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http://timsanders.com/books/likeability-factor.html
I listened to this twice, and applied everything he said to do in my life. I went from a lonely programmer to an extrovert in 18 months. He put Extroversion into words a programmer can understand, as lists of instructions. Now i have so many friends I have to prioritize time with them.
This will resonate well with people who enjoy working with their hands. It also has some pretty entertaining anecdotes from the author's personal life, but it's not overly autobiographical. I personally found this one interesting because I've had some similar experiences in life-working on (and driving) an old Volkswagen as a first car, working in the trades, going to college, getting a desk job, and now, thinking perhaps that a desk job isn't for me, as he realized.
* Anne Tyler, Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant * Gene Wolfe, Peace * Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
"Left in the dark" - a theory about how our mind works. It is either crackpot or one of the most amazing discoveries of the last few decades. Hard to tell which, but it is a very interesting read regardless. http://leftinthedark.org.uk/
I enjoyed James Gleick's The Information. Wonderful book from one of the best science writers around.
I was so incredibly tempted to put 'Twilight' down and wait for the lynch mob, but then realized that the Reddit color scheme is different. This year was solely devoted to pleasure reading. Neal Stephenson's REAMDE was quite good, although I imagine everybody on HN has read it, as Neal is practically a Valley institution. The original 'Starship Troopers' by Ray Bradbury was also a good read, and easy to miss if you'r…
Of the non-fiction I read, and completed, this year, Endurance: Shackelton's Incredible Voyage by Lansing.