Last year was my lowest year in ten years for amount of books read. To be honest, I was working through textbooks and FreeCodeCamp learning to code, which took away from my reading time. Still, there were a lot of interesting books on this year’s list!
January
1.) 4th Generation Warfare Handbook – William S. Lind and Gregory A. Thiele
2.) The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom – Candida Moss
February
3.) Robopocalypse: A Novel (Robopocalypse #1) – Daniel H. Wilson
4.) Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft – by Elizabeth Bear and Greg Bear et al.
5.) Algebra: Sets, Symbols, and the Language of Thought (The History of Mathematics) Revised Edition – John Tabak, Ph.D.
March
6.) Hannibal and Me: What History’s Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failure – Andreas Kluth
7.) White Needle: 5 (Shadow Squadron #5) – Carl Bowen
8.) Phantom Sun: 6 (Shadow Squadron #6) – Carl Bowen
9.) Uncertainty in Games (Playful Thinking series) – Greg Costikyan
10.) The Magician’s Nephew (Narnia Chronicles) – C. S. Lewis
11.) Gorilla Mindset – Mike Cernovich
12.) Foundation’s Fear (Second Foundation Trilogy #1) – Gregory Benford
April
13.) Law: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions #180) – Raymond Wacks
14.) Sociology: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions #12) – Steve Bruce
May
15.) The Circle – Dave Eggers
16.) Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War – P. W. Singer and August Cole
June
16.) Will I Ever Be Free of You?: How to Navigate a High-Conflict Divorce from a Narcissist and Heal Your Family – Karyl McBride, Ph.D.
17.) The Cartel Hit (Mack Bolan the Executioner #438) – Mike Linaker, Don Pendleton (Series Creator)
18.) Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World – Cal Newport
19.) The Tournament – Matthew Reilly
20.) Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior and Feel Great Again – Jeffrey E. Young and Janet S. Klosko
21.) Scarecrow Returns – Matthew Reilly
22.) Progression – Sebastian Marshall
July
23.) Abyss Deep (Star Corpsman #2) – by Ian Douglas
25.) Your Many Faces: The First Step to Being Loved – Virginia Satir
26.) Bitcoin for the Befuddled – Conrad Barski and Chris Wilmer
27.) Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money – Nathaniel Popper
August
28.) Star Wars: The Rise of the Empire – John Jackson Miller et al.
29.) Re-read GIS for Dummies – Michael N. DeMers
30.) The Blood of Gods (Emperor #5) – Conn Iggulden
September
31.) Battlefront: Twilight Company (Star Wars canon) – Alexander Freed
October
32.) Head First Mobile Web – Lyza Danger Gardner and Jason Grigsby
33.) The Water Knife – Paolo Bacigalupi
November
34.) Public Health 101: Healthy People – Healthy Populations – Richard Riegelman, Brenda Kirkwood
35.) Soil: Digging into Earth’s Vital Resource (Exploring Science: Earth Science) – Darlene R. Stille
36.) Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism – Stephen Graham
37.) Planet of Slums – Mike Davis
38.) Proxima – Stephen Baxter
December
39.) There Will Be War Volume X – Jerry Pournelle, Editor
40.) JavaScript: The Good Parts – Douglas Crockford
41.) Smashing Node.js: JavaScript Everywhere 2nd Edition – Guillermo Rauch
42.) Foundation and Chaos (Second Foundation Trilogy #2) – Greg Bear
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