Books I've Read

2025-12-18 Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food ★★★★★ 2025-12-15 Orbital ★★☆☆☆ 2025-12-15 A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form ★★★☆☆ 2025-12-04 The Island of Dr. Moreau ★★☆☆☆ 2025-11-23 Cold Enough for Snow ★★★☆☆ 2025-11-11 Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne ★★★★★ 2025-10-28 The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare ★★★★☆ 2025-10-13 Paradise Lost ★★★★★ 2025-10-11 Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1) ★★★★☆ 2025-07-14 Infinitely Full of Hope ★★☆☆☆ 2025-04-28 Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories ★★★★★ 2025-04-08 Sidereus Nuncius, or The Sidereal Messenger ★★★★★ 2025-03-27 Meditations on First Philosophy, with Selections from the Objections and Replies ★★★★★ 2025-03-20 On the Nature of Things (Focus Philosophical Library) ★★★★★ 2025-03-02 Ptolemy's Almagest ★★★★★ 2025-02-25 The Basic Works of Aristotle ★★☆☆☆ 2025-02-16 Plato: Meno (Focus Philosophical Library) ★★★★★ 2025-02-15 Oedipus the King ★★★★★ 2025-02-06 Parmenides of Elea: Fragments ★★★☆☆ 2025-01-19 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! ★★★★☆ 2024-11-16 Piranesi ★★★★★ 2024-11-12 We ★★★☆☆ 2024-11-12 The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer ★★★★☆ 2024-11-12 Singapore, Singapura: From Miracle to Complacency ★★★☆☆ 2024-11-12 Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation ★★★★★ 2024-11-10 Babel ★★★☆☆ 2024-10-08 The MANIAC ★★★☆☆ 2024-09-07 The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution ★★☆☆☆ 2024-08-20 Infinite Jest ★★★★★ 2024-02-24 Database Internals: A deep-dive into how distributed data systems work ★★★★☆ 2024-02-21 On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous ★★★☆☆ 2024-02-20 Watership Down ★★★★★ 2024-02-07 Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3) ★★★★☆ 2024-01-30 First Person Singular: Stories ★★☆☆☆ 2024-01-13 Death and the Penguin ★★★★★ 2024-01-02 Leonardo da Vinci ★★★★☆ 2023-12-06 The Iliad ★★★★★ 2023-11-22 Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing ★★★☆☆ 2023-11-15 How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library) ★★☆☆☆ 2023-11-09 The Design of Everyday Things ★★★★☆ 2023-09-13 The Left Hand of Darkness ★★★☆☆ 2023-09-12 Blood Meridian ★★★★☆ 2023-08-19 Dead Souls ★★★☆☆ 2023-08-19 A Philosophy of Software Design ★★★★☆ 2023-07-16 Crime and Punishment (Norton Library) ★★★★☆ 2023-06-30 The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering ★★★☆☆ 2023-06-10 Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life ★★★☆☆ 2023-06-07 Kotlin in Action ★★☆☆☆ 2023-05-27 Kafka on the Shore ★★★☆☆ 2023-05-20 In Praise of Shadows ★★★☆☆ 2023-05-19 Grass (Arbai, #1) ★★★★☆ 2023-05-10 How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built ★★★★☆ 2023-05-07 Foundation and Empire (The Foundation Trilogy #2) ★★☆☆☆ 2023-04-15 No Longer Human ★★☆☆☆ 2023-03-25 Lost Japan: Last Glimpse of Beautiful Japan ★★★★★ 2023-03-08 The Dispossessed ★★★★☆ 2023-03-03 The Dawn of Everything (International Edition) ★★★★★ 2023-02-18 Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt ★★★☆☆ 2023-01-24 Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise ★★★★★ 2023-01-24 Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots ★★☆☆☆ 2023-01-22 Rooftoppers ★★★★★ 2023-01-02 Foundation (Foundation, #1) ★★★★☆ 2023-01-01 The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure ★★★★★ 2022-11-13 Entangled Life ★★★★☆ 2022-10-31 Bewilderment ★★★☆☆ 2022-10-14 Snow Crash ★★★★☆ 2022-10-06 The Spirit Level: Why Equality Is Better For Everyone ★★☆☆☆ 2022-09-24 The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World ★★☆☆☆ 2022-09-18 Head First Kotlin: A Brain - Friendly Guide ★★★★☆ 2022-09-04 The Vegetarian ★★★★☆ 2022-09-04 Japan and the Shackles of the Past ★★★★☆ 2022-08-28 The Overstory ★★★★★ 2022-08-21 The Decagon House Murders (House Murders, #1) ★★★☆☆ 2022-08-13 The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2) ★★☆☆☆ 2022-08-04 Venice is a Fish: A Cultural Guide ★★★★★ 2022-07-31 System Design Interview – An insider's guide ★☆☆☆☆ 2022-07-13 Korea: The Impossible Country ★★★★☆ 2022-07-06 Tower ★★★★★ 2022-06-20 The Temple of the Golden Pavilion ★★★☆☆ 2022-06-03 Człowiek z Marsa ★★☆☆☆ 2022-05-20 An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management ★★★★☆ 2022-05-08 Dinosaurs: 10 Things You Should Know ★★★★☆ 2022-05-07 Cursed Bunny ★★★★★ 2022-04-17 Half of a Yellow Sun ★★★★☆ 2022-04-12 Programming Pearls ★★★☆☆ 2022-03-27 Klara and the Sun ★★★★☆ 2022-03-07 The Remains of the Day ★★☆☆☆ 2022-03-02 Learning GraphQL: Declarative Data Fetching for Modern Web Apps ★★★☆☆ 2022-02-21 The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery ★★★☆☆ 2022-01-23 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ★★★★★ 2022-01-22 The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) ★★★★★ 2022-01-22 Architecture Patterns with Python: Enabling Test-Driven Development, Domain-Driven Design, and Event-Driven Microservices ★★★★★ 2022-01-13 Everybody Lies: What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are ★★★☆☆ 2022-01-06 The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon ★★☆☆☆ 2021-12-26 When We Cease to Understand the World ★★★★★ 2021-12-24 The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream ★★★★☆ 2021-12-23 A Death in the Family (My Struggle #1) ★★★★☆ 2021-12-03 The Glass Bead Game ★★★★★ 2021-11-06 The Odyssey ★★★★★ 2021-10-18 The Age of the Infovore: Succeeding in the Information Economy ★★★☆☆ 2021-10-15 The Little Schemer ★★★★★ 2021-10-15 An Artist of the Floating World ★★★★★ 2021-10-09 Bismarck: The Man And The Statesman ★★★☆☆ 2021-09-27 The Naked Sun (Robot, #2) ★★★★☆ 2021-09-17 A Midsummer Night’s Dream ★★★★☆ 2021-09-13 Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life ★★★★☆ 2021-08-31 The Forager's Calendar: A Seasonal Guide to Nature’s Wild Harvests ★★★★★ 2021-08-30 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ★★★★★ 2021-08-12 Anarchy, State, and Utopia ★★★★★ 2021-07-24 Thus Spoke Zarathustra ★★★☆☆ 2021-07-15 Letters to a Young Poet ★★★★★ 2021-07-08 Justice as Fairness / Gerechtigkeit als Fairness. Englisch/Deutsch: [Great Papers Philosophie] – Rawls, John – zweisprachige Ausgabe – philosophische Bücher ... Universal-Bibliothek) (German Edition) ★★★☆☆ 2021-07-07 The Beats: A Very Short Introduction ★★★★☆ 2021-06-26 The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital Age ★★★☆☆ 2021-05-18 The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World ★★★★☆ 2021-05-02 Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals ★★★★☆ 2021-05-01 The Word for World Is Forest ★★★☆☆ 2021-04-18 Pygmalion ★★★★★ 2021-04-07 Designing Data-Intensive Applications ★★★★★ 2021-04-05 The Lying Life of Adults ★★★☆☆ 2021-03-14 Thinking, Fast and Slow ★★★★★ 2021-02-26 Frankenstein: The 1818 Text ★★★★★ 2021-02-17 Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1) ★★★☆☆ 2021-02-04 Dune (Dune, #1) ★★★☆☆ 2021-01-17 Gilead (Gilead, #1) ★★★★★ 2021-01-07 Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction ★★★☆☆ 2021-01-02 Cloud Atlas ★★☆☆☆ 2020-12-27 Waiting for an Angel ★★★★☆ 2020-12-17 The Master and Margarita ★★★★★ 2020-11-14 Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder ★★★★☆ 2020-10-13 The Little Prince ★★★★☆ 2020-10-13 Gulliver’s Travels ★★★★★ 2020-10-07 How to Win Friends & Influence People ★★★★☆ 2020-09-13 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable ★★★★★ 2020-08-24 Janesville: An American Story ★★★★☆ 2020-08-20 Down and Out in Paris and London ★★★☆☆ 2020-08-05 The Bell Jar ★★★★★ 2020-07-30 The Moth Presents: Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible ★★★★★ 2020-07-14 Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World ★★★★☆ 2020-07-07 Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance ★★★★☆ 2020-06-14 Brave New World ★★★★★ 2020-06-08 A Gentleman in Moscow ★★★★☆ 2020-05-17 Childhood’s End ★★★★☆ 2020-05-15 How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read ★★★☆☆ 2020-05-13 The Brothers Karamazov ★★★★★ 2020-05-01 A Clockwork Orange ★★★★★ 2020-03-17 The Castle ★★★☆☆ 2020-03-15 Web Scraping with Python: Collecting Data from the Modern Web ★★★★☆ 2020-02-25 Fear and Trembling ★★★☆☆ 2020-01-28 A Russian Journal ★★★★☆ 2020-01-04 A Short History of England ★★★☆☆ 2020-01-01 V for Vendetta ★★☆☆☆ 2019-12-16 Watchmen ★★★★★ 2019-11-03 The Magician of Lublin ★★★☆☆ 2019-11-02 Scala for the Impatient ★★★★★ 2019-10-31 The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) ★★★★☆ 2019-10-20 The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) ★★★★★ 2019-10-18 The Hobbit, or There and Back Again ★★★☆☆ 2019-10-13 The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) ★★★★★ 2019-09-08 Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People ★★★★★ 2019-07-20 The Dharma Bums ★★★☆☆ 2019-07-09 Python Data Science Handbook: Essential Tools for Working with Data ★★★★★ 2019-06-16 The Wayward Bus ★★★★★ 2019-06-05 Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend ★★☆☆☆ 2019-05-30 From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds ★★★☆☆ 2019-05-07 How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python ★★★★☆ 2019-03-27 Endgame ★★★★☆ 2019-03-04 Desolation Angels ★★★☆☆ 2019-02-02 The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2) ★★★☆☆ 2019-01-25 In Cold Blood ★★★★☆ 2019-01-18 Speak, Memory ★★★★★ 2019-01-07 The Cat's Table ★★★★★ 2019-01-02 What's Your Type?: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing ★★★★☆ 2019-01-01 Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World ★★☆☆☆ 2018-12-30 Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid ★★★★★ 2018-11-05 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream ★★★☆☆ 2018-10-25 Books v. Cigarettes ★★★★☆ 2018-10-18 Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World ★★★★☆ 2018-08-25 The Fall (Vintage International) ★★★★☆ 2018-08-16 American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries) ★★★☆☆ 2018-08-07 The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey ★★★☆☆ 2018-07-23 On the Road ★★★★★ 2018-07-14 Waiting for Godot ★★★★★ 2018-04-09 Siddhartha ★★★★★ 2018-03-31 The Complete Maus ★★★★★ 2018-03-05 How Not To Be a Boy ★★★★☆ 2017-12-17 Call Me by Your Name ★★★★☆ 2017-10-26 L'Étranger ★★★★★ 2017-09-24 Steppenwolf ★★★★☆ 2017-08-27 The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories ★★★★☆ 2017-08-23 The Great Gatsby ★★★★☆ 2017-08-20 Moby-Dick or, The Whale ★★★★★ 2017-07-17 Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly ★★★★☆ 2017-07-17 Candide ★★★★☆ 2017-05-13 Ostatnie życzenie ★★★☆☆ 2017-05-13 Death of a Salesman ★★★★☆ 2017-05-08 Daytripper ★★★★☆ 2017-05-04 Neverwhere (London Below, #1) ★★★★★ 2017-03-23 Reasons to Stay Alive ★★★★★ 2017-02-26 Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1) ★★☆☆☆ 2017-02-16 A Streetcar Named Desire ★★★★☆ 2017-01-29 The Sun Also Rises ★★★★☆ 2016-12-27 Heart of Darkness ★★★★☆ 2016-12-17 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1) ★★☆☆☆