I generally don't like to have reading goals, I pick my books very mindfully. For technical and self improvement books I usually deeply understand topics, practice them and see how I can incorporate principles into my life. I read a lot of non-technical books too.
Below are the fiction, non-fiction and technical books I've read and some tricks I use to keep the reading streak.
Favourites are marked with ^
Fiction
- And Then There Were None
- Hitchhiker's Guide To Galaxy^
- Life Universe And Everything^
- Restaurant At The End of The Universe^
- So Long And Thanks For All The Fish^
- Mostly Harmless
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Farenheit 451
- Mistborn: The Final Empire^
- Mistborn: The Well of Ascension^
- Mistborn: The Hero of Ages^
- Mistborn: Alloy of Law^
- Mistborn: Shadows of Self^
- Mistborn: The Bands of Mourning^
- Stormlight archives: The Way of Kings^
- Stormlight archives: The Words of Radiance^
- Stormlight archives: The Edge Dancer
- Stormlight archives: OathBringer^
- Warbreaker
- Elantris
- Upgrade
- Abandon
- Earthlings
- Before the coffee gets cold
- Station 11^
Non Fiction
- Surely You Are Joking Mr. Feynmann^
- Range
- Build^
- Zero to One
- Same as Ever
- Fooled By Randomness
- Radical Uncertainty
- So Good They Can't Ignore You^
- How To Fail at almost Everything and Still Win Big^
- Nudge
- When
- The Great Mental Models
Technical
- The Phoenix Project^
- Clean Code
- The Pragmatic Programmer^
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- The Interpreter Book^
- Curious Moon
- Impostor's Handbook^
- Designing Data Intensive Systems^
- Fundamentals Of Software Architecture
- Software Engineering at Google^
- An Elegant Puzzle - Systems of Engineering Management
- Why Leaders Eat Last
- Go Programming Language
- C Programming Language
Here are few tricks I follow to keep my reading streak:
- Whenever I travel, I carry a book with me. Sometimes when I book flights, I will also decide the book to read, mostly I finish them.
- I pickup one fiction and one non-fiction at a time, when the non-fiction becomes too dry, the fiction saves me:)
- I don't read to finish a book, I read to enjoy the book. Unless I have a deadline to learn new tech, I don't have deadlines for my books.