Reading List.

I try to read a lot. This is an attempt to track that.

Books I especially loved are marked with an asterisk(*). Books that were re-reads are marked with a plus(+) sign.

Currently Reading

Software Engineering

2024

  1. This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
  2. Dark Matter, Blake Crouch
  3. The Genius of Israel, Dan Senor, Saul Singer
  4. Start-up Nation, Dan Senor, Saul Singer
  5. Better Living Through Birding, Christian Cooper
  6. Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata
  7. How to Sell a Haunted House, Grady Hendrix
  8. Tokyo Ueno Station, Yu Miri

2023

  1. Golda Meir: Israel’s Matriarch, Deborah Lipstadt
  2. Son of Hamas, Mosab Hassan Yousef
  3. My Promised Land, Ari Shavit
  4. Israel, Noa Tishby
  5. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
  6. The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien+
  7. The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien+
  8. The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien+
  9. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien+
  10. The Office BFFs, Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey
  11. Soul Boom, Rainn Wilson
  12. The Bassoon King, Rainn Wilson

2022

  1. A Caribbean Heiress in Paris, Adriana Herrera
  2. Cuba: An American History, Ada Ferrer
  3. Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  4. I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy
  5. Milk Blood Heat, Dantiel W Moniz
  6. Squad, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Lisa Sterle
  7. Severance, Ling Ma
  8. The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Patrick Rothfuss

2021

  1. Bubble, Jordan Moris, Sarah Morgan, Tony Cliff
  2. Cackle, Rachel Harrison
  3. Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol, Mallory O’Meara
  4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams*
  5. The Gates of Night, Keith Baker
  6. Mad Men and Philosophy, William Irwin et al.
  7. The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
  8. Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
  9. The Anthropocene Reviewed, John Green
  10. The Queen of Stone, Keith Baker*
  11. The Shattered Land, Keith Baker
  12. Vox Machina Origins: Volume II, Critical Role
  13. Artemis, Andy Weir
  14. City of Towers, Keith Baker
  15. Laziness Does Not Exist, Devon Price, PhD
  16. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab
  17. The Tower of Swallows, Andrzej Sapkowski
  18. A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
  19. If You Come Softly, Jacqueline Woodson
  20. On Immunity: An Inoculation, Eula Biss
  21. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions about Dead Bodies, Caitlin Doughty
  22. A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
  23. Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler
  24. Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler*

2020

  1. A Promised Land, Barack Obama
  2. God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert
  3. Children of Dune, Frank Herbert
  4. Baptism of Fire, Andrzej Sapkowski
  5. Galatea, Madeline Miller
  6. The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
  7. Circe, Madeline Miller*
  8. Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
  9. Dune, Frank Herbert*
  10. The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss
  11. Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
  12. The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
  13. Blonde Roots, Bernardine Evaristo*
  14. The Time of Contempt, Andrzej Sapkowski
  15. Vox Machina: Origins Volume I, Critical Role
  16. Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski
  17. How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
  18. Sword of Destiny, Andrzej Sapkowski
  19. The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski
  20. Why Fish Don’t Exist, Lulu Miller*
  21. Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson

2019

  1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
  2. Man’s Search For Meaning, Victor E. Frankl
  3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
  4. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
  5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
  6. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
  7. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
  8. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling
  9. The Martian, Andy Weir

2018

  1. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
  2. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, Hank Green
  3. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, John Carreyrou
  4. Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng*
  5. Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump, Dan Pfeiffer
  6. Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson
  7. Paddle Your Own Canoe, Nick Offerman
  8. Yes Please, Amy Poehler
  9. Bossypants, Tina Fey
  10. Turtles All the Way Down, John Green