Edit Text at the speed of thought book cover

Practical Vim 2ed: Edit Text at the speed of thought
by Drew Neil

★★★★★
Modern Vim: Craft Your Development Environment with Vim 8 and Neovim book cover

Modern Vim: Craft Your Development Environment with Vim 8 and Neovim
by Drew Neil

★★★★
The Fifth Season (Broken Earth Trilogy) book cover

The Fifth Season (Broken Earth Trilogy)
by N.K.Jemisin

★★★★★
It doesn't have to be crazy at work book cover

It doesn't have to be crazy at work
by Jason Fried, DHH

★★★★
The Obelisk Gate (Broken Earth Trilogy) book cover

The Obelisk Gate (Broken Earth Trilogy)
by N.K.Jemisin

★★★★
This is Marketing book cover

This is Marketing
by Seth Godin

★★★★★
Purple Cow book cover

Purple Cow
by Seth Godin

★★★★★
Unshakeable book cover

Unshakeable
by Tony Robbins

★★★★
The Stone Sky (Broken Earth Trilogy) book cover

The Stone Sky (Broken Earth Trilogy)
by N. K. Jemisin

★★★☆☆
Mastering Vim Quickly book cover

Mastering Vim Quickly
by Jovica Ilic

★★★★
Option B: Facing adversity, building resilience and finding joy book cover

Option B: Facing adversity, building resilience and finding joy
by Sheryl Sandberg

★★★★
Learning Vimscript the Hard Way book cover

Learning Vimscript the Hard Way
by Steven Losh

★★★★★
The VimL Primer: Edit Like a Pro with Vim Plugins and Scripts book cover

The VimL Primer: Edit Like a Pro with Vim Plugins and Scripts
by Benjamin Klein

★★★★
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones book cover

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
by James Clear

★★★★★
The Wonder Weeks book cover

The Wonder Weeks
by Frans X. Plooij, Hetty van de Rijt

★★★★

2017

The Bands of Mourning: A Mistborn novel book cover

The Bands of Mourning: A Mistborn novel
by Brandon Sanderson

★★★★★
Essential Angular book cover

Essential Angular
by Victor Savkin

★★★★★
The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People book cover

The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People
by Dan Buettner

★★★☆☆
TED Talk storytelling: 23 storytelling techniques from the best TED talks book cover

TED Talk storytelling: 23 storytelling techniques from the best TED talks
by Akash Karia

★★★★
Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind  book cover

Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind
by Yuval Noah Harari

★★★★
Search Inside Yourself book cover

Search Inside Yourself
by Chade Meng-Tan

★★★★★
1984 book cover

1984
by George Orwell

★★★★★
We are legion (We are Bob) book cover

We are legion (We are Bob)
by Dennis Taylor

★★★★★
What to expect when your wife is expanding book cover

What to expect when your wife is expanding
by Thomas Hill

☆☆☆☆
The passage book cover

The passage
by Justin Cronin

★★★★
Opportunities book cover

Opportunities
by Johan Eriksson

★★★★★
Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads book cover

Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
by Tim Wu

★★★★
How Google Works book cover

How Google Works
by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg

★★★★★
First Year (Black Mage Book 1) book cover

First Year (Black Mage Book 1)
by Rachel E. Carter

★★★★★
For We Are Many (Bobiverse #2) book cover

For We Are Many (Bobiverse #2)
by Dennis Taylor

★★★★
Apprentice (Black Mage Book 2) book cover

Apprentice (Black Mage Book 2)
by Rachel E. Carter

★★★★
Candidate (Black Mage Book 3) book cover

Candidate (Black Mage Book 3)
by Rachel E. Carter

★★★★
Deep work: Rules for focused success in a distracted world book cover

Deep work: Rules for focused success in a distracted world
by Cal Newport

★★★★
Old Man's War book cover

Old Man's War
by John Scalzi

★★★★
Last Stand (Black Mage Book 4) book cover

Last Stand (Black Mage Book 4)
by Rachel E. Carter

★★★★
Brave New World book cover

Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley

★★★☆☆
The Ghost Brigades book cover

The Ghost Brigades
by John Scalzi

★★★★
The Road to Recognition book cover

The Road to Recognition
by Seth Price, Barry Feldman

★★★★
Learning React: Functional Web Development with React and Redux book cover

Learning React: Functional Web Development with React and Redux
by Alex Banks, Eve Porcello

★★★★
Pappalogi book cover

Pappalogi
by Manne Forsberg

★★★★★
Att föda utan rädsla  book cover

Att föda utan rädsla
by Susanna Heli

★★★★
Så här blir du miljönar i hängmatan  book cover

Så här blir du miljönar i hängmatan
by Per H Börjesson

★★★★
The New Evolution Diet: What our Paleolithic Ancestors Can Tell Us About Weight Loss, Fitness and Aging book cover

The New Evolution Diet: What our Paleolithic Ancestors Can Tell Us About Weight Loss, Fitness and Aging
by Professor Arthur De Vany

★★★★
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose book cover

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose
by Tony Hsieh

★★★★
Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts book cover

Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
by Ryan Holiday

★★★★★
All These Worlds (Bobiverse #3) book cover

All These Worlds (Bobiverse #3)
by Dennis E Taylor

★★★★
The Tattooed Ducchess (A Fire Beneath the Skin #2) book cover

The Tattooed Ducchess (A Fire Beneath the Skin #2)
by Victor Guischler

★★★★★
A Painted Goddess book cover

A Painted Goddess
by Victor Guischler

★★★☆☆
Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child book cover

Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child
by John Medina

★★★★
Cracking the Coding Interview book cover

Cracking the Coding Interview
by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

★★★★★
Oathbringer book cover

Oathbringer
by Brandon Sanderson

★★★★★
Steel World book cover

Steel World
by B. V. Larson

★★★★
Dust World book cover

Dust World
by B. V. Larson

★★★★
Leaders Eat Last book cover

Leaders Eat Last
by Simon Sinek

★★★★
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms: Level Up Your Core Programming Skills book cover

A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms: Level Up Your Core Programming Skills
by Jay Wengrow

★★★★
Building Progressive Web Apps: Bringing the Power of Native to the Browser book cover

Building Progressive Web Apps: Bringing the Power of Native to the Browser
by Tal Ater

★★★★
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies book cover

Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared M. Diamond

★★★★
Tech World book cover

Tech World
by B. V. Larson

★★★★

2016

  1. Elantris - Brandon Sanderson
  2. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised edition - Don Norman
  3. Programming Interviews Exposed - John Mongan
  4. In the Plex - Steven Levy (re-read)
  5. Show Your Work - Austin Kleon
  6. Valve Handbook for New Employees (re-read)
  7. Daggerspell - Katharine Kerr
  8. Talk like TED - Carmine Gallo
  9. DarkSpell - Katharine Kerr
  10. The Bristling Woods - Katharine Kerr
  11. How To Shoot a Video That Doesn’t Suck - Steve Stockman
  12. Reactive Programming with Rx.js - Sergi Mansilla
  13. The Dragon Revenant - Katharine Kerr
  14. Work Rules! Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead - Laszlo Bock
  15. Total Recall: My Unbelivable Life Story - Arnold Schwarzenegger
  16. Screw it! Let’s do it! Lessons In Life - Richard Branson
  17. The Rise of Endymion - Dan Simmons
  18. Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert T. Kiyosaki
  19. Ego is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday
  20. The Dip - Seth Godin (re-read)
  21. Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
  22. Sharp Ends: Stories From the World of the First Law - Joe Abercrombie
  23. Calamity - The Reckoners book 3 - Brandon Sanderson
  24. Poke The Box - Seth Godin
  25. The Ocean at the end of the lane - Neil Gaiman
  26. How to stay motivated - Zig Ziglar
  27. Anything you want: 40 lessons for the new entrepreneur - Derek Sivers
  28. Seveneves - Neal Stephenson
  29. Freedom - Daniel Suarez
  30. Uprooted - Naomi Novik
  31. All Marketers are Liars - Seth Godin
  32. Armada - Ernest Cline
  33. ng-book 2 - Nate Murray, Ali Lerner, Felipe Coury, Carlos Taborda
  34. Angular 2 Router - Victor Savkin
  35. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - Angela Duckworth
  36. Count Zero - William Gibson
  37. The Zen of e-book marketing - Guido Henkel
  38. The Trusted Advisor - David H. Maister, Charles H. Green, Robert M. Galford
  39. Functional JavaScript - Michael Fogus
  40. Spell or High Water - Scott Meyer
  41. The subtle art of not giving a fuck - Mark Manson
  42. Badass: Making users awesome - Kathy Sierra
  43. Ink Mage

2015

  1. RESTful Web APIs - Leonard Richardson, Mike Amundsen, Sam Ruby
  2. 100 Things Every Designer Should Know About People - Susan Weinschenk
  3. The Art of Letting Go - Leo babauta
  4. Test Driven Development: By Example - Kent Beck
  5. The Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday
  6. 70-480: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 - Rick Delorme
  7. The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
  8. Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual - John Sonmez
  9. The War Of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
  10. Half the World - Joe Abercrombie
  11. SMACSS: Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS
  12. Snowcrash - Neal Stephenson
  13. The Left Hand Of God - Paul Hoffman
  14. The Last Four Things - Paul Hoffman
  15. The Beating of his Wings - Paul Hoffman
  16. Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time - Brian Tracy
  17. Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
  18. Princess Of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
  19. Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC4 Applications - Willian Penberthy
  20. From Good To Great: Why some companies make the leap… and others don’t - Jim Collins
  21. Trust me, I am lying: Confessions of a media manipulator - Ryan Holiday
  22. Gods of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
  23. Warlord of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
  24. Speed Reading: How to double or triple your reading speed in just one hour -Justing Hammond
  25. Speed Reading for Beginners - James T. Rose
  26. Exam Ref 70-487: Developing Windows Azure and Web Services - Ryan de Kort Milton
  27. Endymion - Dan Simmons
  28. The Sell: The Secrets of Selling Anything to Anyone - Fredrik Eklund
  29. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the quest for a fantastic future - Ashlee Vance
  30. Leap First: Create Work that Matters - Seth Goding
  31. Mindfulness, a Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantric World
  32. Master and Commander - Patrick O’Brian (6th time I read this book XD)
  33. Half a War - Joe Abercrombie
  34. Daily Rituals - How Artists Work - Mason Currey
  35. Firefight - The Reckoners - Brandon Sanderson
  36. F*** Anxiety - Robert Duff Ph.D
  37. Authority: Become an Expert, Build a Following and Gain Financial Independence - Nathan Barry
  38. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
  39. 2001 Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
  40. Lean UX - Jeff Gothelf
  41. Debt Updated and Expanded: The First 5000 years - David Graeber
  42. Shadows of Zambula - Robert E. Horward
  43. 2010: Odyssey Two - Arthur C. Clarke
  44. Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time - Jeff Sutherland
  45. User-Centered Design: A Developer’s Guide to Building User Friendly Applications - Travis Lowdermilk
  46. The Martian - Andy Weir
  47. The Dungeoneers - Jeffery Russell
  48. Shadows of Self - Brandon Sanderson
  49. Money: Master the Game, 7 Easy Steps to Financial Freedom - Tony Robbins
  50. Programming JavaScript Applications - Eric Elliott

2014

  1. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life - Scott Adams
  2. The Opportunity Analysis Canvas - Dr. James V. Green
  3. The Stand - Stephen King
  4. Outliers, The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
  5. Enders Game - Scott Orson Card
  6. LINQ pocket reference - Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari
  7. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
  8. Masters of Doom - David Kushner
  9. The Pomodoro Technique 3rd ed (updated and revised) - Francesco Cirillo
  10. Daemon - Daniel Suarez
  11. NoSQL Distilled - Pramod J. Sadalage
  12. Start Small, Stay Small - Rob Walling
  13. Free-to-Play: Making Money From Games You Give Away - Will Luton
  14. Railsea - China Mieville
  15. Why Marketing Yourself is Important - John Somnez
  16. The Dip - Seth Godin
  17. On Writing - Stephen King
  18. The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson (re-read xD)
  19. The New Psycho-Cybernetics - Maxwell Maltz
  20. Seductive Interaction Design - Stephen P. Anderson
  21. Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson
  22. Warren Buffet’s Management Secrets - Mary Buffet
  23. Startup - Kevin Ready
  24. Drive, The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Daniel H. Pink
  25. The Millionaire Fastlane - MJ De Marco
  26. The Passionate Programmer - Chad Fowler
  27. Infinity Blade: Awakening - Steven Sanderson
  28. Half a King (Shattered Sea) - Joe Abercrombie
  29. The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
  30. How to Win at the Sport of Business - Mark Cuban
  31. Principles of Object Oriented JavaScript - Nicholas C. Zackas
  32. Red Seas Under Red Skies - Scott Lynch
  33. What I Learned From Failure - Reginald Braithwaite
  34. Purple Cow - Seth Godin
  35. The Republic of Thieves - Scott Lynch
  36. Shark Tank Jump Start Your Business - Michael Parrish DuDell
  37. The Crystal Shard - The Legend of Drizzt Book IV - R.A. Salvatore
  38. Steelheart - Brandon Sanderson
  39. Streams of Silver - The Legend of Drizzt Book V - R.A. Salvatore
  40. The Halfling’s Gem - The Legend of Drizzt Book VI - R.A. Salvatore
  41. The Legacy - The Legend of Drizzt Book VII - R.A. Salvatore
  42. How Google Works - Eric Schmidt
  43. Flow: The Psychology of the Optimal Experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  44. The Art of Unit Testing: 2nd edition - Roy Osherove
  45. Die Empty - Todd Henry
  46. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol Dweck
  47. Cirkeln - Sara B. Elfgren
  48. The Hacker Ethic: A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business - Pekka Himanen
  49. Off to Be a Wizard (Magic 2.0 Book 1) - Scott Meyer
  50. JavaScript Allongé - Reginald Braithwaite

2013

  1. Beginning Windows 8 Application Development, XAML edition - Kyle Burns
  2. Legion - Brandon Sanderson
  3. The Wheel of Time 14: A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson 1.. Notes to a Software Team Leader: Growing Effective Software Teams - Roy Osherove
  4. Pair programming Illuminated
  5. Assassin’s Apprentice - Robin Hobb
  6. How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
  7. JavaScript the Good Parts - Douglas Crockford
  8. The 4 Hour Body - Timothy Ferris
  9. Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb
  10. The Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov
  11. Bigger, Leaner, Stronger - Michael Matthews
  12. Assassin’s Quest - Robin Hobb
  13. Your money or your life - Vicki Robin
  14. Made to stick
  15. The tipping point
  16. Start with the why
  17. Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
  18. Wool omnibus - Hugh Howey
  19. Kafka on the shore - Haruki Murakami
  20. I will teach you to be rich - Ramit Sethi
  21. The Icarus deception - Seth Godin
  22. The millionaire next door
  23. Så här kan alla svenska bli miljonärer - Per Håkan Börjesson
  24. Så här blev Warren Buffet världens rikaste person - Per Håkan Börjesson
  25. Så här får du et rikt liv som pensionär - Per Håkan Börjesson
  26. The Art of Agile Development - James Shore
  27. Rework - Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
  28. The first 20 hours - Josh Kaufman
  29. The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business - Josh Kaufman
  30. The Opinionated Software Developer - Shawn Wildermuth
  31. Without Their Permission - Alexis Ohanian
  32. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans
  33. Eloquent JavaScript - Adam Freeman
  34. El puente de los asesinos - Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  35. The Secret - Rhonda Byrne

2012

  1. In the Plex - Steven Levy
  2. Getting Results the Agile Way - J.D. Meier
  3. The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
  4. Zen to Done - Leo babauta
  5. How to Negotiate - Robert Mayer
  6. The Alloy of Law: A mistborn novel - Brandon Sanderson
  7. 7 habits of highly effective people - Stephen R. Covey
  8. Why do we get fat? - Gary Taubes
  9. A Short Victorious War - David Webber
  10. Easyway to stop smoking - Allen Carr
  11. The Body Fat Solution - Tom Venuto
  12. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
  13. The Moder Scholar, A Way with Words I - Michael D.C. Drout
  14. The power of habits - Charles Duhigg
  15. Wine for Dummies - Ed McCarthy and Mary Ewing-Mulligan
  16. Tribes - Seth Godin
  17. Art of Readable code - Dustin Boswell and Trevor Foucher
  18. The pragmatic programmer - Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
  19. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
  20. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
  21. Stephen King - The dark tower (The wind through the KeyHole)
  22. What every body is saying - Joe Navarro
  23. Linchpin - Seth Godin
  24. Theory of fun - Raph Koster
  25. The Modern Scholar, A way with words II - Michael D.C. Drout
  26. Don’t make me think - Steve Krug
  27. Hyperion - Dan Simmons
  28. The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons
  29. Extreme Programing Explained - Kent Beck
  30. Apprenticeship Patterns - Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye
  31. Warbreakers - Brandon Sanderson
  32. Effective Programming: More Than Just Code - Jeff Atwood
  33. Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great Esther Derby
  34. Field Of Dishonor - David Weber
  35. The Phoenix Guard - Steven Brust
  36. Five Hundred Years After - Steven Brust
  37. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
  38. Neuromancer - William Gibson
  39. Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
  40. Red Country (Joe Abercrombie)
  41. Refactoring (Martin Fowler)
  42. Windows Phone 7.5 Unleashed - Daniel Vaughan
  43. How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes - Peter D. Schiff
  44. The 4 Hour Workweek - Timothy Ferris
  45. Temeraire: Tongues of Serpents - Naomi Novik
  46. Foundation And Empire - Isaac Asimov
  47. Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better - Doug Lemov

2011

  1. The Art of unit testing - Roy Osherove
  2. Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# - Robert C. Martin
  3. Clean Code: A Handbook of Software Craftsmanship - Robert C.Martin
  4. The Clean Coder - Robert C. Martin
  5. Buiding Wealth: A beginner’s guide to securing your financial future
  6. On Basilisk Station - David Weber
  7. The Honor of the Queen - David Weber
  8. Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions - Guy Kawasabi
  9. Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 - Steven Sanderson
  10. A Dance With Dragons - George R.R. Martin
  11. The Wise Man’s Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
  12. Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson
  13. The Well of Ascension - Brandon Sanderson
  14. The Hero of Ages - Brandon Sanderson
  15. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  16. The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe - Douglas Adams
  17. Life, The Universe And Everything - Douglas Adams
  18. So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish - Douglas Adams

And before…

For a complete lists of books that goes back in time to my tender childhood check my GoodReads profile. I think I’ve got most of them although there may be something missing.

Essays I’ve written

More Things I’d like to Read

  • Better Web Typography for a better web
  • The nature of code
  • The developer advocacy handbook
  • Designed for Use
  • Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
  • Seven Databases in Seven Weeks
  • Technical Blogging
  • The Agile Samurai
  • [The Passionate Programmer][]
  • Coders At Work
  • Gamestorming
  • Software Estimation
  • Kanban from David Andersson
  • Practices of an Agile Developer
  • Software Craftsmanship
  • Designing for emotion
  • Code Complete
  • Universal Principles of Design
  • Out of our Minds (Ken Robinson)
  • Valve handbook
  • Personal Kanban
  • 97 things every programmer/softwareArchitect should know
  • Apress - Pro LINQ in C# 2010
  • Seven Languages In Seven Weeks
  • Lifehacker book
  • Beautiful code
  • Something about linux
  • Something about python as sys admin/hacking
  • Reactive Extensions
  • Behavior driven development or Machine Specification
  • A book apart design books
  • Martin Fowlers!!!!!
  • Pro Net Best Practices
  • Read about NuGet
  • Read book about .NET dependency injection
  • Agile Practices, Patterns and Principles in C#
  • Implementation Patterns -> Kent Beck
  • Agile NET Development with SCRUM
  • Digital Art in Photoshop
  • The idea book
  • Professional TDD, wrox
  • HTML5 Game Development
  • Test driven development, ken bent.
  • Presentation Zen
  • Learning how to draw in 30 days
  • MoxyLand
  • ZooCity
  • The Book Thief
  • Daggerspell series
  • Game of Thrones and Philosophy.
  • wikinomics, macrowikinomics
  • The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders & Deceivers
  • The Art of Deception
  • David Allen - Making it all work, etc etc
  • The Natural Way To Draw

Books On Hold (or most accurately abandoned)


Jaime González García

Written by Jaime González García , dad, husband, software engineer, ux designer, amateur pixel artist, tinkerer and master of the arcane arts. You can also find him on Twitter jabbering about random stuff.Jaime González García