I read "Wheel of time" series by Robert Jordan this year. The books in this series are just so addictive.. wasn't able to stop till I read all thirteen books :)
Just one left to go, I've been waiting for a very very very long time.
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#52Tech: Code by Charles Petzold
Novel: Invisible by Paul Auster
Essay: Après la démocratie (French) by Emmanuel Todd
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#53Design for Hackers by David Kadavy. Besides being informative it was really really interesting to read. Really opened my eyes to a lot of the things designers do deliberately and not just because "its pretty".
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#54I enjoyed James Gleick's The Information. Wonderful book from one of the best science writers around.
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#55The Art of Readable Code
Best book on software engineering in a good while.
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#56A song of Ice and Fire series
That's probably the best thing I read this year too. It's very good, but not amazing, which just means I haven't read anything amazing this year.
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#58API Design for C++ - Martin Reddy
The table of contents looks very good. Do you know any other recent and worthy C++ books? I'm more interested in design-related and deeply technical ones.
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#59Status Anxiety - Alain de Botton
It's about how we have come to live in a meritocracy, where your status depends on what you have achieved. Very insightful and readable work by the contemporary philosopher/writer.
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#60I had a fantastic reading year, too much to choose from:
"Cosmos" - Carl Sagan
"Hyperion" + "Fall of Hyperion" - Dan Simmons
"Red Mars" - Kim Stanley Robinson
"The Prince" - Niccolo Machiavelli