My pace was a little down this past year due to being in school and textbooks being on the reading list. This year thus included a bunch of computer science and programming books. As always, there are a good number of fiction books as well, and also International Relations and Security Studies books.
The best books I read were Code, in January; A Throne of Bones and Not For Sale, in March; Jayber Crow, in May; and Head First Data Analysis, in September;
Here’s the list!
January
1.) Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software – Charles Petzold
2.) Stories About Sets – N. Ya. Vilenkin
3.) Mutineer’s Moon (Dahak #1) – David Weber
4.) One, Two, Three: Absolutely Elementary Mathematics – David Berlinsky
4.) One, Two, Three: Absolutely Elementary Mathematics – David Berlinsky
February
5.) Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia – Anthony M. Townsend
6.) War of the Rats – David L. Robbins
7.) Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War – Mark Bowden
March
8.) 9 Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today’s Computers – John MacCormick
9.) A Throne of Bones (Arts of Dark and Light #1) – Vox day
10.) Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade – And How We Can Fight It – David Batstone
11.) The Wardog’s Coin – Vox Day
12.) The Last Witchking – Vox Day
13.) The Multiple Identities of the Middle East – Bernard Lewis
(Re-read The Lost Fleet: Dauntless – Jack Campbell)
14.) Hedy Lamarr and a Secret Communication System (Inventions and Discovery) – Trina Robbins
15.) The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern – Victor Davis Hanson
April
16.) Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars – Lee Billings
17.) The Lost Fleet: Fearless – Jack Campbell
18.) Aquinas for Armchair Theologians – Timothy M. Renick
19.) When Christians Get It Wrong – Adam Hamilton
20.) Web Development and Design Foundations With HTML5 (6th edn) – Terry Felke-Morris
21.) The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi – Ugolino de Monte Santa Maria, translated by W. Heywood
May
22.) Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense – N. T. Wright
23.) The Road to Assisi: The Essential Biography of St. Francis – Paul Sabatier, John M. Sweeney
24.) The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture – N. T. Wright
25.) Snowbots – Aaron Reynolds, illustrated by David Barneda (with Jacob)
26.) Horsing Around – E. and R.S. Radlauer
27.) Horseback Riding Basics – Dianne Reimer with Carol Lee
28.) Be a Winner in Horsemanship – Charles Coombs
29.) Hearts and Minds: A People’s History of Counterinsurgency – edited by Hannah Gurman
30.) Jayber Crow – Wendell Berry
June
31.) Becoming Native To This Place – Wes Jackson
32.) Strategy in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies, 3/e – John Baylis, James J. Wirtz, Colin S. Gray
33.) The Abomination – Jonathan Holt
34.) The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South – Philip Jenkins
35.) The Lost Fleet: Courageous – Jack Campbell
36.) The Lost Fleet: Valiant – Jack Campbell
37.) Would-Be Worlds: How Simulation is Changing the Frontiers of Science – John L. Casti
38.) Last Snow – Eric Van Lustbader
July
39.) Introduction to Computational Social Science: Principles and Applications – Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
40.) Halo: The Flood – William C. Dietz
41.) Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda – David Michaels
42.) Essentials of Systems Analysis and Design (5th Edn) – Joseph Valacich, Joey George, Jeff A. Hoffer
43.) Understanding Theology in 15 Minutes a Day – Daryl Aaron
(Re-read Athabasca by Alistair MacLean)
August
44.) Doctored Evidence: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (#13) – Donna Leon
45.) Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga #2) – David Brin
46.) Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier – Robert Axelrod & Michael D. Cohen
47.) The Moon Maze Game (Dream Park #4) – Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
48.) Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters – N. T. Wright
September
49.) Why Study Theology – Donald G. Luck
50.) Blood From A Stone: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (#14) – Donna Leon
51.) Head First Data Analysis: A learner’s guide to big numbers, statistics, and good decisions – Michael Milton
52.) City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1) – Cassandra Clare
53.) Prey – Michael Crichton
54.) Sea Demon (Shadow Squadron #1) – Carl Bowen
55.) Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History – Robert D. Kaplan
56.) Head First Statistics – Dawn Griffiths
October
57.) The Loch – Steve Alten
58.) Asia’s Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific – Robert D. Kaplan
59.) The Windup Girl – Paolo Bacigalupi
November
60.) Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals – Stephen E. Ambrose
61.) Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point – Elizabeth D. Samet
62.) Essentials of International Relations, 6th Edition – Karen A. Mingst and Ivan M. Arreguin-Toft
63.) Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction – Rodolfo Saracci
64.) “A Problem from Hell”: America in the Age of Genocide – Samantha Power
65.) The Republic of Thieves (Gentlemen Bastards #3) – Scott Lynch
December
66.) Halo: Contact Harvest (Halo #5) – Joseph Staten
67.) Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction (California Series in Public Anthropology) – Paul Farmer et al
68.) Murach’s SQL Server 2012 for Developers: Training & References – Joel Murach and Brian Syverson
69.) Area, Distance, and Volume (Measure Up!) – Navin Sullivan
70.) The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra – Shin Takahashi
71.) Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea – Charles Seife
72.) The Science of Interstellar – Kip Thorne
73.) Gravity’s Arc: The Story of Gravity, from Aristotle to Einstein and Beyond – David Darling
74.) From Geometry to Topology – Graham Flegg
75.) A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature – Tom Siegfried
76.) Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God – Timothy Keller
77.) Halo: The Fall of Reach (Halo #1) – The Definitive Edition – Eric Nylund
78.) The Manga Guide to Databases – Mana Takahashi, Shoko Azuma, Trend-Pro Co., Ltd
What good books did you read this past year?
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