These are some of my favorite books (that I can remember having recently read):

Sci-fi

• Flatland – Edwin A Abbot
• The Traveler – John Twelve Hawks
• The Dark River – John Twelve Hawks
• The Golden City  - John Twelve Hawks
• Inferno – Jerry Pournell, Larry Niven
• The Mote in God’s Eye – Larry Niven
• The Lost Fleet – Jack Campbell
• Old Man’s War – John Scalzi
• Childhood’s End – Arthur C. Clarke
• The Artifact – Patrick Astre
• Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge – Mike Resnick
• Seeker – Jack McDevitt
• Rendezvous with Rama – Arthur C. Clarke
• The Forever war – Joe Haldeman
• Protector – Larry Niven
• Spin – Robert Charles Wilson
• Timeline – Michael Crichton
• Ringworld – Larry Niven

Miscellaneous

• The Fabric of the Cosmos – Brian Green
• It’s not about the Bike – Lance Armstrong
• Healing Back Pain – John E Sarno
• Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff – Richard Carlson
• The 50th Law – 50 Cent
• Fatal System Error – Joseph Menn
• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know – Kevlin Henney

Business

• Influencer – Kerry Paterson
• Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
• What Would Google Do – Jeff Jarvis
• Blue Ocean Strategy – Renee Mauborgne
• The Turnaround Kid – Steve Miller
• Adventure Capitalist – Jim Rogers
• The First Billion is the Hardest – T. Boone Pickens
• Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely
• The Art of the Start – Guy Kawasaki
• Hackers & Painters – Paul Graham
• Rework – Jason Fried
• Inspired, how to create products customers love – Marty Cagan
• Startup Nation – Dan Senor
• Seizing the White Space – Mark Johnson

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