Reading

Currently reading (in order of attention dedicated)

Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charles T. Munger
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Books read in 2024

1. Halcyon by Elliot Ackerman
2. So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
3. Selenography by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
4. White Holes by Carlo Rovelli
5. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
6. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
7. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
8. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
9. A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
12. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
13. It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne De Marcken
14. Your Utopia by Bora Chung
15. North Woods by Daniel Mason
16. My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
17. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

18. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Books read in 2023

1. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
2. Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
3. Envelope Poems by Emily Dickinson
4. The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
5. Trust by Hernan Diaz
6. I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
7. Ti Amo by Hanne Ørstavik
8. Sum by David Eagleman
9. The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
10. Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
11. Women Talking by Miriam Toews
12. Heating and Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly
13. Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
14. The Practice: Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin
15. I’ll Show Myself Out by Jessi Klein
16. How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
17. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones by Olga Tokarczuk
18. The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
19. The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
20. Multipliers by Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown
21. A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
22. The Art of Leadership by Michael Lopp
23. Liberation Day by George Saunders
24. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur
25. Upgrade by Blake Crouch
26. The Making of The Prince of Persia by Jordan Mechner
27. Quit by Annie Duke
28. Rituals for Work by Kursat Ozenc and Margaret Hagan
29. They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
30. Start Finishing by Charlie Gilkey
31. The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
32. What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer
33. But For I Am a Woman by Sophia Stid
34. Power Questions by Andrew Sobel and Jared Panas
35. The Armour of Light by Ken Follett

Books read in 2022:

1. Matrix by Lauren Groff
2. This is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth
3. The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
4. The Book of Why by Judea Pearl
5. Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
6. The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
7. Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
8. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
9. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Books read in 2021:

1. Get Together: How to Build a Community w/ Your People by Richardson, Sotto, and Huynh
2. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. Recursion by Blake Crouch
4. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
5. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
6. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
7. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction by J.D. Salinger
8. The Color of Air by Gail Tsukiyama
9. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
10. The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
11. Work Rules by Laszlo Bock
12. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
13. The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
14. The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
15. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
16. Love by Hanne Ørstavik
17. A Swim in the Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
18. The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
19. Bravey by Alexi Pappas
20. Data Science at the Command Line by Jeroen Janssens
21. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
22. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
23. Yearbook by Seth Rogen
24. The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
25. Radical Candor by Kim Scott
26. Exhalation by Ted Chiang
27. Fjords vol. 2 by Zachary Schomburg
28. Head First Python by Paul Barry
29. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
30. Visual Explanations by Edward Tufte
31. Untamed by Glennon Doyle
32. Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos (Intro by Walter Isaacson)
33. Spook by Mary Roach
34. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
35. Hail Mary by Andy Weir
36. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
37. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
38. The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack
39. This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
40. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
41. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
42. Beloved by Toni Morrison
43. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
44. Hiring Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers: A Practical Guide by Roy Keyes
45. An Elegant System: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson
46. Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
47. Bossypants by Tina Fey
48. The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
49. The Programmer's Brain by Felienne Hermans
50. As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes
51. Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
52. How to Ace Calculus: The Streetwise Guide by Thompson, Adams, and Hass
53. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Books read in 2020:

1. 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know by Camille Fournier
2. State of the Union by Nick Hornby
3. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
4. Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
5. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
6. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
7. Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
8. Pulver Maar by Zachary Schomburg
9. Artemis by Andy Weir
10. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
11. Calypso by David Sedaris
12. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman
13. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
14. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
15. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
16. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
17. Build a Career in Data Science by Emily Robinson and Jacqueline Nolis
18. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
19. The Manager’s Path by Camille Fournier
20. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
21. If It Bleeds by Stephen King
22. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
23. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin
24. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
25. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
26. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
27. Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
28. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
29. Hooked by Nir Eyal
30. The Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger
31. Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle
32. Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
33. Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
34. The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
35. The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo
36. Normal People by Sally Rooney
37. Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
38. The Forever Transaction by Robbie Kellman Baxter
39. The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
40. Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks
41. W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
42. The Body by Bill Bryson
43. Keep Moving by Maggie Smith
44. The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett
45. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
46. Live From New York: An Uncensored History Of SNL by Miller + Shales
47. Linchpin by Seth Godin
48. Working in Public: Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal
49. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
50. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Books read in 2017:

1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Men Explain Things to Me, by Rebecca Solnit
3. Lean In, by Sheryl Sandberg
4. Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance
5. Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
6. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, by Amy Schumer
7. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
8. The Rational Optimist, by Matt Ridley
9. The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson
10. The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins
11. How to Make Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie
12. The Undoing Project, by Michael Lewis
13. It, by Stephen King
14. The Heart, by Maylis Kerangal
15. My Own Words, by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
16. Sprint, by Jake Knapp
17. Option B, by Sheryl Sandberg
18. Switch, by Chip and Dan Heath
19. Mammother, by Zachary Schomburg
20. Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
21. A Column of Fire, by Ken Follett
22. Dear Data, by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec
23. Milk and Honey by Rumi Kaur
24. Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathi O’Neil
25. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett