A hugely incomplete list of the books I’ve read lately.

Reading

  • Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs (Ken Kocienda)

  • Mythos (Stephen Fry)

Read

  • BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making (Tony Fadell)

  • 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)

  • Kafka on the Shore (Murakami)

  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Murakami)