Bookshelf

Books I've read and am currently reading, synced from my Goodreads profile.

Currently reading

• James Percival Everett
• Piranesi Susanna Clarke

2026

• The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman ★★★★★
• Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin ★★★
• A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara ★★★★★
• The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World Haemin Sunim ★★★★★
• The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire Stephen R. Bown ★★★
• Wilderness Camping in the Adirondacks: 25 Hiking and Canoeing Overnight Adventures Bill Ingersoll ★★★★
• The Rest of Us Just Live Here Patrick Ness ★★
• Remarkably Bright Creatures Shelby Van Pelt ★★★
• Niksen: The Dutch Art of Doing Nothing Annette Lavrijsen ★★★

2025

• The God of the Woods Liz Moore ★★★★★
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Jon Krakauer ★★★★
• Project Hail Mary Andy Weir ★★★
• Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1) André Aciman ★★★
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing Marie Kondō ★★★
• SeinLanguage Jerry Seinfeld ★★★
• Life of Pi Yann Martel ★★★
• The Alchemist Paulo Coelho ★★★★
• Invisible Boys Holden Sheppard ★★★★
• The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well Meik Wiking ★★★
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin ★★★★
• On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes Alexandra Horowitz ★★
• The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery Brianna Wiest ★★★★★
• The Brightness Between Us (The Darkness Outside Us, #2) Eliot Schrefer ★★★★
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Erik Larson ★★★
• A History of Canada in Ten Maps: Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land Adam Shoalts ★★★★★
• Small Things Like These Claire Keegan ★★
• Where I Belong Alan Doyle ★★
• You Are Here David Nicholls ★★★

2024

• Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life Héctor García ★★★
• The Rule of 30: A Better Way to Save for Retirement Frederick Vettese ★★★
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid ★★★★
• Treasure Under the Tundra: Canada’s Arctic Diamonds (Amazing Stories) L.D. Cross ★★★
• The Kind Worth Killing (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #1) Peter Swanson ★★★★★
• They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1) Adam Silvera ★★★★
• The Darkness Outside Us (The Darkness Outside Us, #1) Eliot Schrefer ★★★★★
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) Douglas Adams ★★
• Young Mungo Douglas Stuart ★★★
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1) Benjamin Alire Sáenz ★★★★★
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong ★★★★

2023

• The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . . Rick Mercer ★★★★
• Christmas at the Vinyl Cafe Stuart McLean ★★★★
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky ★★★★★
• Lie With Me Philippe Besson ★★★★★
• Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life Bill Perkins ★★★
• Iced Out (Leighton U, #1) C.E. Ricci ★★★★
• Greenlights Matthew McConaughey ★★
• Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage Sherry Sontag ★★
• The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris ★★★★★
• Swimming in the Dark Tomasz Jedrowski ★★★★★
• Red, White & Royal Blue (Red, White & Royal Blue, #1) Casey McQuiston ★★★★
• True Letters from a Fictional Life Kenneth Logan ★★★★★
• How to Be the World's Smartest Traveler (and Save Time, Money, and Hassle) Christopher Elliott ★★
• Alone Against the North: An Expedition into the Unknown Adam Shoalts ★★★
• The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller ★★★★★
• The Escape Book: Can you escape this book? (Escape Book Series) Iván Tapia ★★★
• Health and Health Care Delivery in Canada Valerie Thompson RN PHC NP Primary Care (Retired) ★★★
• Inside the Machine: An Illustrated Introduction to Microprocessors and Computer Architecture Jon Stokes ★★★★★

2022

• The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1) Matt Haig ★★
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones James Clear ★★★★★
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Jon Krakauer ★★★★
• Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions Gayle Laakmann McDowell ★★★★
• The Infinite Game Simon Sinek ★★
• The Terror Dan Simmons ★★
• Money Rules: Rule Your Money, or Your Money Will Rule You Gail Vaz-Oxlade ★★★
• Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir Mark Critch ★★★
• Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning Peter C. Brown ★★★★★
• The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness Morgan Housel ★★★★★
• Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again Eric J. Topol ★★★★
• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee ★★★
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing Burton G. Malkiel ★★★
• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Yuval Noah Harari ★★★★★
• 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think Brianna Wiest ★★★★★
• Johnny Got His Gun Dalton Trumbo ★★★
• Behind These Walls: A look inside one of the deadliest Covid outbreaks in Canadian long term care homes Christie Beattie RPN ★★★★
• The Shack William Paul Young ★★★
• Treating Health Care: How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better (UTP Insights) Raisa Deber ★★★★
• The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy Thomas J. Stanley ★★★
• The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason ★★
• Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School Andrew Hallam ★★★★★
• Wealthing Like Rabbits: An Original Introduction to Personal Finance Robert R. Brown ★★★★★
• The Beginners Guide to Saving and Investing for Canadians Dan Bortolotti ★★★
• Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson ★★★★★

2021

• When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi ★★★★
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis ★★★
• Software Design X-Rays: Fix Technical Debt with Behavioral Code Analysis Adam Tornhill ★★★★
• Your Code As a Crime Scene: Use Forensic Techniques to Arrest Defects, Bottlenecks, and Bad Design in Your Programs Adam Tornhill ★★★★
• Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess Bobby Fischer ★★★★★
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids about Money – That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! Robert T. Kiyosaki ★★★★★
• Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow Matthew Skelton ★★★
• Talking to Canadians Rick Mercer ★★★★★
• The Art Of Saying NO: How To Stand Your Ground, Reclaim Your Time And Energy, And Refuse To Be Taken For Granted (Without Feeling Guilty!) (The Art Of Living Well) Damon Zahariades ★★★
• The Go Programming Language Alan A.A. Donovan ★★★
• The 5am Club Robin Sharma ★★★
• Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems Aurélien Géron ★★★★★
• Gone Girl Gillian Flynn ★★★★
• How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know Brian Ward ★★★
• One Last Thing Before I Go Jonathan Tropper ★★★★★
• All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque ★★★★★
• No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 Graham Bowley ★★★★
• OpenIntro Statistics David Diez ★★★★
• Truth and Honour: The Death of Richard Oland and the Trial of Dennis Oland Greg Marquis ★★★
• The Book Thief Markus Zusak ★★★★★
• No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy ★★★
• The Perfect Storm Sebastian Junger ★★★★★
• Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life Jordan B. Peterson ★★★★
• Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) Ernest Cline ★★★★★
• Bayesian Methods for Hackers: Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Inference Cameron Davidson-Pilon ★★★
• Water for Elephants Sara Gruen ★★★★
• And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic Randy Shilts ★★★★
• Rick Mercer Final Report Rick Mercer ★★★★★
• Healthy Brain, Happy Life: A Personal Program to to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better Wendy Suzuki ★★★
• How to Lie with Statistics Darrell Huff ★★★
• The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) J.R.R. Tolkien ★★★★
• The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) J.R.R. Tolkien ★★★★
• The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) J.R.R. Tolkien ★★★★★
• Clean Agile: Back to Basics Robert C. Martin ★★★★★
• Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition Irving Chernev ★★★★
• The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book Andriy Burkov ★★★★
• Extreme Vinyl Cafe Stuart McLean ★★★★★
• A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman ★★★★★
• Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems Betsy Beyer ★★★★
• Unicorn in the Woods Gordon Pitts ★★★★★
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It Chris Voss ★★★★
• The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson ★★★★
• Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations Nicole Forsgren ★★★★
• Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Beck)) Steve Freeman ★★★
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon ★★★
• The Power of Why Amanda Lang ★★★★
• Out & About In New Brunswick Hank Deichmann ★★★
• The Design of Everyday Things Donald A. Norman ★★★
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike Phil Knight ★★★★★
• Computer & Internet Security: A Hands-on Approach Wenliang Du ★★★
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Jon Krakauer ★★★★
• The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations Gene Kim ★★★★★
• The Martian Andy Weir ★★★★★
• R in Action: Data Analysis and Graphics with R Robert Kabacoff ★★★
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom ★★★★★
• Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson Mitch Albom ★★★★★
• The Unicorn Project Gene Kim ★★★★

2020

• Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) Jiawei Han ★★★
• An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (Springer Texts in Statistics) Gareth James ★★★★★
• Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It Andy Oram ★★★★★
• Practical Statistics for Data Scientists: 50+ Essential Concepts Using R and Python Peter Bruce ★★★
• Nowhere with You: The East Coast Anthems of Joel Plaskett, The Emergency and Thrush Hermit Josh O'Kane ★★★★★
• Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers) Bruce A. Tate ★★★
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values Robert M. Pirsig ★★★★★
• The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine Charles Petzold ★★
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code Martin Fowler ★★★★
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win Gene Kim ★★★★★
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software Erich Gamma ★★★★
• Elegant Objects Yegor Bugayenko ★★★★
• The Object-Oriented Thought Process Matt Weisfeld ★★★
• Hands-On Network Programming with C: Learn socket programming in C and write secure and optimized network code Lewis Van Winkle ★★★★
• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts Kevlin Henney ★★★★★
• The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering Frederick P. Brooks Jr. ★★★
• Clean Architecture Robert C. Martin ★★★★★
• The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers Robert C. Martin ★★★★
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business Charles Duhigg ★★★★★

2019

• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau ★★★★
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life Mark Manson ★★★
• Writing A Compiler In Go Thorsten Ball ★★★★
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship Robert C. Martin ★★★★★
• Writing An Interpreter In Go Thorsten Ball ★★★★
• The C Programming Language Brian W. Kernighan ★★★★
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari ★★★★
• Head First Design Patterns Eric Freeman ★★★★
• Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People Aditya Y. Bhargava ★★★★
• Inside the Machine: An Illustrated Introduction to Microprocessors and Computer Architecture Jon Stokes ★★★★★
• Starting to Unit Test: Not as Hard as You Think Erik Dietrich ★★★
• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos Jordan B. Peterson ★★★★
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master Andy Hunt ★★★★★