"The only difference between who you are today and the person you will be in five years will come from the books you read and the people you associate with" - Charles Tremendous Jones (what a nickname huh)

Here's what I've been reading over the past year...

Rather than lengthy reviews, I've used smilies to quickly convey my general feelings about each book.
(and for those of you that think smilies are "not kewl", sorry - I looked for tivo-style thumbs up / thumbs down and couldn't find anything)

Technical
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler
Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky
Coder to Developer by Mike Gunderloy
Test-Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck
Test-Driven Development in Microsoft.NET by James W. Newkirk and Alexei A. Vorontsov
Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck
Agile Software Development by Allistair Cockburn
Agile Software Development with SCRUM by Ken Schwaber
Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft.NET by Microsoft Corporation
Effective C# by Bill Wagner
The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks

Non-Technical
How Now Shall We Live by Charles W. Colson
The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel
Today Matters by John Maxwell
Winning With People by John Maxwell
Thinking for a Change by John Maxwell
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Tested by Time by James L. Garlow
The World According to Garp by John Irving
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Secrets from an Inventor's Notebook by Maurice Kanbar
Patents: Bubblewrap, Bottlecaps, Barbed Wire and Other Ingenious Inventions by Ben Ikenson