Bookshelf

Books I have read (or attempted) over time. Ratings run from S to C, and everything else is tracked as in progress or unrated.

Legend

  • S = Strongly recommended
  • A = Recommended
  • B = Recommended with reservations
  • C = Not recommended

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2026

Book Rating
Los Rostros de la Salsa by Leonardo Padura TBD
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown TBD
The Wager by David Grann TBD
The Staff Engineer's Path by Tanya Reilly TBD
The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier TBD

2025

Book Rating
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin S
A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett N/A
We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson A
Hyperion by Dan Simmons S
Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy A
Endurance by Alfred Lansing S
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes S
Source Code by Bill Gates A
Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri TBD
Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro S
Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro S
Eat & Run by Scott Jurek A
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami S
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson A

2024

Book Rating
A Mind at Play by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman A
1Q84 S
Von Neumann's Biography B
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby S
The Maniac A
100 Years of Solitude N/A
Slow Productivity by Cal Newport A
The Mind Gym N/A
Look Ahead by Cass Sunstein B
No Man is an Island B
Stalin: The Paradoxes of Power S
1984 by George Orwell S
The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley A
Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis A
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry A
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting S
The Unbearable Lightness of Being A
Make Something Wonderful by Steve Jobs N/A
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy S
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War S
Jiu-Jitsu University by Saulo Ribeiro A
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough A
A Collection of Essays by George Orwell A
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard N/A
The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition by Richard Rhodes N/A
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles N/A
The Man Who Quit Money by Mark Sundeen N/A
The NVIDIA Way by Tae Kim S
So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport S

2023

Book Rating
The Three Body Problem (Volumes 1-3) by Cixin Liu S
Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford A
Rethink your Position by Katy Bowman B
The Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseski A
An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson S
Edison by Edmund Morris A
Foundation by Isaac Asimov A
Unix: A History and Memoir by Brian Kernighan A
Die With Zero by Bill Perkins S
Writing an Interpreter in Go S
Writing a Compiler in Go S
Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho S
The Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis B
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach A
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs In Progress
Dune 1 & Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert S / A
Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky S
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson S
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse N/A
The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk A
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber B
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius S
The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to his Son A
The C Programming Language Vol. 2 by Kernighan and Ritchie S
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin A
Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish S
How to Know a Person by David Brooks A
Build the Life You Want by Arthur Brooks A