My summer reading list

I’ve had a fantastic summer! I read a ton and learned a lot (I also implemented/coded/experimented a lot because I have to apply what I read in order to retain it). Here’s a list of what I remember:

• A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
• A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
• Influence! The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini 
• Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
• Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
• CSS3 for Web Designers by Dan Cederholm
• HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith
• Effective Java  by Joshua Bloch

• Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide (the pickaxe book) by Dave Thomas

• Lots of blogs (I’ll call out a few categories to make the list easier to parse)

• Wisdom: Seth Godin, TED.com, Language Log, Lifehacker
• Humor: xkcd, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Things Could be Worse, Ray William Johnson, THXTHXTHX
• Programming: Hacker News, Coding Horror, InfoQ, High Scalability, DailyJS, CSS-Tricks,
• Design/Usability: Six Revisions, Good Experience,
• SEO: SEOmoz, Distilled, SEO by the Sea, Search Engine Watch
• There are many more, but they are not on the top of my head for whatever reason so I omitted them (rather than digging through Reader). There are also some local sites like Austin Business News and Door64 (lots of spam with occasional posts about Austin Tech news).

That’s a lot of information, so forgive me for any item I did not link. If you need help finding an RSS feed for the blogs above, just let me know and I’ll dig it up.

Is there something I just HAVE to read? Please let me know in the comments.

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