Vegard Stikbakke

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

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