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https://github.com/robertbenjamin/books

Remembering the books I've read over the years.
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Remembering the books I've read over the years.

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# books

A evolving project with the main goal of chronologically documenting the books I've read. The plan is to start out small and basic, get down a solid design, and slowly integrate new features with whatever technologies I'd like to learn.



Partially inspired by Drew Roper's [annual music collection](http://2015.drewroper.com).



## Roadmap

- [x] Static HTML site with a solid design.

- [x] Dynamically generated site from a JSON file.

- [ ] Basic API serving static data (Rails or Express).

- [ ] Refactor SCSS to remove all !important tags.

- [ ] RESTful API with persistent data in Postgres.

- [ ] Client side admin with authentication.

- [ ] ???



## Resources

- Use [HTML5 semantic elements](http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_semantic_elements.asp) when appropriate.

- Follow [RSCSS](http://rscss.io/index.html).

- Follow the [AirBnB JS style guide](https://github.com/airbnb/javascript).

- Use [Colors.cc](http://clrs.cc) for improved colors.



## Potential Books

### Currently Reading:



- Shadow of the Hedgemon — Orson Scott Card

- The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy — William B. Irving

- The Republic — Plato (Supposedly the best of Plato's works, we all talk about him but I've never actually read anything by him so decided to go for it)

- Eloquent Javascript — Marijn Haverbeke

- The Myth of Sisyphus — Albert Camus

- The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera

- Trust Me, I'm Lying — Ryan Holiday

- The Signal and the Noise — Nate Silver

- The Singularity is Near — Ray Kurzweil

- A Short History of Nearly Everything — Bill Bryson

- Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace (This is a long yet fascinating read)

- Bird by Bird — Anne Lamott

- The Power of Habit — Charles Duhigg



### Plan to Read:



- Pulp — Charles Bukowski

- 1984 — George Orwell

- A Brief History of Time — Stephen Hawking

- The Happiness of Pursuit — Shimon Edelman

- Meditations — Marcus Aurelius



### All-Time Favorites:



- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — Robert M. Pirsig (One of my favorite ever)

- The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt (Also top 3 material)

- Flowers for Algernon — Daniel Keyes (Terrifyingly emotional book, very touching)

- How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia — Mohsin Hamid

- The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho

- The Art of War — Sun Tzu

- Vagabonding — Rolf Potts

- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki — Haruki Murakami

- Brave New World — Aldous Huxley (Worth reading for the last few dozen pages alone, although the whole thing is fantastic)

- Speaker for the Dead — Orson Scott Card (Arguably a better book than the already fantastic Ender's Game)



### The Archive (Most to Least Recent):



- Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (I've read this book many, many times, but am now going through the whole series)

- Principia Discordia — Malaclypse the Younger (Very strange and humorous read)

- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick



- Essentialism — Greg McKeown

- Ready Player One — Ernest Cline

- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — Junot Díaz

- Kitchen Confidential — Anthony Bourdain

- Outliers — Malcolm Gladwell (I've read a lot of criticism about Gladwell online, but decided to read Outliers to judge for myself. It was a great read! Not as much reliance on anecdotal evidence as criticizers had claimed)

- The Martian — Andy Weird



- Zero to One — Peter Thiel

- Cat's Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut

- Growth Hacker Marketing — Ryan Holiday

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams

- The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Lee