Ask HN: What are you reading?
Going to be asking this every few weeks. It's the unofficial HN book club/reading list! If you feel willing, please leave 3 titles: one you've read, one you are reading, and one you plan to read.
Recently finished: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, HIGHLY recommend it. He details the work he and his team at the Equal Justice Initiative have been doing for death row inmates without proper representation, many wrongly imprisoned for decades. Depressing but inspiring. Never go to Alabama.
Next up: Amory Lovins' Reinventing Fire, which has been on my list for a while. Saw him speak a few years back and got inspired. (I've no connection outside sharing the same name)
Reading: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Martin Fowler So far so good. The first bit is overview, good contrasting examples of when to use what pattern. I've slowed down now that I've hit the actual patterns.
Planning: Clean Code, Robert Martin. Recommended by a coworker.
Reading: Dover's abstract algebra paperback
Planning: Cambridge's Demosthenes Selected Private Speeches
Getting More by Stuart Diamond
Classic Myths to Read Aloud by William Russell
The Power of Positive Dog Training by Pat Miller