As of the end of September, I’m up to 135 books for the year (20 this month, of those 7 were fiction/13 were non-fiction). 6 were from my TBR pile bringing me up to 72 TBR for the year, not bad at 53% of total. The book that spent the longest on my TBR before reading was We Got the Neutron Bomb, since January 9, 2017.

• A Rising Man (ebook, fiction, TBR 6/14/17).
• Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (ebook, non-fiction).
• We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Film (ebook, non-fiction). Definitely recommended if you love classic movies.
• Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Tehran (audiobook, non-fiction, TBR 2/5/17).
• Amberlough (ebook, fiction, TBR 6/9/17). I loved this until the COMPLETELY BULLSHIT CLIFFHANGER ENDING. This was clearly the first in a trilogy, but it does not provide a resolution, and I’m so pissed about it that I’m purposely not going to read the other books, no matter how invested in these characters I got.
• The Rollout: A Novel About Leadership and Building a Lean-Agile Enterprise with SAFe (dead tree, fiction). It wants to be The Phoenix Project, but the writing is terrible. There’s not a lot out there about SAFe, though, so it’s a good intro to that if you can stand the writing.
• The Tyranny of Metrics (audiobook, non-fiction). Very cool. I bought a copy for my business-related bookshelves.
• No Use Dying Over Spilled Milk (ebook, fiction).
• The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change (ebook, non-fiction).
• Spice and Smoke (ebook, fiction). Hot, steamy Bollywood kink and polyamory. MORE PLEASE.
• Jog On: How Running Saved My Life (ebook, non-fiction). Should probably have been called “an introduction to mental illness for people who know absolutely nothing about mental illness, and oh by the way it’s not really about running”.
• Just Plain Pickled to Death (ebook, fiction).
• Agility Shift: Creating Agile and Effective Leaders, Teams, and Organizations (ebook, non-fiction).
• The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics (ebook, fiction). Wicked smart ladies raising each other up and having hot sexytimes whilst smashing the patriarchy. Hands down the best book I read this month, probably in the top 10 for the year.
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (ebook, fiction). This is what The Rollout wanted to be. This is effectively Agile fan fiction, but it’s good Agile fan fiction.
• The Gentleman (dead tree, fiction). Twisted and creepy and delightful. Highly recommended. I used to have a “weird, strange, and fucked up” shelf on Goodreads; this would go there.
• We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk (dead tree, non-fiction).
• Situational Scrum Mastering: Leading an Agile Team (ebook, non-fiction).
• The Great ScrumMaster: #ScrumMasterWay (ebook, non-fiction). This was the first book in the Addison Wesley signature series that I didn’t love. It was OK, I guess, but felt more gimmicky and less substantial than others I’ve read in the series. I still have a dream of a bookshelf filled with this series, but I’ll likely leave this out.
• PMI-ACP Exam Prep: A Course in a Book for Passing the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Exam (dead tree, non-fiction). I’ll review this one after I take the exam…