Here's a list of books I've read. These days I rarely finish books that I'm not enjoying, so these are pretty representative of my reading taste. Book recommendations are, of course, always welcome :)
2024
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut
- Crypto Confidential by Nathaniel Eliason
- Don’t Just Roll the Dice by Neil Davidson
- Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra
- How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
- Table for Two by Amor Towles
- Unscripted - The Great Rat-Race Escape by MJ DeMarco
- Rejection Proof by Jia Jiang
- Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling
- Lyorn by Steven Brust
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
- Theft of Fire by Devon Eriksen
- Lost and Founder by Rand Fishkin
2023
- Wohpe by Salvatore Sanfilippo(translated by Bridget Pupillo)
- Against the Odds by James Dyson
- Creativity by John Cleese
- Barbie and Ruth by Robin Gerber
- Tsalmoth by Steven Brust
- Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyien
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Nutshell by Ian McEwan
2022
- Losing the signal by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff
- Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- Built to fail by Alan Payne
- The Hot Hand by Ben Cohen
- Someday is today by Matthew Dicks
- Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy
- The Prestige by Christopher Priest
- Momente in München(Dino Lernt Deutsch, #4) by André Klein
- Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur Clarke
- Permutation City by Greg Egan
- 1984 by George Orwell
2021
- Octopus by Guy Lawson
- Anathem by Neal Stephenson
- The Baron of Magister Valley by Steven Brust
- Sethra Lavode by Steven Brust
- The Lord of Castle Black by Steven Brust
- The Paths of the Dead by Steven Brust
- Five Hundred Years After by Steven Brust
- The Phoenix Guards by Steven Brust
- Ferien in Frankfurt(Dino Lernt Deutsch, #2) by André Klein
- Café in Berlin(Dino Lernt Deutsch, #1) by André Klein
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Abaddon's Gate(The Expanse #2) by James S. A. Corey
- Caliban's War(The Expanse #2) by James S. A. Corey
- Leviathan Wakes(The Expanse #1) by James S. A. Corey
- Diaspora by Greg Egan
2020
- Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
- Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks
- The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova
- Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks
- Julian by Gore Vidal
- The Wandering Earth by Liu Cixin
- Vallista by Steven Brust
- Hawk by Steven Brust
- Tiassa by Steven Brust
- Iorich by Steven Brust
- Jhegaala by Steven Brust
- Deep Work(Audiobook) by Cal Newport
- The Idea Factory: Learning to think at MIT by Pepper White
- The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
- The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
- Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
- Range by David Epstein
- Ultralearning by Scott Young
- The Start-Up of You by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha
2019
- Dzur by Steven Brust
- Issola by Steven Brust
- Dragon by Steven Brust
- Orca by Steven Brust
- Exhalation by Ted Chiang
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook by Benjamin Tan Wei Hao
- Athyra by Steven Brust
- Phoenix by Steven Brust
- Backstabbing for Beginners by Michael Soussan
- Peak by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
- Taltos by Steven Brust
- The Defining Decade by Meg Jay
- Teckla by Steven Brust
- A Mind For Numbers by Barbara Oakley
- Yendi by Steven Brust
- Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon
- Jhereg(Vlad Taltos, #1) by Steven Brust
- Learning to Climb Indoors by Eric Horst
- Messy: How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy Minded World by
Tim Harford
2018
- Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
- The Push by Tommy Caldwell
- Alone on the Wall by Alex Honnold and David Roberts
- Death's End by Liu Cixin
- The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
- Blood, Sweat and Pixels by Jason Schreier
- Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
- Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
- One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way by Robert Maurer
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez
- Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan
- Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
2017
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan
- Justice by Michael Sandel
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
- Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
- Vortex by Robert Charles Wilson
- Axis by Robert Charles Wilson
- Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
- Overcomplicated by Samuel Arbesman
- The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead by Charles Murray
- The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- Calculated Bets by Steven Skiena
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King
- Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
2016
- Mastery by George Leonard
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
- Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
- Creation by Gore Vidal
- Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
- World War Z by Max Brooks
- Applied Economics(Audiobook) by Thomas Sowell; read by
Brian Emerson - Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
- No Imperfections Noted, Vol. 1 by Casey Muratori
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
- Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick and William Simon
- Bringing Down The House by Ben Mezrich
- The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll
- Cumulus by Eliot Peper
- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
- On Writing Well by William Zinsser
- Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
- The Making of Prince of Persia by Jordan Mechner
- The Making of Karateka by Jordan Mechner
2015
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- Flatland by Edwin Abbott
- The Code Book by Simon Singh
- The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner
- On Writing by Stephen King
- Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in
the Digital Age by Stephen Levy - The Martian by Andy Weir
- Skunk Works by Ben Rich & Leo Janos
- Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by
Ashlee Vance - The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of
Silicon Valley by Leslie Berlin - Dealers of Lightning by Michael Hiltzik
- Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
- Make it Stick by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark
A. McDaniel
2014
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
- Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- The Dilbert Future by Scott Adams
- In the Plex by Stephen Levy
- Masters of Doom by David Kushner
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Coders at Work by Peter Siebel
- Hackers by Stephen Levy
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Reamde by Neal Stephenson
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Freakonomics by Steven Lewitt and Steven Dubner
- SuperFreakonomics by Steven Lewitt and Stephen Dubner
- The Subtle Knife by Philip Pulman
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pulman
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2003-2013 (not in order)
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
- Sphere by Michael Crichton
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
- The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis
- The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
- Learn to Earn by Peter Lynch
- The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum
- The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- The Google Story by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed
- Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham
- The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
- The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
- Deception Point by Dan Brown
- Journey to the Self by Luna Shrestha Thakur
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT by Chetan Bhagat
- 2 States: The Story of My Marriage by Chetan Bhagat
- The 3 Mistakes of My Life by Chetan Bhagat
- In The Mind of the Machine by Kevin Warwick
- Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch
- Congo by Michael Crichton
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- Palpasa Cafe by Narayan Wagle
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Business of Dying by Simon Kernick
- The Testament by John Grisham
- The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick
- Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition by Chetan Bhagat
- The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
- Veronica Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
- 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
- The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
- The Eleventh Commandment by Jeffrey Archer
- Honour Among Thieves by Jeffrey Archer
- Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
- Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
- Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
- Eldest by Christopher Paolini
- Eragon by Christopher Paolini
- Arresting God in Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay
- The Royal Ghosts by Samrat Upadhyay
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
- Have a Little Faith: The Story of a Last Request by Mitch Albom
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- For One More Day by Mitch Albom
- A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays by Stephen Hawking
- The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
- George's Secret Key to the Universe by Stephen Hawking and Lucy Hawking
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- Firestarter by Stephen King
- Riding the Bullet by Stephen King
- UR by Stephen King
- Carrie by Stephen King
- iWoz by Steve Wozniak
CS and programming books
- Algorithms by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne
- Operating System Design: The Xinu Approach(Second Edition) by
Douglas Comer - Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces by Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau - Compiler Construction by Niklaus Wirth
- Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective by Randal E. Bryant
and David R. O'Hallaron
Comic books/Graphic novels
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
- Open Borders by Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith
- Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan and
Cliff Chiang - Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
- Planetary by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday
- Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon
- Y: The Last Man by Brian Vaughan and Pia Guerro
- Habibi by Craig Thompson
- Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
- Batman: Year One by Frank Miller
- Blankets by Craig Thompson
- Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi