The bookshelf

Books I've read and liked

Rescued from an old reading list. Tilt your head.

Fiction

• Dune
• Blindsight Peter Watts
• Echopraxia Peter Watts
• The Player of Games Iain M. Banks
• Use of Weapons Iain M. Banks
• Consider Phlebas Iain M. Banks
• The Three-Body Problem Liu Cixin
• We Are Legion (We Are Bob) Dennis E. Taylor
• Seveneves Neal Stephenson
• Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson
• Neuromancer William Gibson
• Shōgun James Clavell
• East of Eden John Steinbeck
• Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
• Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut
• Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
• The Stand Stephen King
• Neverwhere Neil Gaiman
• The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
• Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer

History & Science

• A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson
• Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond
• Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari
• 1776 David McCullough
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Walter Isaacson
• Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Richard Feynman
• Taming the Sun Varun Sivaram
• Life 3.0 Max Tegmark

Data & Craft

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications Martin Kleppmann
• The Data Warehouse Toolkit Ralph Kimball
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Edward Tufte
• Everybody Lies Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
• Clean Code Robert C. Martin
• The Goal Eliyahu M. Goldratt
• Zero to One Peter Thiel
• Draft No. 4 John McPhee

Mind & Kitchen

• Meditations Marcus Aurelius
• Letters from a Stoic Seneca
• Man's Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl
• A Mind for Numbers Barbara Oakley
• The Art of Learning Josh Waitzkin
• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat Samin Nosrat