I participate in a book club bit other then that I don't do any challenges with number of books. I prefer quality over quantity.

Thanks for the list, a few games really caught my eye.

Here is my contribution - Tametsi

A minesweeper which has hand-crafted levels so you can always solve it with logic instead of relying on luck when you are out of logical moves.

I think he said he was a contractor for army but didn't go into any more details. He was also in prison for smuggling immigrants across border if I recall correctly.

Apple fought hard against two-button mouse if I recall correctly.

This is my method as well. A few weeks ago I took out a book from a shelf because and then couldn't put it back even though it was on that shelf a few minutes ago.