Books

I read things, including: textbooks, novels, comic books, etc. Below is an incomplete list of things I have read, and things I am currently reading (*), in reverse chronological order.

• (*) Worm — John C. McCrae
  
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality — Eliezer Yudkowsky
  Remarkably entertaining & inventive fiction. This easily takes the spot of my favourite piece of fiction I’ve read (so far). (Notably, I was surprised at how interesting and, even, informative it could be without a scientifically accurate universe: that “good decision-making” can exist regardless.)
• Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
  Great ideas, and surprisingly readable. Definitely “science-fiction” but most concepts are logically justified/grounded.
• “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” — Richard P. Feynman
  Quite entertaining, and a surprisingly easy read. Recommended to anyone. (Although, if you expected much actual physics, you would be disappointed.)
• The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution — Gregory Zuckerman
  Great, though a tad too much politics in the latter half for my taste.
• The Soul of a New Machine — Tracy Kidder
  Quaint, but nonetheless excellent. A hidden gem of computing culture. High recommendation for a specific kind of reader; if you liked Masters of Doom, possibly you.
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns — Miller, Janson, and Varley
  Aged impressively well.
• Flash Boys — Michael Lewis
  Great, if interested in the subject of HFT.
• Stories of your Life — Ted Chiang
  Good, and may be a great choice for a sci-fi novice, considering the bite-sized stories.
• Masters of Doom — David Kushner
  Absolutely brilliant. In my opinion, faultless. If I could only recommend a single book from this list, it’d be this one.
• Watchmen — Moore and Gibbons
  Unexpectedly excellent.
• Cryptonomicon — Neal Stephenson
  Great hacker fiction.
• Gödel, Escher, Bach — Douglas Hofstadter
  Great accompaniment to a Computer Science education, dispels any confusion to what “Computer Science” is, as opposed to “Software Engineering”.

Books I want to read

• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution — Steven Levy
• Moby-Dick; or, The Whale — Herman Melville
• How to Invent Everything — Ryan North
• Childhood’s End — Arthur C. Clarke