## Currently Reading - [[Never Let Me Go]] - Kazuo Ishiguro - Status: Exploring themes of humanity and mortality - [[Atomic Habits]] - James Clear - Focus: Building better systems - Progress: Chapter 4 ## Recently Completed ### Outstanding (5/5) - [[The Remains of the Day]] - Literary Fiction - Themes: Dignity, regret, duty versus fulfillment - Impact: Profound meditation on constrained lives - [[Yellowface]] - Literary Satire - Themes: Cultural appropriation, publishing industry - Impact: Sharp critique of literary ambition ### Great (4/5) - [[Something in the Water]] - Psychological Thriller - Themes: Moral choices, greed, trust erosion - Impact: Compelling exploration of relationship dynamics - [[The Housemaids Secret]] - Domestic Thriller - Themes: Power dynamics, deception, class - Impact: Masterful genre execution ## Reading Statistics ### 2024 Progress - Books Completed: 5+ - Current Pace: Varies by month - Goal: 24 books - Status: On track ### Genre Breakdown - Literary Fiction: 3 - Psychological Thrillers: 3 - Non-Fiction: 1 - Self-Development: 1 ## Reading Queue 1. Deep Work 2. Project Hail Mary 3. Staff Engineer ## Complete Reading List - [[People We Meet on Vacation]] - [[Im Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom]] - [[Sing Unburied Sing]] - [[How to End a Love Story]] - [[Lets Explore Diabetes with Owls]] - [[The Winner]] - [[Good Material]] - [[Thinking Fast and Slow]] - [[Grit]] - [[Creation Lake]] - [[Feel-Good Productivity]] - [[The Paris Apartment]] - [[Hello Beautiful]] - [[Daring Greatly]] - [[Kill for Me Kill for You]] - [[An Unquiet Mind]] - [[The Housemaid]] - [[Dark Matter]] - [[Boy Parts]] - [[Storyworthy]] - [[Deep Learning]] - [[Skin Cleanse]] - [[What the Hell Did I Just Read]] - [[Eight]] - [[The Perfect Couple]] - [[Him]] - [[Cultish]] - [[Madwoman]] - [[The Surrender Experiment]] - [[Funny Story]] - [[This Book Is Full of Spiders]] - [[Klara and the Sun]] - [[Someday Is Today]] - [[The Housemaids Secret]] - [[Yellowface]] - [[The Body Keeps the Score]] - [[Happy]] - [[Ill Be Gone in the Dark]] - [[The Courage to Be Disliked]] - [[First Lie Wins]] - [[Smart Brevity]] - [[None of This Is True]] - [[Presence]] - [[Cracking the PM Career]] - [[Books]] - [[What We Owe the Future]] - [[The Guest List]] - [[Never Let Me Go]] - [[The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo]] - [[The Winner Effect]] - [[Mindset]]