My Reading List

Reading

  • The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture (Brian Dear)

To Read

  • Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Steven Levy)

Read

  • The Soul of a New Machine (Tracy Kidder)
  • Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed (Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos)
  • Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (Michael Hiltzik)
  • Category Theory in Context (Emily Riehl)
  • Seven Sketches in Compositionality (Brendan Fong, David Spivak)
  • The Book of Yokai (Michael Dylan Foster)
  • The Hidden Game of Baseball: A Revolutionary Approach to Baseball and Its Statistics (David Reuther, John Thorn, and Pete Palmer)
  • The Little MLer (Matthias Felleisen)
  • The Art of Logic (Eugenia Cheng)
  • Read Real Japanese Essays: Contemporary Writings by Popular Authors (Janet Ashby)
  • Read Real Japanese Fiction: Short Stories by Contemporary Writers (Michael Emmerich)
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
  • Fundamentals of Software Architecture (Mark Richards, Neal Ford)
  • Software Foundations
  • Category Theory: A Gentle Introduction (Peter Smith)
  • Type Theory and Functional Programming (Simon Thompson)
  • The Unconsoled (Kazuo Ishiguro)
  • How to Bake Pi (Eugenia Cheng)
  • Breaking into Japanese Literature: Seven Modern Classics in Parallel Text (Giles Murray)
  • The Book of General Ignorance (John Mitchinson, John Lloyd)
  • Whistlestop (John Dickerson)
  • Believer: My Forty Years in Politics (David Axelrod)
  • Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style (W. David Marx)
  • Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman)
  • Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Richard Feynman)
  • Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (Katie Hafner)
  • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Jon Gertner)
  • Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages (Federico Biancuzzi)
  • Land of Lisp (Conrad Barski)
  • American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
  • Coders at Work (Peter Seibel)
  • 1Q84 (Murakami) (Note: This is when I stopped reading Murakami)
  • Kafka on the Shore (Murakami)
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Murakami)