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Books I plan to read in 2018. Think I should change this list? Send a PR!

  • Shift (Hugh Howey)
  • Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought (Drew Neil)
  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
  • Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Ed Catmull)
  • Dust (Hugh Howey)
  • Haskell Programming from First Principles (Christopher Allen & Julie Moronuki)
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
  • Hamilton: The Revolution (Lin-Manuel Miranda)
  • The Martian (Andy Weir)
  • Purely Functional Data Structures (Chris Okasaki)
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson)
  • Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man (William Shatner)
  • Bloodline (Claudia Gray)
  • Hacker's Delight (Henry S. Warren)
  • A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
  • Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (Margot Lee Shetterly)
  • I Am Number Four (Pittacus Lore)
  • Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Developer Best Practices) (Charles Petzold)
  • The Gene: An Intimate History (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
  • Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars (Nathalia Holt)
  • The Fall of Five (Pittacus Lore)
  • Code Complete (Developer Best Practices) (Steve McConnell)
  • How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country (Daniel O'Brien)
  • iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It (Steve Wozniak)
  • The Power of Six (Pittacus Lore)
  • The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) (Brian W. Kernighan)
  • Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Randall Munroe)
  • Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character (Richard Feynman)
  • The Rise of Nine (Pittacus Lore)
  • Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series) (Michael Feathers)
  • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman (Richard Feynman)
  • Project Smoke: Seven Steps to Smoked Food Nirvana, Plus 100 Irresistible Recipes from Classic (Slam-Dunk Brisket) to Adventurous (Steven Raichlen)
  • The Revenge of Seven (Pittacus Lore)
  • The Algorithm Design Manual (Steven S Skiena)
  • Smuggler's Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki (Martin Cate)
  • The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success (William N. Thorndike Jr.)
  • The Fate of Ten (Pittacus Lore)
  • How Linux Works, 2nd Edition: What Every Superuser Should Know (Brian Ward)
  • Getting to Yes: Negotiating an Agreement Without Giving In (Roger Fisher)
  • Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products (Leander Kahney)
  • United as One (Pittacus Lore)
  • Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech (Sara Wachter-Boettcher)
  • Whiskey: A Spirited Story with 75 Classic and Original Cocktails (Michael Dietsch)
  • The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data (Kevin Mitnick)
  • Mogworld (Yahtzee Croshaw)
  • Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development (Jim Blandy)
  • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (Yuval Noah Harari)
  • Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World (Bill Nye)
  • Jam (Yahtzee Croshaw)
  • Algorithms (Robert Sedgewick)
  • Shrubs: An Old Fashioned Drink for Modern Times (Michael Dietsch)
  • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Brad Stone)
  • Artemis (Andy Weir)
  • The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Andrew Hunt)
  • Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking (Douglas R. Hofstadter)
  • Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual (Jocko Willink)
  • Tesla: Man Out of Time (Margaret Cheney)
  • Half Way Home (Hugh Howey)
  • Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories (Hugh Howey)
  • Fermented: A beginner's guide to making your own sourdough, yogurt, sauerkraut, kefir, kimchi and more (Charlotte Pike)
  • The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups (Randall E. Stross)
  • Beacon 23 (Hugh Howey)
  • The Well Grounded Rubyist (David A. Black)
  • How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion (Daniel H. Wilson)
  • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (Greg McKeown)
  • Robocalypse (Daniel H. Wilson)
  • Everyday Rails Testing with RSpec: A practical approach to test-driven development (Aaron Sumner)
  • Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (Jocko Willink)
  • The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
  • Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby) (Sandi Metz)
  • Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
  • Fermat’s Last Theorem (Simon Singh)
  • The Cuckoo's Egg (Michele Armstrong)
  • Legend (Marie Lu)
  • Prodigy (Marie Lu)
  • Champion (Marie Lu)
  • Speaker for the Dead (Orson Scott Card)
  • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Brian Christian)
  • Xenocide (Orson Scott Card)
  • Multitenancy with Rails (Ryan Bigg)
  • Children of the Mind (Orson Scott Card)
  • Armada (Ernest Cline)
  • Prisoners of Geography (Tim Marshall)
  • Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson)
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle)
  • Norwegian Wood (Lars Mytting)
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
  • Daemon (Daniel Suarez)
  • Palace of Dreams (Ishmael Kadare)
  • Clojure for the Brave and True (Daniel Higginbotham)
  • Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert M. Pirsig)
  • [] The One Thing (Gary Keller)
  • [] Deep Work (Cal Newport)