Reading
What I've been reading.
299 books and counting — pulled from my Goodreads shelf and rebuilt here. Mostly AI, systems, finance, and history, with the odd novel slipping in.
2026
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The Scaling Curve: Dario Amodei, Anthropic, and the Race to Build and Survive Superintelligence ★★★★☆ -
The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence ★★★★☆ -
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King ★★★★☆ -
All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man ★☆☆☆☆ -
Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius ★★★☆☆
2025
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The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1) ★★★☆☆ -
BLAME! Vol. 1 -
Sacrament ★★★☆☆ -
Stories of Your Life and Others -
The Little Book of Stoic Quotes: Philosophy for a Meaningful and Courageous Life ★★★☆☆ -
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius ★★★☆☆ -
The Master and Margarita ★★★☆☆ -
Ego Is the Enemy ★★☆☆☆ -
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living ★★★★☆ -
The Practicing Stoic ★★★★☆ -
Philosophy for Beginners ★★★☆☆ -
Plato for Beginners ★★☆☆☆ -
Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library) ★★★☆☆ -
A Canticle for Leibowitz ★★☆☆☆ -
This American Woman: A One-In-A-Billion Memoir ★★★★☆ -
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph ★★★★☆ -
The MANIAC ★★★★★
2024
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Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes ★★★☆☆ -
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea ★★★☆☆ -
The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills ★★★☆☆ -
Childhood's End ★★★☆☆ -
Siddhartha: Illustrated Edition ★★★★★ -
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder -
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't ★★★★☆ -
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI ★★★☆☆ -
The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society ★★★★☆ -
2010: Odyssey Two (Space Odyssey #2) ★★★☆☆ -
In The Footsteps Of Rama: Travels with the Ramayana ★★★★★ -
Hanuman's Tale: The Messages of a Divine Monkey ★★★★★ -
The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: The Complete English Translation (Princeton Library of Asian Translations) ★★★★★
2023
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The Bug ★★★★☆ -
Nimona ★★★★☆ -
The Song of Achilles ★★★☆☆ -
Suicide Forest (World's Scariest Places, #1) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Dark Matter ★★★☆☆ -
Nathuram Godse: The Hidden Untold Truth ★★★☆☆ -
Pakistan and the Mumbai Attacks: The Untold Story (Kindle Single) ★★★☆☆ -
The Illustrated Ramayana: The Timeless Epic of Duty, Love, and Redemption ★★★★★ -
Wings of Fire: An Autobiography (Digital Exclusive Edition) ★★★★★ -
Mahabharata Unravelled: Lesser-Known Facets of a Well-Known History ★★★★★ -
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) ★★☆☆☆ -
Saga #1 ★★★☆☆ -
Saga, Volume 1 ★★★☆☆ -
Lords of the Deccan: Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas ★★★★★ -
Kalki Purana ★★☆☆☆ -
The Man Who Remade India: A Biography of P.V. Narasimha Rao (Modern South Asia) ★★★★☆ -
How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships ★★★☆☆ -
Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within ★★★★★ -
The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else -
How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond ★★★★☆ -
Texts from Mittens: A Cat Who Has an Unlimited Data Plan...and Isn't Afraid to Use It – A Hilarious Pet Humor Book About Sarcastic Animals -
The Practice of Practice ★★★★★ -
A Short History of Nearly Everything ★★★★☆
2022
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The Call of the Wild (yourbooks) ★★★☆☆ -
Death Masks (The Dresden Files, #5) ★★☆☆☆ -
Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4) ★★★☆☆ -
Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3) ★★★☆☆ -
Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2) ★★☆☆☆ -
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1) ★★★☆☆ -
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship ★★★★★ -
Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos ★★★★★ -
This Is How You Lose the Time War ★★★☆☆ -
The Immortals of Meluha (Shiva Trilogy, #1) -
The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward ★★★★☆ -
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1) ★☆☆☆☆ -
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz ★★★☆☆ -
The Gospel of Loki ★★★☆☆ -
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2) ★★★☆☆ -
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) ★★☆☆☆ -
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings ★★★☆☆ -
The Tower of Swallows (The Witcher, #4) ★★★☆☆
2021
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Baptism of Fire (The Witcher, #3) ★★★☆☆ -
The Time of Contempt (The Witcher #2) ★★☆☆☆ -
Blood of Elves (The Witcher, #1) ★★★☆☆ -
Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7) ★★★☆☆ -
The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5) ★★★☆☆ -
Essence of the Upanishads: A Key to Indian Spirituality (Wisdom of India, 1) ★★★★★ -
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1) ★★★★★ -
The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything ★★☆☆☆ -
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination ★★★★★ -
The ʻUkulele: A History ★★★☆☆ -
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler -
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth – A New York Times Bestselling Science Book on the Oumuamua Mystery and Alien Technology from Harvard's Top Astronomer -
Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking ★★☆☆☆ -
The Psychology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained ★★☆☆☆ -
The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life ★★★★☆ -
The Messenger (The Messenger #1) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Terraform in Action ★★★★★ -
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1) ★★☆☆☆
2020
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Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity ★★★☆☆ -
A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1) ★★★☆☆ -
Cat's Cradle ★★★☆☆ -
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship ★★★☆☆ -
No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Man-Eater in History ★★★★★ -
You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life ★★★★☆ -
The Old Man and the Sea ★★☆☆☆ -
The Relaxation Response ★★★★★ -
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) ★★☆☆☆ -
Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average ★★★☆☆ -
Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Recursion ★★★★☆ -
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking ★★★☆☆ -
Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems ★★☆☆☆ -
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know ★★★☆☆ -
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster ★★★☆☆ -
Am I The Only Sane One Working Here : 101 Solutions for Surviving Office Insanity ★★★★★
2019
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Cloud Native Patterns: Designing change-tolerant software ★★★★★ -
The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1) ★★★☆☆ -
More Joel on Software: Further Thoughts on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and ... or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity ★★★☆☆ -
The End of Eternity ★★★☆☆ -
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1) ★★★☆☆ -
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware ★★★☆☆ -
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2) ★★★☆☆ -
The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky ★★★☆☆ -
Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4) ★★★☆☆ -
Foundation (Foundation, #1) ★★★☆☆ -
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam ★★★☆☆ -
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1) ★★★☆☆ -
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2) ★★★☆☆ -
Second Foundation (Foundation, #3) ★★★☆☆ -
Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide ★★☆☆☆ -
Programming in Scala: A Comprehensive Step-by-step Guide ★★☆☆☆ -
Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Executive Power (Mitch Rapp, #6) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Transfer of Power (Mitch Rapp, #3) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Act of Treason (Mitch Rapp, #9) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Agile Web Development with Rails, 1st Edition ★☆☆☆☆ -
Separation of Power (Mitch Rapp, #5) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Protect and Defend (Mitch Rapp, #10) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager ★★☆☆☆ -
Visitors to the Inner Earth: True Tales of Subterranean Journeys ★☆☆☆☆ -
Vulcan's Glory (Star Trek: The Original Series #44) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Spock's World ★☆☆☆☆ -
The Romulan Way (Star Trek: Rihannsu, #2) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Doctor's Orders (Star Trek: The Original Series, #50) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Killing Time (Star Trek: The Original Series, #24) ★☆☆☆☆ -
The Kobayashi Maru (Star Trek: The Original Series, #47) ★☆☆☆☆ -
The Entropy Effect (Star Trek: The Original Series, #2) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World ★☆☆☆☆ -
Dreadnought! (Star Trek: The Original Series #29, Fortunes Of War, #1) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Chain of Attack (Star Trek: The Original Series #32) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Battlestations! (Star Trek: Fortunes of War, #2) ★☆☆☆☆ -
The Vulcan Academy Murders (Star Trek: The Original Series, #20) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Web of the Romulans (Star Trek: The Original Series #10) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Black Fire ★☆☆☆☆ -
The Covenant of the Crown (Star Trek: The Original Series #4) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Real World Haskell ★☆☆☆☆ -
The Last Lecture ★☆☆☆☆ -
Programming Clojure ★☆☆☆☆ -
Immune (The Rho Agenda, #2) ★☆☆☆☆ -
The Second Ship (The Rho Agenda, #1) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Mutiny on the Enterprise (Star Trek: The Original Series #12) ★☆☆☆☆ -
My Enemy, My Ally (Star Trek: Rihannsu, #1) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind ★★★★★ -
Troublesome Minds ★★☆☆☆ -
Uhura's Song (Star Trek: The Original Series #21) ★★☆☆☆ -
Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling ★★★★☆ -
The Time Traveler's Wife ★☆☆☆☆ -
Alan Turing, Enigma ★★★★★ -
The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition ★★☆☆☆ -
The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture ★★★☆☆ -
Starship Troopers ★★★☆☆ -
How to Win Friends & Influence People ★★★★★ -
Creature Tech ★☆☆☆☆ -
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup ★★★☆☆ -
Talking with Tech Leads ★★★★☆ -
Tao Te Ching: A New English Version ★★★★★
2018
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Victory (Legacy Fleet Trilogy, #3) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Warrior (Legacy Fleet Trilogy, #2) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Constitution (Legacy Fleet Trilogy, #1) ★☆☆☆☆ -
The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor, #5) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Vicious Circle (Felix Castor, #2) ★☆☆☆☆ -
The Devil You Know (Felix Castor, #1) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Clean Architecture ★★★★★ -
Gilgamesh (Signed Limited Edition) ★★★★★ -
Listen to the Marriage ★★★★☆ -
Fear: Trump in the White House ★★☆☆☆ -
The Journey to the West, Volume 4 ★★★☆☆ -
The Journey to the West, Volume 3 ★★★☆☆ -
The Journey to the West, Volume 2 ★★★☆☆ -
The Journey to the West, Volume 1 (Journey to the West) ★★★☆☆ -
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong ★★★★★ -
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World ★★★★★ -
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission ★★★☆☆ -
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind ★★★★★ -
Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life ★★★☆☆ -
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark ★★★★★
2017
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Devil Said Bang (Sandman Slim, #4) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Aloha from Hell (Sandman Slim, #3) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Kill the Dead (Sandman Slim, #2) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Sandman Slim (Sandman Slim, #1) ★☆☆☆☆ -
My Gita ★★★☆☆ -
Order to Kill (Mitch Rapp, #15) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet ★★★★☆ -
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances ★★☆☆☆ -
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) ★★★★★ -
American Gods ★★★☆☆ -
Why Meditate: Working with Thoughts and Emotions ★★★★★ -
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism ★★☆☆☆ -
Uprooted ★★☆☆☆ -
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1) ★★★☆☆
2016
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Go in Action ★☆☆☆☆ -
Doctor Who: The Crawling Terror ★☆☆☆☆ -
The Martian ★★★☆☆ -
Frazzled: Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom (Frazzled, #1) ★☆☆☆☆ -
The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld ★★★☆☆ -
Way Station ★★★★★ -
Lord of Light ★★★☆☆ -
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1) ★★★☆☆ -
D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944 ★★★☆☆ -
Microservice Architecture Aligning Principles, Practices, and Culture ★★★★☆ -
Damned (Damned, #1) ★★★☆☆ -
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains ★★★★★ -
The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler ★★★☆☆
2015
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The Book Thief ★★★★★ -
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change ★★★★★ -
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban ★★★☆☆ -
Buddhism Plain and Simple: The Practice of Being Aware Right Now, Every Day ★★☆☆☆ -
Pashu: Animal Tales from Hindu Mythology ★★☆☆☆ -
Data Mining:: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) ★★★★★ -
Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever ★★☆☆☆ -
Nightmares! (Nightmares!, #1) ★★★☆☆ -
A Short Stay in Hell ★★★☆☆ -
Miramont's Ghost ★☆☆☆☆ -
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion ★★★☆☆ -
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth ★★★★★ -
A Dog's Purpose (A Dog's Purpose, #1) ★★☆☆☆
2014
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions ★★☆☆☆ -
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future ★★☆☆☆ -
Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul: Stories of Canine Companionship, Comedy and Courage (Chicken Soup for the Soul) ★★☆☆☆ -
The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country ★☆☆☆☆ -
The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists ★☆☆☆☆ -
The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes ★★☆☆☆ -
On Talking Terms with Dogs: Calming Signals ★★★☆☆ -
The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House ★★★☆☆ -
The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter than You Think ★★★☆☆ -
The Atlantis World (The Origin Mystery, #3) ★☆☆☆☆ -
The Atlantis Plague (The Origin Mystery, #2) ★☆☆☆☆ -
The Atlantis Gene (The Origin Mystery, #1) ★☆☆☆☆ -
The Lost Starship (Lost Starship, #1) ★★★☆☆ -
Animal Farm ★★★★★ -
The Giver (Giver, #1) ★★★★☆ -
Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished, The Story of Ravana and His People ★★★★☆ -
Myth=Mithya ★★☆☆☆ -
The Maze Runner Series (The Maze Runner, #0.4-3) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata ★★★★★ -
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch ★★★☆☆ -
Brave New World ★★★☆☆ -
1984 ★★★☆☆ -
The Fault in Our Stars ★☆☆☆☆ -
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal ★★★☆☆ -
Forever Odd (Odd Thomas, #2) ★☆☆☆☆ -
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ★★☆☆☆ -
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! ★★★☆☆ -
MetaGame ★★★★☆ -
Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana ★★★★☆ -
Ride Your Way Lean: The Ultimate Plan for Burning Fat and Getting Fit on a Bike ★★★★☆ -
The Graveyard Book ★★★☆☆ -
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century ★★☆☆☆ -
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes ★☆☆☆☆ -
Where Have All the Leaders Gone? ★★☆☆☆ -
The Algorithm Design Manual ★★★★☆ -
Introduction to Algorithms ★★★★☆ -
Effective Java : Programming Language Guide ★★★★☆ -
Programming Pearls ★★★☆☆ -
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series) ★★★☆☆ -
The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development (Pragmatic Life) ★★☆☆☆ -
Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices ★★★☆☆ -
Java Concurrency in Practice ★★★☆☆ -
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction ★★★☆☆ -
Practices of an Agile Developer (Pragmatic Bookshelf) ★★☆☆☆ -
Head First Design Patterns ★★★☆☆ -
Agile Software Development ★★☆☆☆ -
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1) ★★★★★ -
The Soul of a New Machine ★★★★☆ -
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1) ★★★☆☆ -
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering ★★★★★ -
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams ★★★★★ -
Next: The Future Just Happened ★★☆☆☆ -
Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, #1) ★★★☆☆ -
Dune (Dune, #1) ★★★★★
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