Books
I enjoy reading books; to learn, to escape, to be entertained.
This page lists books I've read, am currently reading, and plan to read.
Each post contains a short summary of my thoughts, takeways, and favorite quotes from the book.
Spoilers are kept to a minimum and marked with a warning.
In Progress
- You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favorite Song by Glenn McDonald
- A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Inside the Aquarium: Making of a Top Soviet Spy by Viktor Suvorov
Completed
07/07/2024 - The Body by Hanif Kureishi
03/07/2024 - Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
05/06/2024 - How to Create a Mind by Ray Kurzweil
05/06/2024 - Version Zero by David Yoon
30/05/2024 - The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu
09/05/2024 - Exhalation by Ted Chiang
15/04/2024 - Clean Code by Robert C. Martin
23/03/2024 - Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu
08/03/2024 - Death's End by Cixin Liu
20/02/2024 - The Overstory by Richard Powers
17/01/2024 - The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
10/01/2024 - Every Tool's a Hammer by Adam Savage
06/01/2024 - Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
31/12/2023 - If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura
23/11/2023 - Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
26/07/2023 - The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
17/07/2023 - 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
13/06/2023 - Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation by Nick
Seaver
30/05/2023 - Feline Philosophy by John Gray
18/05/2023 - Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
09/04/2023 - The Book of Joy by Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Carlton Adams
01/03/2023 - Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley
Future
Open to recommendations!
Shelved
To open and read another day...
- The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi