I always take notes while reading books, except fiction. Though I read at least 8-12 books in a (good) year, 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.

Books Read So far: 67

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.
• When I am overwhelmed and off track, I follow 20 pages rule - read 20 pages a day, don't bother to absorb, give it 5-10 days depending on how distracted I am, it always brings me on track.
• 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.
• Sometimes when I don't enjoy the book, I keep it back. If it's some subject I really want to understand, I try multiple times. I have books which I've been trying to read for last 4 years and still can't go beyond 30%. I have books that I put back to shelf after few tries, then completed them after a gap of 5 months. There is no one rule to read books, attention is all you need.

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

• I Who Have Never Known Men
• All the lovers in the night
• The Road
• Station 11^
• Before the coffee gets cold
• 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
• Recursion
• Abandon
• Earthlings

Non Fiction

• Flow - The classic Work on how to achieve happiness
• The Courage To Be Disliked
• Soul of a New Machine
• Surely You Are Joking Mr. Feynmann^
• Same As Ever
• 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
• Ikigai
• The Great Mental Models I
• The Great Mental Models II
• You And Your Bike

Technical

• Neural Network From Scratch
• Is Maths Real
• 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^
• Database Internals
• 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
• Python Cookbook
• Automating Boring Stuff With Python
• How to think like a computer scientist