Book LogJump to section titled Book Log
Everything I've read, in rough chronological order. A personal record, not a recommendation list—though I'm happy to talk about any of these.
2025Jump to section titled 2025
- The Covenant of Water — Abraham Verghese (in progress)
- AI Engineering — Chip Huyen
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold — Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Seeing Like a State — James C. Scott
- The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Martin Kleppmann
- Small Things Like These — Claire Keegan
- Several Short Sentences About Writing — Verlyn Klinkenborg
2024Jump to section titled 2024
- Working in Public — Nadia Asparouhova
- A Swim in a Pond in the Rain — George Saunders
- The Manager's Path — Camille Fournier
- Pachinko — Min Jin Lee
- Staff Engineer — Will Larson
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering — Richard Hamming
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — Gabrielle Zevin
- Build — Tony Fadell
- An Immense World — Ed Yong
- Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
2023Jump to section titled 2023
- How to Do Nothing — Jenny Odell
- Klara and the Sun — Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Design of Everyday Things — Don Norman
- Piranesi — Susanna Clarke
- Why We Sleep — Matthew Walker
- Atomic Habits — James Clear
- A Gentleman in Moscow — Amor Towles
- Never Split the Difference — Chris Voss
- Deep Work — Cal Newport