Books & Reading

I read widely and slowly. Fiction for joy, non-fiction for understanding, and technical books for craft.

Currently Reading

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann

2025

Literary Fiction

• Galatea — Madeline Miller
• Pachinko — Min Jin Lee
• The Covenant of Water — Abraham Verghese
• Normal People — Sally Rooney
• Yellowface — R.F. Kuang
• Small Things Like These — Claire Keegan
• Shanghai Girls — Lisa See

Cozy & Feel-Good

• Before the Coffee Gets Cold — Toshikazu Kawaguchi
• What You Are Looking for Is in the Library — Michiko Aoyama
• The Restaurant of Lost Recipes — Hisashi Kashiwai
• Days at the Morisaki Bookshop — Satoshi Yagisawa
• The Spellshop — Sarah Beth Durst
• The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches — Sangu Mandanna

Fantasy & Sci-Fi

• American Gods — Neil Gaiman
• A Wrinkle in Time — Madeleine L'Engle
• The Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins

Mystery & Thriller

• The Thursday Murder Club — Richard Osman
• The Midnight Feast — Lucy Foley
• The Mystery Guest — Nita Prose

Self-Improvement & Creativity

• Atomic Habits — James Clear
• Blink — Malcolm Gladwell
• Where Good Ideas Come From — Steven Johnson
• The Creative Act: A Way of Being — Rick Rubin
• The Forty Rules of Love — Elif Shafak

Tech & Engineering

• AI Engineering — Chip Huyen — Thoughts
• Engineering for the Rest of Us — Sarah Drasner

Memoir & History

• Rental Person Who Does Nothing — Shoji Morimoto
• The Witches: Salem, 1692 — Stacy Schiff

How I Read

I keep a mix of physical books and ebooks. Physical for anything I want to linger with; ebooks for travel and convenience.

I don't have a Goodreads—this page is my reading log. Updated sporadically, which is fine. Books don't go anywhere.

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." — George R.R. Martin