Reading in 2025

Previously, previously, previously, etc.

This year I read less than my 52 book goal, reading 45. The best book I read this year is a hard decision, so I'll say top 3 were all by authors that I will likely read more from in 2026 - Claire Keegan, Philip Roth, John McPhee. I'd like to read everything the first and last have written, not so with Roth. I will not elaborate.

• Foster
• The Human Stain
• Oranges

I would also like to point out that I finally finished two books that I bought physical copies of over 10 years ago (!):

• Beautiful Code
• The Artist's Way

All books read in 2025:

• Understanding Distributed Systems
• Gringos
• Advanced Porfolio Management
• Department of Speculation(reread)
• Weather(reread)
• Happy Go Lucky
• The Stench of Honolulu (reread)
• James
• Screwjack
• Laozi's Dao De Jing
• Water, Water
• So Late in the Day
• On the Shortness of Life
• Good Strategy Bad Strategy
• The Unlikely Thru-Hiker: An Appalachian Trail Journey
• ERRORS: bugs, boo-boos, blunders
• Beautiful Code
• A Walk in the Woods
• The Stranger
• The World's Fastest Man
• Meditations for Mortals
• The Artist's Way
• The 12 Hour Walk
• The Human Stain
• The Book of Blam
• I Remember
• Mr Prenumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore
• Will You Be Quiet, Please?: Stories
• Unknown Market Wizards
• Run for the Hills
• I Robot
• Let Them
• The Staff Engineer's Path
• Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
• Here
• Tabula Rasa
• Engineering Managment for the Rest of Us
• Kill It With Fire
• Small Things Like These
• Oranges
• Comedy Sex God
• Lullaby
• The White Book
• Will There Ever Be Another You
• Foster