52 Books in 52 Weeks (What I Read in 2013)

Michael Fairley

01 Jan 2014

2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - 2019

Like the past two years, I read a bunch of books. Unlike previous years, I kept a better pace (last year I finished multiple books on December 31st) and stopped in the middle of a few books that I wasn’t enjoying (they didn’t make it on this list).

1. Think Stats (Free online)
2. Green Mars
3. The Big U
4. Third Shift - Pact
5. Think Bayes (Free online)
6. The $100 Startup
7. Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code
8. The Martian
9. Java Concurrency in Practice
10. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
11. Bayesian Adaptive Methods for Clinical Trials
12. Third-Party JavaScript
13. JavaScript: The Good Parts
14. Pattern Recognition
15. Spook Country
16. Game Programming Patterns
17. Zero History
18. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (Free online)
19. Understanding Computation: From Simple Machines to Impossible Programs
20. Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good! (Free online)
21. Eastern Standard Tribe (Free online)
22. Little Brother (Free online)
23. The Andromeda Strain
24. Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming
25. Blue Mars
26. Homeland (Free online)
27. Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World
28. The Difference Engine
29. Dust
30. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup
31. In the Beginning…was the Command Line
32. With a Little Help (Free online)
33. Virtual Light
34. Burning Chrome
35. Predictably Irrational
36. Idoru
37. The Casual Vacancy
38. Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
39. Programming Elixir
40. Bringing Down the House
41. All Tomorrow’s Parties
42. Programming Clojure
43. A Fire Upon The Deep (My favorite of the year)
44. A Deepness in the Sky
45. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
46. The Innovator’s Dilemma
47. Neuromancer
48. Count Zero
49. Mona Lisa Overdrive
50. Ruby Under a Microscope: An Illustrated Guide to Ruby Internals
51. Seeds of Change
52. The Fault in Our Stars