McGee’s Musings

I did manage to read just over 50 books during 2004. If I were feeling exceptionally compulsive, I could go back and complete reviews of all of them, but the value for that isn’t clear.

I expect to manage a comparable reading load in 2005. In the interests of making this blog a better back up brain for myself, I plan on keeping better running notes on the nonfiction titles as I read. Whether I bother to write up details for my fiction read remains to be seen.

One thing I plan to do over the next week or so is to identify the top five or so books that I found most valuable in 2004. For the record these are the books I fnished in 2004.

1. Heinlein’s For Us the Living - 50 Book Challenge
2. Christensen’s Innovator’s Solution - 50 Book Challenge
3. David Allen’s Ready for Anything - 50 Book Challenge
4. David Gerrold’s The Man Who Folded Himself - 50 Book Challenge
5. Dan Brown’s Deception Point - 50 Book Challenge
6. Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress - 50 Book Challenge
7. Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon - 50 Book Challenge
8. John Brunner’s Shockware Rider - 50 Book Challenge
9. Robert Wilson’s Chronoliths - 50 Book Challenge
10. Bruce Sterling’s Zenith Angle - 50 Book Challenge
11. John McPhee’s Curve of Binding Energy - 50 Book Challenge
12. Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture - 50 Book Challenge
13. John Brunner’s The Sheep Look Up - 50 Book Challenge
14. Greg Iles’s The Footprints of God - 50 Book Challenge
15. Steven Johnson’s Mind Wide Open - 50 Book Challenge
16. Anderson, Poul - For Love and Glory
17. Charles Stross’s Iron Sunrise - 50 Book Challenge
18. Brian Arkill’s LDAP Directories Explained - 50 Book Challenge
19. Eric Meyer’s Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Ed - 50 Book Challenge
20. Eric Meyer on CSS - 50 Book Challenge
21. Gregory Dicum’s Window Seat - 50 Book Challenge
22. Todd Carter’s Microsoft OneNote 2003 for Windows - 50 Book Challenge
23. Dvorak and Pirillo’s Online! The Book - 50 Book Challenge
24. Charles Stross’s Singularity Sky - 50 book challenge
25. Elizabeth Moon’s Trading in Danger - 50 Book Challenge
26. Austin, Robert - Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work
27. Cadenhead, Rogers - Radio UserLand Kick Start
28. Caldwell, Ian - The Rule of Four
29. Carr, Nicholas G. - Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage
30. Hammond, Grant T. - The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security
31. Kelly, Kevin - Cool Tools
32. Lakoff, George - Don’t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate–The Essential Guide for Progressives
33. Modesitt, L. E. - Archform: Beauty
34. MORIARTY, CHRIS - Spin State
35. Ringo, John - Emerald Sea
36. Ringo, John - There Will Be Dragons
37. Ringo, John - Cally’s War
38. Stross, Charles - The Atrocity Archives
39. Tharp, Twyla - The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
40. Wheaton, Wil - Just a Geek
41. Wurman, Richard Saul - Information Anxiety 2
42. Yamashita, Keith - Unstuck: A tool for Yourself, Your Team , and Your World
43. Zackheim, Sarah Parsons - Getting Your Book Published for Dummies
44. Bok, Derek Curtis - Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education
45. Camp, Jim - Start with NO…The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don’t Want You to Know
46. Graham, Paul - Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
47. Weber, David - The Shadow of Saganami (The Saganami Island)
48. Brand, Stewart - How Buildings Learn; What Happens After They’re Built
49. Kawasaki, Guy - The Art Of The Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide For Anyone Starting Anything
50. Cussler, Clive - Black Wind
51. Modesitt, L. E. - Flash
52. LAMOTT, ANNE - Bird by Bird : Some Instructions on Writing and Life
53. Stross, Charles - Toast