.. title: 2018 in Books .. slug: 2018-in-books .. date: 2019-01-04 06:58:17 UTC-08:00 .. tags: .. category: Books .. link: .. description: .. type: text In 2018, I read 19 books that I have kept track via GoodReads. These were some notable books that I had read. * Lauren Ipsum - A Story about Computer Science and Other Improbable Things by Carlos Bueno * Apache Mesos Essentials by Darmesh Kakadia * Beyond the Door by Philip K Dick * Manga Guide to Linear Algebra by Shin Takahashi * Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond * Chaos: Making of a new science by James Gleick * Yummy Sourashtra Recipe Book by my parents * Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson * The Mysterious affairs at Styles by Agatha Christie * The Hackers Diet by John Walker * Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold * The Best we could do by Thi Bui * I am Home, the portraits of immigrant teenagers by Erica McConnell, Rachel Neumann and Thi Bui * The Myth of a strong leader: Political leadership in the modern age by Archie Brown * Stranger in a strange land by Robert Heinlein