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Books recommendations

I read a lot. I track all my owned & read books on Goodreads, feel free to add me for mutual recommendations!

Last updated: July 2024

Favourite books

Fiction

• Overall: House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
• Art: Tales from the Loop (Simon Stålenhag)
• Crime: The Godfather (Mario Puzo)
• Horror: The Shining (Stephen King)
• Sci-fi: Annihilation (Jeff VanderMeer)
• Short stories: Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (David Eagleman)
• Historical: The Terror (Dan Simmons)
• Thriller: Requiem for a Dream (Hubert Selby Jr)

Non-fiction

• Autobiography: How To Build A Car (Adrian Newey)
• Biology: Other Minds (Peter Godfrey-Smith)
• Biography: Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes (Rob Wilkins)
• Engineering: Engineering in Plain Sight (Grady Hillhouse)
• History (American): Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Brown)
• History (European): KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (Nikolaus Wachsmann)
• Medicine: The Hot Zone (Richard Preston)
• Self-Help: Atomic Habits (James Clear)
• Software: Building Mobile Apps At Scale (Gergely Orosz (I’m credited in this!))
• Travel: The Road to Little Dribbling (Bill Bryson)

Favourite authors

Whilst there might be books I’ve enjoyed more in each genre, there are some authors that I’ve read almost everything they’ve written, and found it consistently excellent.

• Sci-fi (& overall): Isaac Asimov
• Horror: Stephen King
• Comedy: Terry Pratchett
• Non-fiction: George Orwell