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    The following is my reading list for 2014. It's probably not complete and subject to change.

    ### Non-Fiction

    - “Nonviolent Communications” by Marshall Rosenberg
    - “Release It” by Michael Nygard
    - “Starfish And The Spider - The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations” by Ori Brafman & Rod Beckstrom
    - “Psychology of Computer Programming” by Gerald Weinberg
    - “The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity and Love” by Bell Hooks
    - “21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” by John Maxwell
    - “Field Guide to Understanding Human Error” by Sidney Dekker
    - “Art of Capacity Planning” by John Allspaw
    - “Effective Monitoring & Alerting” by Slawek Ligus
    - “XP explained” by Ken Beck
    - “Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights” by Gary Klein
    - “In Search Of Certainty - The Science of Our Information Infrastructure” By Mark Burgess
    - “Remote: Office Not Required” by Jason Fried & DHH
    - “Domain Driven Design” by Eric Evans
    - “Well-Grounded Java Developer” by Benjamin Evans
    - “Practical Vim” by Drew Neil
    - “Thinking In Systems” by Donella Meadows
    - “Friendly Fire: The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq” by Scott Snook
    - “Managing The Unexpected - Resilient Performance in an Age of Uncertainty” by Karl Weick & Kathleen Sutcliffe
    - “The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA” by Diane Vaughan
    - “Drift Into Failure” by Sidney Dekker
    - “Scala in Depth” by Joshua Suereth

    ### Fiction

    - “Accelerando” by Charles Stross
    - “Erzählung für einen Freund” by Halina Poswiatowska
    - “Taschen voll Wasser” by Finn-Ole Heinrich
    - “Redshirts” by John Scalzi