BOOKS

Here's a list of all the books that I've read throughout the years. Inspired by Sawyer Hollenshead and Patrick Collison's lists, I'm aiming to transcribe all of my highlights and book notes and aggregate them on this page. You can also check out what's next on my reading list here.

28 December 2023
Welcome To The Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
23 December 2023
What You Are Looking For Is In The Library
09 November 2023
System Design Interview
03 November 2023
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
26 October 2023
Weather
Weather

Jenny Offill

20 October 2023
Hold Up The Sky
04 September 2023
Scattered All Over The Earth
04 September 2023
Stubborn Attachments
30 August 2023
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
27 August 2023
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
29 July 2023
Mild Vertigo
Mild Vertigo

Mieko Kanai

13 July 2023
Arsenic and Adobo
Arsenic and Adobo

Mia P. Manansala

16 May 2023
Bangkok Wakes to Rain
Bangkok Wakes to Rain

Pitchaya Sudbanthad

22 April 2023
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

09 February 2023
A Little History of the World
23 January 2023
The Monocle Book of Gentle Living
The Monocle Book of Gentle Living

Andrew Tuck, Joe Pickard, and Josh Fehnert

30 December 2022
The Thief
The Thief

Fuminori Nakamura

27 December 2022
Before The Coffee Gets Cold
Before The Coffee Gets Cold

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

17 December 2022
I'll Be Right There
I'll Be Right There

Kyung-Sook Shin

04 December 2022
Thinking In Bets
20 September 2022
At Swim, Two Boys
At Swim, Two Boys

Jamie O’Neill

03 September 2022
Thinking in Systems
Thinking in Systems

Donella H. Meadows

02 July 2022
Here's To Us
Here's To Us

Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

03 June 2022
The Diary of a Young Girl
20 March 2022
The Paradox of Choice
The Paradox of Choice

Barry Schwartz

09 March 2022
Poor Economics
Poor Economics

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

01 March 2022
To Paradise
To Paradise

Hanya Yanagihara

03 February 2022
Taipei
Taipei

Tao Lin

14 January 2022
Stoner
Stoner

John Edward Williams

03 November 2021
Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World
21 October 2021
Diary of a Mad Old Man
Diary of a Mad Old Man

Junichiro Tanizaki

05 October 2021
Killing and Dying
Killing and Dying

Adrian Tomine

02 October 2021
Beautiful World, Where Are You?
01 October 2021
How To Read A Book
How To Read A Book

Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

12 September 2021
Any Way The Wind Blows
24 July 2021
The Examined Life
The Examined Life

Stephen Grosz

17 July 2021
Out
Out

Kirino Natsuo

02 July 2021
Range
Range

David Epstein

10 June 2021
The Paper Menagerie
16 May 2021
Night Sky With Exit Wounds
04 May 2021
The Unfair Advantage
The Unfair Advantage

Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba

19 April 2021
No One Is Talking About This
09 April 2021
A Promised Land
A Promised Land

Barack Obama

14 February 2021
Real Life
Real Life

Brandon Taylor

04 February 2021
Why We Sleep
Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

24 January 2021
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

14 January 2021
Memorial
Memorial

Bryan Washington

03 January 2021
How Innovation Works
01 November 2020
Dune
Dune

Frank Herbert

30 September 2020
Free Food For Millionaires
31 August 2020
The Elephant In The Brain
The Elephant In The Brain

Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson

21 August 2020
Kafka On The Shore
Kafka On The Shore

Haruki Murakami

01 August 2020
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

08 July 2020
The Sympathizer
The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen

14 June 2020
How To Take Smart Notes
06 June 2020
The Leavers
29 May 2020
The Design Of Everyday Things
17 May 2020
Sapiens
Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

06 May 2020
Life After Life
Life After Life

Kate Atkinson

19 April 2020
Trick Mirror
Trick Mirror

Jia Tolentino

29 March 2020
Brave New World
Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

17 March 2020
Cleanness
Cleanness

Garth Greenwell

07 March 2020
Willpower
Willpower

Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney

23 February 2020
What Belongs To You
What Belongs To You

Garth Greenwell

03 February 2020
Lincoln In The Bardo
Lincoln In The Bardo

George Saunders

25 January 2020
Peak
Peak

Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool

05 January 2020
Supernova Era
Supernova Era

Cixin Liu

22 December 2019
Little Fires Everywhere
15 December 2019
Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory
08 December 2019
The Mythical Man-Month
01 December 2019
Flow
Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

17 November 2019
Wayward Son
Wayward Son

Rainbow Rowell

10 November 2019
Find Me
Find Me

André Aciman

03 November 2019
Enlightenment Now
Enlightenment Now

Steven Pinker

22 September 2019
Sing, Unburied, Sing
15 September 2019
Bad Blood
Bad Blood

John Carreyrou

01 September 2019
Commonwealth
Commonwealth

Ann Patchett

18 August 2019
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci

Walter Isaacson

04 August 2019
Waste Tide
Waste Tide

Chen Qiufan

28 July 2019
Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits

James Clear

21 July 2019
Troublemakers
Troublemakers

Leslie Berlin

14 July 2019
Patron Saints of Nothing
07 July 2019
Proust and the Squid
30 June 2019
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
23 June 2019
The Man Who Couldn't Stop
16 June 2019
A Gentleman In Moscow
13 June 2019
Demian
Demian

Hermann Hesse

09 June 2019
Digital Minimalism
05 June 2019
Into the Magic Shop
02 June 2019
The Sparsholt Affair
The Sparsholt Affair

Alan Hollinghurst

26 May 2019
Exhalation
Exhalation

Ted Chiang

19 May 2019
Age of Ambition
Age of Ambition

Evan Osnos

05 May 2019
Deep Work
Deep Work

Cal Newport

28 April 2019
Conversations With Friends
21 April 2019
Normal People
Normal People

Sally Rooney

14 April 2019
Invisible Planets
Invisible Planets

Ken Liu (trans.)

07 April 2019
Hit Refresh
Hit Refresh

Satya Nadella

31 March 2019
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
24 March 2019
Architects of Intelligence
17 March 2019
Carry On
Carry On

Rainbow Rowell

10 March 2019
Anything You Want
Anything You Want

Derek Sivers

06 March 2019
Show Your Work!
Show Your Work!

Austin Kleon

03 March 2019
In The Country
24 February 2019
The Future Is Asian
17 February 2019
The Strange Library
The Strange Library

Haruki Murakami

10 February 2019
America Is Not The Heart
03 February 2019
Radical Markets
Radical Markets

Eric Glen Weyl and Eric A. Posner

27 January 2019
Severance
Severance

Ling Ma

20 January 2019
Becoming
Becoming

Michelle Obama

13 January 2019
AI Superpowers
AI Superpowers

Kai-Fu Lee

06 January 2019
The Song of Achilles
The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

27 December 2018
Ball Lightning
20 December 2018
Educated
Educated

Tara Westover

10 December 2018
Pachinko
Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

06 December 2018
Make It Stick
Make It Stick

Peter Brown, Henry Roediger III, and Mark McDaniel

02 December 2018
Getting Things Done
24 November 2018
Caliban’s War
Caliban’s War

James S.A. Corey

06 November 2018
They Both Die At The End
25 October 2018
What If It's Us
What If It's Us

Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

20 October 2018
Alibis
Alibis

André Aciman

02 October 2018
History Is All You Left Me
27 September 2018
More Happy Than Not
24 September 2018
Borne
Borne

Jeff VanderMeer

21 September 2018
I Can't Date Jesus
I Can't Date Jesus

Michael Arceneaux

15 September 2018
Algorithms to Live By
Algorithms to Live By

Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

02 September 2018
Early Work
Early Work

Andrew Martin

28 August 2018
The Wandering Earth
10 August 2018
The Power
The Power

Naomi Alderman

05 August 2018
Leviathan Wakes
Leviathan Wakes

James S.A. Corey

25 July 2018
The Master Algorithm
The Master Algorithm

Pedro Domingos

12 July 2018
Less
Less

Andrew Sean Greer

07 July 2018
American Pastoral
22 June 2018
The Hard Things About Hard Things
10 June 2018
Exit West
Exit West

Mohsin Hamid

29 May 2018
Goodbye, Things
Goodbye, Things

Fumio Sasaki

15 May 2018
The Line of Beauty
The Line of Beauty

Alan Hollinghurst

01 May 2018
Death's End
Death's End

Cixin Liu

25 March 2018
The Dark Forest
07 February 2018
The Three-Body Problem
30 January 2018
Tenth of December
Tenth of December

George Saunders

17 January 2018
Superintelligence
Superintelligence

Nick Bostrom

04 January 2018
Stories of Your Life And Others
23 December 2017
Swing Time
Swing Time

Zadie Smith

12 December 2017
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

03 December 2017
The Final Solution
The Final Solution

Michael Chabon

30 November 2017
Leaving The Atocha Station
27 November 2017
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
14 November 2017
Call Me By Your Name
03 November 2017
Carousel Court
Carousel Court

Joe McGinniss Jr.

15 October 2017
Release
Release

Patrick Ness

07 October 2017
Tuesday Nights In 1980
30 September 2017
More Than This
More Than This

Patrick Ness

02 September 2017
The Association of Small Bombs
23 August 2017
The Vegetarian
11 August 2017
All The Birds In The Sky
All The Birds In The Sky

Charlie Jane Anders

30 July 2017
Human Acts
Human Acts

Han Kang

22 July 2017
Enigma Variations
Enigma Variations

André Aciman

15 July 2017
Why Nations Fail
Why Nations Fail

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

19 June 2017
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
04 June 2017
Harvard Square
Harvard Square

André Aciman

28 May 2017
On Such A Full Sea
On Such A Full Sea

Chang-rae Lee

29 April 2017
The Fortress of Solitude
15 March 2017
The Inexplicable Logic Of My Life
11 March 2017
The Tiger's Wife
The Tiger's Wife

Téa Obreht

20 February 2017
Private Citizens
Private Citizens

Tony Tulathimutte

29 January 2017
The Road
The Road

Cormac McCarthy

21 January 2017
Subversives
Subversives

Seth Rosenfeld

30 December 2016
The Sellout
The Sellout

Paul Beatty

29 December 2016
I'll Give You The Sun
22 December 2016
Moonglow
Moonglow

Michael Chabon

06 December 2016
Light In August
Light In August

William Faulkner

26 November 2016
The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

10 November 2016
Dissident Gardens
Dissident Gardens

Jonathan Lethem

30 October 2016
Every Day
Every Day

David Levithan

16 October 2016
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

13 October 2016
Tristessa
Tristessa

Jack Kerouac

11 October 2016
House of Leaves
House of Leaves

Mark Danielewski

02 October 2016
Death With Interruptions
27 September 2016
The Information
The Information

James Gleick

31 July 2016
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

J.K Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne

16 July 2016
Seeing
Seeing

José Saramago

18 May 2016
The Elephant Vanishes
The Elephant Vanishes

Haruki Murakami

19 March 2016
10:04
10:04

Ben Lerner

26 February 2016
A Little Life
A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

06 February 2016
Dept. of Speculation
05 February 2016
The Golem and the Jinni
28 December 2015
Beautiful Ruins
Beautiful Ruins

Jess Walter

20 December 2015
The God of Small Things
05 December 2015
Challenger Deep
Challenger Deep

Neal Shusterman

29 November 2015
Siddhartha
Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

28 November 2015
To Kill A Mockingbird
21 November 2015
Saints of Augustine
27 October 2015
Telegraph Avenue
Telegraph Avenue

Michael Chabon

22 September 2015
The Sea Is My Brother
14 September 2015
The Launch Pad
The Launch Pad

Randall E. Stross

03 September 2015
The Imperfectionists
29 August 2015
Crime And Punishment
Crime And Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

04 July 2015
Visions of Gerard
Visions of Gerard

Jack Kerouac

21 June 2015
Grasshopper Jungle
Grasshopper Jungle

Andrew A. Smith

14 June 2015
Wonder Boys
Wonder Boys

Michael Chabon

28 May 2015
Essentialism
Essentialism

Greg McKeown

13 May 2015
Homeland
Homeland

Cory Doctorow

01 May 2015
Little Brother
Little Brother

Cory Doctorow

07 April 2015
The Rise and Fall of Great Powers
02 April 2015
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

01 April 2015
Everything Is Obvious
06 March 2015
The Old Man And The Sea
The Old Man And The Sea

Ernest Hemingway

21 February 2015
The Stranger
The Stranger

Albert Camus

15 February 2015
All The Light We Cannot See
03 January 2015
Bleeding Edge
Bleeding Edge

Thomas Pynchon

21 December 2014
After Dark
After Dark

Haruki Murakami

20 September 2014
Blindness
Blindness

José Saramago

29 August 2014
The Corrections
The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

09 August 2014
Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

17 July 2014
The Abundance of Katerines
27 February 2014
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut