Ask HN: As the year is about to end, what books did you read?

The only Non-fiction book I read through was Fooled by Randomness by Nassem Taleb.

I also checked off The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov off my list.

I have been on a sci-fi/fantasy kick lately:

* The Magicians by Lev Grossman * Binti by Nnedi Okarafor * The Truth of the Divine by Lindsay Ellis

Currently working my way through The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin. I did read a few essay from Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion, but her work is too much of her time for me to truly appreciate it.

Fiction: 1. It (Stephen king) 2. The Stand (Stephen King) 3. Fire and Blood

Non Fiction: 1. It looks impossible until its done 2. The Laws of Human nature 3. 48 Laws of Power 4. Brain always wins.

    The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons by Liu Hsieh, 
    translated by Vincent Yu-chung Shih, 1959

One quarter of the way in. #chefskiss!

All Lous L’amour westerns

Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

Waking Up: Spirituality without religion, Sam Harris

Work related:

Refactoring by Martin Fowler

A philosophy of Software Design by... I can't recall. (it's still a great book!)

TDD by example, Kent beck