books I keep reaching for.
01
Engineering
2022
The Staff Engineer's Path· Will Larson
2019
An Elegant Puzzle· Will Larson
2017
Designing Data-Intensive Applications· Martin Kleppmann
1977
A Pattern Language· Christopher Alexander
02
Fiction
1951
Foundation trilogy· Isaac Asimov
2008
Remembrance of Earth's Past· Cixin Liu
The Three-Body Problem and its sequels.
1968
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?· Philip K. Dick
1974
The Killer Angels· Michael Shaara
Gettysburg, told from the minds of the men who fought it.
03
History
2004
Alexander Hamilton· Ron Chernow
2025
Mark Twain· Ron Chernow