I’m an avid reader, though most of my reading focuses on fiction I do have a number of non-fiction books I highly recommend to anyone looking to learn and grow their career and personal development.
How do you read so much? I often get this question. There are two pieces to it, if there’s a really good book I want to read, I will first check my library’s digital audiobook collection, if it’s not available and I have to read it, then I checkout Audible. The nice thing about the library is I can get 10 digital copies a month and I have the 2 credit a month Audible membership.
I recommend Audio books over visual reading whenever possible for fiction. Non fiction, I actually tend to read faster when not listening but visually reading. It’s strange I know.
What I’m currently reading
- Programming Machine Learning by Paolo Perrotta
- Get Your Life Back: Everyday Practices for a World Gone Mad by John Eldredge
- The Scarecrow By Michael Connelly
I’m seeking thriller recommendations, if you have any please email me at adam [dot] bourg [@] gmail [dot] com
My reading backlog
These are ideas of books to read, mostly for me to reference when looking for something new to read.
Anything by authors:
- Clive Cussler
- Gregg Hurwitz
- Jack Carr
- Brian Haig
- Mike Lawson
Books:
- Rise and Grind by Daymond John
- One Rough Man by Brad Taylor
- This is marketing by Seth Godin
- Raising men by Eric Davis
Developer books:
- Quantum Computing by Nihal Mehta, Ph.D.
- Practical Security by Roman Zabicki
- Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager by James Stanier
- A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, Second Edition by Jay Wengrow
Must Have Developer Books
- The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas & Andrew Hunt
- Clean Code by Robert C Martin
- The Clean Coder by Robert C Martin
- The Passionate Programmer by Chad Fowler
- Javascript the Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
2020 books I’ve read (in no order)
Last updated on 08/03/2020
Total books read so far in 2020: 54
- Up Country by Nelson DeMille
- Decision Points by George W. Bush
- Triggered by Donald Trump Junior (Book sucked)
- Deliver us from evil by David Baldacci
- Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth
- The whole truth by David Baldacci
- Two kinds of truth by Michael Connelly
- Cashing the dime by Michael Connelly
- The Closers by Michael Connelly
- The drop by Michael Connelly
- How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett by Timothy Vick
- Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets By J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone By J.K. Rowling
- The Terminal List by Jack Carr
- Camino Winds by John Grisham
- Walk the wire by David Baldacci
- Russians Among Us by Gordon Corera
- Treasure by Clive Cussler
- One Minute Out by Mark Greaney
- The power of broke by Daymond John
- Tom Clancy Code of Honor by Marc Cameron (It’s not tom clancy, pretty good not the same quality)
- Sold by Patricia McCormick (Sad true story about human trafficking)
- Out of the dark by Gregg Hurwitz
- The Nowhere Man by Gregg Hurwitz
- The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
- Sphere by Michael Crichton
- The Russian by Ben Coes
- The Striker by Clive Cussler
- The Gray Ghost by Clive Cussler
- Treasure of Khan by Clive Cussler
- Final Option by Clive Cussler
- Blue Gold by Clive Cussler
- Shadow Tyrants by Clive Cussler
- Harry Potter and the Sorcer’s Stone
- Sea of Greed by Clive Cussler
- Crescent Dawn by Clive Cussler
- Odessa Sea by Clive Cussler
- Celtic Empire by Clive Cussler
- Arctic Drift by Clive Cussler
- Havana Storm by Clive Cussler
- The Drop by Michael Connelly
- The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly
- Lost Light by Michael Connelly
- The Burning Room by Michael Connelly
- The Survivor by Vince Flynn
- The Romanov Conspiracy by Glenn Meade
- House Divided by Mike Lawson
- Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child
- House Witness by Mike Lawson
- House Arrest by Mike Lawson
- The Inside Ring by Mike Lawson
- One Good Deed by David Baldacci
- The Deserter by Nelson DeMille
- The Edible Exile by Carl Hiasen
- The Capitol Game by Brian Haig
Oh! How I love a good story. My main genres are Thrillers, Crime and some fantasy.