This is a list of books I've compiled that have been recommended to me by others, or through classes. I'm going to try and read most of them, but you know how that goes, since being a full-time student already requires enough reading!

Author
Book Title
Approx. Price
Read
Bhagavad Gita
Bible X
Death March
Koran
Leadership Techiniques of Atila the Hun 10.99
Windows 95: A Programmer's Case Study
Scott Adams The Dilbert Principle
Scott Adams Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook
Joseph Addison Cato
Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility
Lucille Ball Love Lucy X X
Robert Bellah The Good Society
Robert Bellah Habits of the Heart X
Warren Bennis Invented Life X X
Warren Bennis Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge X X
Warren Bennis On Becoming A Leader X X
Warren Bennis Organizing Genius
Richard Nelson Bolles What Color is Your Parachute? X
Charolette Bronte Jane Eyre
Buddha Tripitaka
Card Ender's Game
Miguel Cervantes Don Quijote
Gordon Chase How to Manage in the Public Sector
Confucius Analects
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness X
Joseph Conrad The Secret Sharer X
Stephen Covey The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Helen Custer Inside the Windows NT Filesystem
Dante Divine Comedy
Gary Cornell Core Java X
H.M. Deitel C++ How to Program X
Edward Deming Out of the Crisis
Max DePree Leadership is an Art
Max DePree Leadership Jazz
Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers X
Peter Drucker The Effective Executive
Peter Drucker Managing the Future: The 1990's and Beyond
Dave Edson Great Windows Programming X
Ellis C Reference Manual
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
David Flanagan Java in a Nutshell
Benjamin Franklin Autobiography X X
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack
Howard Gardener Leading Minds
Charles Handy The Age of Paradox
Thomas Hardy The Return of the Native X
R. Heifetz Leadership Without Easy Answers
Heilein Stranger in a Strange Land
Eric Hoffer The True Believer
Homer The Iliad
Homer The Odyssey
Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre Dame X
Victor Hugo Les Miserables
Franz Kafka The Castle
Franz Kafka Metamorphosis
Stephen H. Kan Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering
Lester Korn The Success Profile X X
Martin Luther Theses
Niccolo Machiavelli Discourses on the Republic
Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince X X
Scott Meyers Effective C++
Margaret Mitchell Ethan Frome
Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind
Brian Myers Windows NT Programming X
John Naisbitt Megatrends
Nguyen Testing Computer Software X
James O'Toole Leading Change X
Petzold Windows Programming X X
Plato The Republic
Jeffrey Richter Advanced Windows Programming X
Dale Rogerson Inside COM
J.D. Sallinger Catcher in the Rye
G. Gordon Schulmeyer
James I. McManus
Handbook of Software Quality Assurance
Shakespeare Macbeth X
Shakespeare Tempest
Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin
Alvin Toffler Third Wave
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina X
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
Barbara Tuchman March of Folly
Alice Walker The Color Purple
Alice Walker You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
Tennessee Williams A Streetcare Named Desire X
Gary Wills Certain Trumpets X
Thomas Wren The Leader's Companion

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