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Great thread. 2019 was the first time in about 7-8 years I made reading for pleasure a tertiary priority ((school+career)work/sleep/exercise+socializing+(NEW!)reading) and I got through about 20 books of varying length and difficulty, so here are the next 20 in my queue:

- Infinite Jest (already started, will likely finish in early Jan. I love it so far.)

- Quantum Computing Since Democritus (started in November as my nonfiction read, but took a break; I think I want to finish IJ first. Scott is an excellent writer and I was really enjoying this)

- Building Microservices

- The Code Book

- How Cars Work (I want to turn the projection of a car in my brain from a black box to a gray box this year, and I don't mean by purchasing a Cybertruck)

- To Kill a Mockingbird

- The Personal MBA (for years I laughed off caring about the business of business and lived in my fantasy land of being satisfied with just the technical details and being focused on only implementing great software/learning how to do so. With a few years in the workforce under my belt, I realize that such an outlook was of great detriment to me. I'm open to other suggestions on similar "catch me up to speed on general business education" material)

- Designing Data-Intensive Applications

- Island (I have a copy of this but not Brave New World. Multiple friends of mine demand I try Huxley, so here we are.)

- The Annotated Turing

- How to Invent Everything

- Soonish (SMBC is a daily read for me and I'm excited to get to this.)

- How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems (ditto XKCD modulo release schedule)

- Basic Economics

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

- Seveneves

- The Prince

- Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball

- Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong

- Fahrenheit 451

Additionally, to tickle the part of my brain that fancies mathematics (one of my my majors in undergrad), I try to work through a chapter or two of Evan Chen's "An Infinitely Long Napkin" on a quarterly basis. If you don't mind a conversational tone to your math textbooks, I've found this to be an excellent resource for scraping the surface of a wide variety of topics and fields (including, well, topics like fields). I think I'll continue this habit.




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