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2nd Quarter 2007
• The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded] . Thomas L. Friedman
• The One-Page Project Manager . Clark A. Campbell
• The Dip . Seth Godin
• The Toyota Way . Jeffrey Liker
• The SAIC Solution . J. Robert Beyster with Peter Economy
• The 4-Hour Work-Week . Timothy Ferriss
• Jack: Stright from the Gut . Jack Welch
• Talent . Tom Peters

1st Quarter 2007
• The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook . Michael George, David Rowlands, Mark Price, and John Maxey
• What is Lean Six Sigma . Mike George, Dave Rowlands, and Bill Kastie
• eBoys . Randall E. Stross
• The eBay Phenomenon: Business Secrets Behind the World's Hottest Internet Company . David Bunnell
• It's Not Luck . Eliyahu M. Goldratt
• The Goal . Eliyahu M. Goldratt
• The Art and Craft of the Machine . Frank Lloyd Wright
• Art of Money Getting . P.T. Barnum

4th Quarter 2006
• Next . Michael Crichton
• The Innocent Man . John Grisham
• The Audacity of Hope . Barack Obama
• The Art of War . Sun Tzu
• How to Live on 24 Hours a Day . Arnold Bennett
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin . Benjamin Franklin

3rd Quarter 2006
• Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail . John Gall
• Projects in Less Time: A Synopsis of Critical Chain . Mark Woeppel
• The Goal . Eliyahu M. Goldratt

2nd Quarter 2006
• Winning . Jack Welch and Suzy Welch
• The Toyota Way . Jeffrey Liker
• Socrates in 90 Minutes . Paul Strathern

March 2006
• Getting Real . 37 Signals
• The Goal . Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox

February 2006
• Lean Solutions . James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones
• User Stories Applied for Agile Sotware Development . Mike Cohn
• The McKinsey Mind . Ethan M. Rasiel and Paul N. Friga

January 2006
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Exlores the Hidden Side of Everything . Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• The Tom Peters Seminar: Crazy Times Call for Crazy Organizations . Tom Peters
• Free Prize Inside . Seth Godin
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team . Patrick Lencioni

December 2005
• Fit to Lead . Christopher P. Neck, Tedd L. Mitchell, Charles C. Manz...
• The Abs Diet . David Zinczenko with Ted Spiker

October 2005
• High Plains Tango . Robert James Waller
• The Abs Diet . David Zinczenko with Ted Spiker

September 2005
• Racing to Win . Joe Gibbs with Ken Abraham
• The Lean Body Promise . Lee Labrada
• Sly Moves . Sylvester Stallone with David Hochman

August 2005
• Six Easy Pieces . Richard P. Feynman

June 2005
• Slow Down and Get More Done . Marshall J. Cook

May 2005
• America's Secret War . George Friedman
• 1776 . David McCullough
• Knock, Knock: Seth Godin's Incomplete Guide to Building a Web Site that Work . Seth Godin

April 2005
• Think Like a Billionaire . Donald Trump, Meredith McIver
• On Intelligence . Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee

March 2005
• Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life . John McCain with Mark Salter
• The Success Principles . Jack Canfield
• Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right . Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
• The Genome War . James Shreeve

February 2005
• The Library of Congress Series on Digital Future: David Weinberger, Juan Pablo Paz, and Brian Cantwell Smith
• Life is a Series of Presentations . Tony Jeary

January 2005
• The Broker . John Grisham
• How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People . Leslie T. Giblin

December 2004
• The Magic of Thinking Big . David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
• State of Fear . Michael Crichton

November 2004
• Converting VHS Tapes to DVD . Jake Ludington
• The 8th Habit . Stephen R. Covey

October 2004
• Less is More: How Great Companies Use Productivity as a Competitive Tool in Business . Jason Jennings
• The Modern Gladiator: Increasing Productivity in the Digital Age . Hyrum W. Smith

September 2004
• The Science of Enlightenment . Shinzen Young
• Trump: How to Get Rich . Donald Trump
• The New York Times Pocket MBA: Forecasting Budgets . Norman Moore, Ph.D.

July/August 2004
• Pattern Recognition . William Gibson

June 2004
• Eragon . Christopher Paolini
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind . Shunryn Suzuki

May 2004
• Six-Point Plan for Raising Happy, Healthy Children . John Rosemond
• Zen and the Samurai . D.T. Suzuki

April 2004
• Unleashing the Ideavirus . Seth Godin
• Rich Dad's Prophesy . Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter, CPA
• Rich Dad's Success Stories . Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter, CPA

March 2004
• Jack: Straight From the Gut . Jack Welch and John Byrne
• Nothing is Impossible . Christopher Reeve

February 2004
• The Last Juror . John Grisham
• Finding the Champion Within . Bruce Jenner

January 2004
• Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done . Ram Charan, Charles Burck, Larry Bossidy
• High Druid of Shannara: Jarka Ruus . Terry Brooks

December 2003
• The Protein Power Life Plan . Michael R. Eades and Mary Dan Eades

November 2003
• Linked: The New Science of Networks . Albert-Lszl Barabsi
• Angels & Demons . Dan Brown

October 2003
• Lean Thinking : Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated . James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones
• Beyond the 7 Habits . Stephen R. Covey
• Every Second Counts . Lance Armstrong, Sally Jenkins
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity . David Allen

September 2003
• Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life . David Allen
• Lies and the Lying Liers Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right . Al Franken
• The Da Vinci Code . Dan Brown
• The Classic Fifty Poems . Keats, Taylor, Coleridge, Marlowe, and others

August 2003
• Snow Crash . Neal Stephenson

July 2003
• Body for Life . Bill Phillips
• It's Not About the Bike . Lance Armstrong
• Slaying the Dragon: How to Turn Small Steps into Great Feats . Michael Johnson
• Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Health and Exercise . Gina Kolata
• Sugar Busters . H. Leighton Steward
• The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Engergy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal . Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz

June 2003
• Antrax (The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, Book 2) . Terry Brooks
• Ilse Witch (The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, Book 1) . Terry Brooks

May 2003
• Zen and Japanese Culture . Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
• The Matrix and Philosphy . William Irwin
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad Advisors Series: Real Estate Riches . Dolf de Roos
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad Advisors Series: Loopholes of the Rich . Diane Kennedy

April 2003
• Getting Rich in America . Dwight R. Lee and Raymond Carver
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad . Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter, C.P.A.
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad Advisors Series: Own Your Own Corporation . Garrett Sutton

March 2003
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad . Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter, C.P.A.
• Personal Power II . Anthony Robbins

February 2003
• King of Torts . John Grisham

January 2003
• Red Rabbit . Tom Clancy
• Taoism . Ken Cohen
• Grow Younger, Live Longer . Deepak Chopra

December 2002
• Prey . Michael Crichton
• The New Physics of Healing . Deepak Chopra

November 2002
• Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step-by-Step . Edward DeBono

October 2002
• High Noon: The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems . Karen Southwick
• The Return of the King . J.R.R. Tolkien

September 2002
• Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot . Richard M. Restak
• Self Reliance . Ralph Waldo Emerson
• John Adams . David McCollough
• Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American Revolution . Jeff M. Shaara

August 2002
• The Diamond Age . Neal Stephenson
• Differentiate or Die . Jack Trout
• Two Towers . J.R.R. Tolkein

July 2002
• Get with the Program! . Bob Greene
• Weaving the Web : The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor . Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Fischetti, Michael L. Dertouzos
• You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness . Tom Peters

June 2002
• It's Not About the Bike . Lance Armstrong
• Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters . Dr. Phillip McGraw

May 2002
• The Fellowship of the Ring . J.R.R. Tolkien
• What Women Want Men to Know . Barbara DeAngelis, Ph.D.
• The Web . Jonathan Kellerman

April 2002
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad . Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter, C.P.A.
• Wall Street Money Machine . Wade Cook
• The Roaring 2000s Investor . Harry S. Dent, Jr.
• Accounting for Dummies . John A. Tracy

March 2002
• The 10 Second Internet Manager: Survive, Thrive, and Drive Your Company in the Information Age . Mark Breier
• Combat Swimmer: Memoirs of a Navy Seal . Captain Robert A. Gormly, USN (Ret.)
• Rich Dad's Retire Young, Retire Rich . Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter, C.P.A.
• Rich Dad's Guide to Investing . Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter, C.P.A.

February 2002
• The Summons . John Grisham
• Chance and Chaos . David Ruelle
• Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays . Stephen Hawking
• Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition . Jay Abraham

January 2002
• Next: The Future Just Happened . Michael Lewis
• The Hobbit . J. R. R. Tolkien
• dot.bomb: My Days and Nights at an Internet Goliath . David Kuo
• Survival Is Not Enough: Zooming, Evolution, and the Future of Your Company . Seth Godin
• Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends, and Friends Into Customers . Seth Godin
• The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy . Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D. and William D. Danko, Ph.D
• The Book of Honor : Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA . Ted Gup

December 2001
• Unleashing the Ideavirus . Seth Godin
• Dealers of Lightning : Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age . Michael Hiltzik
• The New New Thing : A Silicon Valley Story . Michael Lewis

November 2001
• Chaos: Making a New Science . James Gleick
• Contact . Carl Sagan
• The Good Marriage: How and Why Love Lasts . Judith S. Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee
• The Professional Service Firm 50 . Tom Peters
• The Project 50 . Tom Peters
• The Brand You 50 . Tom Peters

October 2001
• The Death Knell for "Ordinary": PURSUING DIFFERENCE . Tom Peters
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire . J.K. Roling

September 2001
• Business at the Speed of Thought . Bill Gates
• I'm Okay...You're A Brat . Dr. Susan Jeffers
• Neuromancer . William Gibson
  [This book is said to have invented both the concept of cyberspace as well as the cyberpunk genre]

August 2001
• Vurt . Jeff Noon
• The Four Phase Man . Richard Steinberg
• The Lance Armstrong Performance Program: Seven Weeks to the Perfect Ride . Lance Armstrong and Chris Carmichael
• Unleashing the Idea Virus . Seth Godin
  

July 2001
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban . J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets . J.K. Rowling
• Silent Witness . Richard North Patterson
• It's Not About the Bike . Lance Armstrong
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference . Malcolm Gladwell
• The Path to Tranquility . His Holiness the Dalai Lama

June 2001
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil . John Berendt
• WebWorld2001 . Tom Peters
• Conversations with God . Neale Walsch
• Rising Phoenix . Kyle Mills
• The Pledge . Rob Kean
• Lost Civilizations: Egypt—Journey to the Land of the Pharaohs

May 2001
• Experience Design . Nathan Shedroff
• Don't Make Me Think . Steve Krug

April 2001
• Body for Life . Bill Phillips
• The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment . Eckhart Tolle
• Ben & Jerry's Double-Dip: Lead With Your Values and Make Money Too . Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield
     read my favorite "Take Home Ideas" from the book...

March 2001
• Direct from Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry . Michael Dell
     read my favorite "Take Home Ideas" from the book...
• Buddhism Plain & Simple . Steve Hagen

February 2001
• About 14 inches of computer books dealing with SQL & ASP.

January 2001
• Cyberpunk novellas & short stories
• Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom . Bob Woodward
• Energy Anatomy . Caroline Myss, Ph.D.
• Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity . Jakob Nielsen

December 2000
• The entire Left Behind series (eight books).
• My textbooks (finals 18th & 19th)

November 2000
• You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness . Tom Peters
• In Search of Stones: A Pilgrimage of Faith, Reason, and Discovery . M. Scott Peck
• The Poetry of Walt Whitman . Walt Whitman

October 2000
• Hollywood Vs. America . Michael Medved
• 3 Steps to a Strong Family . Linda & Richard Eyre
• The Man Who Listens to Horses . Monty Roberts
• The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living . His Holiness the Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler
• The Active Side of Infinity . Carlos Castaneda
• Timeline . Michael Crichton
• Angel Fire East . Terry Brooks

September 2000
• Megatrends Asia . John Naisbitt
• Clicking: 16 Trends to Future Fit Your Life, Your Work, and Your Business . Faith Popcorn and Lys Marigold
• Improving Communication . Dr. John Gray
• Eat, Drink, & Be Merry . Dr. Dean Edell

August 2000
• First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty . Bill Minutaglio
• Work in Progress . Michael Eisner
• Understanding Martian and Venutian . Dr. John Gray

July 2000
• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom . Don Miguel Ruiz
• The World as I See It . Albert Einstein
• Tuesdays with Morie . Mitch Albom

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