Reading List

This is the mandatory reading list for the Nibble:

Fiction

• Dick, Philip K. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
• King, Stephen. "It"
• Kundera, Milan. "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
• Mistry, Rohinton. "Such a Long Journey"
• Mistry, Rohinton. "A Fine Balance"
• Pirsig, Robert. "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
• Robbins, Tom. "Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas"
• Sandford, John. "The Fool's Run"
• Toole, John Kennedy. "A Confederacy of Dunces"

Non-fiction

• Alder, Ken. "The Measure of All Things : The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World"
• Boese, Alex. "Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments"
• Brooks, Fred. "The Mythical Man-Month"
• deGrasse Tyson, Neil. "Death by Black Hole"
• Diamond, Jared. "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies"
• Heinrichs, Jay. "Thank You for Arguing"
• Nehru, Jawaharlal. "The Discovery of India"
• Pollan, Michael. "The Omnivore's Dilemma"
• Shermer, Michael. "The Science of Good and Evil"

Technical

• Barrett, Daniel. "Linux Pocket Guide"
• DuBois, Paul. "MySQL Cookbook"
• Frisch, Æleen. "Essential System Administration"
• Hildebrandt, Ralf. "The Book of Postfix: State-of-the-Art Message Transport"
• Josephsen, David. "Building a Monitoring Infrastructure with Nagios"
• Schwartz, Zaitsev, Tkachenko, Zawodny, Lentz & Balling. "High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More"