Reading
Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so. The star ratings correspond more closely to "how worth my time this felt" than "how good this is."
The Secret Ninja Cucumber Scrolls
David de Florinier
Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design
Jenifer Tidwell
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Falconer
John Cheever
Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)
Michael Hartl
A Home for Mr. Easter
Brooke A. Allen
The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software
Jonathan Rasmusson
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka
Yeah. No. Totally.
Lisa Wells
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Bill Bryson
The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
Margaret Atwood
It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken: A Picture Novella
Seth Seth
Interesting Women: Stories
Andrea Lee
Incendiary
Chris Cleave
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
Cassandra Clare
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Steve Krug
Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes
Casanova, Vol. 1: Luxuria
Matt Fraction
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life
Warren Ellis
Fables, Vol. 3: Storybook Love
Bill Willingham
Charles Dickens
Michael Slater
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
The Imperfectionists
Tom Rachman
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Marisha Pessl
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ext JS in Action
Jesús García
Specimen Days
Michael Cunningham
The Best American Short Stories 1988
Shannon Ravenel
The Beat: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C.
Kip Lornell
Dracula: A Classic Pop-Up Tale
Claire Bampton