Bookshelf | Edward Profio

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

– Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)

Books that I am reading, have read, or will read

2026

INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love cover — IN PROGRESS

The Singularity Is Nearer cover — FINISHED

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking cover — FINISHED

From Bacteria to Bach and Back cover — FINISHED

The Practice of Management cover — FINISHED

Escaping the Build Trap cover — FINISHED

Don't Think of an Elephant! cover — FINISHED

Hands-On Large Language Models cover — FINISHED

Designing Machine Learning Systems cover — FINISHED

Consciousness Explained cover — FINISHED

Cracking the PM Interview cover — FINISHED

Continuous Discovery Habits cover — FINISHED

Introduction to Algorithms cover — FINISHED

Consciousness and the Brain cover — FINISHED

The Staff Engineer's Path cover — FINISHED

The Master and His Emissary cover — FINISHED

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans cover — FINISHED

Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) cover — FINISHED

Girl with a Pearl Earring cover — FINISHED

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach cover — FINISHED

Machine Learning Q and AI cover — FINISHED

The Nvidia Way - Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant cover — FINISHED

Thinking, Fast and Slow cover — FINISHED

Theoretical Neuroscience cover — FINISHED

The Innovator's Dilemma cover — FINISHED

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order cover — FINISHED

The Hard Thing About Hard Things cover — FINISHED

The Return of Martin Guerre cover — FINISHED

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning cover — FINISHED

The Drama of the Gifted Child cover — FINISHED

Principles of Neural Science cover — FINISHED

How to Build a Brain - A Neural Architecture for Biological Cognition cover — FINISHED

The Man in the High Castle cover — FINISHED

The Millionaire Next Door cover — FINISHED

Good Strategy Bad Strategy cover — FINISHED

The Old Man and the Sea cover — FINISHED

2025

The Making of a Manager cover — FINISHED

Designing Data-Intensive Applications cover — FINISHED

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World cover — FINISHED

The Psychology of Money cover — FINISHED

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions cover — FINISHED

The Logic of Scientific Discovery cover — FINISHED

The Beginning of Infinity cover — FINISHED

The Illusion of Conscious Will cover — FINISHED

Only the Paranoid Survive cover — FINISHED

The Man with a Shattered World cover — FINISHED

Never Split the Difference cover — FINISHED

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies cover — FINISHED

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? cover — FINISHED

More Everything Forever cover — FINISHED

Man's Search for Meaning cover — FINISHED

Critique of Pure Reason cover — FINISHED

Prompt Engineering for LLMs cover — FINISHED

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea cover — FINISHED

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant cover — FINISHED

The Death and Life of Great American Cities cover — FINISHED

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers cover — FINISHED

A General Theory of Love cover — FINISHED

Weapons of Math Destruction cover — FINISHED

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat cover — FINISHED

Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow cover — FINISHED

The Feeling of What Happens cover — FINISHED

Fundamentals of Data Engineering cover — FINISHED

The Lean Product Playbook cover — FINISHED

The Design of Everyday Things cover — FINISHED

Climbing Mount Improbable cover — FINISHED

The Wretched of the Earth cover — FINISHED

The Brain: The Story of You cover — FINISHED

The Brain That Changes Itself cover — FINISHED

An Introduction to Statistical Learning cover — FINISHED

2024

The Feeling of Life Itself cover — FINISHED

The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book cover — FINISHED

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution cover — FINISHED

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy cover — FINISHED

The Professor and the Madman cover — FINISHED

Computing: A Concise History cover — FINISHED

The Fearless Organization cover — FINISHED

The Travels of Marco Polo cover — FINISHED

The Soul of a New Machine cover — FINISHED

The Little Book That Beats the Market cover — FINISHED

Where Wizards Stay Up Late cover — FINISHED

Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain cover — FINISHED

The Sciences of the Artificial cover — FINISHED

The Evolution of Cooperation cover — FINISHED

In the Heart of the Sea cover — FINISHED

Complexity: A Guided Tour cover — FINISHED

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction cover — FINISHED

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover — FINISHED

The Pragmatic Programmer cover — FINISHED

Mountains Beyond Mountains cover — FINISHED

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information cover — FINISHED

The Better Angels of Our Nature cover — FINISHED

How the World Really Works cover — FINISHED

Interpreter of Maladies cover — FINISHED

The Happiness Hypothesis cover — FINISHED

A World Lit Only by Fire cover — FINISHED

Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind cover — FINISHED

The Signal and the Noise cover — FINISHED

Darwin's Dangerous Idea cover — FINISHED

The Mind of a Mnemonist cover — FINISHED

2023

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus cover — FINISHED

An Anthropologist on Mars cover — FINISHED

Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain cover — FINISHED

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! cover — FINISHED

The Consolation of Philosophy cover — FINISHED

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding cover — FINISHED

Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Study of Mind cover — FINISHED

Probably Overthinking It cover — FINISHED

A Brief History of Time cover — FINISHED

On the Origin of Species cover — FINISHED

The Island of the Colorblind cover — FINISHED

The Invention of Tradition cover — FINISHED

Generative Deep Learning, 2nd Edition cover — FINISHED

The Geography of Thought cover — FINISHED

The Demon-Haunted World cover — FINISHED

Capital in the Twenty-First Century cover — FINISHED

Philosophical Investigations cover — FINISHED

The Zimmermann Telegram cover — FINISHED

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store cover — FINISHED

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance cover — FINISHED

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum cover — FINISHED

The Battle for Your Brain cover — FINISHED

How Big Things Get Done cover — FINISHED

The Cathedral and the Bazaar cover — FINISHED

A Brief History of Intelligence cover — FINISHED

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind cover — FINISHED

Our Band Could Be Your Life cover — FINISHED

The Creative Act: A Way of Being cover — FINISHED

Amusing Ourselves to Death cover — FINISHED

2022

The Body Keeps the Score cover — FINISHED

The Man Who Knew Infinity cover — FINISHED

The Left Hand of Darkness cover — FINISHED

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism cover — FINISHED

Stories of Your Life and Others cover — FINISHED

The Devil in the White City cover — FINISHED

The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives cover — FINISHED

Difficult Conversations cover — FINISHED

Introduction to Machine Learning with Python cover — FINISHED

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team cover — FINISHED

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks cover — FINISHED

The Making of the Atomic Bomb cover — FINISHED

The Elephant in the Brain cover — FINISHED

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms cover — FINISHED

Mind: A Brief Introduction cover — FINISHED

Good Economics for Hard Times cover — FINISHED

The Ministry for the Future cover — FINISHED

21 Lessons for the 21st Century cover — FINISHED

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind cover — FINISHED

Slouching Towards Bethlehem cover — FINISHED

Notes from a Small Island cover — FINISHED

The Emperor of All Maladies cover — FINISHED

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter cover — FINISHED

The Fall of Constantinople 1453 cover — FINISHED

The Human Use of Human Beings cover — FINISHED

Algorithms of Oppression cover — FINISHED

The Great War and Modern Memory cover — FINISHED

The Elements of Typographic Style cover — FINISHED

2021

Wherever You Go, There You Are cover — FINISHED

The Making of the Fittest cover — FINISHED

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind cover — FINISHED

Waiting for the Barbarians cover — FINISHED

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster cover — FINISHED

The Particle at the End of the Universe cover — FINISHED

The Poisoner's Handbook cover — FINISHED

The Elements of User Experience cover — FINISHED

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone cover — FINISHED

Rethinking Consciousness cover — FINISHED

A Universe of Consciousness cover — FINISHED

The Elements of Statistical Learning cover — FINISHED

Endless Forms Most Beautiful cover — FINISHED

The Smartest Guys in the Room cover — FINISHED

Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design cover — FINISHED

Anarchy, State, and Utopia cover — FINISHED

So Good They Can't Ignore You cover — FINISHED

The End of History and the Last Man cover — FINISHED

I Will Teach You to Be Rich cover — FINISHED

Small Things Like These cover — FINISHED

The Strange Order of Things cover — FINISHED

To Save Everything, Click Here cover — FINISHED

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism cover — FINISHED

This Is Your Brain on Music cover — FINISHED

The Obstacle Is the Way cover — FINISHED

Why I Am Not a Christian cover — FINISHED

Unconditional Parenting cover — FINISHED

The Myth of Artificial Intelligence cover — FINISHED

The C Programming Language cover — FINISHED

Economics in One Lesson cover — FINISHED

Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain cover — FINISHED

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing cover — FINISHED

Principles of Economics cover — FINISHED

Thanks for the Feedback cover — FINISHED

2020

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing cover — FINISHED

The Master and Margarita cover — FINISHED

Letters to a Young Poet cover — FINISHED

How to Win Friends and Influence People cover — FINISHED

The Upside of Irrationality cover — FINISHED

The Ocean at the End of the Lane cover — FINISHED

The Year of Magical Thinking cover — FINISHED

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You cover — FINISHED

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing cover — FINISHED

Life & Times of Michael K cover — FINISHED

The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes cover — FINISHED

Building Machine Learning Powered Applications cover — FINISHED

The Last Days of Socrates cover — FINISHED

The Elements of Moral Philosophy cover — FINISHED

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers cover — FINISHED

First, Break All the Rules cover — FINISHED

Pedagogy of the Oppressed cover — FINISHED

The Non-Designer's Design Book cover — FINISHED

Machine Learning Design Patterns cover — FINISHED

The Worldly Philosophers cover — FINISHED

The Machine That Changed the World cover — FINISHED

The God of Small Things cover — FINISHED

The Highly Sensitive Person cover — FINISHED

When Breath Becomes Air cover — FINISHED

The Price of Inequality cover — FINISHED

Sketching User Experiences cover — FINISHED

The Cheese and the Worms cover — FINISHED

The Internet Is Not the Answer cover — FINISHED

Fundamentals of Software Architecture cover — FINISHED

The Revenge of Geography cover — FINISHED

Cybersecurity and Cyberwar cover — FINISHED

History of the Peloponnesian War cover — FINISHED

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics cover — FINISHED

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk cover — FINISHED

The Problems of Philosophy cover — FINISHED

2019

The Island at the Center of the World cover — FINISHED

The Music of the Primes cover — FINISHED

The Collected Schizophrenias cover — FINISHED

The Computer and the Brain cover — FINISHED

The Checklist Manifesto cover — FINISHED

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao cover — FINISHED

The Hound of the Baskervilles cover — FINISHED

Debt: The First 5,000 Years cover — FINISHED

Good Habits, Bad Habits cover — FINISHED

The Hare with Amber Eyes cover — FINISHED

Existentialism Is a Humanism cover — FINISHED

The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error cover — FINISHED

The Sociopath Next Door cover — FINISHED

Consciousness and the Social Brain cover — FINISHED

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons cover — FINISHED

The Cluetrain Manifesto cover — FINISHED

The Demon in the Freezer cover — FINISHED

The Uninhabitable Earth cover — FINISHED

Computer Power and Human Reason cover — FINISHED

Proust Was a Neuroscientist cover — FINISHED

Why Don't Students Like School? cover — FINISHED

The Man Who Solved the Market cover — FINISHED

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde cover — FINISHED

2018

Between the World and Me cover — FINISHED

Where Good Ideas Come From cover — FINISHED

Through the Language Glass cover — FINISHED

Expert Political Judgment cover — FINISHED

The Deep Learning Revolution cover — FINISHED

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now cover — FINISHED

On the Shortness of Life cover — FINISHED

The Seven Sins of Memory cover — FINISHED

A Philosophy of Software Design cover — FINISHED

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings cover — FINISHED

The Art of Thinking Clearly cover — FINISHED

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money cover — FINISHED

The Discovery of Global Warming cover — FINISHED

Tales from Both Sides of the Brain cover — FINISHED

Lies My Teacher Told Me cover — FINISHED

Click Here to Kill Everybody cover — FINISHED

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time cover — FINISHED

The Talented Mr. Ripley cover — FINISHED

Artificial Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction cover — FINISHED

Envisioning Information cover — FINISHED

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls cover — FINISHED

Adventures in the Screen Trade cover — FINISHED

I'll Be Gone in the Dark cover — FINISHED

Grid Systems in Graphic Design cover — FINISHED

How to Lie with Statistics cover — FINISHED

Artificial Unintelligence cover — FINISHED

Where'd You Go, Bernadette cover — FINISHED

The Innovator's Solution cover — FINISHED

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion cover — FINISHED

The Great Railway Bazaar cover — FINISHED

2017

A Canticle for Leibowitz cover — FINISHED

The Art of the Start 2.0 cover — FINISHED

Business Model Generation cover — FINISHED

A Short History of Financial Euphoria cover — FINISHED

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families cover — FINISHED

Bargaining for Advantage cover — FINISHED

Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future cover — FINISHED

Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace cover — FINISHED

Nonviolent Communication cover — FINISHED

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry cover — FINISHED

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy cover — FINISHED

Conjectures and Refutations cover — FINISHED

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong cover — FINISHED

Strangers in Their Own Land cover — FINISHED

Reading Lolita in Tehran cover — FINISHED

The Unbearable Lightness of Being cover — FINISHED

A Field Guide to Getting Lost cover — FINISHED

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? cover — FINISHED

Rocket Surgery Made Easy cover — FINISHED

Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays cover — FINISHED

The Myth of Repressed Memory cover — FINISHED

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek cover — FINISHED

Discourses and Selected Writings cover — FINISHED

A Visit from the Goon Squad cover — FINISHED

Empire of the Summer Moon cover — FINISHED

Letters to a Young Mathematician cover — FINISHED

FINISHED

Designing Brand Identity Alina Wheeler

Practical Statistics for Data Scientists cover — FINISHED

The Cold War: A New History cover — FINISHED

The Hidden Life of Trees cover — FINISHED

Moonwalking with Einstein cover — FINISHED

Your Money or Your Life cover — FINISHED

Home: A Short History of an Idea cover — FINISHED

Killers of the Flower Moon cover — FINISHED

2016

The Effective Executive cover — FINISHED

The First Three Minutes cover — FINISHED

Down and Out in Paris and London cover — FINISHED

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? cover — FINISHED

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog cover — FINISHED

A Streetcar Named Desire cover — FINISHED

The Consolations of Philosophy cover — FINISHED

The Mind-Gut Connection cover — FINISHED

Articulating Design Decisions cover — FINISHED

Machine Learning: The New AI cover — FINISHED

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck cover — FINISHED

Dreams of a Final Theory cover — FINISHED

Our Mathematical Universe cover — FINISHED

Data Science for Business cover — FINISHED

How We Know What Isn't So cover — FINISHED

Machines of Loving Grace cover — FINISHED

A Guide to the Good Life cover — FINISHED

The Annals of Imperial Rome cover — FINISHED

The Cult of the Amateur cover — FINISHED

The Gifts of Imperfection cover — FINISHED

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) cover — FINISHED

The Practice of Programming cover — FINISHED

The Simple Path to Wealth cover — FINISHED

Globalization and Its Discontents cover — FINISHED

The Dark Knight Returns cover — FINISHED

The Four Steps to the Epiphany cover — FINISHED