Books!
In addition to the books I’ve recently read below, I also have the following book-related pages:
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(DRAFT) Less online reading, more book reading (2026) (DRAFT)
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Coming someday: How I organize my physical books…?
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Amazon 1998-2024 (I quit "Earth’s Biggest Bookstore" for good)
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I’ve got a Kobo e-reader (the cheapest one, the Clara BW). How to Charge a Kobo Clara BW
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Over in the cards: Re-Reading and RTFM: Read the (Friendly) Manual
My reading journal and book reviews
In a continuing process of getting off of all big-corpo platforms, I’m back to hosting my book reviews on my own website again!
Oh jeez, I’m so behind. There are big gaps in this in 2024 and 2025. It’s just bad timing that I started this page and then became incapable of updating it at right around the same time…
2026
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2026-08-06 (REVIEW PENDING) Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham, 560 pages
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2026-07-31 (REVIEW PENDING) Don’t Call it Art by Austin Kleon, 208 pages
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2026-07-29 (REVIEW PENDING) Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life… by Cal Newport, 304 pages
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2026-07-23 A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders, 352 pages
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2026-07-21 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, 176 pages
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2026-07-16 (REVIEW PENDING) In the Buddha’s Words: An Anthology…Pali Canon by Bhikkhu Bodhi, 512 pages
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2026-07-11 Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters by Serhii Plokhy, 368 pages
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2026-07-09 The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot (3 Invest. #2) by Robert Arthur, 236 pages
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2026-07-05 The Card Catalog by the LoC, 224 pages
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2026-06-30 Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment… by Cal Newport, 256 pages
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2026-06-25 The BFG by Roald Dahl, 195 pages
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2026-06-10 The Secret of Terror Castle (3 Investigators #1) by Robert Arthur, 224 pages
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2026-05-26 Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, 448 pages
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2026-05-18 How to Get Rich in American History by Joseph S. Moore, 352 pages
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2026-05-07 The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis, 320 pages
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2026-05-04 The Ascetic Programmer by Antonio Piccolboni, 258 pages
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2026-05-01 An Introduction to Database Systems by C.J. Date, 938 pages
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2026-04-28 redacted, 296 pages
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2026-04-06 Making the Presidency: John Adams and the… by Lindsay M. Chervinsky, 440 pages
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2026-04-06 redacted, 288 pages
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2026-04-04 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, 497 pages
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2026-03-31 Httpd and Relayd Mastery by Michael W. Lucas, 231 pages
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2026-03-28 Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow, 928 pages
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2026-03-14 God Emperor of Dune (Dune book 4) by Frank Herbert, 608 pages
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2026-02-26 redacted, 197 pages
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2026-02-13 The Book of PF, 4th Ed. by Peter N. M. Hansteen, 248 pages
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2026-01-16 Tarsnap Mastery by Michael W. Lucas, 124 pages
2025
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Many books go here… I got behind. Maybe I’ll back-fill them?
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2025-10-05 The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard W. Hamming, 432 pages
2024
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Many books go here… I got behind. Maybe I’ll back-fill them?
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2024-04-17 Programming Ruby 3.3 by Noel Rappin, 718 pages
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2024-04-16 Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, 272 pages
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2024-04-13 Shell Script Pearls by Ron Peters, 318 pages
Geek alert!
(For the interested, I’ve got a Ruby script that gets called from Vim to make it easier to add new reviews to this list: new-book source and my notes about it.)
Other Book links
A book-related website I occasionally use to find titles, authors, and especially series, is LibraryThing. Here’s the page for books most frequently tagged "computer science":