Tricky Keg Stands

Books I'm Reading

I read nothing but technical books from 1995 until 2007. Then I woke up. This is here more for me to keep track.

Books I've Read Recently

The Art of War - Sun Tzu

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut

The Cider House Rules - John Irving

Specimen Days - Michael Cunningham

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris

Poor Charlie's Almanack - Charles T. Munger

Warren Buffett speaks : wit and wisdom from the world's greatest investor - Warren Buffet

Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski

The Last Question - Isaac Asimov

The Innocent Man - John Grisham (book on tape... couldn't finish it.)

Post Office - Charles Bukowski

The Essential Drucker - Peter Drucker (so good i bought it)

Benjamin Franklin : An American Life - Walter Isaacson (read most of the autobiography concurrently, but i wanted to finish this one during the 4th of July weekend...)

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (full text online) - Ben Franklin (now that I look back, read the first section of the autobiography, read Isaacson, then finish up the rest of the autobiography.)

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1920 New York Publication. Full text online.) - Lewis Carrol

The Elements of Style (1918 New York. Full text online.) - William Strunk, Jr. (a nice reference I need to re-read.)

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris

The Bucket Rider - Franz Kafka

A Hunger Artist - Franz Kafka

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Franz Kafka

Slaughterhouse-Five again... - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris

How to Get Rich - Feilix Dennis

Please Understand Me II - Character and Temperament Types - David Keirsey, Marilyn Bates

The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe - Roger Penrose

Introduction to Algorithms - Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein

Twilight - Stephanie Meyer (If reading a teenage romance novel about vampires is wrong, i don't want to be right.)

New Moon - Stephanie Meyer (geesh, those teenage vampires really suck you in...)

Eclipse - Stephanie Meyer (I dragged ass reading this one.)

Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Meyer (must... finish... the... series... DONE!)

Freakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner

The Road - Cormac McCarthy (wow.)

No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy

Ulysses James Joyce - FAIL (didn't finish)

On Writing Well - William Zinsser (lovedit)

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men - David Foster Wallace

The Qualcomm Equation - Dave Mock

Shop Girl - Steve Martin

The Humbling - Philip Roth

Deliverance - James Dickey

Tales of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams

The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

And Tango Makes Three - Peter Parnell Justin Richardson Henry Cole

Goodbye to All That - Joan Didion

House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

Bright Lights Big City - Jay McInerney

American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis

White Noise - Don DeLillo

Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut

Ender's Game - Oson Scott Card

The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer

Anthem - Ayn Rand

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

The Tycoons - How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy - Charles Morris

Half a Life - Darin Strauss

Freedom - Jonathan Franzen

Pioneering Portfolio Management - David Swensen

How I became a Quant - 25 authors

A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Burton Malkiel

A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator - Edwin Lefèvre

The Pale King - David Foster Wallace

Foundations of financial markets and institutions - Frank J. Fabozzi, Franco Modigliani, Frank Joseph Jones

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. - Ron Chernow

Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography - Richard Branson

Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie - Andrew Carnegie

books in progress:

Ulysses James Joyce - (trying again)

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