joyhuan/books

Books

Books

At age 22, I set myself three goals

• push some codes for myself(not for work) each day
• go to the gym each week
• read a book each month

The first two are easy to track and see the progress. For the third goal, it's less obvious. But I still want to quantify it and I came up with two ways

• start this Books repo (I can both keep some notes and contribute Github pushes)
• start writing novels which reflect my thoughts gained from the books

However this also has major setbacks -- books commits dilute code commits. While I strive to resist being distracted by diverse interests, due to limitation of time and the special circumstances of 2020, I choose to prioritize on reading temporarily.

The repo was set to be private at the start but later I decided to make it public.

2020

• Jan 生而贫穷 ✅
• Feb In Hoffa's Shadow ✅
• Mar 雪国 ✅
• Apr Poor Charlie ✅
• May Win Bigly ✅
• Jun Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective half ✅
• Jul Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship half ✅
• Aug A First Course to Probability ✅
• Sep Atomic Habits ✅
• Oct Influence half ✅
• Nov Big Debt Crises ✅
• Dec Never Eat Alone ✅

2021

• Jan Hero of the Empire ✅
• Feb Competing Against Luck ✅
• Mar Rental Property Investing ✅
• Apr The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do ✅
• May Guns, Germs, and Steel half ✅
• Jun Principles
• Jul Pet Sematary ✅
• Aug Grokking the System Design Interview half ✅
• Sep The Selfish Gene
• Oct The Inevitable
• Nov Being Mortal
• Dec Man's Search for Meaning ✅

2022

• Jan The Stranger ✅
• Feb The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
• Mar My Early Life
• Apr The Moon and Sixpence
• May Intelligent Investor ✅
• Jun The Purpose Driven Life ✅
• Jul The Graven Palm
• Aug What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
• Sep The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightment ✅
• Oct Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
• Nov The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis ✅
• Dec Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil

2023

• Jan The Secret ✅
• Feb Why Marriages Succeed or Fail: And How You Can Make Yours Last ✅
• Mar Terror In the Mind of God
• Apr Ice Age
• May The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• Jun Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government
• Jul Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands
• Aug Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith: In London, Washington and Moscow
• Sep Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone
• Oct Thunderstruck
• Nov Mental Models
• Dec The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

2024

• Jan The Birth of Tragedy
• Feb Why We Sleep
• Mar Daring Greatly
• Apr Dark Money
• May Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
• Jun Your Beauty Mark: The Ultimate Guide to Eccentric Glamour
• Jul Destiny of the Republic
• Aug 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
• Sep Thinking Fast and Slow
• Oct 罗生门
• Nov On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft
• Dec Inferno

2025

• Jan Little Prince
• Feb When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead
• Mar City of Thieves
• Apr A Minute to Midnight
• May Becoming
• Jun Andrew Carnegie
• Jul 我是猫
• Aug 人间词话
• Sep Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
• Oct The Plague
• Nov The Boys in the Boat
• Dec Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

2026

• Jan F.I.A.S.C.O.
• Feb The Tiger

Others

• Kernighan & Ritchie "The C Programming Language"