Reading List
One of my goals in the fall of 2024 was to read/finish a book a week. One may ask why I began this endeavor.
Was it for self-growth? Partially.
Was it a sudden burst of passion? A little bit.
Or was it wrought by pure guilt? Spot on.
As I was doomscrolling, I ended up watching a Youtube video by Jared Henderson, a philosophy Youtuber. The video, titled Why Everyone Stopped Reading, brought up some damning arguments about the current state of reading. While I often read textbooks and nonfiction, I couldn't remember the last time that I set aside distraction-free time to solely absorb a good book. Thus, here I am, doing my part in rebuilding and maintaining my reading stamina. Specifically, I plan on expanding the types of books that I read. As I mentioned before, I typically read nonfiction and textbooks. However, it's been an embarrassingly long time since I last read fiction. I believe that fiction (at least good fiction) forces the reader to grapple with certain ideas and emotions which may not be easily conveyed through other mediums. Of course, I am casting an extremely wide-net when I say "I want to read more fiction". In general, my larger goal is to read books where the author is trying to transfer an experience to the reader rather than knowledge or information in a strict sense.
So that explains the start of my reading list. I still am thinking about what to do with this list but this is a concern for future me. Here is my list!
2025
- Learn Bash the Hard Way
- Author: Ian Miell
Tags: Computer-Science, Textbook
Date Started: 2025-01-09
Date Completed: 2025-01-13
Rating: 7
2024
- Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide
- Author: Samir Chopra
Tags: Nonfiction, Philosophy
Date Started: 2024-12-09
Date Completed: 2024-12-15
Rating: 10
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Author: Matthew Desmond
Tags: Nonfiction, Sociology
Date Started: 2024-11-26
Date Completed: 2024-11-30
Rating: 8
- Demon Copperhead
- Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Tags: Fiction
Date Started: 2024-11-19
Date Completed: 2024-11-21
Rating: 9
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
- Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Tags: Nonfiction, Journalism
Date Started: 2024-11-09
Date Completed: 2024-11-18
Rating: 7
- Bewilderment
- Author: Richard Powers
Tags: Fiction
Date Started: 2024-11-03
Date Completed: 2024-11-07
Rating: 8
- How to Read a Book
- Authors: Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doven
Tags: Nonfiction, Practical, Self-Help
Date Started: 2024-10-28
Date Completed: 2024-11-03
Rating: 7
In-Progress
- Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back
- Author: Elizabeth Anderson
Tags: Nonfiction, Philosophy
Date Started: 2024-12-15
- Crafting Interpreters
- Author: Robert Nystrom
Tags: Computer-Science, Textbook
Date Started: 2024-12-14
- The Gay Science
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Tags: Philosophy
Date Started: 2024-11-26
- Systems Performance
- Author: Brendan Gregg
Tags: Textbook, Computer-Science
Date Started: 2024-11-22
- Designing an Internet
- Author: David D. Clark
Tags: Computer-Science, Nonfiction
Date Started: 2024-11-22
- The Linux Programming Interface
- Author: Michael Kerrisk
Tags: Textbook, Computer-Science
Date Started: 2024-11-19
- Graph Theory
- Authors: J.a. Bondy, U.s.r. Murty
Tags: Textbook, Mathematics
Date Started: 2024-11-03
- Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
- Authors: John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson
Tags: Computer-Science, Textbook
Date Started: 2024-11-03
To-Read
- Introduction to the Thoery of Computation
- Author: Michael Sipser
Tags: Textbook, Statistics
- 2666
- Author: Roberto Bolano
Tags: Fiction
- America's Constitution
- Author: Akhil Reed Amar
Tags: Law, Nonfiction, History
- The Goldfinch
- Author: Donna Tartt
Tags: Fiction
- Daring Greatly
- Author: Brene Brown
Tags: Nonfiction, Self-Help
- Pachinko
- Author: Min Jin Lee
Tags: Fiction
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tags: Fiction
- University Physics with Modern Physics
- Author: Hugh D. Young
Tags: Textbook, Physics
- Theory of Point Estimation
- Authors: E.l. Lehmann, George Casella
Tags: Textbook, Statistics
- The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction
- Authors: Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman
Tags: Textbook, Statistics
- Crime and Punishment
- Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tags: Fiction