2023 reading

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Updated 1/6/2024

Business
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_The SaaS Playbook_ by Rob Walling
_Best Practices for Operational Excellence_
_Elon Musk_ by Walter Isaacson
_The Great Game of Business_
_The Oxford Introduction to U.S. Law: Contracts_
_50 Prosperity Classics_
_Buy Then Build_
_HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business_
_Becoming Trader Joe_

Engineering
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_To Engineer is Human_
_The Systems Bible_

Computer Science
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_Building Event-Driven Microservices_
_Building Micro-Frontends_
_Mastering API Architecture_
_The Software Architect Elevator_
_System Design Interview, volume 2_
_Patterns of Enterprise Software Development_
_Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques_
_Text Processing with Ruby_
_Racket Programming the Fun Way_
_Superintelligence_

Music
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_Breaking Times Arrow: Experiment and Expression in the Music of Charles Ives_ by Matthew McDonald
_Maestros and their Music_
_Speaking of the Piano_
_The Art of The Conductor: Solti_ by Paul Robinson
_A Composer's World_ by Paul Hindemith
_The Conductor's Art_ ed. by Carl Bamberger
_In Concert_ by Carl Vigeland
_Guide to Chamber Music_ by Melvin Berger
_Brahms: His Life and Work_ by Karl Geringer
_Essays Before a Sonata_ by Charles Ives
_Concerto Conversations_ by Joseph Kerman
_The History of Orchestration_ by Adam Carse
_Victor Borge's My Favorite Intermissions_
_Absolutely on Music_ by Haruki Murakami
_Brahms: The Four Symphonies_
_Herbert Von Karajan_ by Roger Vaughan
_The Education of a Concertgoer_
_The Art of Conducting_
_Beauty and Sadness: Mahler's 11 Symphonies_
_What to Listen for in Music_ by Aaron Copland

Nonfiction
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_1587: A Year of No Significance_
_China: Alive in the Bitter Sea_ by Fox Butterfield
_The Mountain is You_
_From Third World to First_ by Lee Kuan Yew
_Film Art: An Introduction_
_The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1_
_Clear Thinking_ by Shane Parrish
_The Soviet Century_
_A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf_ by John Muir

Philosophy et cetera
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_The Creative Act_ by Rick Rubin
_Ozu_ by Donald Richie
_The Demon of Progress in the Arts_ by Wyndham Lewis
_Volcanic Heaven: Essays on Wyndham Lewis_
_End Times_ by Peter Turchin
_Time and the Other_ by Levinas
_The Future of the Image_ by Jacques Ranciere
_The Lives and Legends of Jacques Lacan_ by Catherine Clement

Fiction
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_The Garden of Seven Twilights_
_The Invisibility Cloak_ by Ge Fei
_Notes from Underground_
_Balthazar_ by Lawrence Durrell
_Justine_ by Lawrence Durrell
_Slowness_ by Kundera
_Solenoid_

Some Great Courses
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_Mahler: His Life and Music_
_How to Listen to and Understand Great Music_
_The Art of Investing_
_Law School for Everyone: Corporate Law_
_Law School for Everyone: Litigation_
_Law School for Everyone: Criminal Law_
_Law School for Everyone: Civil Procedure_
_Law School for Everyone: Torts_
_Law School for Everyone: Constitutional Law_
_Law School for Everyone: Legislation and Regulation_