What I Read in 2010

Continuing what I started last year, here’s the list of books I managed to read this year. I read slightly fewer books this year than last (33 compared to 38). I didn’t exactly aim high (in last year’s post I said I wanted to read at a “similar pace”) so I guess I didn’t fail that miserably. I’m slowly reducing the amount of movies and TV I watch, so hopefully that will provide a little more room to read a bit more in 2011.

As I stated last year, I don’t finish books that I am not enjoying, so each book in the list below I’d recommend to varying degrees. If I’m picking favorites, I’d have to go with Ender’s Game, The Gun Seller and Daemon for my favorite fiction reads. My top three non-fiction books this year (excluding the web-related ones) would be Amusing Ourselves to Death, Flow and Better Off.

1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2. Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
3. What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
4. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
5. Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
6. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
7. The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
8. Essential PHP Security by Chris Shiflett
9. Infoquake by David Louis Edelman
10. Good to Great by Jim Collins
11. Blindness by Jose Saramago
12. The Search by John Battelle
13. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
14. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
15. Natural-Born Cyborgs by Andy Clark
16. The Forest and the Trees by Allan G. Johnson
17. Better Off by Eric Brende
18. Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
19. Alice In Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol
20. The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
21. 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know by Kevlin Henney
22. The Time Machine by HG Wells
23. Glasshouse by Charles Stross
24. Rapt by Winifred Gallagher
25. The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
26. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Emil Frankl
27. Daemon by Daniel Suarez
28. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
29. Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vigne
30. Rework by Jason Fried
31. Forever War by Joe Haldeman
32. HTML5 Up and Running by Mark Pilgram
33. Flashforward by Robert Sawyer