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.