bookshelf

Actively Reading

• Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
• The Source of Self-Regard: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
• Writing for Software Developers by Philip Kiely
• How To Solve It by G. Polya

Below are the books I’ve read since ~January 2019. I read books before then, but I wasn’t as dilligent about tracking them. Thanks to Marielle Foster for showing me the way!

2020

YTD: 17

June 2020

• The Source by James Michener

May 2020

• Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
• Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr, Larry Page

April 2020

• Hawaii by James Michener
• Joel On Software by Joel Spolsky
• The Mythical Man Month by Frederick P. Brooks
• REAMDE by Neal Stephenson

March 2020

• The Imposter’s Handbook by Rob Conery
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister
• Clean Code by Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin

February 2020

• Heavy by Kiese Laymon
• Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Kesey

January 2020

• Silence Is The Key by Ryan Holiday
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Pevear and Volokhonsky translation)
• Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell

2019

Total: 35

December 2019

• The Joy of Living by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

November 2019

• Range by David Epstein
• Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason
• Shape Up by Ryan Singer
• How To Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

October 2019

• Letters from A Stoic by Seneca

September 2019

• Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Hays translation)
• The Manual by Epictetus (Torde translation)
• What Unites Us by Dan Rather
• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (Ursula K. Leguin translation)

August 2019

• Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
• Algebra of Happiness by Scott Galloway
• The Stone Sky by NK Jemisin

July 2019

• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (Charles Johnston translation)
• The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert Caro
• Upstream by Mary Oliver
• Dog Song by Mary Oliver

June 2019

• This America by Jill Lepore
• The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas
• Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke

May 2019

• Working by Robert Caro

April 2019

• The World As I See It by Albert Einstein

March 2019

• The Broken Kingdoms by NK Jemisin
• The Kingdom of Gods by NK Jemisin
• The Awakened Kingdom by NK Jemisin
• Consider The Lobster by David Foster Wallace
• This Is Water by David Foster Wallace

February 2019

• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
• The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin

January 2019

• Death’s End by Cixin Liu
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker