The Memory Book - Fantastic, maybe not always practical unless you have a lot of practice, but extremely useful to at least understand some of the strategies to memorizing strings<p>Understanding Weatherfax - for an attempted (and failed) circumnavigation<p>Sail Power<p>Kon Tiki<p>Shogun<p>Art of the Sailor<p>Business Adventures<p>Metamorphoses (by Ovid, not Kafka)<p>Guns, Germs, Steel<p>Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - this book had so many rave reviews. it has a tremendous hook and style for the first 50 pages, but overall I thought it was terrible<p>Cryptonomicon -- fantastic<p>Simulacra and simulation -- started, but I need to start over. this is not an easy read...<p>Predictably Irrational -- another book with great reviews, but reading this book was not time well spent. the author just summarizes psychology experiments with pages of dumbed down explanations and tedious anecdotes<p>The Alliance -- read this on my last day at my old job, a good reminder on the social contract between you and your employer and how it should be mutually beneficial, lots of boring filler though<p>Triple your reading speed -- I wanted to take a speed reading course when I was in elementary school, but my dad thought it was a waste of time. I think I really missed out on something, but late is better than never.<p>Siddhartha -- rereading of one of my favorite books of all time<p>The Alchemist -- rereading of one of my favorite books of all time<p>Jazz (by Leveaux)<p>The Jazz Piano Book<p>Mastering the Piano<p>Big Blue Book of bicycle maintenance<p>Probability (by Pitman) -- its embarassing statistics&#x2F;probability isn&#x27;t a required course in many programs<p>Elements of Statistical Learning<p>Advanced Analytics with Spark -- feels like this book was published only 80% done<p>Optimization Models (by Calafiore and El Ghaoui) -- going to finish this is 2016<p>Functional Programming with Scala -- going to finish this is 2016<p>Linux Programming Interface -- going to finish this is 2016<p>Finished 18 books cover to cover in 2015, 6 of which were textbooks&#x2F;academic texts. Currently have 7 in progress, 2 of which are piano workbooks and 3 are textbooks.<p>Goal for 2016 is 30 books cover to cover, at least 8 textbooks&#x2F;academic texts.