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Books

This is a list of books I’ve read, those I’ve purchased and am waiting to read, and those I’ve abandoned part way through. This list is relatively new—I started keeping track in the middle of 2024.

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My abandoned list is relatively large. I give myself permission to bail out of books that I find myself flogging through for one reason or another. This doesn’t mean they’re bad books. In many cases my interests just change before I can finish. I’ve also been forced to add books to the list when they were removed from the subscription service I was using to read them.

In 2024 I learned that reading multiple books at the same time is a really bad idea for me. For the forseable future I plan to focus on a single book at a time.

Bookshelf

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Kindle), Patrick M. Lencioni
Company of One (Kindle), Paul Jarvis
The Artists Way (Kindle), Julia Cameron
The Practice of Programming (pdf), Brian W. Kerningham and Rob Pike
Operating System in 1,000 Lines (epub), Seiya Nuta
Source Code: My Beginnings (Kindle), Bill Gates
How to Write a Movie (Kindle), Viki King
2,000 to 10,000 (Kindle), Rachel Aaron
Creativity, Inc. (Kindle), Ed Catmull
Cartoon Animation (Kindle), Preston Blair
Tribe of Mentors (Kindle), Timothy Ferriss
Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant (Everand), Robert Kiyosaki
Engineering Management (Kindle), Sarah Drasner
Lean Marketing (Kindle), Allan Dib
Will it Fly? (Kindle), Pat Flynn
Simply Said (Kindle), Jay Sullivan
111 ChatGPT Prompts (Kindle), Mauricio Vasquez
Start Marketing (PDF), Rob Walling
Sizzling Synopsys (Kindle), Bryan Cohen
Get Started with MicroPython on Pi Pico (Kindle), Gareth Halfacree
Good to Great (Everand), Jim Collins
The Lean Startup (Kindle), Eric Ries

Reading

Finished

The Checklist Manifesto (Kindle), Atul Gawande, February 2025
Particle Casting (Kindle), Tim McCreight, December 2024
Sand Casting Jewellery (Kindle), D. A. Stone, December 2024
21 Day Miracle (Kindle), Ed Rush, December 2024
Barbara Sher’s Idea Book (PDF), Barbara Sher, November 2024
The PARA Method (Kindle), Tiago Forte, November 2024
The Art and Business of Online Writing (Kindle), Nocolas Cole, November 2024
Natural Selection (Kindle), Elin Hilderbrand, October 2024
Busy Doing Nothing (PDF), Hundred Rabbits, October 2024
Rich Dad’s Before You Quit (Everand), Robert T. Kiyosaki, August 2024
Permission Marketing (Kindle), Seth Godin, 2024
Rich Dad Poor Dad (Everand), Robert T. Kiyosaki, Everand, 2024
Dotcom Secrets (Hardcover), Russell Brunson, 2024
Walt’s Way (Kindle), Andrew Lock, 2024
Write a Must Read (Kindle), AJ Harper, 2024

Abandoned

The Minimalist Entrepreneur (Kindle), Sahil Lavingia
Nudge (Kindle), Thaler/Sunstein, March 2025
Go Programming in Easy Steps (Kindle), Mike McGrath, March 2025
FreeCAD Step-by-Step (Kindle), Johannes Wild, December 2024
Assembly Language Programming for the TRS-80 Color Computer (PDF), Don Inman and Kurt Inman, November 2024
Profit First (Everand), Mike Michalowicz, Dropped by Everand, October 2024
Refuse to Choose (Paperback), Barbara Sher, October 2024
Lean Media (Kindle), Ian Lamont, September 2024
Toilet Paper Entrepreneur (Kindle), Mike Michalowicz, August 2024
101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think (Everand), Brianna West, August 2024
H3 Leadership: Humble, Hungry, Hustle (Everand), August 2024
Bookends (Kindle), Zibby Owens, 2024
Zero One (Kindle), Peter Thiel, 2024
Shape Up (PDF), Ryan Singer, 2024

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