A log of books that I've read and my (subjective) rating for each.
In progress
Empire of Silence
Christopher Ruocchio
In Progress
2025
AI Engineering
Chip Huyen
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Solaris
Stanisław Lem
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
The Devils
Joe Abercrombie
Artificial Intelligence
Melanie Mitchell
The Untethered Soul
Michael A. Singer
The Scaling Era
Dwarkesh Patel
The Mercy of Gods
James S.A. Corey
Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
Tim Alberta
Annihilation of Caste
B.R. Ambedkar
Understanding Power
Noam Chomsky
Blackshirts and Reds
Michael Parenti
Washington Bullets
Vijay Prashad
The Jakarta Method
Vincent Bevins
The Lessons of History
Will Durant, Ariel Durant
India After Ghandi
Ramachandra Guha
Challenger
Adam Higginbotham
Learning MySQL
Vinicius M Grippa, Sergey Kuzmichev
A Man on the Moon
Andrew Chaikin
2024
Rise and Kill First
Ronen Bergman
Poor Charlie's Almanac
Charlie Munger
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Geroge R.R. Martin
Under Saturn's Shadow
James Holis
Consider Phlebas
Iain M. Banks
Leisure: The Basis of Culture
Josef Piper
The Singularity is Nearer
Ray Kurzweil
The Dream Machine
M. Mitchell Waldrop
Stoner
John Williams
Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
Five Decembers
James Kestral
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami
Game Wizards
Jon Peterson
The Intellectual Life
Antonin Sertillanges
The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
An Economic History of the World since 1400
Donald J. Harold
Burning Chrome
William Gibson
How Buildings Learn
Stewart Brand
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
The Story of Human Language
John McWorther
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
Circe
Madeline Miller
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Same as Ever
Morgan Housel
Life 3.0
Max Tegmark
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
Frederick Douglas
Designing Machine Learning Systems
Chip Huyen
Blindsight
Peter Watts
The Age of Spiritual Machines
Ray Kurzweil
Material World
Ed Conway
The Fellowship of the Ring
J. R. R. Tolkien
All Systems Red
Martha Wells
2023
1984
George Orwell
The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien
An Introduction to Statistical Learning
Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jonathan Taylor
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
Tom Holland
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Light Bringer
Pierce Brown
Dark Age
Pierce Brown
Ship of Fools
Fintan O'Toole
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
The Minimalist Entrepreneur
Sahil Lavingia
The Elements of Computing Systems
Noam Nisan, Shimon Schoken
Iron Gold
Pierce Brown
Going Infinite
Michael Lewis
Number Go Up
Zeke Faux
The Tiger
John Vaillant
Morning Star
Pierce Brown
The Fifth Science
Exurb1a
Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare
Golden Son
Pierce Brown
The Art and Business of Online Writing
Nicolas Cole
The Charisma Myth
Olivia Fox Cabane
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
Red Rising
Pierce Brown
We Don't Know Ourselves
Fintan O'Toole
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Grokking Algorithms
Aditya Y. Bhargava
Chip War
Chris Miller
The Will of the Many
James Islington
Learning Go
Jon Bodner
Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
The Wisdom of Crowds
Joe Abercrombie
Atomic Habits
James Clear
The Pathless Path
Paul Millerd
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
The Trouble with Peace
Joe Abercrombie
The Price of Time
Edward Chancellor
The Assassination of Julius Caesar
Michael Parenti
Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
A Man for All Markets
Edward O. Thorp
The Persian Expedition
Xenophon
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
Storytelling with Data
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Peter Singer
Gates of Fire
Steven Pressfield
The Dispossed
Ursula K. Le Guin
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
A Little Hatred
Joe Abercrombie
The Making of the Modern Middle East
Jeremy Bowen
Deep Work
Cal Newport
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré
Out of the Ether
Matthew MacAdam Leising
2022
Daring Greatly
Brené Brown
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Troy
Stephen Fry
The Shortest History of Germany
James Hawes
The Bands of Mourning
Brandon Sanderson
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
The Gate To China
Michael Sheridan
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X, Alex Haley
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
Shadows of Self
Brandon Sanderson
The Alloy of Law
Brandon Sanderson
Burma '44
James Holland
Fundamentals of Data Engineering
Joe Reis, Matt Housley
Sidhartha
Hermann Hesse
The Power Law
Sebastian Mallaby
The Cruel Stars
John Birmingham
Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman
The Culture Code
Daniel Coyle
The Rape of Nanking
Iris Chang
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
The End of the World is Just the Beginning
Peter Zeihan
The Stand
Stephen King
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Build
Tony Fadell
The Making of a Manager
Julie Zhuo
Ghost Empire
Richard Fidler
The Avoidable War
Kevin Rudd
On the Good Life
Cicero
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine
Indelible City
Louisa Lim
Russia: The Wild East
Martin Sixsmith
Farenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
The Last Correspondent
Michael Smith
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
1984
George Orwell
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
The Cold Start Problem
Andrew Chen
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson
The Periodic Table
Primo Levi
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
The Almanac of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
The Mom Test
Rob Fitzpatrick
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
2021
The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
The Emperor of all Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Software Architect Elevator
Gregor Hohpe
The Dhando Investor
Mohnish Pabrai
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
A History of South Africa
Leonard Thompson
Utopia for Realists
Rutger Bregman
Barking up the Wrong Tree
Eric Barker
The Politics
Aristotle
Alex's Adventures in Numberland
Alex Belos
Empire of Pain
Patrick Radden Keefe
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
Jared Diamond
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Simon Sebag Montefiore
97 Things Every Data Engineer Should Know
Tobias Macey
Guns, Germs and Steel
Jared Diamond
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
Kaffir Boy
Mark Mathabane
Dear Reader
Michael Malice
Hands on Machine Learning
Aurelien Geron
Don't Sleep, there are Snakes
Daniel Everett
The Tartar Steppe
Dino Buzzati
A Spy Among Friends
Ben Macintyre
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Essentialism
Greg McKeown
The World for Sale
Javier Blas, Jack Farchy
The Shadow of the Gods
John Gwynne
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The History of Philosophy
A.C. Grayling
The Hollow Crown
Dan Jones
Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
Six Easy Pieces
Richard Feynman
The Gulag Archipeligo (abridged)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Double Helix
James Watson
Zero to One
Blake Masters, Peter Thiel
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
Bill Gates
The Bitcoin Standard
Saifedean Ammous
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Heroes
Stephen Fry
The Magic of thinking Big
David J. Schwartz
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Recursion
Blake Crouch
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
The Templars
Dan Jones
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Carl Jung
River Out of Eden
Richard Dawkins
2020
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Web Scalability for Startup Engineers
Artur Ejsmont
Believe Me
J. P. Delaney
Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Good Economics for Hard Times
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo
Endurance
Alfred Lansing
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
Fool Moon
Jim Butcher
Hitler
Ian Kershaw
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Zonal Marking
Michael Cox
A Burning
Meghan Majumdar
Boom Town
Sam Anderson
Storm Front
Jim Butcher
12 Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
Abaddons Gate
James S. A. Corey
The Happiness Trap
Russ Harris
Animal Liberation
Peter Singer
Helter Skelter
Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
The 5 Love Languages
Gary Chapman
Portugal: Conquerers..
Roger Crowley
Cosmos
Carl Sagan
The Autumn Republic
Brian McClellan
Principles
Ray Dalio
Mythos
Stephen Fry
The Crimson Campaign
Brian McClellan
The Big Short
Michael Lewis
The Mixer
Michael Cox
Promise of Blood
Brian McClellan
The Goal
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
The Republic
Plato
The Spy and the Traitor
Ben Macintyre
Annihilation
Jeff Vandermeer
Dune
Frank Herbert
The Pragmatic Programmer
Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas
Range
David Epstein
World War Z
Max Brooks
Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson
The Establishment
Owen Jones
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Sandworm
Andy Greenberg
Caliban's War (The Expanse, #2)
James S. A. Corey
All Hell Let Loose
Max Hastings
The Strange Death of Europe
Douglas Murray
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse #1)
James S. A. Corey
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
2019
Animal Farm
George Orwell
War Beneath the Sea
Peter Padfield
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon
Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides
The Phoenix Project
Gene Kim
The Curious Incident of the Dog..
Mark Haddon
Pinpoint
Greg Milner
Alexander of Macedon
Peter Green
The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
The Storm Before the Storm
Mike Duncan
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
The Accursed Tower
Roger Crowley
The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
The Dark Side of the Mind
Kerry Daynes
The Son
Phillip Meyer
The Choice
Edith Eva Eger
Dark Age
Pierce Brown
The New Tsar
Steven Lee Myers
Prisoners of Geography
Tim Marshall
Line in the Sand
James Barr
Lords of Finance
Liaqat Ahamed
The Age of Revolution
Eric Hobsbawn
Vietnam
Max Hastings
I am Pilgrim
Terry Hayes
The Untethered Soul
Michael Alan Singer
Mostly Harmless
Douglas Adams
American Kingpin
Nick Bilton
Down Under
Bill Bryson
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet
Kim Zetter
Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Clean Code
Bob Martin
So long.. and thanks for all the Fish
Douglas Adams
Iron Gold
Pierce Brown
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole
Allan Roper
Holy Sister
Mark Lawrence
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
Life, The Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at The End of The Universe
Douglas Adams
The Wheel of Osheim
Mark Lawrence
The Fall of the Ottomans
Eugene Rogan
The Crusades through Arab Eyes
Amin Maalouf
Sniper on the Eastern Front
Albrect Wacker
The Liar's Key
Mark Lawrence
This is going to Hurt
Adam Kay
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Fire and Fury
Michael Wolff
The Gallic Wars
Julius Caesar
Scar Tissue
Anthony Kiedis
Prince of Fools
Mark Lawrence