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This is a list of the books I'm reading, recent books I've read and books I plan to read. Where possible, I've attempted to include some information about the book, perhaps a brief review and, most important, links to other books by the same author, read-alikes (books by other authors that may appeal) and similar recommendation tools.

The books listed as favorites are significant to me in some way or another. Mostly, they are books that I particularly enjoyed or that struck a chord in me. In most cases, I also feel that they are excellent books from a literary standpoint, as well. My hope is that if you enjoy some of the authors and books on this page, you may find something else here you haven't read that may be of interest. Regrettably, some of them are a trifle obscure and may be out of print. Where that's the case, I encourage you to try and track them down. As a note, either I have good taste in books or, far more likely, the same kind of quirky taste as some editors since a number of these books reappear as reprints at regular intervals.

Currently reading

JavaScript Patterns by Stoyan Stefanov

Covers the basics and principles of writing Javascript with plenty of examples of good usage and reasons to design things in certain ways. In addition to Javascript-specific patterns, the author also applies common design patterns (the Gang of Four patterns) to Javascript and much more. This book is deceptively slim considering the amount of information packed into it.

The Traitor (Golden Mountain Chronicles, 1885) by Laurence Yep

Life is difficult in the Wyoming Territory of 1885, particularly for two young boys who are both, in different ways, outcasts from the white population of their small town. One boy is Chinese and resented because of his race and the perception that the Chinese miners are taking jobs away and the other because he was born to an unmarried mother. But their friendship becomes important when violence against the Chinese erupts.

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