I love reading & listening to new books and making notes on things I've read and learned.

I keep Goodreads lists of books I am reading, want to read in future & ones I want to read next.

I also have bookshelves of books I liked & read.

Below are books I read (or listened) sorted by year I read them in. The books with links attached will lead to notes I made when reading the book. Books with 🌟 are my favorite.

2019

• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century 🌟

• Brief Answers to the Big Questions 🌟

• A Brief History of Time (Review)

2016

• Mind for Numbers 🌟 (Review) (Notes)

• Flowers for Algernon 🌟 (Review)

• Heart of a Dog 🌟 (Review)

• You Don't Know JS: Up & Going (Review)

2015

• Logical Reasoning: A First Course (Review)

• The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant

• The Little Prince 🌟 (Review)

• Understand - Ted Chiang 🌟

2014

• Roadside Picnic (Review)

• A Thousand Tiny Failures: Memoirs of a Pickup Artist (Review)

• The Last Question 🌟 (Review)

2013

• The Master and Margarita 🌟 (Review)

2012

• The Picture of Dorian Gray 🌟 (Review)

Unfinished

• ​Thinking fast and slow​

• ​Go in action​

• ​Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach​

• ​Programming in Haskell​

• ​Surely, you're joking Mr Feynman​

• ​Mindstorms​

• ​Rich dad poor dad​

• ​Elements of programming interviews​

• ​Crafting interpreters​

• ​Brave new world​

• ​Cracking the coding interview​

• ​Code: hidden language of software​

• ​Eloquent ruby​

• Confident ruby

• University physics with modern physics

• The Yellow Wallpaper

Interesting authors

• ​Douglas Adams​

• ​Ted Chiang​

• ​Alan Watts​

• ​Jorge Luis Borges​

• ​Nikolay Nekrasov​

• ​HP Lovecraft​

• ​Aleksandr Solzhenitisyn​

• ​David Sedaris​

• ​Jorge Luis Borges​

Recommendations

• ​Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects? (2020)​

• ​Gergely Orosz's reading list​

• ​Side Project books​

• ​Derek Sivers's books read​

• ​Rahim's books read​

• ​Books written in a style similar to SICP​

• ​HN recommends (2017)​

• ​Check these books - master switch is interesting​

• ​Most meaningful books I read in 2016​

• ​Most mentioned programming books on Reddit​

• ​Language-agnostic programming books​

• ​Some more recommends​

• ​Bret Victor’s favorite books​

• ​AI books​

• ​Lobsters - what are you reading (2018) (2020)

• ​Ask HN - what are you reading​

• ​Math books​

• ​History books​

• ​Good books for deep hacks​

• ​Some psychology books to read​

• ​Top programming books 2017​

• ​Many math books​

• ​Psychonaut books​

• ​Reading list​

• ​Pick three books you think every beginner to sci-fi should read, three for "veterans", and three for "experts".​

• ​Any book recommendations for building your own indie business?​

• ​Books read by Radek​

• ​Bookicious - Favorite books of various founders.

• ​How long to read?​

• ​Ask HN: Recommendations on books and documentaries on tech companies/people?​

• ​Ask HN: What's one book that changed your life? (2018)​

• ​Looking for a dark scifi novel​

• ​Three books every beginner to scifi should read​

• ​Good novels featuring mathematics and mathematical philosophy?​

• ​Math-related pleasure reading books?​

• ​Ask HN: Non-tech books that have helped you grow professionally?​

• ​Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise? (2018)​

• ​What’s the best book you read in 2018?​

• ​Some fiction books​

• ​Books I Recommend (2019)​

• ​Miikka Koskinen's reading list​

• ​My Favourite Book Recommendations by catonmat​

• ​Hacker News Books - Dozens of book recommendations delivered straight to your inbox.

• ​Ted Chiang's books + audiobooks​

• ​Some fiction audiobook recommendations​

• ​Alan Kay's Reading List​

• ​Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer? (2019)​

• ​Patrick Collison's bookshelf​

• ​Recommendations from an audiobook addict​

• ​HN: Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’ (2019)​

• ​Ray Dalio’s Recommended Books: His Reading List​

• ​Josh Wolfe's favorite books​

• ​What are the most indispensable books for indie hackers? (2019) (HN)

• ​Jared Palmer's favorite books​

• ​Nice CS books/papers​

• ​Programming books that aren't boring​

• ​Some Favorite Non-technical Books of Bjarne Stroustrup (HN)

• ​The 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years​

• ​Books Samrat Singh read​

• ​Lobsters: New books worth reading in 2019 ​

• ​Lobsters: Old books worth reading (2019)​

• ​Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?​

• ​Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019?​

• ​Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? (2019)​

• ​What and How I read in 2019 by Christopher Schroeder​

• ​Books read in 2019 by arshia​

• ​85 Best Business Books in 2020 for Entrepreneurs, Creatives & Professionals to Read (and Grow) (2020)​

• ​Naval’s Recommended Reading​

• ​Toby Shorin's Library​

• ​Books read by Mark McGranaghan​

• ​Books read by James Somers​

• ​Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read? (2020)​

• ​Which book did you enjoy the most in 2019? 📚​

• ​Favorite books that almost nobody else knows or talks about (2019)​

• ​Rational Fiction books​

• ​Top Fantasy Reads - Processed thousands of comments to determine top fantasy books the people of Reddit are reading. (HN)

• ​On the shoulders of the giants (2020) (HN)

• ​Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life? (2020)​

• ​Books That Every Programmer Should Read (2020) (Lobsters)

• ​Nice web books (2020)​

• ​Reading List of Ben Congdon​

• ​Rafaël Garcia-Suarez's books read​

• ​Books I recommend to my software engineering students (2020) (HN)

• ​Calvin French-Owen's bookshelf​

• ​Maksim Stepanenko's bookshelf​

• ​Austen Allred's reading list​

• ​107 books recommended by Patrick Collison​

• ​Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before? (2020)​

• ​Tom MacWright's reading list​

• ​Which books have you read at least 3 times? (2020)​

• ​Kevin Rooke books - Explore the books recommended by the world's top investors, entrepreneurs, and thinkers.

• ​Julian Weisser's books​

• ​AskReddit: What's your favourite book you've read and why? (2020)​

• ​Ask HN: Best books under 200 pages for developers (2020)​

• ​Reading of David Blue​

• ​Matthew Bunday's reading list​

• ​Luke Smith's personal library​

• ​Ask HN: Which books have you read more than once? (2020)​

• ​Ask HN: What, in your opinion, are the greatest and most useful textbooks? (2020)​

• ​Books I bought in 2019 but didn't read​

• ​Amber Wilson's book reviews​

• ​Michael Akilian's favorite books​

• ​Nick Cammarata's bookshelf​

• ​List of books on various topics​

• ​Bardia Pourvakil's favorite books​

• ​Juvoni Beckford's bookshelf​

• ​Nabeel Qureshi's favorite books​

• ​Sharif Shameem's Bookshelf​

• ​Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world? (2020)​

• ​Dan Romero's bookshelf​

• ​Devine's curated list of books​

• ​Books people (re)read (2020)​

• ​89 books Paul Graham recommended​

• ​Best-Books.dev - Best programming books, all in one place.

• ​Derek Sivers books read with notes​

• ​8 Science Fiction Books That Get Programming Right​

• ​Juanito Fatas Bookshelf​

• ​Library of Merveilles​

• ​Patricia Mou Bookshelf​

• ​Brutality of Life Reading List (HN)

• ​Some good books​

• ​Abhinav Sarkar's books read​

• ​Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy and Physics: A Topical Index (HN)

• ​The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time​

• ​Ian Vanagas's Reading List​

• ​Maker Reads (News)

• ​Essential Reading for Startup CTOs​

• ​Book Recommendations - Limitless Curiosity​

• ​Lex Fridman Library - Library of book recommendations of all guests of the Lex Fridman Podcast.

• ​NPR's Best Books (2020)

• ​Founder Library Bookshelf​

• ​Ask HN: Recommend books that give you insight into other professions (2020)​

• ​The Best Books of 2020​

• ​The Best Books of 2020 2​

• ​Great Books Program​

• ​A Map that Reflects the Territory - Essays by the LessWrong community.

• ​My Favorite Books 2020 (HN)

• ​2020 booklist​

• ​Lobsters: What books are you reading? (2021)​

• ​Best Books I read in 2020​

• ​The Greatest Books of All Time (HN)

• ​Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects? (2021)​

• ​My sci-fi novel recommendations (2021)​

• ​Most Recommended Books - Discover books recommended by the world's most influential people.

• ​Longest book you actually are delighted you read and think about very often?​

• ​Ask HN: What is a good fictional universe to get immersed in? (2021)​

• ​Unhinged Women Fiction // Book Recs (2021)​

• ​50 book recommendations (2021)​

• ​20 books to read in your 20s​

• ​In search of the new (2021)​

• ​Reddit's Favorite Books (HN)

• ​Books from which you forgot to take breaks (2021)​

• ​Sylvain Kerkour - Readings​

• ​If you could only ever read three books, again and again, what would they be? (2021)​

• ​The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Past Decade (2021) (HN)

• ​The Best Books for Software Engineers​

• ​Useful Spy Books (2021)​

• ​HackerNews Readings - 40,000 HackerNews book recommendations identified using NLP and deep learning. (HN)

Notes

• With Audible plans, you can do easy exchanges. Don’t love a book? Swap it for free, anytime.

• ​Kindle changed the way we read books and then… stopped there. I want social highlights, notes, flash cards, and fractal reading (each chapter summarized in 1 paragraph, expandable on several levels if you want to dig deeper)​

• ​Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.​

Links

• ​Awesome books​

• ​Free Programming Books (Code)

• ​Ask HN: How do you read programming books?​

• ​Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?​

• ​Thinking with Types LaTeX source - Original source material for Thinking with Types: Type-Level Programming in Haskell book.

• ​Scribd - Books, audiobooks, and more for a fixed fee / month.

• ​Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Sub-Genres​

• ​Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything? (2019)​

• ​Awesome Programming Books​

• ​Libby - Local library of thousands of ebooks and audiobooks.

• ​Why books don’t work (2019) (HN)

• ​BookBrowser - Easy-to-use tool to generate a web-based ePub and PDF ebook browser.

• ​Now, what do I read? - Enter your favorite book and get a list of suggested books to read.

• ​How I Read (2018)​

• ​The Most Abandoned Books on GoodReads (2019) (HN)

• ​What Should I Read Next?​

• ​Reedsy - Crafting beautiful books is at the heart of everything that Reedsy does.

• ​Ask HN: Are books worth it? (2020)​

• ​1,000 Free Audio Books​

• ​Read This Twice - Books worth reading twice.

• ​Holloway - Knowledge you can rely on. Modern book publisher.

• ​JSTOR Open Content Books (Search)

• ​Public Books Database​

• ​LibriVox - Free public domain audiobooks. (HN)

• ​Standard Ebooks (HN)

• ​SafariBooks - Download and generate EPUB of your favorite books from Safari Books Online library.

• ​Crafting "Crafting Interpreters" (2020) (HN)

• ​BookAuthority - Curates the books recommended by the world's most successful CEOs, business leaders and experts.

• ​Ask HN: How can I restore my concentration when reading? (2020)​

• ​Writing a Book with Pandoc, Make, and Vim (2020) (HN)

• ​Library JSON - A Proposal for a Decentralized Goodreads (2020)​

• ​Springer Link - Over 10 million scientific documents at your fingertips.

• ​Python script to download all Springer books​

• ​The Tools I Use To Write Books (2018)​

• ​KindleUnpack - Python based software to unpack Amazon / Kindlegen generated ebooks.

• ​How to write a programming book (2020) (HN)

• ​Most book clubs are doing it wrong (2017) (HN)

• ​Antilibrary - Space both for celebrating all sorts of amazing books, and exploring more broadly the idea of learning from the unknown.

• ​Hello, EPUB (2020) - Intro to the format.

• ​On Books - Collection of readings and notes on the past, present, and future of books.

• ​I won't buy ebooks anymore (2020) (HN) (Lobsters)

• ​ZLibrary - Electronic library. Download books free.

• ​Reading habits that changed my life (2020) (HN)

• ​LibraryThing - Catalog your books online.

• ​Bookshop - Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

• ​Kindle Highlights - Vercel/Next.js app to render my Kindle highlights.

• ​How I made $3,300 on a short niche philosophy book (2020) (HN)

• ​Collection of free books from Springer (HN)

• ​Project Gutenberg - Library of over 60,000 free eBooks.

• ​GutenSearch - Full text search Project Gutenberg (60m paragraphs) . (HN)

• ​Ask HN: How do you read long PDFs? (2020)​

• ​The Open Book Project - Open-source, DRM-free Kindle alternative. (HN)

• ​Ask HN: How do you take notes when reading a book? (2020)​

• ​Readwise - Makes it easy to revisit and learn from your ebook & article highlights. (GitHub)

• ​Penguin Random House - Committed to publishing great books, connecting readers and authors globally, and spreading the love of reading.

• ​Klutz Press: books built for learning stuff (HN)

• ​HN: There’s no replacement for the thrill of browsing in a bookstore (2020)​

• ​Lessons and Regrets from My $25000 Book Launch (2020)​

• ​Timeful Texts (2020) (Tweet)

• ​Future Text Publishing - Collection of dreams for how we want text to evolve as well as how we understand our current textual infrastructures, how we view the history of writing, and much more.

• ​Literature Map - Tourist Map of Literature.

• ​Making a modern ebook with Standard Ebooks​

• ​Readng - Global community of book lovers & readers. (Beta)

• ​GITenberg - Open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain. (HN)

• ​Highlights from books and articles​

• ​The Book is a Program - Practical exploration in dual-publishing websites and printed books, using Pollen, LaTeX, and the Racket programming language.

• ​Write a Micro-Textbook - Write a complete first draft of a micro-textbook on a subject of your choice.

• ​3D Book Image CSS Generator (Code)

• ​StoryGraph - Help you to surface the best books that fit your current mood.

• ​Great book covers​

• ​Gatsby Starter Book - Gatsby starter focused on simplicity to help you create books.

• ​How Chekhov invented the modern short story (2020) (HN)

• ​I Want to Fix Goodreads (2020) (HN)

• ​DeDRM tools for ebooks - Remove DRM from ebooks.

• ​Writing a book: is it worth it? (2020) (HN)

• ​Searchable Library of book summaries​

• ​The Book Trail - Match your next read to your destination with The Literary Travel Agency.

• ​Chareads (YouTube)

• ​IntechOpen - Publisher of Open Access books. By scientists, for scientists.

• ​Open Textbook Library​

• ​How I Made $30,000 on My First Self-Published Book (2020)​

• ​Readium - Easier way to track reading habits.

• ​Write Useful Books - Guide containing everything I know about how to design, test, and refine nonfiction books.

• ​Inventaire - Collaborative resource mapper powered by open-knowledge, starting with books. (Code)

• ​Five Books - Best Books Recommended by Leading Experts.

• ​3D Book Cover - Create your 3D Book Cover, and embed it on your website. (HN)

• ​Pollen - Book-publishing system written in Racket. (Docs)

• ​How I read (2020)​

• ​ibis - PHP tool that helps you write eBooks in markdown and convert to PDF.

• ​Writing a technical book: from idea to print (2020) (HN)

• ​Bit Better Book Club​

• ​No Starch Press - Publishing company, specializing in technical literature often geared towards the geek, hacker, and DIY subcultures.

• ​Fable - Social reading club app.

• ​How I read books: a guide on how to learn (2020) (HN)

• ​Guide to Effective Reading (HN)

• ​Nat Eliason's Roam books notes​

• ​Ask HN: How do you decide what books to read? (2020)​

• ​BookDark - Read over 56000 Free Books Online.

• ​Books Search with Typesense - Instantly search 28M books from OpenLibrary (by Internet Archive). (HN) (Code)

• ​A Book Like Foo - Powerful Book Recommendations. (HN)

• ​Open Library - Open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. (Code) (Open Library Data Dumps)

• ​Packt - Programming Books, eBooks & Videos for Developers. (GitHub)

• ​Paged.js - Open-source library to display paginated content in the browser and to generate print books using web technology.

• ​Verso Books - Largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.

• ​BookWyrm - Federated GoodReads Replacement. (Code) (Article) (HN)

• ​The Most Popular College Books (HN)

• ​Downpour - DRM Free Audiobooks. (HN)

• ​Free Science Books​

• ​Free Ebook Foundation - Making the world safe for free ebooks. (GitHub)

• ​Approaching (Almost) Any Machine Learning Problem (2020) (Article) (Code)

• ​ePubViewer - ePub viewer with dictionary, themes, search, offline support, and more. (Code)

• ​Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction (HN)

• ​Old Book Illustrations​

• ​Shortform - World's Best Book Summaries.

• ​Book Marks Reviews - Book review aggregator.

• ​Literary Hub - Daily literary website highlighting the best in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and criticism.

• ​The new reading stack (2020) (HN)

• ​Goodreads Scraper - Python scripts can be used to collect book reviews and metadata from Goodreads.

• ​Reading Techniques​

• ​Bookfeed.io - RSS Feed with New Releases from Your Favorite Authors.

• ​50 Great Classic Novels Under 200 Pages (2021)​

• ​Literary Hub - Daily literary website.

• ​The Art of Reading More Effectively and Efficiently (HN)

• ​Find Books - Generate search query links for books across a range of websites.

• ​worldmiao.two - Book search engine.

• ​How I self-published a professional paperback and eBook using LaTeX and Pandoc​

• ​Zeneca - Share and discuss your favorite books. (HN)

• ​Plex & Booksonic Audiobook Guide - Walkthrough for optimal Audiobook experience using Plex.

• ​Ask HN: Do you read books regularly? Fiction or nonfiction? (2021)​

• ​The Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M. Banks (HN)

• ​Storytel - Audiobooks in your iPhone or Android mobile.

• ​What Goodreads could have been (2021)​

• ​Copybooks - Books recommended by real people, not Amazon's robots. (Code)

• ​Pictures, Engravings and Extracts From Old Books​

• ​Why has no one made a better Goodreads (2021) (HN)

• ​How to Write a Technical Book (2021) (HN) (Lobsters)

• ​Shepherd - Discover The Best Books To Read. (HN)

• ​Ask HN: How do you become an active reader and deep thinker? (2021)​

• ​Goodreads Datasets (Code) (Reddit)

• ​Little Free Library (HN)

• ​Ask HN: How can I read faster? (2021)​

• ​Writing books is not really a good idea (2021) (HN)

• ​Writing a Programming Book in 2021 (HN)

• ​Librimood - Find books based on your mood.

• ​Suggest Me A Book Reddit​

• ​Writing a Technical Book (2021)​

• ​Unbuch - Compile markdown into an HTML and PDF book based on Pandoc.

• ​So You Want to Write a Book​

• ​How to Write a Programming Book (2021) (HN)

• ​Setanta Books - Rare and Collectable Photography and Books.

• ​IndieBound.org - Find your local indie bookstore.

• ​Oku - The companion app for your book shelf.

• ​A Book Apart - Brief books for people who design, write, and code.

• ​Aleator Press - Computer-Generated Literature.

• ​640 Pages in 15 Months (2021) (Lobsters)

• ​So you want to self-publish books and courses on programming (2021)​

• ​Writing an iOS book: tools/process used (2021)​

• ​The 4 Reading Levels: Different Ways To Read Different Books (2018)​

• ​Apress - Book publisher. (GitHub)

• ​ЛитРес - Библиотека электронных книг – скачивай, читай и слушай. (GitHub)

• ​How to Remember What You Read (2021) (HN)

• ​How manager's handbook was written incorporating feedback using Notion/GoogleDoc (2021)​

• ​Gnooks - Discover new Books.

• ​Literature Map - The Tourist Map of Literature.

• ​Ruby for ebook publishing (2021)​

• ​Summarizing Books with Human Feedback (HN)