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- Paradise Lost
- The Divine Comedy
- The Aeneid
- Moby Dick
- Middlemarch
- Othello & at least the lesser Henriad
- Any of several Russian novels, of which I've read none (War and Peace, Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment probably being the biggest)
- Kafka's The Trial
- The Canterbury Tales (I've read Sir Gawain & The Green Knight but not this, WTF is wrong with me?)
- Don Quixote
The Body - Bill Bryson Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Rovelli, Carlo Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment - Robert Wright Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
Can highly recommend Thinking, Fast and Slow and Why Buddhism is True (listened to both as audio books). I have not read the others, but the 5+ books I read by Bill Bryson have been awesome, putting The Body on my year's list - thanks ;)
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You're not helping your recommendation by starting it with a condemnation. What makes you think I want to read this book at all? Or that I'm reading Nietzsche for practical ethical advice? I have no idea who would do such a thing.
Much of philosophy is concerned with "how are we to live"? I am consistently puzzled what people seek when they read Nietzsche, or what of value they take away from his writings.
And how does one decide that question? Presumably in response to a model of how the world is.
> I am consistently puzzled what people seek when they read Nietzsche, or what of value they take away from his writings.
I'm sorry that you aren't able to benefit from his writing.
- Infinite Jest (already started, will likely finish in early Jan. I love it so far.)
- Quantum Computing Since Democritus (started in November as my nonfiction read, but took a break; I think I want to finish IJ first. Scott is an excellent writer and I was really enjoying this)
- Building Microservices
- The Code Book
- How Cars Work (I want to turn the projection of a car in my brain from a black box to a gray box this year, and I don't mean by purchasing a Cybertruck)
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- The Personal MBA (for years I laughed off caring about the business of business and lived in my fantasy land of being satisfied with just the technical details and being focused on only implementing great software/learning how to do so. With a few years in the workforce under my belt, I realize that such an outlook was of great detriment to me. I'm open to other suggestions on similar "catch me up to speed on general business education" material)
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- Island (I have a copy of this but not Brave New World. Multiple friends of mine demand I try Huxley, so here we are.)
- The Annotated Turing
- How to Invent Everything
- Soonish (SMBC is a daily read for me and I'm excited to get to this.)
- How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems (ditto XKCD modulo release schedule)
- Basic Economics
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Seveneves
- The Prince
- Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball
- Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong
- Fahrenheit 451
Additionally, to tickle the part of my brain that fancies mathematics (one of my my majors in undergrad), I try to work through a chapter or two of Evan Chen's "An Infinitely Long Napkin" on a quarterly basis. If you don't mind a conversational tone to your math textbooks, I've found this to be an excellent resource for scraping the surface of a wide variety of topics and fields (including, well, topics like fields). I think I'll continue this habit.
* My Family and Other Animals (started, already really enjoying it)
* Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (started, enjoying it but moving slowly through it. It's very good, and the author is palpably excited about the subject, I just wouldn't call it a page turner)
Designing Data Intensive Applications.
Some books on leadership from the recent HN discussion, not decided which yet.
Death's End (book 3 of The Three Body Problem). The first two were really good.
The Algorithm Design Manual. Domain Driven Design.
Some chess books. Some general science and history. The yearly random self help book.
If I manage all that plus whatever I'll decide I want in the actual year, it will be a good year for reading, but maybe I need to have some more focus. We'll see.
Or something like this, because apparently there's a thing called emotional intelligence, the Doctor says that I have a severe lack of it...
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The first book is great but the sequels are awful. So yeah
I really enjoy expanded universes (I'll forgive a lot on the quality side in exchange for coloring in the world), and I also just couldn't get through the sequels.
I'm planning on going through the entire Harvard Classics. At 51 volumes, it works out pretty nicely to read one volume per week. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics
I'm going to suggest some alternate translations for some of these where it really matters. Virgil's Aeneid, the best I know if is CS Lewis's partial translation. I'm unaware of a complete translation that has any of the magic of the original. Dante's Divine Comedy, read the Clive James translation. This is the first one that captures some of the luminous quality of the Tuscan. Beowulf, get Seamus Heaney's translatio…
My top priority books: Software Requirements - Karl Wiegers Programming TypeScript - Boris Cherny Associate Cloud Engineer Study - Dan Sullivan Design Patterns - Gang of Four Refactoring - Kent Beck, Martin Fowler Programming Pearls - Jon Bentley Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture - Martin Fowler The Pragmatic Programmer - David Thomas, Andrew Hunt CSS: The Definitive Guide - Eric A. Meyer, Estelle Weyl…
Modern programming is heading in a different direction already so it'd be better to move forward without it.