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books read in 2021
Updated 12/31/2021
Software Engineering
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_97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know_
_Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager_
_The Pragmatic Programmer_
_React Cookbook_
_Mastering Ethereum_
_Building RESTful Python Web Services_
_Python Crash Course_
_The Go Programming Language_
_System Design Interview_
_Exploring Raspberry Pi_
_High Performance Browser Networking_
_97 Things Every Programmer Should Know_
_The Complete Guide to Rails Performance_
_Growing Rails_
Fiction / Literature
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_Shakespeare's Montaigne_
_Personhood_ by Thalia Field
_In Memory of Memory_ by Maria Stepanova
_Locus Solus_ by Raymond Roussel
_The Unbearable Lightness of Being_ by Milan Kundera
_The Gentle Barbarian_ by Bohumil Hrabal
_Red Plenty_
_An Inventory of Losses_ by Judith Schalansky
_Dr. Sax_ By Jack Kerouac
_The Peregrine_ by J.A. Baker
Literary Criticism
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_Six Memos for the Next Millennium_ by Italo Calvino
_Novel Institutions_ by Mary Mullen
Philosophy/Religion
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_On Violence_ by Hannah Arendt
_The Way of Response_ by Martin Buber
_The Subversive Simone Weil_
_Stubborn Attachments_ by Tyler Cowen
_Waiting for God_ by Simone Weil
_The Gospels_ translated by Sarah Ruden
Drama
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_Cymbleine_
_Rossum's Universal Robots_
Poetry
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_Poems 1962-2012_ by Louise Gluck
Nonfiction
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_Tools of the Titans_ by Tim Ferris
_The Rise and Decline of Nations_ by Mancur Olson
_Empire of Silver_
_Radical Candor_
_Thinking in Bets_ by Annie Duke
_The Laws of Human Nature_
_How to DeFi_
_The 48 Laws of Power_
_A Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle Art of Go_ by Lusson/Perec/Roubaud
_Alien Listening_
_How to Decide_ by Annie Duke
_Miami_ by Jan Nijman
_The Echo of Greece_ by Edith Hamilton
_Miami: City of the Future_ by TD Allman
_Annals of Imperial Rome_ by Tacitus
_Unsettled_
_Staff Engineer_ by Will Larson
_Noise_ by Daniel Kahnemann et al
_The Greeks_ by HDF Kitto
_The Merchant of Prato_ by Iris Origo
_Monocle Guide to Miami_
_Toki Pona: The Language of Good_
_Miami_ by Joan Didion
_When Coffee and Kale Compete_
_Ask Outrageously_
_The Lost Art of Listening_
_The Product Book_
_Just Listen_
_Never Split the Difference_
_My Product Management Toolkit_
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