Books Before 2016

After seeing Matt Mullenweg’s post about 29 Books in 2019, I thought I would start highlighting the books I’ve covered.

First, here’s just a giant list of the books I have read at SOME POINT before 2016. I think I have a pretty good sense of the books I read each year after 2016, but these books I have no shot at the year I read them. They aren’t ordered in any particular way other than how I came across them on my shelves. This also doesn’t list any of the textbooks from my undergrad degree or my PhD.

Here we go:

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
• The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
• The 4-Hour Chef by Tim Ferriss
• Linchpin by Seth Godin
• The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
• The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
• The First 20 Hours by Josh Kaufman
• The Education of Millionaries by Michael Ellsberg
• The Start-up of You by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha
• The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz
• So Good they Can’t Ignore you by Cal Newport
• The Dip by Seth Godin
• Good to Great by Jim Collins
• What they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School by Mark McCormack
• Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
• Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited by Steve Krug
• Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug
• The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
• Smart and Gets Things Done by Joel Spolsky
• Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister
• High Output Management by Andrew Grove
• Getting to Yes by Fisher, Ury and Patton
• No BS Direct Marketing by Dan Kennedy
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• The Hardware Startup by Diresta, Forrest and Vinyard
• Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew Grove
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
• Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
• Think like a Freak, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
• C++ Primer by Lippman, Lajoie and Moo
• Code Complete (2nd Edition) by Steve McConnell
• How to Talk so Kids will Listen by Faber and Mazlish
• Siblings Without Rivalry by Faber and Mazlish
• Freakonomics – Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
• Superfreakenomics– Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
• The Power of Full Engagement – Jim Joehr and Tony Schwartz
• The Happiness Project – Gretchen Rubin
• Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
• Ready to Run by Dr. Kelly Starrett
• The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf
• The 4 hour Body by Tim Ferriss
• I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
• The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
• Pragmatic Unit Testing by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
• Pragmatic Project Automation by Mike Clark
• Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion by Mike Mason
• New Programmer’s Survival Manual by Joshua Carter
• The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
• The Wahls Protocol By Terry Wahls
• What to Do When its Your Turn (and its Always Your Turn) by Seth Godin
• Daily Rituals by Mason Currey