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2019-01-01
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Below are the books I’m actively reading and those which I’ve read since ~January 2019. I read books before then, but I wasn’t as diligent about tracking them. Thanks to Marielle Foster for showing me the way!
Actively Reading
- The Charm School by Nelson DeMille
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford
- An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson*
- Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgement by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein🎵*
- War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
- The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
- How Fiction Works by James Wood
- Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
- Iberia by James A. Michener
- Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
- Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective by Randal E. Bryant and David O’Hallaron
- The Go Programming Language by Alan A. A. Donovan and Brian W. Kernighan
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann
- A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
- The Road to Serfdom by FA Hayek
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides
2022
YTD: 45
November 2022
Total 5, YTD 45
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- How to Invest: Masters on the Craft by David M. Rubenstein🎵
- The Green Bone Saga Book I: Jade City by Fonda Lee
- Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey🎵
- Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules by L. David Marquet🎵
October 2022
Total 8, YTD 40
- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover🎵
- The Third Option, Mitch Rapp: vol. 2 by Vince Flynn
- Trip Wire: Jack Reacher, vol. 3 by Lee Child
- Transfer of Power: Mitch Rapp, vol. 1 by Vince Flynn
- Emma by Jane Austen🎵
- The Old Man by Thomas Perry
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens🎵
- The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age by Bina Venkataraman🎵
September 2022
Total 10, YTD 32
- Die Trying: Jack Reacher, vol. 2 by Lee Child
- Better Off Dead: Jack Reacher, vol. 26 by Lee Child
- The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis🎵
- The Power of Nunchi: The Korean Secret to Happiness and Success by Euny Hong🎵
- The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson🎵
- When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink🎵
- Brave, Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani🎵
- How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley🎵
- Still Life by Louise Penny
- The Up Side Of Down: Why Failing Well Is The Key To Success by Megan McArdle🎵
August 2022
Total 2, YTD 22
- Babylon’s Ashes, Expanse Series, Book VI by James S.A. Corey
- Nemesis Games, Expanse Series, Book V by James S.A. Corey
July 2022
Total 2, YTD 20
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- Cibola Burn, Expanse Series, Book IV by James S.A. Corey
June 2022
Total 1, YTD 18
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
May 2022
Total 2, YTD 17
- The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter by Michael D. Watkins
- Throne of Jade: Temeraire Book II by Naomi Novik
April 2022
Total 6, YTD 15
- His Majesty’s Dragons: Temeraire Book I by Naomi Novik
- The Scholomance Book I: A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik†
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson🎵
- A Deadly Education by Naomi Novak
- Grant by Ron Chernow🎵
- For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
March 2022
Total 5, YTD 9
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson🎵
- The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis🎵
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari🎵
- Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Stanley A. McChrystal, Chris Fussell, Tantum Collins, David Silverman
- First, Break All The Rules: What The World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
February 2022
Read 1, YTD 4
- Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
January 2022
Read 3, YTD 3
- Radical Candor by Kim Scott
- The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Hays translation)
- Malazan Book of the Fallen: Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
2021
YTD: 33
December 2021
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman
- Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
- On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
November 2021
- The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together by Twyla Tharp
- Shogun by James Clavell
- This is Water by David Foster Wallace
October 2021
September 2021
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Calibans War, Expanse Series, Book II by James S.A. Corey
August 2021
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II: Means of Ascent by Robert Caro
July 2021
- The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
- A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine
June 2021
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
May 2021
- Leviathan Wakes, Expanse Series, Book I by James S.A. Corey
- A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu Goldratt
April 2021
- The Manager’s Path by Camille Fournier
- Consider Phlebas, Culture Series, Book I by Iain M. Banks
- Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
- Tintin: Flight 714 by Hergé
- Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
March 2021
- A Wizard of Earthsea, The Earthcycle, Book 1 by Ursula K. Le Guin
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- The Fall by Albert Camus
February 2021
- Legacy of Orïsha, Book I: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
- Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
- A Raisin In the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
January 2021
- Emma by Jane Austen
- The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you by Rob Fitzpatrick
2020
YTD: 34
December 2020
- Dandelion Dynasty Book I: The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
- The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
November 2020
- The Baroque Cycle Vol. I: Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
October 2020
- Bromeliad Trilogy, Book II: Diggers by Terry Pratchett
- Bromeliad Trilogy, Book III: Wings by Terry Pratchett
September 2020
- Bromeliad Trilogy, Book I: Truckers by Terry Pratchett
- Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
August 2020
- Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim
- Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
- Black Boy: American Hunger by Richard Wright
- White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
July 2020
- Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business by Danny Meyer
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
June 2020
- Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
- Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- The Source by James Michener
May 2020
- Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
- Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr, Larry Page
April 2020
- Hawaii by James Michener
- Joel On Software by Joel Spolsky
- The Mythical Man Month by Frederick P. Brooks
- REAMDE by Neal Stephenson
March 2020
- The Imposter’s Handbook by Rob Conery
- Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister
- Clean Code by Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin
February 2020
- Heavy by Kiese Laymon
- Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
January 2020
- Silence Is The Key by Ryan Holiday
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Pevear and Volokhonsky translation)
- Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell
2019
Total: 35
December 2019
November 2019
- Range by David Epstein
- Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason
- Shape Up by Ryan Singer
- How To Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
October 2019
- Letters from A Stoic by Seneca
September 2019
- Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Hays translation)
- The Manual by Epictetus (Torde translation)
- What Unites Us by Dan Rather
- Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (Ursula K. Leguin translation)
August 2019
- Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
- Algebra of Happiness by Scott Galloway
- The Stone Sky by NK Jemisin
July 2019
- Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (Charles Johnston translation)
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. I: The Path to Power by Robert Caro
- Upstream by Mary Oliver
- Dog Song by Mary Oliver
June 2019
- This America by Jill Lepore
- The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas
- Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
May 2019
- Working by Robert Caro
April 2019
- The World As I See It by Albert Einstein
March 2019
- The Broken Kingdoms by NK Jemisin
- The Kingdom of Gods by NK Jemisin
- The Awakened Kingdom by NK Jemisin
- Consider The Lobster by David Foster Wallace
- This Is Water by David Foster Wallace
February 2019
- The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
- Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
- The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin
January 2019
- Death’s End by Cixin Liu
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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