Vithun's Blog

I have listed the books I read below. What I haven't listed is my antilibrary.

Currently Reading

• How Design Makes the World by Scott Berkun started on November 05

Completed

2024

• Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
• The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann
• Chip War by Chris Miller
• Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

2023

• The Rust Programming Language by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols
• Playful Parenting by Lawrence J Cohen
• The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Spring Boot: Up and Running by Mark Heckler
• Python Crash Course by Eric Matthes
• Same as Ever by Morgan Housel
• What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies by Tim Urban
• The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson
• Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words by Steve Jobs Archive
• Introducing EventStorming by Alberto Brandolini
• Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life by Héctor García, Francesc Miralles
• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlife by David Eagleman
• The Motive by Patrick Lencioni

2022

• Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte
• Build by Tony Fadell
• Seven Databases in Seven Weeks by Luc Perkins, Eric Redmond, Jim R. Wilson
• The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo

2021

• Play Nice But Win by Michael Dell
• Millions Billions Zillions by Brian W. Kernighan
• Ninety Percent of Everything by Rose George
• The Choice by Edith Eger
• Working Backwards by Colin Bryar, Bill Carr
• Putting Stories to Work by Shawn Callahan
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
• The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• Supply Chain Management for Dummies by Daniel Stanton
• Sketches from a Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev (translated by Richard Freeborn)
• The Courage To Be Happy by Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga

2020

• The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
• Effective Java (3rd Edition) by Joshua Bloch
• The Great Mental Models (Volume 2) by Farnam Street
• The Great Mental Models (Volume 1) by Farnam Street
• The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
• The Photographer's Eye by Michael Freeman
• Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson
• Collins Complete Photography Course by John Garrett, Graeme Harris
• Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Sophie's World by Jostein Gaardner
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk, E. B. White
• Remote by David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried
• Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss
• Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
• Talking to My Daughter by Yanis Varoufakis

2019

• The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
• Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
• Talking with Tech Leads by Patrick Kua
• The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong by James O'Brien
• Kubernetes: Up & Running by Kelsey Hightower
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull

2018

• Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
• The Cathedral & the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
• Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Factfulness by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling
• Monday Morning Leadership by David Cottrell
• Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

2017

• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
• A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire – Book 1) by George R.R. Martin
• A Line in The Sand by James Barr
• Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
• Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• Open by Andre Agassi
• India: Brief History of a Civilization by Thomas R. Trautmann

2016

• Quiet by Susan Cain
• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg