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ycom13__onDec 23, 2015

Here are all the ones I read this year

  A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire) by George R. R. Martin
A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) by George R.R. Martin
The Confident Speaker: Beat Your Nerves and Communicate at Your Best in Any Situation by Harrison Monarth
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewsk
To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War by Jeff Shaara
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender
George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution by Brian Kilmeade
Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain by Steven D. Levitt
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
Finders Keepers: A Novel by Stephen King
The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I by Barbara W. Tuchman
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
Seveneves: A Novel by Neal Stephenson
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
Hitler's Last Day: Minute by Minute by Emma Craigie
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Robopocalypse: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Daniel H. Wilson
Robogenesis by Daniel H. Wilson
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick



My 5 favorite ones from that list are

  In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War by Jeff Shaara
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

arc_of_descentonDec 22, 2016

I started Jan 2016 jobless, I still am. hence the long reading list! Apart from these I've read lots on AngularJS, React, Redux, Python.

* The Short Drop (The Gibson Vaughn Series) - Matthew FitzSimmons

* The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins

* Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution - Neil deGrasse Tyson

* Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future - Ashlee Vance

* Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries - Neil deGrasse Tyson

* The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest To Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind - Michio Kaku

* An Innocent Client (Joe Dillard Series Book 1) - Scott Pratt

* WIRED - Douglas E. Richards

* Phantoms - Dean Koontz

* Breakthrough - Michael C. Grumley

* Knots And Crosses (Inspector Rebus) - Ian Rankin

* Founders at Work - Jessica Livingston

* The Tumor: A Non-Legal Thriller - John Grisham

* Kick the Drink... Easily! - Jason Vale

* Hide And Seek (Inspector Rebus) - Ian Rankin

* Tooth And Nail - Ian Rankin

* Nexus (The Nexus Trilogy Book 1) - Ramez Naam

* Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow - Yuval Noah Harari

* Biocentrism - Bob Berman

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