Books I read in 2020
Below is a list of the 23 books I read this year. Those in bold were my favourites. See also what I read in 2018 and 2019.
- Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Super Pumped by Mike Isaac
- Educated by Tara Westover
- In the Company of Giants by Rama Dev Jager and Ortiz Rafael
- Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
- Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping by François Bougon
- Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston
- Writing an Interpreter in Go by Thorsten Ball
- Writing a Compiler in Go by Thorsten Ball
- Debugging by David J. Agans
- Facebook by Steven Levy
- A Philosophy of Software Design (reread) by John Osterhout
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming
- Netflixed by Gina Keating
- The J Primer by Eric Iverson
- Ten Essays on FizzBuzz by Joel Grus
- The Infinite Machine by Camila Russo
- The Go Programming Language by Alan A. A. Donovan and Brian Kernighan
- What Every Web Developer Should Know About HTTP by K. Scott Allen
- The Perfect Store: Inside eBay by Adam Cohen
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
- The Path to Power by Robert Caro
Some interesting people’s 2020 books:
2020 book thread
— Vegard Stikbakke (@vegardstikbakke) January 20, 2020