My Year in Books 2026

By: Mark Drummond On: Thu 31 December 2026
In: README
Tags: #books

[DNF] means did not finish. Usually a bad sign. [R] means a re-read.

My Goodreads.

In Progress

  • Barling, Julian. The Science of Leadership.
  • Buchmann, Johannes A., et al. Introduction to Public Key Infrastructures.
  • Donovan, Alan; Kernighan, Brian. The Go Programming Language.
  • Edwards, Alex. Let's Go.
  • Farrell, Warren. Role Mate to Soul Mate.
  • Galloway, Scott. Notes on Being a Man.
  • Kahn, David. The Codebreakers. If, at ~1,000 pages, this seems overwhelming, read Singh's The Code Book instead. But if you want the deets, this is the one and only.
  • Lockhart, Paul. Measurement.
  • Marquet, David. Turn the Ship Around!.
  • Petzold, Charles. The Annotated Turing.
  • Rais, Razi. Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator.
  • [R] Rippetoe, Mark. Starting Strength, 3rd Ed. A re-read in that I have a well-worn copy of the second edition that has been my main lifting bible for many years (alongside Jonathon M. Sullivan and Andy Baker's The Barbell Prescription, now that I am an Old). I bought the third edition mainly because it describes the so-called "Press 2.0" exercise.
  • Seguin, Karl. The Little Go Book.
  • Stephenson, Neil. Seveneves.
  • Taleb, Nassim. The Black Swan.
  • Watkins, Michael D. The First 90 Days.

The Stand Outs

Worth a Read

  • Cheshire, Jim. Microsoft Azure Fundamentals.
  • Diogenes, Yuri, et al. Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals.
  • Sapkowski, Andrezej. Crossroads of Ravens. It felt a bit weak in the beginning, but I ended up really enjoying this. Makes me want to play Witcher 3 again.

YMMV

Not Recommended


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