I am trying to balance the categorization here. Without a firm grip on my innate OCD, these would get too granular. You might disagree with some of my choices, but tough, it's my list.
Agile
| Title |
Author |
Date Read
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| Scaled Agile Framework Distilled: A Practical Guide to Scaling Agile in the Enterprise |
Knaster, Richard |
31-Jan-19
|
| Escape Velocity - Better Metrics for Agile Teams |
Norton, Doc |
16-Jan-19
|
Behavioral Economics
| Title |
Author |
Date Read
|
| Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter |
Ariely, Dan |
|
| Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts |
Duke, Annie |
18-Jan-17
|
Business
| Title |
Author |
Date Read
|
| The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey |
Blanchard, Kenneth H. |
|
| Boss Life: Surviving My Own Small Business |
Downs, Paul |
20-Aug-18
|
| How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business |
Hubbard, Douglas W. |
6-May-18
|
| Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It |
Voss, Chris |
29-Jul-18
|
Climate/Current Events
| Title |
Author |
Date Read
|
| Don't Panic: ISIS, Terror and Today's Middle East |
Dyer, Gwynne |
12-May-18
|
| False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet |
Lomborg, Bjørn |
15-May-18
|
| Atmosphæra Incognita |
Stephenson, Neal |
2-Sep-19
|
| Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life |
Strauss, Neil |
24-Dec-17
|
| Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction |
Newitz, Annalee |
|
Computing / Privacy
| Title |
Author |
Date Read
|
| Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions |
Christian, Brian |
23-Sep-20
|
| The Expert Beginner |
Dietrich, Erik |
15-Sep-17
|
| Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age |
Doctorow, Cory |
8-Apr-17
|
| The Art of Invisibility |
Mitnick, Kevin D. |
7-Mar-18
|
| Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy |
O'Neil, Cathy |
25-Mar-19
|
| Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World |
Schneier, Bruce |
3-Mar-19
|
| Permanent Record |
Snowden, Edward |
18-Oct-19
|
Economics
| Title |
Author |
Date Read
|
| The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine |
Lewis, Michael |
9-Aug-20
|
| Uncommon Carriers |
McPhee, John |
30-Dec-16
|
Health
| Title |
Author |
Date Read
|
| Blood Sugar 101: What They Don't Tell You About Diabetes |
Ruhl, Jenny |
4-May-17
|
History (General)
| Title |
Author |
Date Read
|
| Live from Cape Canaveral: Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today |
Barbree, Jay |
|
| The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language |
Bragg, Melvyn |
|
| The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses |
Carlin, Dan |
6-Jan-16
|
| The Lessons of History |
Durant, Will |
22-May-18
|
| The Cold War: A New History |
Gaddis, John Lewis |
22-Mar-18
|
| The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past |
Gaddis, John Lewis |
17-Jan-18
|
| The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War |
Kaplan, Fred |
|
| The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger |
Steinmetz, Greg |
|
| Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different |
Wood, Gordon |
|
Leadership
| Title |
Author |
Date Read
|
| Leading Change |
Kotter, John P. |
14-May-18
|
| Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders |
Marquet, L. David |
8-Jun-19
|
| Summary of Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High |
Patterson, Kerry |
|
| Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us |
Pink, Daniel H. |
31-Aug-17
|
| Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win |
Willink, Jocko |
|
Military History
| Title |
Author |
Date Read
|
| The Second World War |
Beevor, Anthony |
|
| Churchill, Hitler, and 'The Unnecessary War': How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World |
Buchanan, Patrick |
5-Sep-18
|
| Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 |
Giangreco, D.M. |
|
| Jutland, 1916: Death in the Grey Wastes |
Hart, Peter |
6-Nov-17
|
| The Battle for the Falklands |
Hastings, Max |
5-Oct-12
|
| Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War |
Hastings, Max |
15-Oct-20
|
| A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 |
Meyer, G.J. |
15-Jul-20
|
Military Strategy & Operational Art
| Title |
Author |
Date Read
|
| History's Great Military Blunders and the Lessons They Teach (Great Courses) |
Aldrete, Gregory |
|
| On Grand Strategy |
Gaddis, John Lewis |
30-Aug-18
|
| Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought |
Handel, Michael I. |
11-Apr-18
|
| The Art of War: War and Military Thought |
Van Creveld, Martin |
22-Oct-20
|
| Masters of War: History's Greatest Strategic Thinkers (Great Courses) |
Wilson, Andrew |
|
Philosophy
| Title |
Author |
Date Read
|
| The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself |
Carroll, Sean |
|
| Ender's Game and Philosophy: The Logic Gate Is Down |
Decker, Kevin S. |
17-Feb-17
|
| The Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist |
Feynman, Richard |
1-Feb-20
|
| On Bullshit |
Frankfurt, Harry G. |
1-May-20
|
| Arguably: Selected Essays |
Hitchens, Christopher |
10-Apr-17
|
| God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything |
Hitchens, Christopher |
|
| The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life |
Manson, Mark |
18-Sep-20
|
| Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Principles for Delicious Living |
Offerman, Nick |
|
Photography
| Title |
Author |
Date Read
|
| It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War |
Addario, Lynsey |
21-Apr-17
|
| A Photojournalist's Field Guide: In the trenches with combat photographer Stacy Pearsall |
Pearsall, Stacy |
|
Physics/Cosmology
| Title |
Author |
Date Read
|
| What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics |
Becker, Adam |
1-Oct-18
|
| The Higgs Boson and Beyond |
Carroll, Sean |
3-Feb-19
|
| From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time |
Carroll, Sean |
24-Dec-19
|
| Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime |
Carroll, Sean |
23-Jun-20
|
| Coming of Age in the Milky Way |
Ferris, Timothy |
|
| 13.8: The Quest to Find the True Age of the Universe and the Theory of Everything |
Gribbin, John |
|
| Edge of the Universe: A Voyage to the Cosmic Horizon and Beyond |
Halpern, Paul |
|
| The End of Everything |
Mack, Katie |
3-Sep-20
|
| Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace |
Mlodinow, Leonard |
2-Dec-18
|
| The Search for Exoplanets: What Astronomers Know |
Winn, Joshua N. |
|
Skepticism
| Title |
Author |
Date Read
|
| The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake |
Novella, Steve |
6-Feb-17
|
| Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye |
Shermer, Michael |
|
Sociology / Psycology
| Title |
Author |
Date Read
|
| The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies |
Caplan, Bryan |
|
| The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? |
Diamond, Jared |
8-Dec-16
|
| Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know |
Gladwell, Malcolm |
6-Dec-18
|
| Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World |
McGonigal, Jane |
|
| How to Spot a Psychopath |
Navarro, Joe |
|
| Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets |
Venkatesh, Sudhir |
|
War ((Auto)Biographies)
| Title |
Author |
Date Read
|
| Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper |
Coughlin, Jack |
14-Nov-17
|
| African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa, 1914-1918 |
Gaudi, Robert |
15-Oct-17
|
| The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History |
Johnson, Boris |
27-May-20
|
| Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949 |
Knappe, Siegfried |
3-Jul-19
|
| Across The Fence: The Secret War In Vietnam |
Meyer, John Stryker |
30-Oct-18
|
| Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds |
Olds, Robin |
21-Jan-19
|
| SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper |
Wasdin, Howard |
|
Woodworking
| Title |
Author |
Date Read
|
| Shaker Inspiration: Five Decades of Fine Craftsmanship |
Becksvoort, Christian |
1-Mar-19
|
| The Welsh Stick Chair: A Visual Record |
Bowen, Tim |
2-Aug-20
|
| Welsh Stick Chairs: A Workshop Guide To The Windsor Chair |
Brown, John |
24-Aug-20
|
| Trees, Chests and Boxes of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries |
Conybeare, A.J. |
19-Feb-20
|
| A Discourse on Boxes of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries |
Conybeare, A.J. |
15-Feb-20
|
| Making Things Work: Tales From A Cabinetmaker's Life |
Hiller, Nancy R. |
14-Sep-20
|
| Hands Employed Aright: The Furniture Making of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847) |
Klein, Joshua A. |
9-Mar-19
|
| Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It |
Savage, Adam |
10-Feb-20
|
| The Anarchist's Workbench |
Schwarz, Christopher |
30-Jul-20
|
| The Anarchist's Design Book |
Schwarz, Christopher |
1-Aug-20
|
| From Truths to Tools |
Tolpin, Jim |
18-May-17
|
Writing
| Title |
Author |
Date Read
|
| Some Remarks |
Stephenson, Neal |
5-Apr-19
|
