Introduction 🔗

The following is a list of books I have read and remembered to take note of.

Books are listed by the year in which I started reading them.

2025 🔗

Non-Fiction 🔗

• Why Nations Fail (Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson)
• Eight Dates (Gottman & Abrams)

Software 🔗

• Design Patterns (Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides)

2024 🔗

Fiction 🔗

• Fractal Noise (Christopher Paolini)
• Red Moon (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• Axiom’s End (Lindsay Ellis)
• Salvation (Peter Hamilton)
• Breaking Day (Adam Oyebanji)
• Machine Vendetta (Alastair Reynolds)
• Death’s End (Cixin Liu)

Non-Fiction 🔗

• Principles: Life and Work (Ray Dalio)
• Salt Fat Acid Heat (Samin Nosrat)
• The Daily Stoic (Ryan Holiday)
• Possible Minds (John Brockman)
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You (Cal Newport)
• Mating in Captivity (Esther Perel)
• The Bullet Journal Method (Ryder Carrol)
• Anxiously Attached (Jessica Baum)

Software 🔗

• Docker In Action (Jeff Nickoloff & Stephen Kuenzli)
• The Kubernetes Book (Nigel Poulton & Pushkar Joglekar)
• Learning SQL (Alan Beaulieu)
• Security+ Study Guide
• Go Web Programming (Sau Sheong Chang)

2023 🔗

Fiction 🔗

• The Dark Forest (Cixin Liu)
• Three Body Problem (Cixin Liu)
• 2312 (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• New York 2140 (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• Aurora (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• Braking Day (Adam Oyebanji)
• Ringworld’s Children (Larry Niven)
• The Ringworld Throne (Larry Niven)
• The Ringworld Engineers (Larry Niven)
• Ringworld (Larry Niven)
• Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir)
• Pushing Ice (Alastair Reynolds)
• Seveneves (Neal Stephenson)
• The End of All Things (John Scalzi)
• The Human Division (John Scalzi)
• Zoe’s Tale (John Scalzi)
• The Last Colony (John Scalzi)
• The Ghost Brigades (John Scalzi)
• Old Man’s War (John Scalzi)
• Bone Silence (Alastair Reynolds)
• Shadow Captain (Alastair Reynolds)
• Revenger (Alastair Reynolds)

Non-Fiction 🔗

• Work Clean (Dan Charnas)
• Learned Optimism (Martin Seligman)
• Mastering the Market Cycle (Howard Marks)
• Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari)

Software 🔗

• Network+ Study Guide
• Network Programming with Go (Adam Woodbeck)
• Powerful Comand-Line Applications in Go (Ricardo Gerardi)

2022 🔗

Fiction 🔗

• The galaxy, and the ground within (Becky Chambers)
• To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Christopher Paolini)
• Braking Day (Adam Oyebanji)
• Eversion (Alastair Reynolds)
• Gardens of the Moon (Steven Erikson)
• House of Suns (Alastair Reynolds)
• Century Rain (Alastair Reynolds)

Non-Fiction 🔗

• The Nanotech Pioneers (Steven Edwards)
• Super Forecasting (Philip Tetlock)
• How to not die alone (Logan Ury)
• The Body (Bill Bryson)

Software 🔗

• The Phoenix Project (Gene Kim)
• Staff Engineer (Will Larson)
• Cybersecurity (Harvard Business Review)

2021 🔗

Fiction 🔗

• Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir)
• Inhibitor Phase (Alastair Reynolds)
• Chasm City (Alastair Reynolds)
• Beyond the Aquila Rift (Alastair Reynolds)
• Elysium Fire (Alastair Reynolds)
• Aurora Rising (Alastair Reynolds)
• Pushing Ice (Alastair Reynolds)
• Absolution Gap (Alastair Reynolds)
• Redemption Ark (Alastair Reynolds)
• Children of Ruin (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
• Revelation Space (Alastair Reynolds)
• To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Becky Chambers)

Non-Fiction 🔗

• The Language Instinct (Steven Pinker)
• The Red Queen (Matt Ridley)
• The World Without Us (Alan Weissman)
• The Knowledge: How to rebuild civilization in the aftermath of a cataclysm (Lewis Dartnell)
• Loserthink (Scott Adams)
• Car Smarts (Mary Jackson)
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)

Software 🔗

• Threat Modeling (Adam Shostack)
• Artificial Intelligence (Harvard Business Review)

2020 🔗

Fiction 🔗

• The Ministry for the Future (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• REAMDE (Neal Stephenson)
• Record of a Spaceborn few (Becky Chambers)
• A Closed and Common Orbit (Becky Chambers)
• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Becky Chambers)
• The Enceladus Mission (Brandon Q. Morris)
• The Last Emperox (John Scalzi)
• The Consuming Fire (John Scalzi)
• The Collapsing Empire (John Scalzi)
• Redshirts (John Scalzi)
• Children of Time (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
• The End of All Things (John Scalzi)
• The Human Division (John Scalzi)
• Zoe’s Tale (John Scalzi)

Non-Fiction 🔗

• Limitless (Jim Kwik)
• Atomic Habits (James Clear)
• Enlightenment Now (Steven Pinker)
• Seasteading (Joe Quirk)

Software 🔗

• Linkers and Loaders (John R. Levine)
• Artificial Intelligence, A Guide for Thinking Humans (Melanie Mitchell)
• Real-World Bug Hunting (Peter Yaworski)
• Generating Natural Language Under Pragmatic Constraints (Eduard Hovy)
• The Secret Life of Programs (Jonathan Steinhart)

2019 🔗

Fiction 🔗

• 2312 (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• New York 2140 (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• The Farthest Shore (Ursula K. Le Guin)
• The Tombs of Atuan (Ursula K. Le Guin)
• A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula K. Le Guin)
• The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (Neal Stephenson)
• Snowcrash (Neal Stephenson)
• Aurora (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• The Last Colony (John Scalzi)
• The Ghost Brigades (John Scalzi)
• Old Man’s War (John Scalzi)
• All Systems Red (Martha Wells)
• Navigators of Dune (Herbert & Anderson)
• Mentats of Dune (Herbert & Anderson)
• Sisterhood of Dune (Herbert & Anderson)

Non-Fiction 🔗

• Englightenment Now (Steven Pinker)
• Math with Bad Drawings (Ben Orlin)
• The Penguin History of Canada (Robert Bothwell)
• The Personal MBA (Josh Kaufman)

Software 🔗

• The Shellcoder’s Handbook (Chris Ansley)
• The Go programming language (Donovan & Kernighan)
• The Car Hacker’s Handbook (Craig Smith)

2018 🔗

Fiction 🔗

• Seveneves (Neal Stephenson)
• Artemis (Andy Weir)
• Blue Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• Green Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• The Stars, Like Dust (Isaac Asimov)
• Pebble in the Sky (Isaac Asimov)
• The End of Eternity (Isaac Asimov)
• The Currents of Space (Isaac Asimov)
• Ready Player One (Ernst Kline)
• Dune: The Battle for Corrin (Herbert & Anderson)
• Dune: The Machine Crusade (Herbert & Anderson)
• Dune: The Butlerian Jihad (Herbert & Anderson)
• Sandworms of Dune (Herbert & Anderson)
• Hunters of Dune (Herbert & Anderson)

Non-Fiction 🔗

• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Neil DeGrase Tyson)
• Daemon Haunted World (Carl Sagan)
• How to talk to anyone (Leil Lowndes)
• A Brief History of Medicine (Paul Strathern)
• Drawing Physics (Don S. Lemons)
• The Organized Mind (Daniel Levett)

Software 🔗

• Cryptography Engineering (Bruce Schneier)
• Beautiful Security (Oram & Viega)
• Penetration Testing (Georgia Weidmann)

2017 🔗

Fiction 🔗

• Artemis (Andy Weir)
• Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson)
• Chapterhouse Dune (Frank Herbert)
• Heretics of Dune (Frank Herbert)
• God Emperor of Dune (Frank Herbert)
• Children of Dune (Frank Herbert)
• Dune Messiah (Frank Herbert)
• Dune (Frank Herbert)

Non-Fiction 🔗

• Naked Statistics (Charles Wheelan)
• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Betty Edwards)
• Saving Capitalism (Robert B. Reich)
• Stock Market Investing (Jason Kelly)
• On Intelligence (Jeff Hawkins)

Software 🔗

• Violent Python (TJ O’Connor)
• Code (Charles Petzold)
• The Go programming language (Donovan & Kernighan)
• Building Microservices (Sam Newman)
• Programming Robots with ROS (Quigley, Gerkey, Smart)

2016 🔗

Fiction 🔗

• The Currents of Space (Isaac Asimov)
• The End of Eternity (Isaac Asimov)
• Pebble in the Sky (Isaac Asimov)
• The Stars, Like Dust (Isaac Asimov)
• The Robots of Dawn (Isaac Asimov)
• The Naked Sun (Isaac Asimov)
• The Caves of Steel (Isaac Asimov)
• Forward the Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
• Prelude to Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
• Foundation and Earth (Isaac Asimov)
• Foundation’s Edge (Isaac Asimov)
• Second Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
• Foundation and Empire (Isaac Asimov)
• Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
• Seveneves (Neal Stephenson)
• The Martian (Andy Weir)
• Ready Player One (Ernst Kline)

Non-Fiction 🔗

• The Intelligent Investor (Benjamin Graham)
• Naked Economics (Charles Wheelan)
• Speech and Language Processing (Jurafsky & Martin)
• Bad Science (Ben Goldacre)
• The Half-Life of Facts (Samuel Arbesman)
• The Origins of Human Communication (Tomasello)

Software 🔗

• The Mythical Man-Month (Brooks)
• Peopleware (DeMarco & Lister)

Pre 2016 🔗

Fiction 🔗

• Ringworld’s Children (Larry Niven)
• The Ringworld Throne (Larry Niven)
• The Ringworld Engineers (Larry Niven)
• Ringworld (Larry Niven)
• Children of the Mind (Orson Scott Card)
• Xenocide (Orson Scott Card)
• Speaker for the Dead (Orson Scott Card)
• Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
• The Martians (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• Blue Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• Green Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)

Non-Fiction 🔗

• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Jared Diamond)
• The Ascent of Money (Niall Ferguson)
• Civilization (Niall Ferguson)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond)
• The Ascent of Man (Jacob Bronowski)

Software 🔗

• Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Russel & Norvig)
• The Society of Mind (Marvin Minsky)
• Artificial Intelligence (Michael Negnevitsky)
• An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms (Melanie Mitchell)
• Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Practice (Dean, Allen, Aloimonos)
• Applied Crypotography (Bruce Schneier)
• UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (Nemeth, Snyder, Hein, Whaley)
• Operating Systems: The MINIX book (Tanenbaum & Woodhull)
• Computer Networking (Kurose & Ross)
• Introduction to Algorithms (Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein)
• Design Patterns (Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides)
• The Pragmatic Programmer (Hunt & Thomas)
• Learning UML (Miles & Hamilton)
• Mastering Algorithms with C (Kyle Loudon)
• Programming Language Pragmatics (Michael Scott)
• Compilers (Ahi, Lam, Sethi, Ullman)
• Concepts in Programming Languages (John Mitchell)
• Accelerated C++ (Koenig & Moo)
• The C programming language (Kernighan & Ritchie)
• Core Animation (Bill Dudney)
• Core Data (Marcus Zarra)