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Here I track the books I read, as I read them. The ones I liked in particular are emphasized. Some entries link to my notes.

2026

• Carrie — Stephen King
• Exhalation — Ted Chiang
• Solitar: Povestea unui triatlon — Marius Butuc
• O beție cuantică — Goran Mrakić
• Attached — Amir Levine, Rachel Heller
• Travels with Charley: In Search of America — John Steinbeck
• The Ministry for the Future — Kim Stanley Robinson
• What Is Intelligence?: Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds — Blaise Aguera y Arcas
• Natural General Intelligence — Christopher Summerfield
• By Night in Chile — Roberto Bolaño
• The Mystery Knight (The Tales of Dunk and Egg #3) — George R.R. Martin
• When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi
• Omulețul din perete — Marian Coman
• The Sworn Sword (The Tales of Dunk and Egg #2) — George R.R. Martin
• The Hedge Knight (The Tales of Dunk and Egg #1) — George R.R. Martin
• Masters of Doom — David Kushner
• The Trouble with Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament — Robert Sapolsky

2025

• Small Things Like These — Claire Keegan
• Careless People — Sarah Wynn-Williams
• Religion for Atheists — Alain de Botton
• Predictably Irrational — Dan Ariely
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick
• Foucault's Pendulum — Umberto Eco
• Povestiri din garaj — Goran Mrakić
• Micile plăceri ale morții — Goran Mrakić
• Heretics of Dune (Dune #5) — Frank Herbert
• Hello Beautiful — Ann Napolitano
• Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers — Robert Sapolsky
• Adam și Eva — Liviu Rebreanu
• Stoner — John Williams
• Six Easy Pieces — Richard Feynman
• Emotional Intelligence — Daniel Goleman
• Galactic Pot-Healer — Philip K. Dick

2024

• A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat #3) — Haruki Murakami
• Pinball, 1973 (The Rat #2) — Haruki Murakami
• Hear the Wind Sing (The Rat #1) — Haruki Murakami
• The Handmaid's Tale — Margaret Atwood
• Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson
• Three Men in a Boat — Jerome K. Jerome
• The Overstory — Richard Powers
• Eleven — Patricia Highsmith
• Death's End (Remembrance of Earth's Past #3) — Liu Cixin
• The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth's Past #2) — Liu Cixin

2023

• The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past #1) — Liu Cixin
• Roadside Picnic — Arkady Strugatsky
• Just for Fun — Linus Torvalds
• Tidy First — Kent Beck
• Determined — Robert Sapolsky
• The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk
• "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" — Richard Feynman
• Brain Wave — Poul Anderson
• The Making of Prince of Persia — Jordan Mechner
• The Pattern on the Stone — William Daniel Hillis
• God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4) — Frank Herbert
• Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby — Sandi Metz
• Extreme Programming Explained — Kent Beck
• The Phoenix Project — Gene Kim
• Copilul invizibil — Gáspár György
• Children of Dune (Dune #3) — Frank Herbert
• Dune Messiah (Dune #2) — Frank Herbert
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — Gabrielle Zevin
• Escape into Meaning — Evan Puschak
• The Screwtape Letters — C.S. Lewis
• The Housekeeper and the Professor — Yōko Ogawa
• Leonard and Hungry Paul — Ronan Hession
• Dune (Dune #1) — Frank Herbert

2022

• Breakfast of Champions — Kurt Vonnegut
• Game Programming Patterns — Robert Nystrom
• What If 2 — Randall Munroe
• Second Foundation (Foundation #3) — Isaac Asimov
• Open Water — Caleb Azumah Nelson
• Functional JavaScript — Michael Fogus
• Părinți — Diana Bădica
• Station Eleven — Emily St. John Mandel
• Noise — Daniel Kahneman
• Release It! — Michael T. Nygard
• Căsnicie — Dan Coman
• Mother Night — Kurt Vonnegut
• Continuous Delivery Pipelines — David Farley
• Dependency Injection Principles, Practices, and Patterns — Mark Seemann
• Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2) — Isaac Asimov
• Lust for Life — Irving Stone

2021

• Code — Charles Petzold
• Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems — Sam Newman
• Effective TypeScript — Dan Vanderkam
• Foundation (Foundation #1) — Isaac Asimov
• Forward the Foundation (Foundation #7) — Isaac Asimov
• Prelude to Foundation (Foundation #6) — Isaac Asimov
• Băiuțeii — Filip Florian
• Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut
• Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse
• Robots and Empire (Robots #4) — Isaac Asimov
• Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre — Keith Johnstone
• Tribes — Seth Godin
• Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming — Brian Lonsdorf
• Identity — Francis Fukuyama
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Martin Kleppmann
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage — Haruki Murakami
• The Robots of Dawn (Robots #3) — Isaac Asimov
• The Body: A Guide for Occupants — Bill Bryson
• Deep Work — Cal Newport

2020

• The Art of UNIX Programming — Eric S. Raymond
• The Information — James Gleick
• The Mythical Man-Month — Fred Brooks
• A Philosophy of Software Design — John Ousterhout
• The Naked Sun (Robots #2) — Isaac Asimov
• The Caves of Steel (Robots #1) — Isaac Asimov
• I, Robot — Isaac Asimov
• The School of Life — Alain de Botton
• Jony Ive — Leander Kahney
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy— Douglas Adams
• Dark Matter — Blake Crouch
• The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Big Short — Michael Lewis
• Digital Minimalism — Cal Newport
• Between the World and Me — Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World — Haruki Murakami
• The Death of Ivan Ilych — Leo Tolstoy
• An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth — Chris Hadfield
• O scurtă istorie a românilor povestită celor tineri — Neagu Djuvara
• Ultimele zile ale Occidentului — Matei Vişniec
• A Mind for Numbers — Barbara Oakley
• Permanent Record — Edward Snowden
• Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
• The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway
• Creative Selection — Ken Kocienda
• How To — Randall Munroe
• Behave — Robert Sapolsky

2019

• Educated — Tara Westover
• Ego Is the Enemy — Ryan Holiday
• Atomic Habits — James Clear
• Imperiul Pisicilor — Alex Tocilescu
• The Course of Love — Alain de Botton
• The Hidden Life of Trees — Peter Wohlleben
• Dreams from My Father — Barack Obama
• The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell — Aldous Huxley
• Kafka on the Shore — Haruki Murakami
• Acasă, pe drum: 4 ani teleleu — Elena Stancu, Cosmin Bumbuț

2018

• Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
• What Do You Care What Other People Think? — Richard Feynman
• Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck
• The Pragmatic Programmer — Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas
• Camera Lucida — Roland Barthes
• After Dark — Haruki Murakami

2017

• The Broom of the System — David Foster Wallace
• A Short History of Nearly Everything — Bill Bryson
• On Writing — Stephen King
• Stories of Your Life and Others — Ted Chiang
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James Joyce
• Exerciţii de echilibru — Tudor Chirilă
• Blink — Malcolm Gladwell

2016

• Walden — Henry David Thoreau
• What If — Randall Munroe
• On the Road — Jack Kerouac
• Franny and Zooey — J.D. Salinger
• The Girl in the Spider's Web — David Lagercrantz
• Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
• Trigger Warning — Neil Gaiman

2015

• Born to Run — Christopher McDougall
• Haunted Empire — Yukari Iwatani Kane
• The Brain That Changes Itself — Norman Doidge
• The Martian — Andy Weir
• Linchpin — Seth Godin
• The Long Tail — Chris Anderson
• Heavier Than Heaven — Charles R. Cross
• Norwegian Wood — Haruki Murakami

2014

• I Am Zlatan — Zlatan Ibrahimović
• One Click — Richard L. Brandt
• Tuesdays with Morrie — Mitch Albom
• The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Wind, Sand and Stars — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Jurnal filozofic — Constantin Noica
• American Gods — Neil Gaiman
• Looking for Alaska — John Green
• Galveston — Nic Pizzolatto
• Domnişoara Christina — Mircea Eliade
• Doctor Sleep — Stephen King
• Between Here and the Yellow Sea — Nic Pizzolatto

2013

• Cianură pentru un surâs — Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu
• Bună seara, Melania! — Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu
• A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire #5) — George R.R. Martin
• Sh*t My Dad Says — Justin Halpern
• Noaptea de Sânziene — Mircea Eliade
• Way of the Peaceful Warrior — Dan Millman
• Scar Tissue — Anthony Kiedis
• Into the Wild — Jon Krakauer
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close — Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Invisible Man — H.G. Wells
• Fight Club — Chuck Palahniuk
• La ţigănci & Pe strada Mîntuleasa — Mircea Eliade
• The Talent Code — Daniel Coyle

2012

• A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire #4) — George R.R. Martin
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium #3) — Stieg Larsson
• The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2) — Stieg Larsson
• Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson

2011

• A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire #3) — George R.R. Martin
• Christine — Stephen King
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1) — Stieg Larsson
• A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire #2) — George R.R. Martin
• A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1) — George R.R. Martin