Books I read in 2020

2021-01-04

Below is a list of the 23 books I read this year (8151 pages). Those in bold were my favourites. See also what I read in 2018 and 2019.

• Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Super Pumped by Mike Isaac
• Educated by Tara Westover
• In the Company of Giants by Rama Dev Jager and Ortiz Rafael
• Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
• Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping by François Bougon
• Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston
• Writing an Interpreter in Go by Thorsten Ball
• Writing a Compiler in Go by Thorsten Ball
• Debugging by David J. Agans
• Facebook by Steven Levy
• A Philosophy of Software Design (reread) by John Osterhout
• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming
• Netflixed by Gina Keating
• The J Primer by Eric Iverson
• Ten Essays on FizzBuzz by Joel Grus
• The Infinite Machine by Camila Russo
• The Go Programming Language by Alan A. A. Donovan and Brian Kernighan
• What Every Web Developer Should Know About HTTP by K. Scott Allen
• The Perfect Store: Inside eBay by Adam Cohen
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
• The Path to Power by Robert Caro

Some interesting people's 2020 books:

• Dan Romero
• Phil Eaton
• Mary Rose Cook

2020 book thread

— Vegard Stikbakke (@vegardstikbakke) January 20, 2020