A list of the books I read in 2011, sorted by finishing date (oldest to newest). According to Goodreads that’s roughly 16.2k pages, less than the last few years. I also have a couple of unfinished books, read several papers and a couple of chapters of a book on Ruby and MongoDB that I’m the technical reviewer for.
Terry Pratchett: Hogfather
Michael Köhlmeier: Sunrise
Terry Pratchett: Eric
Audrey Niffenegger: Her Fearful Symmetry
Conrad Barski: Land of Lisp
Arthur Nersesian: The Fuck-Up
Ryszard Kapuściński: The Shadow of the Sun
Jacqueline Rayner: Doctor Who: The Sontaran Games
Gregory Brown: Ruby Best Practices
L. Frank Baum: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Paolo Bacigalupi: The Windup Girl
Cory Doctorow: Eastern Standard Tribe
Canol Gökel: Computer Programming using GNU Smalltalk
Jeremy Leipzig: Data Mashups with R
Lana Citron: Transit
Suzanne Skublics: Smalltalk With Style
Russ Olsen: Eloquent Ruby
Dennis Lehane: Shutter Island
Terrance Dicks: Doctor Who: Made of Steel
Christian Bök: Eunoia
Chuck Palahniuk: Invisible Monsters
Radek Knapp: Franio
Michael Fogus: The Joy of Clojure
Terry Pratchett: Mort
Dan Cederholm: Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design
Paolo Perrotta: Metaprogramming Ruby
Mark Bowden: Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw
Cormac McCarthy: The Road
Charles Stross: Accelerando
Gautam Malkani: Londonstani
Armin Risi: Vegetarisch leben - Die Vorteile einer fleischlosen Ernährung
Miran Lipovača: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!: A Guide for Beginners
Robert J. Chassell: An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp
Hunter S. Thompson: Hell’s Angels
Lauren Beukes: Moxyland
Raphael Selbourne: Beauty
Zed A. Shaw: Learn Python The Hard Way
David Kennedy: Metasploit: The Penetration Tester’s Guide
Paolo Bacigalupi: Pump Six
Michael Moorcock: The Nomad of Time
Russ Olsen: Design Patterns in Ruby
David Mark: Beginning iPhone 4 Development: Exploring the iOS SDK
Reijo Mäki: Tango Negro
David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day
Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
Mario Vargas Llosa: Der Geschichtenerzähler
Kyle Banker: MongoDB in Action
Scott Kenemore: Zombie, Ohio: A Tale of the Undead
Leopold Kohr: The Breakdown of Nations
Carlos Bueno: Lauren Ipsum
Henning Mankell: Mannen på stranden
Garrison Keillor: Was ist eigentlich Anarchie?
Thomas Pynchon: Gravity’s Rainbow
Norman Matloff: The Art of R Programming
Stéphane Hessel: Empört Euch!
Fabian Kruse: Beyond Rules
Dario Tonani: Cardanica (A Steampunk Nightmare)
Ryū Murakami: In The Miso Soup
Kaaron Warren: The Grinding House