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Here is a non-exhaustive list of books I’ve enjoyed, in no particular order. I keep this list primarily as a reminder that for many of these authors, I’ve only read a single work, and that I should spend more time reading broadly within the work of authors I like.

Robert Nystrom

  • Crafting Interpreters (currently reading)

Albert Camus

  • The Stranger
  • The Myth of Sisyphus (currently reading)

Ursula K. Le Guin

  • A Wizard of Earthsea
  • The Tombs of Atuan
  • The Farthest Shore
  • Tehanu
  • Tales from Earthsea
  • The Other Wind

Nicole Perlroth

  • This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

Agatha Christie

  • And Then There Were None
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • Death on the Nile
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Roald Dahl

  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • The BFG
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
  • Matilda

Dennis Andriesse

  • Practical Binary Analysis

Douglas Adams

  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  • The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
  • Life, the Universe and Everything

Joseph Conrad

  • Heart of Darkness

Oscar Wilde

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray

Stephen King

  • The Outsider
  • The Shining

Ernest Hemingway

  • The Old Man and the Sea

Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • The Brothers Karamazov

J.D. Salinger

  • The Catcher in the Rye

J.K. Rowling

  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Isaac Asimov

  • I, Robot
  • Foundation
  • Foundation and Empire
  • Second Foundation
  • Foundation’s Edge
  • Foundation and Earth

Stephen Hawking

  • A Brief History of Time

Rick Riordan

  • The Battle of the Labyrinth
  • The Sea of Monsters
  • The Last Olympian
  • The Titan’s Curse
  • The Lost Hero
  • The House of Hades
  • The Lightning Thief

John Boyne

  • The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Dafydd Stuttard

  • The Web Application Hacker’s Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws

Rolf Oppliger

  • Contemporary Cryptography

R.J. Palacio

  • Wonder

J.R.R. Tolkien

  • The Hobbit, Part One
  • The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
  • The Hobbit
  • The Fellowship of the Ring
  • The Two Towers
  • The Return of the King
  • The Silmarillion

Anthony Burgess

  • A Clockwork Orange

Paulo Coelho

  • The Alchemist
  • Veronika Decides to Die

Steinbeck

  • Of Mice and Men

Orwell

  • Animal Farm
  • 1984

Gustavo Mercado

  • The Filmmaker’s Eye

Alex Karp

  • The Technological Republic

Elecia White

  • Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software

Tobias Klein

  • Engineering Secure Devices: A Practical Guide for Embedded System Architects and Developers

Jasper van Woudenberg & Colin O’Flynn

  • The Hardware Hacking Handbook: Breaking Embedded Security with Hardware Attacks

Jean-Philippe Aumasson

  • Serious Cryptography

Miyazaki

  • Starting Point

Eldad Eilam

  • Secrets of Reverse Engineering

Goethe

  • Elective Affinities
  • Erlkönig

Kafka

  • Metamorphosis

Bulgakov

  • Heart of a Dog

Gogol

  • The Nose

Zweig

  • The Royal Game
  • Joseph Fouche: Portrait of a Politician

Michael Sikorski & Andrew Honig

  • Practical Malware Analysis
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