My choice this year is Burton Malkiel's "A Random Walk Down Wall Street"
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#2Lean Startup, got it for X-MAS.
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#3Second the Lean Startup
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#4Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"
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#5The Fast Lane by MJ Demarco
You won't regret it.
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#6Best read for me is actually a non-tech book; the Dutch "Hoe hoort het eigenlijk" (roughly translated as: "how it should be done") which is considered "the Dutch Etiquette Bible". There is not enough courtesy and etiquette in this world.
That, and I really liked SICP (finally got off the shelf).
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#7It's not tech-related, but my favorite book this year was Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. The book is a collection of stories from North Korean defectors, combined with some history and background info. It's a quick but satisfying read.
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#8Open Services Innovation from Henry Chesbrough
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#9Victor Hugo ~ Les Misérables
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#10Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
A scary tale about the collapse of the various markets across the globe. I constantly had to keep checking to see if the book was from the fiction section. The stories are so far out there it seemed unreal.