Books

Personal Reading List

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Bold represent books that really stood out to me.

Reading List Up: Dec 2015

Table of Contents

• Fiction
• Business
• Communication
• Economics
• Finance
• Statistics
• Science
• Health & Nutrition
• History
• Writing
• Poetry
• Philosophy
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Education
• Language Learning
• Self Help
• Spirituality
• Design
• Interviewing
• Technology
• Algorithms
• HTML/CSS
• Javascript
• Database
• Data Science

Fiction

• The Fault in Our Stars

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Business

• The Myths of Innovation
• The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
• Six Thinking Hats
• I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay
• Choose Yourself
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
• The 48 Laws of Power
• Getting Naked: A Business Fable about Shedding the Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty
• People Analytics: How Social Sensing Technology Will Transform Business and What It Tells Us about the Future of Work
• The Trusted Advisor
• Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
• Clark Howard's Living Large in Lean Times: 250+ Ways to Buy Smarter, Spend - Smarter, and Save Money
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
• Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes and How to Correct Them: Lessons from the Life-Changing Science of Behavioral Economics
• To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
• Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an - Incredible Career
• The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
• The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Power Laws of Nature: The Science of Success
• Smart Customers, Stupid Companies: Why Only Intelligent Companies Will Thrive, and How To Be One of Them
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
• Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger
• The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
• Managing Oneself
• Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big : Kind of the Story of My Life
• Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries
• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
• Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

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Management & Leadership

• Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

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Marketing

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
• Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and - Advertising

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Communication

• Confessions of a Public Speaker
• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, 3rd Edition: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships
• Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences
• Slide: ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations

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Economics

• The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
• Intellectuals and Society
• That Which Is Seen And That Which Is Not Seen: The Unintended Consequences Of Government Spending
• Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating - Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
• Capitalism and Freedom
• Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
• The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future
• Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
• Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
• The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

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Finance

• The Little Book That Beats the Market
• Understanding Options
• The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair - Share of Stock Market Returns
• F Wall Street: Joe Ponzio's No-Nonsense Approach to Value Investing for the Rest of Us
• The Intelligent Investor
• What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars
• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings

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Statistics

• The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

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Science

• 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
• Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
• Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: Letters of Richard P. Feynman
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
• Unwritten Laws of Engineering: Revised and Updated Edition
• The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
• What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained
• The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

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Health & Nutrition

• In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
• Nutrient Timing: The Future of Sports Nutrition
• The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health
• Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

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History

• A Short History of Nearly Everything
• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
• The Lessons of History
• Why Don't We Learn from History?

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Biography & Memoirs

• Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
• The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
• Man's Search for Meaning
• Between the World and Me
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
• Steve Jobs

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Writing

• Sticky Readers: How to Attract a Loyal Blog Audience by Writing More Better
• The Complete Bullshit-Free and Totally Tested Writing Guide: How to Make - Publishers, Agents, Editors & Readers Fall in Love with Your Work
• Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
• 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love
• On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
• Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
• How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

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Poetry

• No Matter the Wreckage

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Philopshy

• To Have or to Be?
• The Art of War
• The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
• On the Shortness of Life
• The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin (1856)
• Letters from a Stoic
• Meditations
• The Way of Zen
• The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

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Psychology

• Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
• The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
• Addiction: A Disorder Of Choice
• Wait: The Art and Science of Delay
• David and Goliath
• Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want
• Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
• The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
• The 50th Law
• The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills
• Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
• The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
• Practicing Mindfulness: An Introduction to Meditation
• Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
• The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
• The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life
• The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
• The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
• Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

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Sociology

• When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor

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Education

• The Seven Laws of Learning: Why Great Leaders Are Also Great Teachers
• The Higher Education Bubble
• A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

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Language Learning

• Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It

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Self Help

• How To Win Friends and Influence People
• Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
• One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
• So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
• 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management
• The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
• The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

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Spirituality

• The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
• The Journey Into Yourself
• Zen in the Art of Archery

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Design

• Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
• The Web Designer's Idea Book, Vol. 2: More of the Best Themes, Trends and Styles in Website Design
• Adobe Photoshop CS5 on Demand
• Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities
• Getting Started with Processing
• 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter)
• Digital Design Essentials: 100 ways to design better desktop, web, and mobile interfaces
• Interdisciplinary Interaction Design: A Visual Guide to Basic Theories, Models and Ideas for Thinking and Designing for Interactive Web Design and Digital Device Experiences
• Adobe Flash Catalyst Cs5 Classroom in a Book

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Interviewing

• The Google Resume: How to Prepare for a Career and Land a Job at Apple, Microsoft, Google, or any Top Tech Company
• Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions

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Technology

• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
• The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
• Who Owns the Future?
• Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
• Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking
• Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code
• Ship It!
• High Performance Web Sites
• Even Faster Web Sites
• APIs: A Strategy Guide
• User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product

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Algorithms

• Data Structures and Algorithms in Java

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HTML/CSS

• Introducing HTML5
• CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide (5th Edition)
• Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual
• Stunning CSS3: A project-based guide to the latest in CSS (Voices That Matter)
• Smashing CSS: Professional Techniques for Modern Layout (Smashing Magazine Book Series)

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Javascript

• JavaScript: The Good Parts
• Getting Good with Javascript
• Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript
• Node.js in Action
• jQuery in Action
• The Node Beginner Book
• Programming JavaScript Applications: Robust Web Architecture With Node, HTML5, and Modern JS Libraries
• Testable JavaScript
• ng-book - The Complete Book on AngularJS

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Java

• Java Precisely, 2nd Edition

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Database

• Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional

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Data Science

• R Programming for Data Science

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