This year's fourth quarter will mostly be a "research quarter" as I am preparing a couple of speeches dealing with Microsoft technologies which I'm due to hold during the first weeks of 2008. Therefore the majority of books I've read in October where technical ones - thanks god covering fascinating topics so I'm not missing fiction too much, yet. :-)

Here's my (somewhat regular) list:

Richard Dawkins - God Delusion (currently reading)

This has been a page turner to me ever since I read the first page. The book has some 570 pages and I read through the first 450 in three successive nights planning to finish the rest today. Whether you're religious or not, Dawkins deserves attention from anyone claiming to be open minded and capable of taking criticism. (For November I'm planning to read The Selfish Gene written by the same author and already sitting on my nightstand.)

Krzysztof Cwalina, Brad Abrams - Framework Design Guidelines (read for the 2nd time)

I actually read this book about Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries from the Microsoft .NET Development Series quite some time ago. While prototyping some Silverlight application I decided to read it again to update some of the stuff I forgot. Worth reading for anybody working for a professional software development shop and planning to build extendable .NET solutions.

Chris Sells and Ian Griffiths - Programming WPF (currently reading)

Having finished Adam Nathan's WPF book this is the second book about WPF which I actually plan to read from first page to last page instead of using it purely as a reference guide. Windows Presentation Foundation is one of my favorite topics as it clearly will become the number one choice for building user interfaces for Microsoft platforms in the future.