On the bookshelf

Reading List

A record of the books I've read, one year at a time.

These are the books I've finished. What isn't listed is my antilibrary: the books still waiting to be read.

On the go

Currently reading

Bootstrapping Computing by Alexander D. Obenauer
Started 4 Oct 2026

Finished 4 books

2026

Inference Engineering by Philip Kiely
16 May
Your (Un)Structured Life! by Swathi Kantharaja
10 May
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
22 Mar
Vibe Coding by Gene Kim, Steve Yegge
20 Mar

Finished 6 books

2025

Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles Munger
29 Nov
The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll
3 Oct
Apple in China by Patrick McGee
19 Sep
The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive by Patrick Lencioni
24 Aug
The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
9 May
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
5 Jan

Finished 6 books

2024

The Nvidia Way by Tae Kim
26 Dec
How Design Makes the World by Scott Berkun
20 Nov
Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
4 Nov
The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann
16 Sep
Chip War by Chris Miller
15 Apr
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
12 Feb

Finished 13 books

2023

The Rust Programming Language by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols
30 Dec
Playful Parenting by Lawrence J Cohen
26 Dec
The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
25 Dec
Spring Boot: Up and Running by Mark Heckler
16 Dec
Python Crash Course by Eric Matthes
11 Dec
Same as Ever by Morgan Housel
1 Dec
What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies by Tim Urban
19 Oct
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson
17 Sep
Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words by Steve Jobs Archive
11 Sep
Introducing EventStorming by Alberto Brandolini
10 Aug
Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life by Héctor García, Francesc Miralles
24 Jul
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlife by David Eagleman
10 May
The Motive by Patrick Lencioni
19 Jan

Finished 4 books

2022

Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte
30 Jul
Build by Tony Fadell
23 Jun
Seven Databases in Seven Weeks by Luc Perkins, Eric Redmond, Jim R. Wilson
12 Apr
The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo
26 Jan

Finished 12 books

2021

Play Nice But Win by Michael Dell
14 Nov
Millions Billions Zillions by Brian W. Kernighan
21 Oct
Ninety Percent of Everything by Rose George
27 Aug
The Choice by Edith Eger
5 Jun
Working Backwards by Colin Bryar, Bill Carr
1 May
Putting Stories to Work by Shawn Callahan
19 Apr
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
7 Apr
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
6 Apr
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
6 Apr
Supply Chain Management for Dummies by Daniel Stanton
4 Apr
Sketches from a Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev (translated by Richard Freeborn)
25 Feb
The Courage To Be Happy by Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
8 Jan

Finished 17 books

2020

The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
31 Dec
Effective Java (3rd Edition) by Joshua Bloch
25 Dec
The Great Mental Models (Volume 2) by Farnam Street
12 Dec
The Great Mental Models (Volume 1) by Farnam Street
1 Nov
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
25 Oct
The Photographer's Eye by Michael Freeman
12 Oct
Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson
25 Sep
Collins Complete Photography Course by John Garrett, Graeme Harris
24 Aug
Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers
11 Aug
Atomic Habits by James Clear
8 Aug
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaardner
15 Jun
The Elements of Style by William Strunk, E. B. White
26 Apr
Remote by David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried
10 Apr
Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss
25 Mar
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
14 Mar
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
6 Feb
Talking to My Daughter by Yanis Varoufakis
20 Jan

Finished 9 books

2019

The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
25 Nov
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
22 Oct
Talking with Tech Leads by Patrick Kua
15 Oct
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
6 Oct
How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong by James O'Brien
12 Aug
Kubernetes: Up & Running by Kelsey Hightower
31 May
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
23 Apr
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
17 Mar
Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull
17 Mar

Finished 9 books

2018

Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
15 Sep
The Cathedral & the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
31 Aug
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
21 Aug
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
31 Jul
Deep Work by Cal Newport
18 Jul
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
13 Jul
Factfulness by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling
31 May
Monday Morning Leadership by David Cottrell
2 May
Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3 Mar

Finished 9 books

2017

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
29 Dec
Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
26 Dec
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire – Book 1) by George R.R. Martin
30 Nov
A Line in The Sand by James Barr
30 Aug
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
24 Apr
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
23 Mar
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
12 Mar
Open by Andre Agassi
23 Feb
India: Brief History of a Civilization by Thomas R. Trautmann
15 Feb

Finished 2 books

2016

Quiet by Susan Cain
20 Sep
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
28 Feb