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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.
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.



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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
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
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
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