Books ...
Fiction
- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom ****
- The Iron Thorn ***
- Makers ****
- Elegy Beach ****
- For the Win ****
- Ariel ****
- Little Brother ****
- Kayber Prime -- A Baylock Matherbee Mystery ****
- Creatures of the Night ***
- Spin ***
- Once Upon A Marigold ***
- Night Life ****
- Odd And The Frost Giants ****
- Watchmen *** Alan Moore
- Fragile Things **** Neil Gaiman
- Illusions *** Richard Bach
- The Day I Swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish **** Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
- The Pinhoe Egg *** Diana Wynne Jones
- Neverwhere **** Neil Gaiman
- Smoke And Mirrors **** Neil Gaiman
- American Gods **** Neil Gaiman
- The Catcher in the Rye *** J.D. Salinger
- Dune ***** Frank Herbert
- High Fidelity ***** Nick Hornby
- Holes *** Louis Sachar
- The Lord of the Rings ***** J.R.R. Tolkien
- Return to the House of Usher *** Robert Poe
Non-Fiction
- Lily Dale *** Christine Wicker
- The Sorrows Of Empire **** Chalmers Johnson
- Lapsing Into A Comma **** Bill Walsh
- Imagined Worlds **** Freeman Dyson
- Mind and Nature ***** Gregory Bateson
- The Territorial Imperative **** Robert Ardrey
- Well Done! *** Dave Thomas with Ron Beyma
Professional
Software, etc
- Agile Software Development with Scrum *** Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle
- The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need **** Daniel Pink
- Why Software Sucks... *** David S. Platt
- Free Agent Nation **** Daniel Pink
- Code as Design: Three Essays **** Jack W. Reeves
- Comments on "The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing **** Eric Sink
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code ***** Martin Fowler
- User Interface Design for Programmers ***** Joel Spolsky
- The One Minute Manager **** Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson Stones
- beginning Databases with MySQL **** Neil Matthew and Richard Stones
- UML Distilled, 2nd Edition **** Martin Fowler with Kendall Scott
- Eclipse in Action **** David Gallardo, Ed Burnette, Robert McGovern
- Developing Windows-based Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .Net and Microsoft Visual C# .Net *** Microsoft Press
- Crossing the Chasm **** Geoffrey A. Moore
- Effective C++ Second Edition ***** Scott Meyers
- Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change ***** Kent Beck
- Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days *** Laura Lemay and Rogers Cadenhead
- Web Proxy Servers **** Ari Luotonen
- Are You Paid What You're Worth? ****
- The Entrepreneur's Guide to Equity Compensation ****
Audio Books (a.k.a "Books on Tape")...
Fiction
- Micro Thrills *** Wendy Spero
- The Day I Swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish **** Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
- I'll Take Manhattan * Judith Krantz
- Anansi Boys **** Neil Gaiman
- Dinner with Persephone *** Patricia Storace
- The Greatest Course That Never Was *** J. Michael Veron
- The Voyage of the Narwhal *** Andrea Barrett
- Gravity *** Tess Gerritsen
- Return to Mars *** Ben Bova
- Through the Looking Glass & What Alice found There *** Lewis Carroll
- Myst: The Book of Atrus ** Rand and Robyn Miller with David Wingrove
- The Aardvark is Ready for War **** James W. Blinn
- The Autobiography of Foudini M. Cat ** Susan FromBerg Schaeffer
- One Better * Rosalyn McMillan
Non-Fiction
Professional Audio
- Open Source Has Crossed the Chasm...Now What? *** Geoffrey Moore
- The Tipping Point *** Malcolm Gladwell
- Developer Testing **** Kent Beck
- eLeadership *** Susan Annunzio
- Gonzo Marketing *** Christopher Locke
Other
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future *** Michael J. Fox
- Lies (and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) **** Al Franken
- The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring **** Richard Preston
- A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures *** Ben Bradlee
- How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions-and You Can Too ** Annie Duke
- Chronicles: Volume One *** Bob Dylan
- God's Politics CD: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It **** Jim Wallis
- Open: Inside the Ropes at Bethpage Black *** John Feinstein
- The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream ***** Barack Obama
- Chasing Down the Dawn *** Jewel
- Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest *** Sandra Day O'Connor and H. Alan Day
- Report from Ground Zero ** Dennis Smith
- Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and other Battles (Unabridged) ***** Anthony Swofford
- Report from Engine Co. 82*** Dennis Smith
- Dinner with Persephone *** Patricia Storace
- A Season on the Reservation *** Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- No Island of Sanity *** Vincent Bugliosi
- Joined at the Heart *** Al and Tipper Gore
- I'm Only One Man! *** Regis Philbin with Bill Zehme
- The Majors **** John Feinstein
- The Spoken Word Bible: Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job ** God
- The Ice Opinion **** Ice-T
- Angela's Ashes **** Frank McCourt
- Vanna Speaks * Vanna White
- LuckyMan **** Michael J. Fox
- "Rants ****" and "Ranting Again *****" and "The Rant Zone ***" Dennis Miller
- Naked ***** David Sedaris
- I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story **** Hank Aaron, Lonnie Wheeler
Music ...
According to David Rawson:
- Best Albums of 2007
- Best Songs and EPs of 2007
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- Best Songs and EPs of 2006
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- Best Songs and EPs of 2003
- Best Albums of 2002
- Best Songs and EPs of 2002
- Best Albums of 2001
- Best Songs and EPs of 2001
- Best Albums and EPs of 2000
- Best Songs of 2000
- Best Albums and EPs of 1999
- Best Songs of 1999
- Best Albums of 1998
- Best Songs of 1998
- Best Albums of 1997
- Best Songs of 1997
- Best Albums of 1996
- Best Songs of 1996
- Best Albums of 1995
- Best Songs and EPs of 1995
- Best Albums of 1989
- Best Albums of 1987
- Best Songs of 1987
My Old Friend Jim Saltsider:
Film/TV/Video ...
TV
- BalderDash*
- SportsNight *****
Other ...
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