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Blimey I read a lot of books this year

A list of the books I read throughout 2009. (Perhaps I should find a hobby, go out and meet more people.)

Business, Marketing and Business Philosophy

  • Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert T. Kiyosaki
  • Rich Dad, Poor Dad 2: Cash Flow Quadrant - Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom - Robert T. Kiyosaki
  • The 4-hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich - Timothy Ferris
  • E-myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It - Micahel E. Gerber
  • Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Technology Products to Mainstream Customers - Geoffrey A. Moore
  • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't (Hardcover) - Jim Collins
  • Tribes - Seth Godin
  • Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell

Project Management

  • Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management - Scott Berkun

User Experience and design

  • Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design - Bill Buxton
  • Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World - Adaptive Path
  • Institutionalization of Usability: A Step-by-step Guide -  Eric Schaffer 
  • Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics - Tom Tullis and Bill Albert
  • Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions - Tim Ash
  • Thoughtless Acts? (Hardcover) - Jane Fulton Suri
  • Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories - Donna Spencer 
  • Prototyping: A Practitioner's Guide - Todd Zaki Warfel

Philosophy and Self Development

  • The World as I See it - Albert Einstein
  • 59 Seconds: Think a little, change a lot - Prof. Richard Wiseman

Biography

  • Einstein: His Life and Universe (Paperback) by Walter Isaacson

Travel

  • Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
  • Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson

Fiction

  • The Tiger in the Well (Sally Lockhart Quartet) - Philip Pullman
  • The Tin Princess (Sally Lockhart Quartet) - Philip Pullman
  • The Straw Men - Michael Marshal
  • Moriarty - John Gardner
If you have any suggestions then please feel free to add a comment below - as you can tell I have wide ranging tastes.

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