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What I am reading, what I have read, and what I would like to read. Suggest a book with a PR

Books

What I am reading, what I have read, and what I would like to read. Suggest a book with a PR...

Books that I have read are not always endorsements of those books. I believe that reading is a cheat code to life.

What is on my list to read in order

Title	Author	Summary	Genre
Quantitative Portfolio Management	Michael Isichenko	The Art and Science of Statistical Arbitrage	Business + Money Management
Hackers and Painters	Paul Graham	Big Ideas From the Computer Age	Programming
Why We Sleep	Matthew Walker	The New Science of Sleep and Dreams	Science
The Most Human Human	Brian Christian	What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive	Science, AI
Proof of Stake	Vitalik Buterin	The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains	Blockchains
Rust for Rustacians	Jon Gjengset	Idiomatic Programing for Experienced Developers	Programming
Gödel, Escher, Bach	Douglas Hofstadter	An Eternal Golden Braid	Cognitive Science
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite	Sebastian Mallaby	Detailed history of hedge funds	Finance
Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets	Donald MacKenzie	History and background to hft trading	Finance
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers	Andy Greenberg	Russian Sandworm hacking group	Non-Fiction
The Gnostic Bible	Willis Barnstone, Marvin W. Meyer	Detailed coverage of Gnosticism	Religion
A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War	Melvyn P. Leffler	American Cold War history	History
The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation	Richard M. Gamble	American history	History

What I have read

Title	Author	Summary	Genre
Atomic Habits	James Clear	Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results	Psychology
No Rules Rules	Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer	Hard work is irrelevant. Be radically honest. And never, ever try to please your boss.	Business
The Innovator's Dilemma	Clayton Christensen	When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail	Business theory
The Code Book	Simon Singh	The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography	Non-Fiction
Perminant Record	Edward Snowden	Edward Snowden	Autobiography
When Things Fall Apart	Pema Chodren	Heart Advice for Difficult times	Tibetan Buddhism
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism	Chogyam Trungpa	Self Deception	Tibetan Buddhism
How To Change Your Mind	Michael Pollan	What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence	Biography
Clean Code	Robert C. Martin	A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship	Textbook
The Myth of Sisyphus	Albert Cammus	Absurdism	Philosophy
Introduction to the Theory of Computation	Michael Sipser	Theory of Computation	Textbook
Numerical Recipies	Saul Teukolsky, William H. Press, and William T. Vetterling	Algorithms and Numerical Analysis	Textbook
The Martian	Andy Weir	Lost in Space	Science fiction, Novel
How to be an Adult in Relationships	David Richo	The Five Keys to Mindful Loving	Psychology
Sapiens	Yuval Noah Harari	A Brief History of Humankind	Non-Fiction
An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography	Jeffrey Hoffstein	Theory and Practice of Modern Cryptography	Textbook
Conduct of Inquiry	Richard F. Kitchener	An Introduction of Logic and Scientific Method	Textbook
On the Brink of Paradox	Agustín Rayo	Highlights from the Intersection of Philosophy and Mathematics	Textbook
The Rust Programming Language	Steve Klabnik	The official book on the Rust programming language	Textbook
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck	Mark Manson	A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life	Self-Help
Seven Years in Tibet	Heinrich Harrer	Life in Tibet just before the Chinese Communist takeover	AutoBiography
Algorithms to Live By	Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths	The Computer Science of Human Decisions	Psychology
The C Programing Langauge	Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan	The C Programing Language	Textbook
Hacking	Jon Erickson	The Art of Exploitation	Textbook
The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross	John M. Allegro	Dead Sea Scrolls	Folklore
The Art of War	Sun Tzu	Ancient Chinese Military Treatise	Biography
The Satanic Bible	Anton S. Lavey	Essays, Observations, and Rituals	Spirituality
The Prophet	Kahlil Gibran	26 prose poetry fables	Poetry
Discrete Mathematics	László Lovász	Elementary and Beyond	Textbook
The Intelligent Heart	Kongtrul Rinpoche and Joseph Waxman	A Guide to a Compassionate Life	Tibetan Buddhism
The Tibetan way of Life Death and Rebirth	John Peacock	Tibet’s Ancient Bon religion	Tibetan Buddhism, Folklore
How to win friends and influence people	Dale Carnegie	How to stop worrying and start living	Self Help

This list will likely grow as I remember to add to it. This list currently excludes a large quantity of fantasy and fiction books that I read during my Childhood.