Below is a list of books I’ve read or am currently reading. This is not an extensive list, but mostly includes books which I found quite interesting and would definitely recommend.
2023
- The Silo Trilogy by Hugh Howey
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil
2022
- Leviathan Falls by James A. Corey
- The Contrarian - Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s pursuit of power by Max Chafkin
- Writing a interpreter in Go by Thorsten Ball
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
2021
- The New Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
- Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
- Production Kubernetes by Josh Rosso
- Flash Crash by Liam Vaughn
- System Design Interview by Alex Xu
2020
- Whistleblower by Susan Fowler
- The Mastermind by Evan Ratliff
- Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter
- Bitwise by David Auberach
- The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim
- MetaProgramming in Ruby by Paolo Parrota
- Terraform up & Running by Yevgeniy Brikman
2019
- AI Super Powers. China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee
- Bad Blood - Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
- Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- Aurora Rising (Formerly The Prefect) by Alastair Reynolds
- The Everything Store - Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon by Brad Stone
- Only Human by Sylvain Neuval
- Tiamat’s Wrath by James A. Corey
- How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt
- We need to talk about Putin by Mark Galeotti
- Grit - Why passion and resilience are the secrets to success by Angela Duckworth
- Steal the Show by Michael Port
- The Manager Path by Camille Fournier
- The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
2018
- American Kingpin by Nick Bilton
- Adrift by Rob Boffard
- The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim
- Strange Dogs by James A. Corey
- Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuval
- Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuval
- Nexus by Ramez Naam
- Crux by Ramez Naam
- Apex by Ramez Naam
- Persepolis Rising by James A. Corey
