2 Jan 2010, 2:18pm
English Tech
by Sebastian

2 comments

  • Preview 2010: The Reading

    I just updated my Twitter background image to this years shelf. In other words from one pile (list)
    to a new pile.

    1. Sir Richard Branson – Business Stripped Bare (Kindle for iPhone)
    2. David Foster Wallace – Infinite Jest
    3. Paul Auster – Invisible
    4. PLI/Abby Marks Beale – 10 Days to faster Reading
    5. David Baldacci – Simple Genius
    6. Paul Auster – Oracle Night
    7. Dan Ariely – Predictably Irrational
    8. Wallace Stegner – Crossing to Safety
    9. Halberstam – The Best and the Brightest
    10. Tara Hunt – The Whuffie Factor
    11. Jasper Fforde – Eyre Affair
    12. Georg Franck – Die Ökonomie der Aufmerksamkeit
    13. Thomas Klupp – Paradiso
    14. Nick Hornby – Juliet Naked
    15. W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne – Blue Ocean Strategy
    16. Siri Hustvest – Enchantment of Lily Dahl
    17. Chris Brogan/Julien Smith – Trust Agents
    18. Peter Carey – My life as a fake
    19. Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    20. Amoz Oz – A Tale of Love and Darkness
    21. Peter Drucker – The Practice of Management
    22. Jack Falla – Home Ice
    23. Dan Tapscott – Wikinomics
    24. Sten Nadolny – Discovery of Slowliness
    25. Minette Walters – The Breaker
    26. Ken Follett – Pillars of the Earth
    27. O’Reilly – Your Brain: The Missing Manual
    28. Charles Frazier – Thirteen Moons
    29. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
    30. Hanif Kureishi – The Buddha of Suburbia
    31. Jonathan Safran Foer – Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    32. John Douglas – Inside the Mind of BTK

    It’s a bit different from last year though since quite a lot of books are of the “I really should”-category as a result of simple space issues. You see, Where last years shelf was now is this:

    The kids needed more room. Hence I went for “better safe than sorry”. I predict that as last year, 10 books not yet on the list will get read, the new Jack Reacher paperback comes to mind or C.C. Chapman‘s book once it’s published. In addition, I am really curious to see how much reading on the iPhone increases not reading speed per se, but reading productivity.

    Let’s get going.

    • catweasel

      Already read “Infinite Jest”? Tough but all the way worth it.

    • http://www.sebastiankeil.de planetsab

      I am about 10% in but since the birth of #2 have focused more on shorter stuff. Like it so far though, a lot.