Quick shelf so future-me remembers what’s here. Trying to read more fiction without turning this into a review blog.

Status key

  • ✅ Done
  • 📖 In progress
  • 💤 On deck
  • 📚 Reference
  • 🔁 Re-reading / Reference

Fiction & narrative

  • Dune — Frank Herbert (📖) — slow, savoring the desert politics.
  • Yellowface — R.F. Kuang (✅) — sharp and fast.
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — Gabrielle Zevin (✅) — friendship + games.

Light reads & meta

  • Anxious People — Fredrik Backman (✅) — small-town chaos.
  • Strange Planet — Nathan W. Pyle (✅) — palate cleanser panels.
  • Chip War — Chris Miller (💤) — parked for a focused weekend.

Systems & engineering

  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Martin Kleppmann (🔁) — storage sanity checks.
  • Concurrency in Go — Katherine Cox-Buday (🔁) — goroutine compass.
  • The Software Engineering Guidebook — Gergely Orosz (✅) — read on release.

Language & reference

  • The Go Programming Language — Donovan & Kernighan (✅) — read deeply.
  • Zero to Production in Rust — Luca Palmieri (📖) — paused midway.
  • Writing an Interpreter / Compiler in Go — Thorsten Ball (📚) — reach-for guides.