Books

This year I’m trying to read more, and I’ll try to share what I get up to here. I’ll write about the books I’ve read in my spare time, and for university. So far, I’ve munched down 20 books, to my surprise. Reading has helped me significantly broaden my thinking, as well as offer a way to slow down life. I realised this when I started unexpectedly reading during the exam period.

Fiction

• The Midnight Library, M. Haig
• The Remains of the Day, K. Ishiguro
• Anxious People, F. Backman
• Before the Coffee Gets Cold, T. Kawaguchi
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, G. Zevin
• All The Light We Cannot See, A. Doerr
• Heaven, M. Kawakami
• The Alchemist, P. Coelho
• Klara and the Sun, K. Ishiguro
• Second Place, R. Cusk

Non-Fiction

• Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems, B. Beyer
• Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems, S. Newman
• The Phoenix Project
• Docker Deep Dive, N. Poulton
• Thinking Strategically, Dixit, K. Avinash
• Tour of C++ : 3rd Edition, B. Stroustrup (still reading)
• Modern Operating Systems, A. Tanenbaum (still reading)

Social Science and Philosophy

• The Life You Can Save, P. Singer
• Meditations, M. Aurelius (still reading)
• The Master and His Emissary, I. McGilchrist