Reading List

This is just a list of books I’ve read (starting late 2016), for my own record.

• 2024
  • Energetic Diagnosis (Neil Nathan, MD)
  • Band of Brothers (Stephen E. Ambrose)
  • Dark Emu (Bruce Pascoe)
  • Essential Oils to Boost the Brain & Heal the Body (Jodi Cohen)
• 2023
  • Earthing (Clinton Ober, Stephen T. Sinatra, MD, Martin Zucker)
  • Yoga and the Quest for True Self (Stephen Cope)
  • Toxic (Neil Nathan, MD)
  • Smart Until it’s Dumb (Emmanuel Maggiori, Phd)
  • Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve (Stanley Rosenberg)
  • Enough (Jon Douglas)
  • The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel van der Kolk)
  • Brickman’s Book of Better Builds (Ryan McNaught)
  • When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (Gabor Maté)
  • A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula K. Le Guin)
  • Turtles All the Way Down - Vaccine Science and Myth (anonymous authors)
• 2022
  • A Life Less Stressed (Dr Ron Ehrlich)
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
  • SD Protocol (Dr Wayne Todd)
  • The Art of Rest (Claudia Hammond)
  • Street Coder (Sedat Kapanoğlu)
  • Purposeful Breathing (Dr Greg Smith)
  • Everything is Fucked (Mark Manson)
  • Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir)
  • The Doctors Who Give No Medicine (Dr Jeffrey Hannah DC)
  • Break the Mold (Dr Jill Crista)
  • Arcanum Unbounded (Brandon Sanderson)
  • Healthy Home, Healthy Family (Nicole Bijlsma)
• 2021
  • Your Brain is Always Listening (Daniel G. Amen)
  • Think Again (Adam Grant)
  • Fast This Way (Dave Asprey)
  • Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (James Nestor)
  • The Holistic Rx (Madiha Saeed MD)
  • The Mind Strength Method (Jodie Lowinger)
  • The Bands of Mourning (Brandon Sanderson)
  • Shadows of Self (Brandon Sanderson)
  • Expert F# (Don Syme, Adam Granicz, Antonio Cisternino)
  • Alloy of Law (Brandon Sanderson)
  • The Hero of Ages (Brandon Sanderson)
  • The Well of Ascension (Brandon Sanderson)
  • Fighting Fatigue (Sue Pemberton, Catherine Berry)
  • Traction (Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares)
  • The Final Empire (Brandon Sanderson)
• 2020
  • The Checklist Manifesto (Atul Gawande)
  • Tamed (Alice Roberts)
  • Work With Me (Simon Dowling)
  • The Happiness Advantage (Shawn Anchor)
  • How to Invent Everything (Ryan North)
  • OAuth 2 in Action (Justin Richer, Antonio Sanso)
  • It’s Not All About Me (Robert Dreeke)
  • The Stone Sky (N.K. Jemisin) [I abandoned this half-way through]
  • The Obelisk Gate (N.K. Jemisin)
  • The Fifth Season (N.K. Jemisin)
  • Difficult Conversations (Bruce Patton, Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen)
  • Hello World (Hannah Fry)
  • Oathbringer (Brandon Sanderson)
  • Domain Modeling Made Functional (Scott Wlaschin)
  • Get Programming with F# (Isaac Abraham)
  • All You Have to Do Is Ask: How to Master the Most Important Skill for Success (Wayne Baker)
• 2019
  • The Soul of a New Machine (Tracy Kidder)
  • Lost Connections - Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions (Johann Hari)
  • Domain-Drive Design Reference - Definitions and Pattern Summaries (Eric Evans)
  • A Plea for Lean Software (Charles Antony Richard Hoare)
  • The Emperor’s Old Clothes (Niklaus Wirth)
  • Domain-Driven Design - Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Eric Evans) [I skim-read the last couple of chapters]
  • Principles (Ray Dalio)
  • Essential Skills for Scale Modelers (Aaron Skinner)
  • Code (Charles Petzold)
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
  • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Jenny Odell)
  • The Noonday Demon (Andrew Solomon)
  • LaTeX: A Document Preparation System (Leslie Lamport)
  • The Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Solution (Jacob Teitelbaum M.D.)
  • At Home (Bill Bryson)
  • The Kubernetes Book (Nigel Poulton)
  • Docker Deep Dive (Nigel Poulton)
  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications (Martin Kleppmann)
  • Meet Your Bacteria (Nicola Temple, Catherine Whitlock)
  • Words of Radiance (Brandon Sanderson)
  • .NET Microservices: Architecture for Containerized .NET Applications (Cesar de la Torre, Bill Wagner, Mike Rousos)
  • The Tao of Microservices (Richard Rodger)
  • Programming Microsoft Azure Service Fabric (Haishi Bai)
  • The Way of Kings (Brandon Sanderson)
• 2018
  • The Martian (Andy Weir)
  • Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# - first, and half of second sections only (Robert C Martin, Micah Martin)
  • Shards of a Broken Crown (Raymond Feist)
  • Reactive Programming with RxJava (Tomasz Nurkiewicz & Ben Christensen)
  • Rage of a Demon King (Raymond Feist)
  • The Best Possible You (Hannah Richards)
  • Rise of a Merchant Prince (Raymond Feist)
  • Shadow of a Dark Queen (Raymond Feist)
  • Mistress of the Empire (Raymond Feist & Janny Wurts)
  • Doctor You (Jeremy Howick)
  • Cracking Mathematics (Colin Beveridge)
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck (Mark Manson)
  • LaTeX Cookbook (Stefan Kottwitz)
• 2017
  • The Fast Diet (Michael Mosley and Mimi Spencer)
  • Conferences for Introverts (Alan Mendelevich)
  • The Origin of (almost) Everything (Graham Lawton)
  • Hit Refresh (Satya Nadella)
  • Joy, Inc. (Richard Sheridan)
  • Pro .NET Performance (Dima Zurbalev, Ido Flatow, and Sasha Goldshtein)
  • Waking Up (Sam Harris)
  • The Imposter’s Handbook (Rob Conery)
  • A Whole New Mind (Daniel Pink)
  • Six Thinking Hats (Edward de Bono)
  • Gut (Giulia Enders)
  • Clean Code (Robert Martin)
  • Smart Couples Finish Rich (David Bach)
  • Servant of the Empire (Raymond Feist & Janny Wurts)
  • Daughter of the Empire (Raymond Feist & Janny Wurts)
  • The King’s Buccaneer (Raymond Feist)
  • Prince of the Blood (Raymond Feist)
• 2016
  • A Darkness at Sethanon (Raymond Feist)
  • Silverthorn (Raymond Feist)
  • Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy (Thomas Sowell)
  • Magician (Raymond Feist)
  • Learned Optimism (Martin Seligman)
  • Test Driven Development by Example (Kent Beck)