My Comprehensive Reading List

Recently I decided to track all the books I have read since I graduated college and compile them into one comprehensive list.  What I discovered was that I have read many technical books and that my interests lie in a few discrete other areas.  All the books I have read contribute to my career path and my personal life in some way, and I try to apply anything I learned from reading.  I am interested to see what has influenced you as a developer as well as a person.

I welcome any recommendations, suggestions, thoughts, or criticisms related to these readings.  I am particularly interested in the category I labeled as "Social Science", as I think the themes in those books correlate with the software workplace in many ways, but with a different perspective.  On the same note, I am always looking for the inspiring novel or story to sharpen up the emotional side of my brain.

Technical

• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
• Ship It!: A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects, by Jared Richardson, Will Gwaltney, Jr
• Domain Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software, by Eric Evans 
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, by Robert C. Martin
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover), by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John M. Vlissides
• Head First Design Patterns, by Eric T Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra
• Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and the Unified Process, by Craig Larman
• Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide, by Craig Larman
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, and William Opdyke
• Seam Framework: Experience the Evolution of Java EE, by Michael Juntao Yuan, Jacob Orshalick, Thomas Heute
• Maven: A Developer's Notebook, by Vincent Massol and Timothy M. O'Brien
• JBoss RichFaces 3.3, by Demetrio Filocamo
• Getting Started with Grails, by Jason Rudolph
• Grails in Action, by Glen Smith and Peter Ledbrook
•  Driving Technical Change, by Terrance Ryan
• The Agile Samurai, by Jonathan Rasmusson
• Getting Real, by 37Signals
• Programming in Groovy, by Venkat Subramaniam
• Building and Testing with Gradle, by Tim Berglund and Matthew McCullough  
• Practices of an Agile Developer, by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt
• Manage It, by Johanna Rothman 
• Joel on Software, by Joel Spolsky
• Theory of Relativity, an intuitive explanation, by Jeffrey Bennet   

Social Sciences

• Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, by Charles Wheelan
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell
• Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell
• Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
• Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind, by Gary Marcus 
• First Things First, by Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill 
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
• The World is Flat: a Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas L. Friedman
• Ethics for Everyone, by Arthur Dobrin
• The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, by Jonathan Haidt 
• Shalom in the Home: Smart Advice for a Peaceful Life, by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach  
• The Principle of the Path: Smart Advice for a Peaceful Life, by Andy Stanley
•  Under the Banner of Heaven, by John Krakauer
• The Big Short, by Michael Lewis
• God the failed Hypothesis, by Victor Stenger
• God is not Great, by Christopher Hitchens 
• Discover your Inner Economist, by Tyler Cowen 
• Liar's Poker, by Michael Lewis 
• The End of Faith, by Sam Harris 
• Moneyball, by Michael Lewis  
• Freedom At Midnight, by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre  
•  Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg
• It Starts With Food, Dallas and Melissa Hartwig 
• Free Lunch, David Johnston 
• Predictable Irrational, Dan Arielly 
• Bonobo and the Atheist, Frans De Waal 

 Biographies

• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope, by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
• Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth, by Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi
• The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., by Martin Luther King Jr. and Clayborne Carson
• Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy, by Jules Tygiel
• Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir, by John McCain and Mark Salter
• Hang Time: Days And Dreams With Michael Jordan, by Bob Greene
• Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made, by David Halberstam 
• It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life, by Lance Armstrong 
• Crazy Horse and Custer, by Stephen Ambrose
• The Color of Water, by James McBride
• Lessons From a Third Grade Dropout, by Rick Rigsby
• The 5 Love Languages, by Gary Chapman
• Unbroken, by Lauren Hildenbrand

Novels

• A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
• And the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini
• For One More Day, by Mitch Albom 
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom 
• Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse
• The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
• Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, by Mitch Albom
• The Twentieth Wife, by Indu Sundaresan 
• On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
• Fever Pitch, by Nick Hornby
• The Alchemist, by Paolo Coehlo 
• The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson 
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by Stieg Larsson
• The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
• The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
• Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins  
• Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins
• The Lucky One, by Nicholas Sparks
•  True North, by Jim Harrison

Parenting

• How to Really Love Your Child, by D. Ross Campbell 
• Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents, by Christine Carter
• 1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12, by Thomas W. Phelan
• Toddler 411: Clear Answers & Smart Advice for Your Toddler, by Denise Fields and Ari Brown
• Fatherhood, by Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint
• Bavy 411, by Dr. Ari Brown