My Reading Log
An attempt of keeping what I read and I’m reading in a simple way :)
Currently Reading
- “Database Internals: A Deep Dive Into How Distributed Data Systems Work” by Alex Petrov [P][TC]
- “Mercenary’s Star” by William H. Keith, Jr. [E][SF]
- “Cibola Burn” by James S. A. Corey [A][SF]
- “Java Memory Management” by Maaike van Putten, Seán Kennedy [E][TC]
- “Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code” by Martin Fowler [P][TC]
Read
(Roughly in reverse chronological order)
2024
- July
- “The Word for World Is Forest” by Ursula K. Le Guin [P][SF] - Recommended!
- June
- “Blockchain Radicals” by Joshua Dávila [A][TC] - Recommended!
- May
- “Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present” by Yanis Varoufakis [P][NF] - Okay
- “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space” by Carl Sagan [A][NF] - Recommended!
- “The Three-Body Problem” by Liu Cixin [E][SF] - Okay
- April
- “Abaddon’s Gate” by James S. A. Corey [E][SF] - Recommended!
- “The Science of Storytelling” by Will Storr [A][NF] - Okay
- “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” by Carl Sagan [A][NF] - Recommended!
- “Red Team Blues” by Cory Doctorow [E][OF] - Okay
- March
- “Aurora” by Kim Stanley Robinson [E][SF] - Recommended!
- “Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 166, March 2024” [E][SF] - Interesting
- “British Rail” by Christian Wolmar [P][NF] - Interesting
- “London’s Underground: The Story of the Tube” by Oliver Green [P][NF] - Interesting
- “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism” by Yanis Varoufakis [P][NF] - Interesting
- “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig [P][OF] - Okay
- February
- “Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games” by J. Robert Lennon, Carmen Maria Machado [P][NF] - Avoid :/
- “Doing Time” by Jodi Taylor [P][SF] - Okay
- “Caliban’s War” by James S. A. Corey [P][SF] - Recommended!
- January
- “The Revolutionary Ideas Of Karl Marx” by Alex Callinicos [P][NF] - Recommended!
- “All Systems Red” by Martha Wells [P][SF] - Okay
- “The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England” by Brandon Sanderson [P][SF] - Interesting
- “Leviathan Wakes” by James S. A. Corey [P][SF] - Recommended!
Stats for 2024 (so far):
- Total: 22
- Type: 13 [P]; 5 [E]; 4 [A]
- Category: 10 [SF]; 2 [OF]; 1 [TC]; 9 [NF]
Tags:
- Book Type:
- [P] - Physical / Paper
- [E] - E-Book / Virtual
- [A] - Audiobook
- Book Category:
- [SF] - Science-Fiction
- [OF] - Other Fiction
- [TC] - Tech-Related
- [NF] - Non-Fiction but not mainly Tech-related