Below is a list of the 12 books I read this year, spanning 4244 pages (according to Goodreads). This is less than 2018 (16), 2019 (40), and 2020 (23), but considering this is my first full year with a toddler, I’m pleased!

Those in bold were my favourites.

• Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace and Jim Erickson
• The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
• How the Internet Happened by Brian McCullough
• Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track by Will Larson
• The Art of Readable Code by Dustin Boswell and Trevor Foucher
• Amazon Unbound by Brad Stone
• Writing an Interpreter in Go by Thorsten Ball (reread)
• The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
• Means of Ascent by Robert Caro
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov (reread)
• Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov (reread)
• Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov (reread)

And here are books I started but didn’t or haven’t finished.

• Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan
• Game Theory: A Nontechnical Introduction by Morton Davis
• The Box by Marc Levinson
• The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
• The Rise of Christianity by Rodney Stark
• Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
• Mindstorms by Seymour Papert
• The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin