Best Books I read in 2010
CJ Schaefer posted his favorite books of 2010 so I posted my favorites as a comment there, and will post them here too.
Here are the best of the 90+ books I read in 2010, in roughly declining order, so if you only have time to read two, read the first two. Non-fiction:
Fiction:
And it's not a book, but if you're interested in Resilient Communities I highly recommend checking out Open Source Ecology which is looking to do for hardware what Open Source Programming has done for software. I heard about it through John Robb, and have become a supporter. Its founder, Marcin Jakubowski, will be giving a talk on OSE at TED in March, and is spending the winter in Aptos working on plans.
Here are the best of the 90+ books I read in 2010, in roughly declining order, so if you only have time to read two, read the first two. Non-fiction:
- Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, by Clay Shirky.
- Sustainable Energy - without the hot air, by David JC MacKay. Also available free online at www.withouthotair.com.
- Science, Strategy and War (The Strategic Theory of John Boyd), by Frans P.B. Osinga.
- The Unthinkable: Who Survives when Disaster Strikes -- and Why, by Amanda Ripley.
- Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You, by Sam Gosling.
- On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, by Dave Grossman.
- Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence, by Sgt. Rory Miller.
Fiction:
- Winter's Bone, by Daniel Woodrell. Fiction. "Talkin' just causes witnesses."
- Child of Fire and Game of Cages, by Harry J. Connolly.
- In the Woods and The Likeness, by Tana French.
- Daemon, by Daniel Suarez. Fiction.
And it's not a book, but if you're interested in Resilient Communities I highly recommend checking out Open Source Ecology which is looking to do for hardware what Open Source Programming has done for software. I heard about it through John Robb, and have become a supporter. Its founder, Marcin Jakubowski, will be giving a talk on OSE at TED in March, and is spending the winter in Aptos working on plans.