What I'm Reading
Current Reading
- Writing an Interpreter in Go, by Thorsten Ball
- Distributed Services with Go, by Travis Jeffery
- Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track, by Will Larson
- Polysecure, by Jessica Fern
- The Táin, translated by Thomas Kinsella
2022
- Breasts and Eggs, by Mieko Kawakami
- Mehr ist Mehr, by Inna Barinberg
- The Twenty Days of Turin, by Giorgio De Maria
- Rubyfruit Jungle, by Rita Mae Brown
- Van Girls. Starke Frauen und ihr ungebundenes Leben im Campervan, by Mandy Raasch
- Da wird sich nie was ändern!, by Ulla Loge
2021
- The Word for World is Forest, by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Clojure for the Brave and True, by Daniel Higginbotham
- Handiwork, by Sara Baume
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, by John Carreyrou
- Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson
- Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape, by Manchán Magan
- In the Dream House, by Carmen Maria Machado
- Darryl, by Jackie Ess
- Detransition, Baby, by Torrey Peters
- We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir, by Samra Habib
- [incomplete] The Little Typer, by Daniel P. Friedman and David Thrane Christiansen
- Testo Junkie, by Paul B. Preciado
- To Mock a Mockingbird, by Raymond Smullyan
- Sister Outsider, by Audre Lorde
2020
- Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus, by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
- Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization, by Alexander R. Galloway
- Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, by Jeanette Winterson
- Sun and Steel, by Yukio Mishima
- The Mathematical Theory of Communication, by Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver
- Inferno: A Memoir: Catherine Cho
- Dear Data, by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec
- Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias, by Pragya Agarwal
- Don't Touch My Hair, by Emma Dabiri
- Superior: The Return of Race Science, by Angela Saini
- The Plague, by Albert Camus
- A Ghost in the Throat, by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
- Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, by Audre Lorde
- UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R Hein, Ben Whaley, Dan MacKin
- [incomplete] Writing an Interpreter in Go, by Thorsten Ball
2019
- Living With Plants: A Guide To Indoor Gardening, by Sophie Lee
- The Waves, by Virginia Woolf
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late, by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon
- Mr. Palomar, by Italo Calvino
- Lonesome Traveler, by Jack Kerouac
- Computer Science Distilled, by Wladston Ferreira Filho
- Built, by Roma Agrawal
- How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays, by Umberto Eco
- A Prehistory of the Cloud, by Tung-Hui Hu
- My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness, by Nagata Kabi
- Numbers in the Dark, by Italo Calvino
- Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age, by Michael Hiltzik
- Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, by Steven Johnson
- The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine, by Hannah Fry
- Transgender Warriors, by Leslie Feinberg
- Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems, by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, and Niall Richard Murphy
- Programming Rust, by Jim Blandy and Jason Orendorff
- [incomplete] The Nature of Code, by Daniel Shiffman
2018
- Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach, by James Kurose and Keith Ross
- Interzone, by William Burroughs
- The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories, by H.P. Lovecraft
- Understanding Computation, by Tom Stuart
- The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut
- Linux Kernel Development, by Robert Love
- The Diving Pool, by Yoko Ogawa
- The Complete Cosmicomics, by Italo Calvino
- Narcissus and Goldmund, by Hermann Hesse
- Under the Jaguar Sun, by Italo Calvino
- The Vegetarian, by Han Kang
- Designing Data Intensive Applications, by Martin Kleppmann
- My Inventions, by Nikola Tesla