Reading

Books I am currently reading and ones I have finished.

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Currently Reading

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  The Elements of Style

  by William Strunk Jr.

  105 pages

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  Grokking Algorithms, Second Edition: An illustrated guide for programmers and other curious people

  by Aditya Y. Bhargava

  320 pages

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  Kafka: The Definitive Guide: Real-Time Data and Stream Processing at Scale

  by Gwen Shapira

  457 pages

Read by Year

2026

9 books

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  A Practical Dutch Grammar by Yolande Spaans
  Aug 12
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  3e editie Dutch for dummies by Margreet Kwakernaak
  Aug 10
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  Head First Software Architecture: A Learner's Guide to Architectural Thinking by Raju Gandhi
  Aug 4
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  The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
  Jul 5
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  Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann
  Jul 5
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  The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  Jun 18
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  Spring Microservices in Action by John Carnell
  Apr 19
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  The Intelligent Investor, 3rd Ed.: The Timeless Guide to Value Investing and Financial Wisdom for a Volatile Market by Benjamin Graham
  Apr 12
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  Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
  Apr 4

2025

4 books

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  The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns by John C. Bogle
  Dec 15
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  Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design by Kent Beck
  Dec 9
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  Influence, New and Expanded: The Essential Guide to the Psychology of Influence and Persuasion in Everyday Life by Robert B. Cialdini
  Oct 17
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  Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity by Peter Attia
  Jul 14

2024

8 books

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  Spring Boot Persistence Best Practices: Optimize Java Persistence Performance in Spring Boot Applications by Anghel Leonard
  Dec 30
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  Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures by Neal Ford
  Dec 30
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  The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday
  Dec 30
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  Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  Nov 10
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  Fundamentals of Software Architecture: A Modern Engineering Approach by Mark Richards
  Sep 19
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  High-Performance Java Persistence by Vlad Mihalcea
  Aug 24
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  Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy by Vlad Khononov
  Aug 24
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  Dritë që vjen nga humnera by Drita Çomo
  Apr 10

2023

8 books

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  The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery by Andy Hunt
  Dec 26
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  Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
  Sep 27
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  The Outsider by Albert Camus
  Sep 17
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  Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Gabor Maté
  Jul 28
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  The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley
  Apr 9
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  The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  Feb 17
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  The Trial by Franz Kafka
  Jan 21
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  Animal Farm by George Orwell
  Jan 16

2022

8 books

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  Albumi (Biblioteka e traditës) by Fan S. Noli
  Dec 24
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  Pallati i ëndrrave by Ismail Kadare
  Dec 17
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  12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
  Nov 17
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  The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel
  Sep 16
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  Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Julie Smith
  Jul 5
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  Watchmen by Alan Moore
  Jun 18
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  Who Rules The World by Noam Chomsky
  Apr 16
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  Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
  Jan 1

2020

1 book

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  Learn Bash the Hard Way by Ian Miell
  Jun 23

2019

3 books

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  The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  Apr 14
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  Java Web Services: Up and Running by Martin Kalin
  Mar 26
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  RESTful Java with Jax-RS by Bill Burke
  Mar 26

2018

6 books

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  JavaScript and jQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development by Jon Duckett
  Dec 3
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  HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites by Jon Duckett
  Nov 13
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  The Garbage Times/White Ibis: Two Novellas by Sam Pink
  Aug 28
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  Death (Death of the Endless, #1-2) by Neil Gaiman
  Aug 8
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  Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin
  May 13
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  EJB 3 in Action by Reza Rahman Et Al Debu Panda
  Feb 3

2017

2 books

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  Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too by Jomny Sun
  Jul 16
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  Pro JPA 2 (Expert's Voice in Java) by Mike Keith
  Apr 7

2016

2 books

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  Java EE 7 Essentials: Enterprise Developer Handbook by Arun Gupta
  Sep 21
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  Core Java: Fundamentals by Cay S. Horstmann
  May 28

Date not recorded

22 books

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  Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz
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  My Mind is Not a Billboard by Sam Pink
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  99 Poems to Cure Whatever's Wrong With You or Create The Problems You Need by Sam Pink
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  Spring in Action, Sixth Edition by Craig Walls
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  Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
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  Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach by Marten Deinum
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  The Judgment and other stories by Franz Kafka
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  Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson
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  Beginning Java Programming: The Object-Oriented Approach by Bart Baesens
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  Business Process Management for Dummies by IBM Corporation
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  Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1: Developing Enterprise Java Components by Bill Burke
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  Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional by Magnus Lie Hetland
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  Pro Spring by Chris Schaefer
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  OCE Oracle Database SQL Certified Expert Exam Guide (Exam 1Z0-047) (Oracle Press) by Steve O'Hearn
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  Your Glass Head against the Brick Parade of Now Whats by Sam Pink
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  The Fall (Vintage International) by Albert Camus
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  Rontel by Sam Pink
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  Person by Sam Pink
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  I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It by Sam Pink
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  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
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  American Gods (American Gods, #1) by Neil Gaiman
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  The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays by Albert Camus

Source: Goodreads