Kevin Whitaker

Kevin Whitaker

Data scientist, writer, learner

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Reading

I review most of the books I read on GoodReads — follow me here.

Favorite books I read in 2022:

  • Piranesi
  • A Tale of Two Cities
  • Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry…
  • The Power Law
  • A Philosophy of Software Design
  • Expecting Better

Favorite books I read in 2021:

  • Being Mortal
  • The Left Hand of Darkness
  • Cloud Atlas
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb
  • Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Favorite books I read in 2020:

  • The Great Believers
  • Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
  • The Color of Law
  • How to Take Smart Notes
  • The Spy and the Traitor
  • Nothing to See Here
  • The Dutch House

Favorite books I read in 2019:

  • Architects of Intelligence
  • Uncivil Agreement
  • Red Notice
  • Home Fire
  • 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York
  • The Three-Body Problem (and the rest of the series)
  • Schism: China, America, and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System

Other favorites:

  • The Only Rule is It Has To Work
  • Salt Fat Acid Heat
  • Baseball in the Garden of Eden
  • Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
  • The Numbers Game
  • It’s Complicated
  • Catch-22