Personal Reading List

This is a selection of books that I've read or am currently reading in 2023 (and 2024 now).

Read

I can proudly say that I've read these books cover to cover!

• The Pragmatic Programmer

• Clean Code

• Radical Candor

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications

• The Phoenix Project

• The Tech Resume Inside Out

• System Design Interview Vol. 1

• Pythonic Programming (Completed 2023/10/23)

• Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (Completed 2023/11/19)

• Clean Architecture (Completed 2023/12/??)

• The Soul of a New Machine (Completed 2024/01/19)

• Atomic Habits (Completed 2024/01/28)

• How to Take Smart Notes

• Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

• The Staff Engineer's Path

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

• The Official MTO Driver's Handbook

• The Alchemy of Happiness

• How to Win Friends and Influence People

Currently Reading

I'm actively reading the following books.

• Ulysses

• Domain-Driven Design

• Crucial Conversations

Paused

These are books that I started reading but didn't quite finish. I've gotten these to varying degrees of done (some of which I might have a single chapter or two remaining, while others I may have >50% the book remaining).

I plan on coming back to some of them, while others might be a bit too dry for my liking (cough Code Complete) or were only read for specific reference.

• Psychological Types

• A Philosophy of Software Design

• Getting Things Done

• Readings in Database Systems (and the associated papers)

• Head First Design Patterns (2nd Ed.)

• Seven Databases in Seven Weeks

• Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow

• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

• Test-Driven Development: By Example

• Code Complete

• Programming TypeScript

• Grokking the System Design Interview