Conan Mercer Site Reliability Engineer
Some Books I Have Read
Investing
- Bernard Baruch - James Grant
- Business Adventures - John Brooks
- Learn to Earn - Peter Lynch
- The Manual of Ideas - John Mihaljevic
- Common Sense on Mutual Funds - John C. Bogle
- The Four Pillars of Investing - William J. Bernstein
- Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk - Peter L. Bernstein
- Winning the Loser's Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing - Charles D. Ellis
- Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street - Peter L. Bernstein
- Enough.: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life - John C. Bogle
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing - Burton Malkiel
- The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing - Taylor Larimore
- F Wall Street - Joe Ponzio
- Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012 - Carol J. Loomis
- John Bogle on Investing: The First 50 Years - John C. Bogle
- The Richest Man in Babylon - George S. Clason
- The Bitcoin Standard - Saifedean Ammous
- When Genius Failed - Roger Lowenstein
- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator - Edwin Lefèvre
Software Engineering
- Chaos Engineering - Casey Rosenthal
- Code Complete - Steve McConnell
- Clean Code - Robert Cecil Martin
- Fluent Python - Luciano Ramalho
- Thinking In Systems - Donella H. Meadows
- Scrum: A Pocket Guide: A Smart Travel Companion - Gunther Verheyen
- Scrum Mastery: From Good To Great Servant-Leadership - Geoff Watts
- The Phoenix Project - Gene Kim
Non-Fiction
- Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here's the Science: A scientist’s guide to the biggest challenges facing our species today - Luke O'Neill
- Reinventing Organizations - Frederic Laloux
- Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure - Tim Harford
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win - Jocko Willink
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
- Night - Elie Wiesel
- Born to Run - Christopher McDougall
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Jordan Peterson
- Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life - Jordan Peterson
- Columbine - Dave Cullen
- Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
- The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell
- The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
- Confessions of a Sociopath - M. E. Thomas
- Chernobyl: 20 years on - Adi Roche
- The Governor - John Lonergan
- The wave: In pursuit of the rogues, freaks and giants of the ocean - Susan Casey
- The devils dozen: How cutting-edge forensics took down 12 serial killers - Katherine Ramsland
- The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
- Shock wave: Countdown to Hiroshima - Stephen Walker
- Gotta Get Theroux This - Louis Theroux
- Theroux the Keyhole - Louis Theroux
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman
- Can't Hurt Me - David Goggins
- Never Finished - David Goggins
- No Logo - Naomi Klein
- Outlive - Peter Attia
- It's Not About The Bike - Lance Armstrong
- The Corner - David Simon
- The Talent Code - Daniel Coyle
- 10% Happier - Dan Harris
- The Secret Race - Tyler Hamilton
- Time to Talk - Michael Healy-Rae
- Surviving the Storms - RNLI
- Sam Walton: Made In America - Sam Walton
- Imperial Spain, 1469 - 1716 - J.H. Elliott
- One Crew: The RNLI's Official 200-Year History - Helen Doe
- Evil Spirits: The Life of Oliver Reed - Cliff Goodwin
- A Short History of London - Simon Jenkins
- Poor Charlie's Almanack - Charlie Munger
- Getting to Yes - Roger Fisher
- The Blank Slate - Steven Pinker
- Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's - Ray Kroc
Fiction
- The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson
- The Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolfe
- The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
- The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
- The Labyrinth of the Spirits - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
- The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
- East of Eden - John Steinbeck
- In Dubious Battle - John Steinbeck
- Once There Was a War - John Steinbeck
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck
- Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis
- Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
- Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
- The Cold Dish - Craig Johnson
- Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Giver - Lois Lowry
- The Stranger - Albert Camus
- The Prisoner of Heaven - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- New York - Edward Rutherfurd
- Behind Closed Doors - B.A. Paris
- The Sins of the Father - Jeffrey Archer
- Only Time Will Tell - Jeffrey Archer
- American Gods - Neil Gaiman
- The Angel's Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Fall of Giants - Ken Follett
- All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
- The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
- The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
- High-Rise - J. G. Ballard
- A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
- The Body - William Sansom
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
- 1984 - George Orwell
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- Northern lights - Phillip Pullman
- The outsiders - S E Hinton
- Whiteout - Ken Follet
- The Unquiet - Jeannine Garsee
- The Cuckoos Calling - J. K. Rowling
- Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling
- Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling
- Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
- Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling
- Order of the Phoenix - J. K. Rowling
- Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
- Deathly Hallows - J. K. Rowling
- The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
- Catching fire - Suzanne Collins
- The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- The Birthing House - Christopher Ransom
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
- The Last Wish - Andrzej Sapkowski
- The Figurine - Victoria Hislop