compsecmonkey / Reading-List

A repo containing my reading list

My Reading List

About

This repo contains the list of most of the books I have read on my own accord as an adult. Primary motivation for this is two fold

1. Personal reference for books spanning across multiple sources
2. Serve as a reference to point friends, colleagues and random people on the internet for good reads.

Right now the list is contained to just this readme with titles and authors broken into broad categories. Eventually I would like to add links, track when the book was read, notes, etc.

Recommendations

There are certainly books on this list that have influeneced me more than others but few that I would flat out not recommend reading. For now I have refrained from marking particular books as highly recommended or don't recommend. However, if you are interested in recommendations or want to talk about a certain category / book I am always open to the conversation!

Currently On Deck

• Alan Turing: The Enigma ➖ Andrew Hodges

Table of Contents

• Leadership and Team Building
• Memoirs
• Cyber
• Science, Technology, Engineering, Math
• Financial
• Military / Government
• Personal / Self-Help
• Politics
• Misc
• Fun
• 100 Books to Read Before You Die
• Reference Books
  • C
  • Data Analysis
  • Databases
  • DevOps
  • General Security
  • Incident Response / Analysis
  • Networking
  • Network Security
  • Operating Systems / Computer Architechture
  • Python
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Scripting
  • Software Engineering
• Podcasts
• Stats

Leadership and Team Building

• Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & flow ➖ Dominica Degrandis
• Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations ➖ Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
• Crucial Conversations (Third Edition) ➖ Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Emily Gregory
• The DevOps Handbook ➖ Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis, and Jez Humble
• The Talent War ➖ Mike Sarraille
• Remote: Office Not Required ➖ Jason Fried , David Heinemeier Hansson
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us ➖ Daniel H. Pink
• The Art of HUNTING HUMANS: A radical and confronting explanation of the human mind ➖ Sidney Mazzi
• Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting For ➖ Jonathan Raymond
• Culture Wins ➖ William Vanderbloemen
• Trillion Dollar Coach ➖ Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
• Leadership Strategy and Tactics ➖ Jocko Willink
• Leaders Made Here: Building A Leadership Culture ➖ Mark Miller
• Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days ➖ Jake Knapp John Zeratsky Braden Kowitz
• The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviors that Transform Ordinary People into World-Class Leaders ➖ Tahl Raz, Kim R. Powell, Elena L. Botelho
• Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization ➖ Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey
• The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win ➖ Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
• Rework ➖ Jason Fried David, Heinemeier Hansson
• Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders ➖ L. David Marquet
• First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently ➖ Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman, Jim Harter - foreword
• The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues: A Leadership Fable ➖ Patrick M. Lencioni
• Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable ➖ Tim S. Grover
• Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team ➖ Simon Sinek, David Mead, Peter Docker
• Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. ➖ Bren Brown
• Born to Build: How to Build a Thriving Startup, a Winning Team, New Customers and Your Best Life Imaginable ➖ Jim Clifton, Sangeeta Badal
• Taking Point: A Navy SEAL's 10 Fail Safe Principles for Leading Through Change ➖ Brent Gleeson, Mark Owen - foreword
• Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent ➖ Sydney Finkelstein
• Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility ➖ Patty McCord
• The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Anything ➖ Daniel Coyle
• Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity ➖ Kim Scott
• The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups ➖ Daniel Coyle
• Starship Troopers ➖ Robert A. Heinlein
• Emotional Intelligence 2.0 ➖ Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves
• Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't ➖ Simon Sinek
• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win ➖ Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers ➖ Ben Horowitz
• The Right Kind of Crazy: A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation ➖ Adam Steltzner, William Patrick
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future ➖ Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win 5th Anniversary Edition ➖ Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
• Take Command: Lessons in Leadership: How to Be a First Responder in Business ➖ Jake Wood
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action ➖ Simon Sinek
• Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach ➖Dandridge M. Malone
• Notes to a Software Team Leader: Growing Self Organizing Teams ➖ Roy Osherove
• Developing the Leaders Around You ➖ John C. Maxwell

Memoirs / Biographys

• Spare ➖ Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
• Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living ➖ Nick Offerman
• Elon Musk: A Mission to Save the World ➖ Anna Crowley Redding
• Ranger Confidential ➖ Andrea Lankford
• My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla ➖ Nikola Tesla
• Bitcoin Billionaires ➖ Ben Mezrich
• Steve Jobs ➖ Walter Isaacson
• First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong ➖ James R. Hansen
• Shoe Dog ➖ Phil Knight
• A Promised Land ➖ Barack Obama
• Decision Points ➖ George W. Bush
• The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company ➖ Robert Iger
• My Share of the Task: A Memoir ➖ Gen. Stanley McChrystal
• Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations ➖ William H. McRaven
• My American Journey: An Autobiography ➖ Colin Powell
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood ➖ Tevor Noah
• Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life Without Losing Its Soul ➖ Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon
• Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead ➖ Jim Mattis, Bing West
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! ➖ Richard P. Feynman
• Principles: Life and Work ➖ Ray Dalio
• Capital Gaines: The Smart Things I've Learned by Doing Stupid Stuff ➖ Chip Gaines
• Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed ➖ Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
• A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service ➖ Robert M. Gates
• Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War ➖ Robert M. Gates
• Leading ➖ Sir. Alex Ferguson

Cyber

• We Are All Targets: How Renegade Hackers Invented Cyber War and Unleashed an Age of Global Chaos ➖ Matt Potter
• This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race ➖ Nicole Perlroth
• The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics ➖ Ben Buchanan
• Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World ➖ Joseph Menn
• The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage ➖ Cliff Stoll
• Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy ➖ Eric O'Neill
• Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers ➖ Andy Greenburg
• The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats ➖ Richard A. Clarke, Robert K. Knake
• Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat ➖ John P. Carlin, Garrett M. Graff
• American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road ➖ Nick Bilton
• The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age ➖ David E. Sanger
• The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security ➖ Kevin Mitnick
• Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage ➖ Gordon Corera
• Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union ➖ Stephen Budiansky
• Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War ➖ Fred Kaplan
• Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground ➖ Kevin Poulsen
• We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency ➖ Parmy Olson
• Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking ➖ Paul Wilson (foreword), Christopher Hadnagy
• @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex ➖ Shane Harris
• Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon ➖ Kim Zetter
• Schneier on Security ➖ Bruce Schneier, Ken Maxon
• Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker ➖ Kevin Mitnick, William L. Simon
• Worm ➖ Mark Bowden
• Cyber War ➖ Richard A. Clarke
• Cyber Crime Fighters: Tales From The Trenches ➖ Donovan Bernier
• Fatal System Error ➖ Joseph Menn
• Art of Intrusion ➖ Kevin Mitnick
• Art of Deception ➖ Kevin Mitnick

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math

• Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age ➖ Michael Hiltzik
• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation ➖ Jon Gertner
• Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics ➖ Stephon Alexander
• Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft ➖ Peter Westwick
• Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut ➖ Nicholas Schmidle
• Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing ➖ Peter Robison
• The Case for Mars ➖ Robert Zubrin
• Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems ➖ Marianne Bellotti
• Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age ➖ Robert Stone , Alan Andres
• The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket ➖ Benjamin Lorr
• The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It ➖ Shawn Lawrence Otto
• Liftoff ➖ Eric Berger
• The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition: Your Journey to Mastery ➖ David Thomas , Andrew Hunt
• Spaceport Earth: The Reinvention of Spaceflight ➖ Joe Pappalardo
• Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster ➖ Allan J. McDonald , James R. Hansen - contributor* The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World ➖ Simon Winchester
• How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need ➖ Bill Gates
• Chasing the Demon: A Secret History of the Quest for the Sound Barrier, and the Band of American Aces Who Conquered It ➖ Dan Hampton
• The Cryotron Files: The Untold Story of Dudley Buck, Cold War Computer Scientist and Microchip Pioneer ➖ Iain Dey , Douglas Buck , Alan Dewey
• Blood, Sweat, and Pixels ➖ Jason Schreier
• The Pleasure of Finding Things Out ➖ Richard P. Feynman
• A Seat At The Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility ➖ Eric Martin
• The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America ➖ Margaret O'Mara
• Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation ➖ Blake Harris
• Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech ➖ Geoffrey Cain
• Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age :heavy_minus_sign: Leslie Berlin
• Facebook: The Inside Story ➖ Steven Levy
• One Giant Leap: The Untold Story of How We Flew to the Moon ➖ Charles Fishman
• Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World ➖ Clive Thompson
• Energy: A Human History ➖ Richard Rhodes
• This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress ➖ John Brockman
• We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory ➖ Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
• Bitwise: A Life in Code ➖ David Auerbach
• The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World ➖ Brad Stone
• The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups ➖ Randall Stross
• The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google ➖ Scott Galloway
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startu ➖ John Carreyrou
• Valley of Genius ➖ Adam Fisher
• The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World ➖ Randall E. Stross
• Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race ➖ Tim Fernholz
• Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built ➖ Duncan Clark
• Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone ➖ Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw, Bill Gates - foreword
• Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley ➖ Antonio Garcia Martinez
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon ➖ Brad Stone
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future ➖ Ashlee Vance
• The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency ➖ Annie Jacobsen
• Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex ➖ Michael Hiltzik
• Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and Control Your World ➖ Bruce Schneier
• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution ➖ Walter Isaacson
• Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier ➖ Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty ➖ Vikram Chandra
• Googled: The End of the World as We Know It ➖ Ken Auletta
• In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives ➖ Steven Levy
• ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer ➖ Scott McCartney
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet ➖ Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon
• Skunk Works ➖ Ben. R. Rich
• Riding Rockets ➖ Mike Mullane
• A Ball, A Dog, and A Monkey: 1957 The Space Race Begins ➖ Michael D'antonio
• Magnificant Desolation ➖ Buzz Aldrin
• Final Countdown ➖ Duggins
• Carrying The Fires ➖ Michael Collins
• Failure Is Not An Option ➖ Gene Kranz
• Hackers ➖ Steven Levy
• The Mythical Man Month ➖ Brooks
• Computers Power and Human Reason ➖ Weizenbaum
• The Soul of a New Machine ➖ Tracy Kidder
• Computing In The Middle Ages ➖ Severo M. Ornstein
• Computing ➖ Ceruzzi
• Dreaming In Code ➖ Scott Rosenberg
• The Big Switch ➖ Nicholas Carr
• How Apollo Flew to The Moon ➖ Woods
• Live! From Cape Canaveral ➖ Jay Barbree
• To Engineer Is Human ➖ Petroski
• Rocket Men ➖ Craig Nelson
• Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity and the Red Planet ➖ Steve Squyers

Financial

• The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees ➖ Ben Mezrich
• Invested: How Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger Taught Me to Master My Mind, My Emotions, and My Money (with a Little Help from My Dad) ➖ Danielle Town, Phil Town
• Financial Freedom: A Proven Path to All the Money You Will Ever Need ➖ Grant Sabatier, Vicki Robin - foreword
• The Dumb Things Smart People Do with Their Money: Thirteen Ways to Right Your Financial Wrongs ➖ Jill Schlesinger
• Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics ➖ Richard Thaler
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Succesful Investing ➖ Burton Malkiel
• The Investors Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between ➖ William Bernstein
• The Elements of Investing ➖ Malkiel
• The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness ➖ Dave Ramsey

Military / Government

• The Rebel and the Kingdom ➖ Bradley Hope
• The Bomber Mafia ➖ Malcolm Gladwell
• Never Mind, We'll Do It Ourselves ➖ Alec Beirbauer, Mark Cooter
• Dark Waters ➖ Lee Vyborny
• Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage ➖ Sherry Sontag , Christopher Drew
• The 300: The Inside Story of the Missile Defenders Guarding America Against Nuclear Attack ➖ Daniel Wasserbly
• Minuteman: A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare ➖ David Stumpf
• Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare ➖ Thomas Rid
• The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America ➖ James Bamford
• Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal ➖ Ben MacIntyre
• To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence ➖ James M. Olson
• Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins ➖ Annie Jacobsen
• Three Minutes to Doomsday: An Agent, a Traitor, and the Worst Espionage Breach in U.S. History ➖ Joe Navarro
• The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy ➖ Andrew Krepinevich, Barry Watts
• Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet ➖ Jonathan Schneer
• The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War ➖ Ben Macintyre
• Countdown 1945 ➖ Chris Wallace, Mitch Weiss
• Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History ➖ Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger
• George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved America ➖ Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger
• Bletchly Park and D-Day ➖ David Kenyon
• The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare ➖ Christian Brose
• A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II ➖ Simon Parkin
• American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent ➖ Tamer Elnoury, Kevin Maurer
• The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization ➖ James Bamford
• Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat ➖ Giles Milton
• The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan ➖ Michael Hastings
• The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin ➖ Steven Lee Myers
• The Sword and the Shield ➖ Christopher Andrew, Vasilli Mitrokhin
• Eisenhower's Armies ➖ Niall Barr
• Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy ➖ Micah Zenko
• Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror ➖ Michael V. Hayden
• Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War ➖ Mary Roach
• The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II ➖ Winston Groom
• Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World ➖ Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, Chris Fussell
• Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad: How to Be a Counterintelligence Officer ➖ William R. Johnson
• Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 ➖ Marcus Lutrell, Patrick Robinson
• Company Commander: A World War II Oral History Interview with Arnold Brown ➖ Aaron Elson
• Finding The Target ➖ Kagan
• The Closed World ➖ Edwards
• Boyd ➖ Robert Coram
• Wired For War ➖ P.W. Singer
• Joker One ➖ Donovan Campbell
• Chasing Ghosts ➖ Paul Rieckhoff
• Band of Brothers ➖ Stephen Ambrose

Personal / Self-Improvement

• Getting More: How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work and Life ➖ Stuart Diamond
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones ➖ James Clear
• Think Again ➖ Adam Grant
• The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't ➖ Julia Galef
• Working from Home: Making the New Normal Wokr for You ➖ Karen Mangia
• Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less ➖ Michael Hyatt
• The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts ➖ Gary Chapman
• Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts ➖ Annie Duke
• Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact ➖ Phil M. Jones
• Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know ➖ Malcolm Gladwell
• Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations ➖ Thomas L. Friedman
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking ➖ Malcolm Gladwell
• Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success ➖ Brad Stulberg, Steve Magness
• The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure ➖ Grant Cardone
• If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating ➖ Alan Alda
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It ➖ Chris Voss
• Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges ➖ Amy Cuddy
• Total Focus: Making Better Decisions Under Pressure ➖ Brandon Webb, John David Mann
• A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas ➖ Warren Berger
• The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss ➖ Dr. Jason Fung
• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions ➖ Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
• Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...and Maybe the World ➖ William H. McRaven
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life ➖ Mark Manson
• Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much ➖ Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
• You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life ➖ Jen Sincero
• So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love ➖ Cal Newport
• The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness ➖ Todd Rose
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World ➖ Cal Newport
• David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants ➖ Malcolm Gladwell
• Talk Like TED: The 9 Public Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds ➖ Carmine Gallo
• The Road to Character ➖ David Brooks
• The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs ➖ Amy Wilkinson
• Outliers: The Story of Success ➖ Malcolm Gladwell
• The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes ➖ William Ury
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change ➖ Stephen R. Covey
• How to Win Friends & Influence People ➖ Dale Carnegie

Sports

• Soccernomics ➖ Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski

Politics

• Peril ➖ Bob Woodward, Robert Costa
• Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept ➖ Robert Spalding
• The War On Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Income Is Our Future ➖ Andrew Yang
• Atlas Shurgged ➖ Ayn Rand
• Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House ➖ Michael Wolff

Misc

• Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law ➖ Mary Roach
• The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics ➖ Barton Swaim
• The National Parks: America's Best Idea ➖ Dayton Duncan , Ken Burns
• On Grand Strategy ➖ John Lewis Gaddis
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer ➖ Donella H. Meadows
• Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out: Goose Island, Anheuser-Busch, and How Craft Beer Became Big Business ➖ Josh Noel

Fun

• Tom Clancy Red Winter: A Jack Ryan Novel, Book 22 ➖ Marc Cameron
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ➖ J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ➖ J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ➖ J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ➖ J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ➖ J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ➖ J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Sorcer's Stone ➖ J.K. Rowling
• Tom Clancy Target Acquired ➖ Don Bentley
• Tom Clancy Zero Hour: A Jack Ryan Jr. Novel, Book 9 ➖ Don Bentley
• Rogue Squadron: Star Wars Legends ➖ Michael A. Stackpole
• Star Wars: The Fallen Star (The High Republic) ➖ Claudia Gray
• Tom Clancy Chain of Command ➖ Marc Cameron
• Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy (Book III: Lesser Evil) ➖ Timothy Zahn
• The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From the Next Generation to J. J. Abrams ➖ Edward Gross, Mark A. Altman
• Star Wars: The Rising Storm (The High Republic) ➖ Cavan Scott
• Dooku: Jedi Lost ➖ Cavan Scott
• Resistance Reborn ➖ Rebecca Roanhorse
• Phasma ➖ Delilah S. Dawson
• Star Wars: Bloodline - New Republic ➖ Claudia Gray
• Victory's Price (Star Wars): An Alphabet Squadron Novel ➖ Alexander Freed
• Shadow Fall (Star Wars): An Alphabet Squadron Novel ➖ Alexander Freed
• Alphabet Squadron ➖ Alexander Freed
• Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy (Book II: Greater Good) ➖ Timothy Zahn
• Project Hail Mary ➖ Andy Weir
• Star Wars: Light of the Jedi: The High Republic ➖ Charles Soule
• Catalyst ➖ James Luceno
• Star Wars: Queen's Shadow ➖ E.K. Johnston
• The Machine Stops ➖ E.M Forster
• Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising, Book 1 ➖ Timothy Zahn
• Thrawn: Treason ➖ Timothy Zahn
• Thrawn: Alliances ➖ Timothy Zahn
• Thrawn (Star Wars) ➖ Timothy Zahn
• Tom Clancy Shadow of the Dragon ➖ Marc Cameron
• From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back ➖ Seth Dickinson , Hank Green , R. F. Kuang , Martha Wells , Kiersten White
• Tom Clancy Firing Point ➖ Mike Maden
• Ender's Game ➖ Orson Scott Card
• CyberSpace: A CyberStorm Novel (Cyber Series, Book 1) ➖ Matthew Mather
• Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, Book 3: The Last Command ➖ Timothy Zahn
• Star Wars: Dark Force Rising: The Thrawn Trilogy, Book 2 ➖ Timothy Zahn
• Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, Book 1: Heir to the Empire:heavy_minus_sign: Timothy Zahn
• Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi: The Legends of Luke Skywalker ➖ Ken Liu
• Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire (Star Wars) ➖ Delilah S. Dawson
• Tom Clancy Code of Honor ➖ Marc Cameron
• Tom Clancy Enemy Contact ➖ Mike Maden
• Tom Clancy Oath of Office: Jack Ryan Novel Series, Book 19 ➖ Marc Cameron
• Tom Clancy Line of Sight: Jack Ryan Jr., Book 4 ➖ Mike Maden
• Tom Clancy: Power and Empire: A Jack Ryan Novel, Book 18 ➖ Marc Cameron
• From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars) ➖ Rene Ahdieh, Meg Cabot, Pierce Brown, Nnedi Okorafor, Sabaa Tahir
• Artemis ➖ Andy Weir
• State of War: Tom Clancy's Net Force #7 ➖ Steve Perry, Larry Segriff
• Tom Clancy's Net Force #5: Point of Impact ➖ Netco Partners
• Tom Clancy's Net Force #4: Breaking Point ➖ Netco Partners
• Tom Clancy's Net Force #3: Night Moves ➖ Netco Partners
• Line of Control: Tom Clancy's Op-Center #8 ➖ Tom Clancy Steve Pieczenik Jeff Rovin
• Divide and Conquer: Tom Clancy's Op-Center #7 ➖ Tom Clancy Steve Pieczenik Jeff Rovin
• State of Siege: Tom Clancy's Op-Center #6 ➖ Tom Clancy Steve Pieczenik Jeff Rovin
• Balance of Power: Tom Clancy's Op-Center #5 ➖ Tom Clancy Steve Pieczenik Jeff Rovin
• Acts of War: Tom Clancy's Op-Center #4 ➖ Tom Clancy Steve Pieczenik Jeff Rovin
• Games of State: Tom Clancy's Op-Center #3 ➖ Tom Clancy Steve Pieczenik Jeff Rovin
• Mirror Image: Tom Clancy's Op-Center #2 ➖ Tom Clancy Steve Pieczenik Jeff Rovin
• Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Tom Clancy's Op-Center #1 ➖ Tom Clancy Steve Pieczenik Jeff Rovin
• Tom Clancy Point of Contact: Jack Ryan Jr., Book 3 ➖ Mike Maden
• Doubleshot: James Bond Series, Book 33 ➖ Raymond Benson
• Zero Minus Ten: James Bond Series ➖ Raymond Benson
• The Circle ➖ Dave Eggers
• The Sum of All Fears ➖ Tom Clancy
• Clear and Present Danger ➖ Tom Clancy
• Patriot Games ➖ Tom Clancy
• Red Storm Rising ➖ Tom Clancy
• The Hunt for Red October ➖ Tom Clancy
• The Cardinal of the Kremlin ➖ Tom Clancy
• The Bear and the Dragon ➖ Tom Clancy
• Rainbow Six ➖ Tom Clancy
• Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance: A Jack Ryan Novel, Book 17 ➖ Mark Greaney
• Never Dream of Dying: James Bond Series, Book 34 ➖ Raymond Benson
• Trigger Mortis: With Original Material by Ian Fleming ➖ Anthony Horowitz
• Carte Blanche: The New James Bond Novel ➖ Jeffery Deaver
• Without Remorse ➖ Tom Clancy
• CyberStorm ➖ Matthew Mather
• Colonel Sun: James Bond, Book 15 ➖ Kingsley Amis
• Tom Clancy Duty and Honor: A Jack Ryan Jr. Novel ➖ Grant Blackwood
• The Martian ➖ Andy Weir
• Tom Clancy Commander-in-Chief ➖ Mark Greaney
• Tom Clancy Under Fire: A Jack Ryan Jr. Novell ➖ Grant Blackwood
• Octopussy and The Living Daylights, and Other Stories: James Bond, Book 14 ➖ Ian Fleming
• The Man with the Golden Gun: James Bond, Book 13 ➖ Ian Fleming
• You Only Live Twice: James Bond, Book 12 ➖ Ian Fleming
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service: James Bond, Book 11 ➖ Ian Fleming
• The Spy Who Loved Me: James Bond, Book 10 ➖ Ian Fleming
• Thunderball: James Bond, Book 9 ➖ Ian Fleming
• For Your Eyes Only, and Other Stories: James Bond, Book 8 ➖ Ian Fleming
• Goldfinger: James Bond, Book 7 ➖ Ian Fleming
• Dr. No: James Bond, Book 6 ➖ Ian Fleming
• From Russia with Love: James Bond, Book 5 ➖ Ian Fleming
• Diamonds Are Forever: James Bond, Book 4 ➖ Ian Fleming
• Moonraker: James Bond, Book 3 ➖ Ian Fleming
• Live and Let Die: James Bond, Book 2 ➖ Ian Fleming
• Full Force and Effect: A Jack Ryan Novel ➖ Mark Greaney
• Tom Clancy Support and Defend: A Campus Novel ➖ Mark Greaney
• Red Rabbit ➖ Tom Clancy
• Debt of Honor: A Jack Ryan Novel ➖ Tom Clancy
• Against All Enemies ➖ Tom Clancy, Peter Telep
• Rogue Code: A Jeff Aiken Novel ➖ Mark Russinovich
• Trojan Horse: A Jeff Aiken Novel, Book 2 ➖ Mark Russinovich
• Zero Day: A Jeff Aiken Novel ➖ Mark Russinovich
• Command Authority ➖ Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney
• Threat Vector ➖ Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney
• Dead or Alive ➖ Tom Clancy, Grant Blackwell
• Locked On ➖ Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney
• Breakpoint ➖ Richard A. Clarke
• Red Sky ➖ Mike Mulane

100 Books to Read Before You Die

• Fahrenheit 451 ➖ Ray Bradbury

Reference Books

These are technical books that I have not neccessarily read cover to cover but own as references.

3D Printing

• 3D Printing Projects ➖ DK
• The Zombie Apocalypse Guide to 3D Printing ➖ Clifford Smyth

C

• Power C
• Programming In C ➖ Kochan
• C++ In 24 Hours ➖ Liberty, Horvath
• Secure Coding in C and C++ ➖ Seacord
• C and the 8051 ➖ Thomas Schultz

Data Analysis

• Python Data Cleaning Cookbook ➖ Michael Walker
• Truthful Art, The: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (Voices That Matter) ➖ Cairo, Alberto
• Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas: A Python data science handbook for data collection, wrangling, analysis, and visualization ➖ Molin, Stefanie
• Practical Data Analysis Using Jupyter Notebook ➖ Marc Wintjen
• Discovering Knowledge in Data ➖ Larose
• Data-Driven Security: Analysis, Visualization, and Dashboards ➖ Jacobs, Rudis

Databases

• MySQL: Visual Quickstart Guide ➖ Ullman
• PHP6 and MySQL 5 ➖ Ullman

DevOps

• The Book of Kubernetes: A Complete Guide to Container Orchastration ➖ Alan Hohn
• The Kubernetes Bible: The definitive guide to deploying and managing Kubernetes across major cloud platforms ➖ Kebbani, Nassim
• Hacking Kubernetes - Threat-Driven Analysis and Defense ➖ Andrew Martin & Michael Hausenblas
• Kubernetes Operators - Automating the Container Ochestration Platform ➖ Jason Dobies & Joshua Wood
• Container Security: Fundamental Technology Concepts that Prtect Containerized Applications ➖ Liz Rice
• gRPC up and Running - Building Cloud Native Applications with Go and Java for Docker and Kubernetes ➖ Kasun Indrasiri & Danesh Kuruppu
• Cloud Native Infrastructure: Patterns for Scalable Infrastructure and Applications in Dynamic Enviornments ➖ Justin Garrison and Kris Nova
• Kubernetes Patterns: Reusable Elements for Designing Cloud-Native Applications ➖ Bilgin Ibryam, Roland Hub
• Microservice Architechture ➖ Nadaeishvili, Mitra, McLarty, Amundsen

General Security

• Dissecting the Hack
• Cyber Warfare
• Beautiful Security ➖ Oram, Viega
• The Myths of Security ➖ Viega
• Effective Monitoring and Alerting

Go

• Network Programming With Go ➖ Adam Woodbeck
• Blackhat Go ➖ Chris Patten, Dan Kottmann, and Tom Steele
• Cloud Native Go ➖ Matthew A. Titmus

Incident Response / Analysis

• Intelligence-Driven Incident Response: Outwitting the Adversary ➖ Scott J. Roberts, Rebekah Brown
• BTFM: Blue Team Field Manual ➖ Alan White, Ben Clark
• RTFM: Red Team Field Manual
• Forensics Field Guide for Linux ➖ Malin, Casey, Aquilina

Networking

• Data and Computer Communications ➖ Stallings
• Internetworking. with TCP/IP: Principles, Protocols and Architechture ➖ Comer
• Internetworking and Computing over Satellite Networks ➖ Zhang
• TCP/IP Guide ➖ Kozierok
• Networking Bible ➖ Sosinsky
• CCNA Routing and Switching Portable Command Guide ➖ Empson

Network Security

• The Practice of Network Security Monitoring ➖ Bejtlich
• Applied Network Security Monitoring ➖ Sanders, Smith
• Practical Packet Analysis ➖ Sanders
• Network Intrusion Detection ➖ Northcutt, Novak
• Network Security Through Data Analysis ➖ Collins
• The Tao of Network Security Monitoring ➖ Bejtlich
• Network Security:Private Communication in a Public World ➖ Kaufman, Perlman, Speciner
• Network Security Essentials: Applications and Standards ➖ Stallings

Operating Systems / Computer Architechture

• Operating System Concepts ➖ Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne
• The Linux Programming Interface ➖ Kerrisk
• Linux Cookbook ➖ Stutz
• Hacking Linux Exposed ➖ Hatch, Lee, Kurtz
• How Linux Works ➖ Ward
• The Official Ubuntu Book ➖ Hill
• Ubuntu Kung Fu ➖ Thomas
• Computer Architecture: A Quantatative Approach ➖ Hennessy, Patterson
• Computer Systems: A Programmers Perspective ➖ Bryant

Python

• Python Testing Cookbook ➖ Greg Turnquist
• Python Testing ➖ Daniel Arbuckle
• Phython One-Liners ➖Christian Mayer
• Effective Python ➖ Slatkin
• Python Cookbook ➖ Beazley, Jones
• Fluent Python ➖ Ramalho
• Dive Into Python ➖ Pilgrim
• Violent Python
• Mastering Flask ➖ Jack Stouffer
• Flask Framework Cookbook ➖ Shalabh Aggarwal

Malware Analysis / Reverse Engineering

• Malware Data Science - Attack Detection and Attribution ➖ Joshua Zaxe & Hillary Sanders
• Practical Binary Analysis ➖ Dennis Andriesse
• Windows Internals - Part 1: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more ➖ Pavel Yosifovich, Alex Ionescu, Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Soloman
• Rootkits and Bootkits: Reversing Modern Malware and Next Generation Threats ➖ Alex Matrosov, Eugene Rodionov, Sergey Bratus
• The IDA Pro Book: The unofficial guide to the world's most popular disassembler ➖ Chris Eagle
• The Rootkit Arsenal: Escape and Evasion in the Dark Corners of the System ➖ Blunden
• Hacking: The Art of Exploitation ➖ Erickson
• Malware Analyst's: Tools and Techniques for Fighting Malicious Code ➖ Ligh, Adair, Hartstein, Richard
• Malware: Fighting Malcious Code ➖ Skoudis
• Practical Malware Analysis: The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software ➖ Sikorski, Honig
• The Ghidra Book: The Definitive Guide ➖ Eagle, Chris
• Practical IoT Hacking: The Definitive Guide to Attacking the Internet of Things ➖ Chantzis, Fotios

Scripting

• PowerShell and Python Together: Targeting Digital Investigations ➖ Chet Hosmer
• Wicked Cool Shell Scripts ➖ Taylor, Perry
• Webbots, SPiders and Screen Scrapers ➖ Schrenk
• Automate the Boring Stuff ➖ Sweigart

Software Engineering

• Software Engineering: Thoery and Practices ➖ Pfleeger, Altee
• Software Engineering: 8 ➖ Sommerville

Podcasts

Podcasts that I actively follow and enjoy. I tend to listen to podcasts in batchs (dont listen for several months and catch up in one big group)

• Mission Log - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL21pc3Npb25sb2cubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M
• Home Assistant - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9oYXNzcG9kY2FzdC5pby9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Q

Stats

• 2020 - 75
• 2021 - 51
• 2022 - 28