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2025

In Progress

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Fiction

The Odyssey
Invincible (comics)
★Mistborn: The Final Empire
Mort (Discworld)
Of Mice and Men
Nova
Seveneves

2024

Non-Fiction

Chip War
Hillbilly Elegy
Nonviolent Communication

Fiction

★Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
The Iliad

Short Stories

The Colour Out of Space
The Dunwich Horror
At the Mountains of Madness

2023

Fiction

★Unsong
Dhalgren

2022

Non-Fiction

The Manager's Path
Don't Make Me Think
The Making of a Manager
Managing Humans
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Good to Great
High-Output Management
Radical Candor
Secrets of Sand Hill Road
Disciplined Entrepreneurship
Deep Learning for Coders with fastai & PyTorch
System Design Interview
The Changing World Order
★The Power Broker
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
The Art of War
The Prince

Fiction

Kafka on the Shore
Flowers for Algernon
Exhalation
I, Robot
★Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
The Way of Kings
Ra
★There Is No Antimemetics Division
The Silmarillion

Short Stories

Story of Your Life

2021

Non-Fiction

The Selfish Gene
Atomic Habits
Guns, Germs, and Steel
How to Change Your Mind
The Man Who Solved the Market
The Everything Store
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
★Man's Search for Meaning
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
The 48 Laws of Power
Manufacturing Consent
The Pragmatic Programmer
An Elegant Puzzle
Dreyer's English
Billion Dollar Loser
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Nudge
No Rules Rules
★The Precipice
Against the Grain
Debt: The First 5000 Years
The Republic
Tao Te Ching
A People's History of the United States
The Beginning of Infinity
Leaders Eat Last

Fiction

Atlas Shrugged
American Gods
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Lord of the Flies
★Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion
★Too Like the Lightning
Seven Surrenders
The Will to Battle
The Three-Body Problem
The Master and Margarita
Crime and Punishment
Neuromancer
★Snow Crash
The Blade Itself
Anna Karenina
Perhaps the Stars

2020

Non-Fiction

The Elements of Style
Story
Lectures on Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Save the Cat!
2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love
Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
Republic Books 1-5
Between the World and Me
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Never Split the Difference
What Every Body Is Saying
The Art of Gathering
Zero to One
The Design of Everyday Things
The New Jim Crow
Range

Fiction

Screwtape Proposes a Toast
★Brave New World
The Name of the Wind
Dune
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Three Worlds Collide

2019

Non-Fiction

The Culture Code
Straight to Hell
The Black Swan
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
★Billion Dollar Whale
Meditations
The Type Astronaut's Guide to Shapeless
Scala with Cats
A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics
Economical Writing
Big Debt Crises

Fiction

Ready Player One
Circe

2018

Non-Fiction

Against the Gods
Thinking, Fast and Slow
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Code Girls
Lying
Sapiens
The Great CEO Within
The Innovator's Dilemma
Women & Power

2017

Non-Fiction

Think and Grow Rich
The Dictator's Handbook
Liar's Poker
The Last Lecture
American Sniper
Deep Work

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