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Legend

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

Want to read next

• Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
• Things Hidden Since The Foundations of the World by Rene Girard
• Hugo Chavez: Biography
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel
• Pachinko
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
• The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner

2024

1. A Mind At Play, Claude Shannon claude_shannon (A)
2. 1Q84 (S) 1q84
3. Von Neuman's Biography (B)
4. The Power Law, A Story of Venture Capital (S)
5. The Maniac (TBD)
6. 100 Years of Solitude (TBD)
7. Slow Productivity by Cal Newport (A)
8. The Mind Gym
9. Look Ahead by Cass Sunstein (B)
10. No Man is an Island (B+)
11. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Didn't finish)
12. Stalin: The Paradoxes of Power (S)
13. 1984 by George Orwell (S)
14. The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley (A)
15. Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire In Every Day Life by Luke Borges (A) mimesis
16. The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry (A)
17. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (S)
18. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (A)
19. Make Something Wonderful by Steve Jobs (TBD)
20. The Dead of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy (S)
21. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (S)
22. Jiu-Jitsu University, Saulo Ribeiro
23. Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt (A)
24. A Collection of Essays by George Orwell
25. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
26. The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition by Richard Rhodes

2023

1. The Three Body Problem (Volumes 1-3) by Cixin Liu (S)
2. Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford (A)
3. Rethink your Position by Katy Bowman (B)
4. The Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseski (A)
5. An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson (S)
6. Edison by Edmund Morris (A)
7. Foundation by Isaac Asimov (A)
8. Unix a History and Memoir by Brian Kernighan (A)
9. Die With Zero by Bill Perkins (S)
10. Writing an Interpreter in Go (S)
11. Writing a Compiler in Go (S)
12. Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho (S)
13. The Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis (B) data engineering
14. Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach (A) networks
15. Structure and Interpretations of Computer Programs (In progress) sicp
16. Dune 1 (S) & Dune Messiah (A)
17. Brothers Karamazov (TBD)
18. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (S)
19. Siddharta (TBD)
20. The Linux Programming Interface (A)
21. Bullshit Jobs (B)
22. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (S)
23. The 38 Letters from JD Rockerfeller to his son (A)
24. The C Programming Language Vol. 2 (S)
25. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin (TBD)
26. Flour Water Salt Yeast (S)
27. How to Know a Person by David Brooks (A)
28. Build the life you want by Arthur Brooks (A)