This is a list of books I've considered over time. Most I haven't finished, those I have, have a rating from C to S based on how much I enjoyed them.

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2025

Book	Rating
The Dispossesed 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

Book	Rating
A Mind At Play, Claude Shannon	A
1Q84	S
Von Neumann's Biography	B
The Power Law, A Story of Venture Capital	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

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 Interpretations 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
Siddharta 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