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# 📚 Book Reviews — 2024 Reading List

# 📚 Book Reviews — 2024 Reading List

**Total read:** 12 books

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Pragmatic Programmer
*Andrew Hunt & David Thomas*

A timeless guide for developers. The "broken windows" theory of code quality is something I think about constantly.

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Educated
*Tara Westover*

A stunning memoir about growing up in a survivalist family in Idaho and earning a PhD from Cambridge. Impossible to put down.

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Midnight Library
*Matt Haig*

A novel about infinite possible lives. Emotionally resonant — occasionally heavy-handed but ultimately uplifting.

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### ⭐⭐⭐ The Martian
*Andy Weir*

Fun, fast-paced hard sci-fi. The protagonist's humor carries the book through its more technical stretches.

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## Currently Reading

- *Thinking, Fast and Slow* — Daniel Kahneman
- *Project Hail Mary* — Andy Weir

## Up Next

1. The Name of the Wind — Patrick Rothfuss
2. Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari
3. Dune — Frank Herbert