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# Books to read
Below you will find a list of books I plan to read
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* **Aurora: CV-01 (The Frontiers Saga \#1)** - *Ryk Brown*
* **Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems** - *Marianne Bellotti*
* **Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ** - *Daniel Goleman*
* **Something Really New: Three Simple Steps to Creating Truly Innovative Products** - *Denis J. Hauptly*
* **Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation** - *Steven Johnson*
* **My Job Went to India** - *Chad Fowler*
* **Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable** - *Seth Godin*
* **Exhalation: Stories** - *Ted Chiang*
* **If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future** - *Jill Lepore*
* **Relax, Dammit!: A User's Guide to the Age of Anxiety** - *Timothy Caulfield*
* **Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else** - *Chrystia Freeland*
* **Sale of the Century: Russia's Wild Ride from Communism to Capitalism** - *Chrystia Freeland*
* **My Ukraine: A Personal Reflection on a Nation's Independence and the Nightmare Vladimir Putin Has Visited Upon It** - *Chrystia Freeland*
* **Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, \#9)** - *James S.A. Corey*
* **Especially Babe** - *R. Ross Annett*
* **Classical and Quantum Computation** - *A.Yu. Kitaev*
* **The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy** - *Stephanie Kelton*
* **The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures By Frans Johansson** - *Frans Johansson*
* **Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World** - *Cal Newport*
* **Wetware** - *Andy Kaiser*
* **Superliminal: Dev Manny, Information Technology Private Investigator** - *Andy Kaiser*
* **Watershed** - *Doreen Vanderstoop*
* **The Salmon of Doubt (Dirk Gently, \#3)** - *Douglas Adams*
* **The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, \#2)** - *Douglas Adams*
* **Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato** - *Rebecca Earle*
* **Permutation City (Subjective Cosmology \#2)** - *Greg Egan*
* **The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you** - *Rob Fitzpatrick*
* **Jumpship Hope** - *Adria Laycraft*
* **The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference** - *Malcolm Gladwell*
* **Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road** - *Neil Peart*
* **Recursion** - *Blake Crouch*
* **A God in Chains** - *Matthew Hughes*
* **The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win** - *Gene Kim*
* **The Unicorn Project** - *Gene Kim*
* **The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales: The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Migration of Myth** - *Felice Vinci*
* **Helix: Blight of Exiles (Helix, \#1)** - *Pat Flewwelling*
* **Dreamtime: First Fantastic Collection (Completely Fractured Fiction Book 1)** - *Mark Le Dain*
* **The Genius Asylum: Sic Transit Terra Book 1** - *Arlene F. Marks*
* **Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (Classics in Smithsonian Anthropology)** - *Ephraim G. Squier*
* **Skull of Disguises (The Tununda Mysteries Book 3)** - *Michael Karpovage*
* **Map of Thieves** - *Michael J. Karpovage*
* **Crown of Serpents** - *Michael J. Karpovage*
* **Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone** - *Mark Goulston*
* **Authority: A Step-by-Step Guide to Self-Publishing** - *Nathan Barry*
* **Badass: Making Users Awesome** - *Kathy Sierra*
* **Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up** - *Jerry Colonna*
* **The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It** - *Michael E. Gerber*
* **The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change** - *Stephen R. Covey*
* **The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win** - *Steve Blank*
* **Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success** - *Adam M. Grant*
* **Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration** - *Ed Catmull*
* **Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)** - *Verne Harnish*
* **Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder** - *Nassim Nicholas Taleb*
* **Traction** - *Justin Mares*
* **The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles** - *Steven Pressfield*
* **On Writing** - *Ernest Hemingway*
* **Towns Against Traffic** - *Stephen Plowden*
* **Exploring Early Grand Lodge Freemasonry: Studies in Honor of the Tricentennial of the Establishment of the Grand Lodge of England** - *Christopher Murphy*
* **In Search Of The Lost Testament of Alexander the Great** - *David Grant*
* **From the Ashes of Angels: The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race** - *Andrew Collins*
* **American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America** - *Colin Woodard*
* **Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (Red Dwarf \#1)** - *Grant Naylor*
* **Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble** - *Dan Lyons*
* **The Missing Lands: Uncovering Earth's Pre-flood Civilization** - *Freddy Silva*
* **America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization** - *Graham Hancock*
* **Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World** - *Rand Fishkin*
* **Darwin Among The Machines: The Evolution Of Global Intelligence** - *George Dyson*
* **Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship** - *George Dyson*
* **Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe** - *George Dyson*
* **The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life** - *Shawn Achor*
* **The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Definitive Edition in One Volume)** - *Edward MacCurdy*
* **Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers** - *Gabriel Weinberg*
* **The Truth (Discworld, \#25; Industrial Revolution, \#2)** - *Terry Pratchett*
* **Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga, \#2)** - *Peter F. Hamilton*
* **Salvation (Salvation Sequence \#1)** - *Peter F. Hamilton*
* **The Mathematical Theory of Communication** - *Claude Shannon*
* **Observing the Craft: The Pursuit of Excellence in Masonic Labour and Observance** - *Andrew Hammer*
* **The Art of Discarding: How to Get Rid of Clutter and Find Joy** - *Nagisa Tatsumi*
* **Invaders (Invaders \#1)** - *Vaughn Heppner*
* **Duel in the Dark (Blood on the Stars, \#1)** - *Jay Allan*
* **The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist** - *Reviel Netz*
* **The Long Journey: 400,000 Years of Stone Age Science** - *Derek Cunningham*
* **Megalith: Studies in Stone** - *Hugh Newman*
* **The Sagas of Icelanders** - *Jane Smiley*
* **The Legacy of Zecharia Sitchin: The Shifting Paradigm** - *M.J. Evans*
* **Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece** - *Three Initiates*
* **A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety** - *Donald Hall*
* **Ice Cream for Breakfast: How rediscovering your inner child can make you calmer, happier, and solve your bullsh*t adult problems** - *Laura Jane Williams*
* **The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate Discoveries from a Secret World** - *Peter Wohlleben*
* **The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors** - *David George Haskell*
* **Business Model Generation** - *Alexander Osterwalder*
* **Phone Losers of America** - *Brad Carter*
* **Secrets and Practices of the Freemasons: Sacred Mysteries, Rituals and Symbols Revealed** - *Jean-Louis de Biasi*
* **The Indo-Europeans: In Search of the Homeland** - *Alain de Benoist*
* **The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican** - *Benjamin Blech*
* **The Maurya Empire: The History and Legacy of Ancient Indias Greatest Empire** - *Charles River Editors*
* **Mysteries of the Ancient Vedic Empire: Recognizing Vedic Contributions to Other Cultures Around the World** - *Stephen Knapp*
* **The Harmonic Origins of the World: Sacred Number at the Source of Creation** - *Richard Heath*
* **Cosmic Womb: The Seeding of Planet Earth** - *Chandra Wickramasinghe*
* **The Cygnus Key: The Denisovan Legacy, Göbekli Tepe, and the Birth of Egypt** - *Andrew Collins*
* **Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, \#2)** - *James S.A. Corey*
* **Tarot of the Bohemians** - *Papus*
* **Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress** - *Steven Pinker*
* **Ascendant (The Genesis Fleet, \#2)** - *Jack Campbell*
* **Vanguard (The Genesis Fleet, \#1)** - *Jack Campbell*
* **Runic Amulets and Magic Objects** - *Mindy MacLeod*
* **The Knights Templar in the New World: How Henry Sinclair Brought the Grail to Acadia** - *William F. Mann*
* **Carnac, The Alignments** - *Howard Crowhurst*
* **The Hooked X: Key to the Secret History of North America** - *Scott F. Wolter*
* **The Sacred Network: Megaliths, Cathedrals, Ley Lines, and the Power of Shared Consciousness** - *Chris H. Hardy*
* **Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story** - *Lee Berger*
* **TEMPLE: Amazing New Discoveries That Change Everything About the Location of Solomon's Temple** - *Robert Cornuke*
* **Blood of the Celts: The New Ancestral Story** - *Jean Manco*
* **The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians: The World's Most Mysterious Secret Society** - *Tobias Churton*
* **The Mysteries of John the Baptist: His Legacy in Gnosticism, Paganism, and Freemasonry** - *Tobias Churton*
* **The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning (The Oxford Francis Bacon, \#4)** - *Francis Bacon*
* **Walkaway** - *Cory Doctorow*
* **The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy** - *Manly P. Hall*
* **The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton (Known Space)** - *Larry Niven*
* **The Nephilim Chronicles: A Travel Guide to the Ancient Ruins in the Ohio Valley** - *Fritz Zimmerman*
* **The Self-Driving Killer (Gitmo Nation, \#2.2)** - *Scott McKenzie*
* **Conscience for Sale (Gitmo Nation, \#1.5)** - *Scott McKenzie*
* **The Foot on the Shore (Gitmo Nation, \#1.1)** - *Scott McKenzie*
* **Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (And World Peace)** - *Chade-Meng Tan*
* **Walden** - *Henry David Thoreau*
* **The Art of War** - *Sun Tzu*
* **An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It** - *Al Gore*
* **Long Walk to Freedom** - *Nelson Mandela*
* **Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity** - *David Lynch*
* **The Freemasons: An Illustrated Book of an Ancient Brotherhood** - *Michael Johnstone*
* **The Royal Arch of Enoch** - *Robert W. Sullivan IV*
* **Moses and Akhenaten: Brothers in Alms** - *Ted Loukes*
* **Shadow of Solomon: The Lost Secret of the Freemasons Revealed** - *Laurence Gardner*
* **The Craft Driven Lodge** - *Daniel D. Hrinko*
* **Galdrabok: An Icelandic Grimoire** - *Stephen E. Flowers*
* **Renaissance Man and Mason** - *Piers A. Vaughan*
* **Esoterika - The Symbolism Of The Blue Degrees Of Freemasonry** - *Albert Pike*
* **Incident Response & Computer Forensics** - *Chris Prosise*
* **The Global Mind and the Rise of Civilization: The Quantum Evolution of Consciousness** - *Carl Johan Calleman*
* **Worlds Before Our Own** - *Brad Steiger*
* **Ancient Egypt 39,000 BCE: The History, Technology, and Philosophy of Civilization X** - *Edward F. Malkowski*
* **The Crusades Through Arab Eyes** - *Amin Maalouf*
* **Biblical Archaeology: An Introduction with Recent Discoveries That Support the Reliability of the Bible** - *David Elton Graves*
* **Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age** - *Charles H. Hapgood*
* **India: The Ancient Past: A History of the Indian Sub-Continent from c. 7000 BC to AD 1200** - *Burjor Avari*
* **Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes** - *Tamim Ansary*
* **Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization** - *Paul Kriwaczek*
* **Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization** - *Richard Miles*
* **Lost Civilizations: 10 Societies that Vanished Without a Trace** - *Michael Rank*
* **Secrets of Ancient America: Archaeoastronomy and the Legacy of the Phoenicians, Celts, and Other Forgotten Explorers** - *Carl Lehrburger*
* **Performing Under Pressure: The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most** - *Hendrie Weisinger*
* **Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling and Other Forgotten Sports** - *Edward Brooke-Hitching*
* **New Testament: 1526 Tyndale Bible, Original Spelling Edition ** - *Anonymous*
* **Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World** - *Paul Collins*
* **Seveneves** - *Neal Stephenson*
* **How to Lie with Statistics** - *Darrell Huff*
* **The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism** - *Trevor Aaronson*
* **The Arabs: A History** - *Eugene Rogan*
* **A Coptic Handbook of Ritual Power (The Macquarie Papyri)** - *Malcolm Choat*
* **Forbidden Oracles?: The Gospel of the Lots of Mary** - *AnneMarie Luijendijk*
* **The Emergence of the Moundbuilders: The Archaeology of Tribal Societies in Southeastern Ohio** - *Elliot M. Abrams*
* **Upper Mississippi: Or, Historical Sketches of the Mound-Builders, the Indian Tribes, and the Progress of Civilization in the North-West.** - *George Gale*
* **Perp Walk (Gitmo Nation, \#1.4)** - *Scott McKenzie*
* **Coding for Penetration Testers: Building Better Tools** - *Jason Andress*
* **Ancient Mysteries, Modern Visions: The Magnetic Life of Agriculture** - *Philip S. Callahan*
* **Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race** - *Michael A. Cremo*
* **Secret Chamber Revisited: The Quest for the Lost Knowledge of Ancient Egypt** - *Robert Bauval*
* **Outliers: The Story of Success** - *Malcolm Gladwell*
* **Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking** - *Georgia Weidman*
* **The Art of Memory Forensics** - *Michael Hale Ligh*
* **All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power** - *Nomi Prins*
* **The Interpretation of Financial Statements: The Classic 1937 Edition** - *Benjamin Graham*
* **Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions** - *Joel Scambray*
* **Who Moved My Cheese?** - *Spencer Johnson*
* **All about Hedge Funds: The Easy Way to Get Started** - *Robert A. Jaeger*
* **Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk (McGraw-Hill Library of Investment & Finance)** - *Richard C. Grinold*
* **Market Wizards** - *Jack D. Schwager*
* **Fallen Dragon** - *Peter F. Hamilton*
* **Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, \#1)** - *Peter F. Hamilton*
* **House of Suns** - *Alastair Reynolds*
* **The Big Score: Robert Friedland, INCO, And The Voisey's Bay Hustle** - *Jacquie McNish*
* **Spin (Spin, \#1)** - *Robert Charles Wilson*
* **Little Brother (Little Brother, \#1)** - *Cory Doctorow*
* **Just a Geek: Unflinchingly Honest Tales of the Search for Life, Love, and Fulfillment Beyond the Starship Enterprise** - *Wil Wheaton*
* **Shards of Honor (Vorkosigan Saga \#1)** - *Lois McMaster Bujold*
* **Under the Dome** - *Stephen King*
* **Threat Vector (Jack Ryan Universe, \#15)** - *Tom Clancy*
* **Violent Python: A Cookbook for Hackers, Forensic Analysts, Penetration Testers and Security Engineers** - *T.J. O'Connor*
* **The Lost (Stargate Atlantis, \#17)** - *Jo Graham*
* **The Last of the Imperious Rich: Lehman Brothers, 1844-2008** - *Peter Chapman*
* **On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, \#1)** - *David Weber*
* **M.O.D.** - *J.C. Allen*
* **Wired (Wired, \#1)** - *Douglas E. Richards*
* **The Lunar Code** - *Robert Foster*
* **Euclid's Wall** - *Michael McCollum*
* **Avogadro Corp (Singularity \#1)** - *William Hertling*
* **Sinema: The Northumberland Massacre** - *Rod Glenn*
* **Coincidences** - *Maria Savva*
* **Hacking Work: Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results** - *Bill Jensen*
* **Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space** - *Carl Sagan*
* **The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses** - *Eric Ries*