Max Bickers

Bookshelf

Favorites

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Status and Culture by W. David Marx
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein
Crashed by Adam Tooze
Heaven and Hell by Bart D. Ehrman
Quiet by Susan Cain
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces by P.R. Halmos
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

2024

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Programming Massively Parallel Processors by David B. Kirk and Wen-mei W. Hwu
Status and Culture by W. David Marx
Masters of Doom by David Kushner
How Jesus Became God by Bart D. Ehrman
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

2023

Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
Saving Time by Jenny Odell
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein
Number Go Up by Zeke Faux
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
Abaddon's Gate by James S. A. Corey
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey
Architecture Patterns with Python by Harry Percival and Bob Gregory
Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
Connect by David Bradford, Ph.D. and Carole Robin, Ph.D.
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Machine Learning Design Patterns by Valliappa Lakshmanan, Sara Robinson and Michael Munn
Robust Python by Patrick Viafore
Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives by John C. Hull
Python for Data Analysis by Wes McKinney
Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Quantum Computing Since Democritus by Scott Aaronson
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
Wind / Pinball by Haruki Murakami
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Atomic Habits by James Clear
The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Seven Databases in Seven Weeks by Luc Perkins, Eric Redmond and Jim Wilson
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Domain Modeling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin
Zealot by Reza Aslan
Crashed by Adam Tooze
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Exhalation by Ted Chiang

2022

Rogues by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Heaven and Hell by Bart D. Ehrman
Jesus the Apocalyptic Prophet by Cecilia Wassen and Tobias Hägerland
This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Quiet by Susan Cain
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
Zen Bridge by Keido Fukushima
Freedom From the Market by Mike Konczal

2021

A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Grand Union by Zadie Smith
Ignition! by John Drury Clark
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
Effective Python by Brett Slatkin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Effective Java by Joshua Bloch
Operating Systems: Principles and Practice by Thomas Anderson and Michael Dahlin
Understanding Analysis by Stephen Abbott
Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis by John A. Rice
Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces by P.R. Halmos
Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Go Programming Language by Alan A. A. Donovan and Brian W. Kernighan

2020

Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine by Tamar Amar-Dahl
The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by Bruce Tate
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment by W. Richard Stevens and Stephen A. Rago
Naive Set Theory by P. R. Halmos
Yes We (Still) Can by Dan Pfeiffer
Dune by Frank Herbert

Undated

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut