2010 Reading List

This year I wanted to read more.  I had a good sprint in August, but here's the full list:


Dune: House Harkonnen                1/23/2010
A Tale of Two Cities                         2/5/2010
Necroscope                                        3/14/2010
Sex God                                                  4/8/2010
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years 5/30/2010
Effective Java                                          6/9/2010
Mere Churchianity                                 6/19/2010
A Confederacy of Dunces                 7/25/2010
Conan Paperback                                 7/29/2010
Consider Phelbas                                 8/15/2010
The Jesus I Never Knew                    8/18/2010
Heir to the Empire                                 8/21/2010
Profiles in Courage                                 8/22/2010
Java: The Good Parts                         8/30/2010
The Myths of Innovation                         8/31/2010
97 Things Every Programmer Should Know 9/3/2010
Lenin                                                       9/26/2010
The Last Word and The Word After That  10/10/2010
Blue Like Jazz                                            10/16/2010

Of these, here are my favorites:
Nonfiction: Lenin - having the mythology of the Bolshevik revolution busted wide open, and seeing the bloody guts of the whole thing was mind-blowing.  Runner up: Profiles in Courage
Fiction: A Confederacy of Dunces - Really introspective yet ostentatious.  A bizarre, poignant, disgusting, joyride.  Runner Up: Conan Short Stories
Technical:  I'm in the middle of what would've been the winner (Java Concurrency in Practice), but it's not finished so it doesn't count.  I'm going with Java: The Good Parts.
Spiritual: A bunch of good ones this year.  The Last Word and the Word After That was really thoughtful and provocative.  My Christian buddies may think it borders on heretical though.  Runner Up: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

Happy 2011!
-Chris