The Books Of 2016

A list of the 80 or so books I read from January 1st, 2016 to December 31st, 2016.

This year was a bit light on the reading due to so much travel and being swamped with work.

Biography

1. "Elon Musk: Inventing the Future" by Ashlee Vance

Fiction

1. "Press Start to Play" by Daniel H. Wilson
2. "Dodger's Guide to London" by Terry Pratchett
3. "Dragons at Crumbling Castle: And Other Stories" by Terry Pratchett
4. "The Knight and Knave of Swords" by Fritz Leiber
5. "Blue Champagne" by John Varley
6. "Transreal!" by Rudy Rucker
7. "After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien" by Martin H. Greenberg
8. "Hot Water" by P.G. Wodehouse
9. "Performing Flea" by P.G. Wodehouse
10. "Cocktail Time" by P.G. Wodehouse
11. "Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best" by P.G. Wodehouse
12. "Uneasy Money" by P.G. Wodehouse
13. "Wodehouse on Crime" by P.G. Wodehouse
14. "Spring Fever" by P.G. Wodehouse
15. "Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg and other stories" by P.G. Wodehouse
16. "A Few Quick Ones" by P.G. Wodehouse
17. "Frozen Assets" by P.G. Wodehouse
18. "Jeeves and the Old School Chum" by P.G. Wodehouse

Entrepreneurship

1. "Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works" by Ash Maurya
2. "The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything" by Guy Kawasaki
3. "Hello Startup. A Programmer's Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams" by Yevgeniy Brikman
4. "The Entrepreneur Blueprint: How To Fix Your Focus & Mindset To Develop A Successful Game Plan" by Rebekah Welch
5. "Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days" by Jake Knapp
6. "Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City" by Brad Feld
7. "The Art of Startup Fundraising" by Alejandro Cremades

Marketing & Business

1. "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead" by Sheryl Sandberg
2. "Poke the Box" by Seth Godin
3. "Leap First: Creating Work That Matters" by Seth Godin
4. "The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business" by Duff McDonald
5. "Stop Stealing Dreams" by Seth Godin
6. "Email Marketing: Effective Email Marketing: The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Your Email Marketing Strategy" by Sam A. Brown
7. "Bill Gates: The Life and Business Lessons of Bill Gates" by George Ilian
8. "Unemployable!" by David Thomas Roberts
9. "Perfect Phrases for Documenting Employee Performance Problems" by Anne Bruce
10. "We Are All Weird: The Myth of Mass and The End of Compliance" by Seth Godin
11. "#GIRLBOSS" by Sophia Amoruso

Success & Personal Development

1. "The Power Laws: The Science Of Success" by Richard Koch

General Knowledge

1. "The Axemaker's Gift" by James Burke
2. "That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us" by Erin Moore
3. "Astronomy Demystified" by Stan Gibilisco
4. "When to Rob a Bank" by Steven D. Levitt
5. "Irrationally yours : on missing socks, pick-up lines and other existential puzzles" by Dan Ariely

Software Development

1. "Getting Started with Twitter Flight" by Tom Hamshere
2. "Artificial Evolution: 12th International Conference 2015" by Stephane Bonnevay
3. "Unified Behavior Framework for Discrete Event Simulation Systems" by Air Force Institute of Technology
4. "Natural Language Processing with Python" by Steven Bird
5. "Clojure Programming" by Chas Emerick
6. "Game Audio Programming: Principles and Practices" by Guy Somberg
7. "Fundamentals of Action and Arcade Game Design" by Ernest Adams
8. "Computer Games: Fourth Workshop on Computer Games and the Fourth Workshop on General Intelligence in Game-Playing Agents" by Tristan Cazenave

Comic Strip Collections

1. "Pearls Blows Up: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury" by Stephan Pastis
2. "Pieces 1: Premium Gallery" by Masamune Shirow
3. "Pearls Gets Sacrificed: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury" by Stephan Pastis
4. "Optimism Sounds Exhausting" by Scott Adams
5. "Pieces 6: Hellcat" by Masamune Shirow
6. "I Can't Remember if We're Cheap or Smart" by Scott Adams
7. "Breaking Stephan: A Pearls Before Swine Collection" by Stephan Pastis
8. "Your New Job Title is "Accomplice"" by Scott Adams
9. "Intron Depot 5: Battalion" by Masamune Shirow

Graphic Novels

1. "Usagi Yojimbo: Senso" by Stan Sakai
2. "The Walking Dead, Book Eleven" by Robert Kirkman
3. "Conan, Volume 12: Throne of Aquilonia" by Roy Thomas
4. "Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn #3" by Masamune Shirow
5. "Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn #1" by Masamune Shirow
6. "The Walking Dead, Book Twelve" by Robert Kirkman
7. "Empowered Special #7: PEW! PEW! PEW!" by Adam Warren
8. "Looking for Group #12" by Ryan Sohmer
9. "Looking for Group #11" by Ryan Sohmer
10. "Looking for Group #10" by Ryan Sohmer
11. "Looking for Group #9" by Ryan Sohmer
12. "Looking for Group #8" by Ryan Sohmer
13. "Looking for Group #7" by Ryan Sohmer
14. "Looking for Group #6" by Ryan Sohmer
15. "Looking for Group #5" by Ryan Sohmer
16. "Looking for Group #4" by Ryan Sohmer
17. "Looking for Group #3" by Ryan Sohmer
18. "Looking for Group #2" by Ryan Sohmer
19. "Looking For Group #1" by Ryan Sohmer