Things I've been reading
This page is a kind of digital bookshelf for myself, to remind myself at a glance of what I've been reading.
Subscriptions
This is a list of reading subscriptions I currently have, mostly email newsletters. I'm going through a gradual process of adding all of my subscriptions here.
- 1440 Daily Digest
- Aeon
- Book Freak
- Delancey Place
- Freek.dev
- Hacker News Digest
- Hacker Newsletter
- Inkstone
- James Clear 3-2-1
- Laravel News
- Marginal Revolution
- Monevator
- Morning Brew
- Mr Money Mustache
- Nautilus
- News Refinery
- NextDraft
- Ribbonfarm
- Sinocism
- Slate Star Codex
- The Economist
- The Week
- Tim Harford
- Typescript Weekly
- Unintended Consequences
Books
This is a list of some of the books I've read since I started trying to keep track of this.
2021
- Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
- Stubborn Attachments
2020
- Where's My Flying Car? (J Storrs Hall)
- The Great Successor (Anna Fifield)
- Atlas Shrugged
- Conversations with Friends
- Drink (Professor David Nutt)
- How Fascism Works
- If This is a Man · The Truce (Primo Levi)
- My Brilliant Friend
- One Hundreds Years of Solitude
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy
- The Paper Menagerie
- Upheaval
- Utopia for Realists
- 丰乳肥臀
2019
- Song of Solomon (Morrison, TOni)
- A Concise Guide to SSL/TLS for DevOps (Gilchrist, Alasdair)
- Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder (Taleb, Nassim Nicholas)
- Children of God
- Don Quixote (Cervantes (De), Miguel)
- Exploring CQRS and Event Sourcing (Dominguez; Melnik; Simonazzi; Subramanian; Betts; Young)
- History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos Book 1) (Simmons, Dan)
- Jane Eyre
- Origin Story: A Big History of Everything (Christian, David)
- Systemantics: The Systems Bible (Gall, John)
- The Confidence Game
- The Most Human Human
- The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World (Frankopan, Peter)
- The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Frankopan, Peter)
- The Three Body Problem
- Why We Sleep (Walker, Matthew)
2018
- Bloodchild (Butler, Octavia)
- Dawn (Butler, Octavia)
- Dune (Herbert, Frank)
- How to Destroy a Tech Startup (Krubner, Lawrence)
- Rationality: From AI to Zombies (Yudkowsky, Eliezer)
- The Big Short (Lewis, Michael)
- The Daily Stoic (Holiday, Ryan)
- The Gervais Principle (Rao, Venkatesh)
- The Heart to Start (Kadavy, David)
- The Inner Game of Tennis (Gailwey, Timothy)
- The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (le Carre, John)
- War is a Racket (Butler, Smedley)
2017
- Python Tricks
- Fluent Python
- Managing Humans (Michael Lopp)
- On the Trail of Genghis Kahn
- The Dispossessed (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- Doughnut Economics
- Superforecasting
- The Corrections (Franzen, Jonathan)
- The Every Computer Performance Book
- The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro, Kazuo)
- Station Eleven (Emily St John Mandel)
- Deep Survival (Gonzales, Laurence)
- Algorithms to Live By
- A History of Modern Britain
2016
- Trigger Warning
- The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood, Margaret Eleanor)
- Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro, Kazuo)
- Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein, Robert A.)
- 23 Things They Dont Tell You About Capitalism (Ha-Joon Chang)
- 59 Seconds (Richard Wiseman)
- A Bitter Revolution (Rana Mitter)
- Budding Prospects (T C Boyle)
- Fluent Forever (Wyner, Gabriel)
- Fooled by Randomness (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
- Haunted (Chuck Palahniuk)
- Look to Windward (Iain Banks)
- Survivor (Chuck Palahniuk)
- The Art of Thinking Clearly (Peter Ivy)
- The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
- The Colour of Magic (Terry Pratchett)
- The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K Leguin)
- The Light Fantastic (Pratchett, Terry)
- The Trial (Franz Kafka)
2015
- Alexs Adventures in Numberland (Alex Bellos)
- Bash Cookbook (Carl Albing)
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Malcolm Gladwell)
- Consider Phlebas (Iain Banks)
- David and Goliath (Malcolm Gladwell)
- Dead Air (Iain Banks)
- Distrust That Particular Flavour
- Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code (Jeff Atwood)
- Everything I Know (Paul Jarvis)
- Excession (Iain M Banks)
- Head First Design Patterns (Eric Freeman)
- High Performance MySql (Derek J. Balling)
- How to Stop Sucking and Be Awesome Instead (Jeff Atwood)
- Inviting Disaster (James R. Chiles)
- Learning PHP Design Patterns (William Sanders)
- Matter (Iain M Banks)
- Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
- Predictably Irrational (Dan Ariely)
- The Algebraist (Iain Banks)
- The Emperor Far Away (Valery Garret)
- The Establishment, and How They Get Away With It (Owen Jones)
- The Hydrogen Sonata (Iain Banks)
- The Player of Games (Iain Banks)
- The Pragmatic Programmer (Andrew Hunt)
- The State of the Art (Iain M Banks)
- The Undercover Economist (Tim Harford)
- The Way to Go (Ivo Balbaert)
- Thinking Statistically (Uri Bram)
- 三分鍾小說
- 遊戲玩家
- 駱駝祥子