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.
2026
- Win Every Argument by Mehdi Hasan
- The Staff Engineer’s Path by Tanya Reilly
- Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track by Will Larson
- Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin
- A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
- Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces by Remzi & Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau
- Hacker’s Delight by Henry Warren
- The Just City by Jo Walton
- Fundamental Chess Openings by Paul Van der Sterren
2025
- More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
- The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby
- The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
- From Mathematics to Generic Programming by Alexander Stepanov & Daniel Rose
- Systemantics: The Systems Bible by John Gall
- The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
- Lateral Thinking by Edward de Bono
- Programming in Scala by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners
- Polished Ruby Programming by Jeremy Evans
- Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro
2024
- Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) by Sebastian Raschka
- Why Machines Learn by Anil Ananthaswamy
- Rinsed: From Cartels to Crypto by Geoff White
- Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective by Randal Bryant & David O’Hallaron
- Kafka: The Definitive Guide by Neha Narkhede, Gwen Shapira & Todd Palino
- Stream Processing with Apache Flink by Fabian Hueske & Vasiliki Kalavri
- Go Systems Programming by Mihalis Tsoukalos
- Black Hat Go by Tom Steele, Chris Patten & Dan Kottmann
- The Power of Crisis by Ian Bremmer
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
2023
- The Silo Trilogy by Hugh Howey
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
- Factfulness by Hans Rosling
- Game Changer: AlphaZero’s Groundbreaking Chess Strategies by Matthew Sadler & Natasha Regan
- Brain Rules by John Medina
- Electric Circuits by James Nilsson & Susan Riedel
- The Hobbyist’s Guide to the RTL-SDR by Carl Laufer
- Up and Running with ClickHouse by Vijay Anand R
- Hands-On System Programming with Go by Alex Guerrieri
- Linux Containers and Virtualization by Shashank Mohan Jain
- How to Read a Book by Charles Van Doren & Mortimer Adler
- AWS for Solutions Architects by Alberto Artasanchez
- Programming TypeScript by Boris Cherny
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
