My Library

Essentially my goodreads account in summary. A list of most of the books that I have read, chunked by year, scored by how glad I am to have read them. Does not include articles, blog posts, podcasts, or other media.

The rating describes how glad I am to have read the book on a scale of 0 to 3, which isn't reflective of any particular metric like enjoyment or gained knowledge, but rather a mix of many. It could well be that I enjoyed a book, but didn't gain much from it in retrospect, and gave it a lower rating.

I'm always up for exchanging recommendations!

2024

• Justice by Michael J. Sandel tbd
• Rebuilding Milo by Aaron Horschig 2/3
• Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick 1/3
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 3/3
• Unsong by Scott Alexander 3/3
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz tbd

2023

• Qualityland by Marc-Uwe Kling 1/3
• Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman 2/3
• The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami 2/3
• The Sequences by Eliezer Yudkowsky 3/3
• The Mother of Learning by Domagoj Kurmaic dropped
• Significant Digits by Alexander Davis 3/3
• Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach 2/3
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Eliezer Yudkowsky 4/3
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 2/3

2022

• What We Owe The Future by William Macaskill 2/3
• How To Love by Thich Nhat Hanh 3/3
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 3/3
• Friends by Robin Dunbar 1/3
• The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan 3/3
• Caffeine by Michael Pollan 2/3
• The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan 1/3
• Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 2/3
• Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson 2/3
• The Happiness of Pursuit by Chris Guillebeau 2/3
• How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan 1/3
• In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan 2/3
• The Neverending Story by Michael Ende 1/3
• Doing Good Better by William MacAskill tbd
• Failure to Disrupt by Justin Reich dropped
• The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi 0/3

2021

• How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie 0/3
• 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Elio Weinberger 2/3
• The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman 1/3
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari 2/3
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie 2/3
• All About Love by Bell Hooks 2/3
• The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 3/3
• Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman 3/3
• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang 1/3
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python at docs.python-guide.org 1/3
• Python Tricks by Dan Bader 1/3
• Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein 1/3
• Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker 0/3 (please read this note)
• Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita dropped
• Educated by Tara Westover 2/3
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2/3
• Grit by Angela Duckworth 1/3
• Into the Wild by John Krakauer 3/3
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 3/3

2020

• Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari 3/3
• Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows 0/3
• The Art of Happiness by Howard C. Cutler 1/3
• Whirlwind by James Clavell (dropped)
• Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas 3/3
• Atomic Habits by James Clear 1/3
• The Effective Engineer by Edmond Lau 0/3
• Dark Age by Pierce Brown 2/3
• The Pragmatic Programmer by Thomas Hunt 2/3
• King Rat by James Clavell 3/3
• Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss 3/3
• Noble House by James Clavell 3/3
• Gai Jin by James Clavell 2/3
• Tai Pan by James Clavell 3/3
• Shogun by James Clavell 3/3
• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin 3/3

2019 and before

The remaining list is unordered and incomplete, as I do not remember well when I have read these books, and will omit many that I do not think noteworthy.

• The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin 3/3
• Siddharta by Herman Hesse 3/3
• Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell 3/3
• Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 2/3
• Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans 1/3
• Design Patterns by Erich Gamma et al. 1/3
• Clean Architecture by Robert Martin 1/3
• Hacking by John Erickson 2/3
• Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris 0/3
• The Wise Mans Fear by Patrick Rothfuss 3/3
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss 3/3
• The hundred year old man ... by Jonas Jonasson 1/3
• Three Suns by Cixin Liu 2/3
• Iron Gold by Pierce Brown 2/3
• Morning Star by Pierce Brown 3/3
• Golden Son by Pierce Brown 3/3
• Red Rising by Pierce Brown 3/3
• Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey 2/3