Books I read in 2019
This year I read 40 books, surpassing my goal of 30 (see my year in books on Goodreads). I’m pleasantly surprised at how much reading it’s possible to get in, just by reading when commuting and in various idle windows during the afternoon. Last year I read 5k pages over 16 books, whereas this year I read 12k. Below is a list of the books I read. Those in bold are especially recommended, either because they were particularly enjoying or interesting.
- Show Stopper by G. Pascal Zachary
- Stubborn Attachments by Tyler Cowen
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
- The Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen
- We Are The Nerds by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
- High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
- Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
- AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee
- How Asia Works by Joe Studwell
- Jeg vil dø - et essay om dødsønske og dødshjelp, mennesket og dets samfunn by Andreas and Randi Espegren Masvie
- The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
- In the Beginning…Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson
- Working by Robert A. Caro
- Big Business by Tyler Cowen
- Japan: The Story of a Nation by Edwin Reischauer
- 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
- The Effective Engineer by Edmond Lau
- Range by David Epstein
- An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson
- Gambling with Other People’s Money by Russ Roberts
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Fuglane (The Birds) by Tarjei Vesaas
- Good to Great by Jim Collins
- The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
- Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Accidental Empires by Robert Cringely
- How I Sold My Business by Alvin Alexander
- Secrets of Sand Hill Road by Scott Kupor
- Resilient Management by Lara Hogan
- High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
- Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
- Resume Speed by Lawrence Block
- The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman
- The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop
- UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan
- Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup by Rob Walling