I did manage to read just over 50 books during 2004. If I were feeling exceptionally compulsive, I could go back and complete reviews of all of them, but the value for that isn’t clear.
I expect to manage a comparable reading load in 2005. In the interests of making this blog a better back up brain for myself, I plan on keeping better running notes on the nonfiction titles as I read. Whether I bother to write up details for my fiction read remains to be seen.
One thing I plan to do over the next week or so is to identify the top five or so books that I found most valuable in 2004. For the record these are the books I fnished in 2004.
- Heinlein’s For Us the Living – 50 Book Challenge
- Christensen’s Innovator’s Solution – 50 Book Challenge
- David Allen’s Ready for Anything – 50 Book Challenge
- David Gerrold’s The Man Who Folded Himself – 50 Book Challenge
- Dan Brown’s Deception Point – 50 Book Challenge
- Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress – 50 Book Challenge
- Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon – 50 Book Challenge
- John Brunner’s Shockware Rider – 50 Book Challenge
- Robert Wilson’s Chronoliths – 50 Book Challenge
- Bruce Sterling’s Zenith Angle – 50 Book Challenge
- John McPhee’s Curve of Binding Energy – 50 Book Challenge
- Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture – 50 Book Challenge
- John Brunner’s The Sheep Look Up – 50 Book Challenge
- Greg Iles’s The Footprints of God – 50 Book Challenge
- Steven Johnson’s Mind Wide Open – 50 Book Challenge
- Anderson, Poul – For Love and Glory
- Charles Stross’s Iron Sunrise – 50 Book Challenge
- Brian Arkill’s LDAP Directories Explained – 50 Book Challenge
- Eric Meyer’s Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Ed – 50 Book Challenge
- Eric Meyer on CSS – 50 Book Challenge
- Gregory Dicum’s Window Seat – 50 Book Challenge
- Todd Carter’s Microsoft OneNote 2003 for Windows – 50 Book Challenge
- Dvorak and Pirillo’s Online! The Book – 50 Book Challenge
- Charles Stross’s Singularity Sky – 50 book challenge
- Elizabeth Moon’s Trading in Danger – 50 Book Challenge
- Austin, Robert – Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work
- Cadenhead, Rogers – Radio UserLand Kick Start
- Caldwell, Ian – The Rule of Four
- Carr, Nicholas G. – Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage
- Hammond, Grant T. – The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security
- Kelly, Kevin – Cool Tools
- Lakoff, George – Don’t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate–The Essential Guide for Progressives
- Modesitt, L. E. – Archform: Beauty
- MORIARTY, CHRIS – Spin State
- Ringo, John – Emerald Sea
- Ringo, John – There Will Be Dragons
- Ringo, John – Cally’s War
- Stross, Charles – The Atrocity Archives
- Tharp, Twyla – The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
- Wheaton, Wil – Just a Geek
- Wurman, Richard Saul – Information Anxiety 2
- Yamashita, Keith – Unstuck: A tool for Yourself, Your Team , and Your World
- Zackheim, Sarah Parsons – Getting Your Book Published for Dummies
- Bok, Derek Curtis – Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education
- Camp, Jim – Start with NO…The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don’t Want You to Know
- Graham, Paul – Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
- Weber, David – The Shadow of Saganami (The Saganami Island)
- Brand, Stewart – How Buildings Learn; What Happens After They’re Built
- Kawasaki, Guy – The Art Of The Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide For Anyone Starting Anything
- Cussler, Clive – Black Wind
- Modesitt, L. E. – Flash
- LAMOTT, ANNE – Bird by Bird : Some Instructions on Writing and Life
- Stross, Charles – Toast