Books
161 books in my collection in 163 genres
2026
1 book completed • 512 pages
2025
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
Wyrd Sisters
Terry Pratchett
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
A Little Hatred
Joe Abercrombie
11.22.1963
Stephen King
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Thud!
Terry Pratchett
Our Man in Havana
Graham Greene
How the World Made the West
Josephine Quinn
Asterix 36: Asterix and the Missing Scroll
Jean-yves Ferri
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
Asterix 38: Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter
Jean-Yves Ferri
Asterix 35: Asterix and the Picts
Jean-Yves Ferri
We are Legion (We are Bob)
Dennis E. Taylor
The Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future
Mustafa Suleyman
15 books completed • 4,622 pages
2024
Hornblower and the Atropos
C. S. Forester
I Have the Streets: A Kutti Cricket Story
R. Ashwin, Siddharth Monga
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?
Stephen Wolfram
War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)
Leo Tolstoy
Red Country: A First Law Novel
Joe Abercrombie
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923
Caroline Finkel
Best Served Cold: A First Law Novel
Joe Abercrombie
6 books completed • 2,769 pages
2023
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
William Dalrymple
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking)
Christian Rudder
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
Maria Rosa Menocal
The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
6 books completed • 2,467 pages
2022
How the World Really Works
Vaclav Smil
India After Gandhi
Ramachandra Guha
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
Will Larson
How Minds Change
David McRaney
Leviathan Wakes
James S. A. Corey
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
How to take smart notes
Sönke Ahrens
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Anna Lembke
Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
Unknown
The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness
Andy Puddicombe
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Selected Stories of Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
The Leopard
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
6 books completed • 2,943 pages
2021
Elegant Puzzle
Will Larson
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
Richard Hamming
The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993
Jordan Mechner
Immune: A Journey Into the mysterious system that keeps you alive
Philipp Dettmer
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
Dune
Frank Herbert
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Shogun
James Clavell
Salt Houses
Hala Alyan
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Marc Levinson
A Perfect Spy
John le Carré
Hornblower and the Hotspur
C. S. Forester
Lieutenant Hornblower
C. S. Forester
Not Without My Daughter
Betty Mahmoody
The Heroes
Joe Abercrombie
Drive
Daniel Pink
Getting Things Done
David Allen
Masala Lab
Krish Ashok
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
On Writing Wel: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
William Zinsser
Prisoners of Geography
Tim Marshall
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
Titus Winters
Circe
Madeleine Miller
16 books completed • 7,025 pages
2020
Letters from an Astrophysicist
Neil deGrasse Tyson
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
David Attenborough
Royal Assassin
Robin Hobb
Assassin's Apprentice
Robin Hobb
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Military Blunders
Saul David
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Secret Commonwealth
Philip Pullman
Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems
Heather Adkins
The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical ways to implement SRE
Betsy Beyer
Deep Work
Cal Newport
The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications
Michal Zalewski
India in the Persianate Age
Richard M Eaton
Tiny Habits
BJ Fogg
7 books completed • 3,576 pages
2019
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
C. S. Forester
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Unix: A History and a Memoir
Brian Kernighan
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
A Legacy of Spies
John le Carré
Different Seasons
Stephen King
The Testaments
Margaret Atwood
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Ezra Vogel
Persepolis: The Story of an Iranian Childhood [Hardcover] Satrapi, Marjane
Marjane Satrapi
Nonviolent Communication
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Nonviolent Communication, 3rd Edition
Marshall B. Rosenberg
La Belle Sauvage
Philip Pullman
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Last Argument of Kings
Joe Abercrombie
Before They Are Hanged
Joe Abercrombie
The Blade Itself
Joe Abercrombie
The Sea, The Sea
Iris Murdoch
The Red Umbrella
Christina Gonzalez
Monkey
Wu Ch’êng-ên, Arthur Waley
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling
The Gulag Archipelago
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Wizard Of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Song of Achilles
Madeleine Miller
The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
24 books completed • 10,168 pages
2018
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
The Autumn of the Patriarch
Gabriel García Márquez
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
The English Constitution
Walter Bagehot
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
How not to be Wrong
Jordan Ellenberg
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Suketu Mehta
Smiley's People
John le Carré
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John le Carré
The Honourable Schoolboy
John le Carré
Debt: The First 5000 Years
David Graeber
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
The Stone Sky
N.K. Jemisin
Sandman
Neil Gaiman
The Obelisk Gate
N.K. Jemisin
12 books completed • 5,674 pages
2017
The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
5/3/1: Training System for Raw Strength
Jim Wendler
Born to Run
Christopher McDougall
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Philip K. Dick
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
Thomas Asbridge
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Beren and Lúthien
J.R.R. Tolkien
Six Easy Pieces
Richard Feynmann
The Campaigns of Napoleon
David G. Chandler
The Hero of Ages
Brandon Sanderson
The Well of Ascension
Brandon Sanderson
The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
15 books completed • 6,908 pages
2016
2015
Forever War: I Love You!, Be Mine, and True Love
Joe Haldeman
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
George R.R. Martin
The Practice of Programming
Brian Kernighan
The Rosie Effect: Don Tillman 2 (The Rosie Project Series)
Graeme Simsion
The Unix Programming Environment
Brian Kernighan
The Rosie Project: A Novel
Graeme Simsion
6 books completed • 1,983 pages
2014
STRUCTURE & INTERPRETATION OFCOMPU.PROG.2 EDN (PUL)
The Mit Press
The Slow Regard of Silent Things (Kingkiller Chronicle)
Patrick Rothfuss
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Rogues
George R.R. Martin
3 books completed • 1,219 pages
2011
1 book completed • 474 pages