TBR: To Be Read

Below is just some of my To Be Read (TBR)…

Last Updated (CY): 2025 Q2

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Tech Related

• Cult of the Dead Cow, By Joseph Menn
• Permanent Record, By Edward Snowden
• The Deal of the Century: The Breakup of AT&T, By Steve Coll
• Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age, By Michael Hiltzik
• Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate, By Zoë Quinn

No Starch Press

• DevOps for the Desperate, By Bradley Smith
• Practical Vulnerability Management, By Andrew Magnusson
• Cybersecurity for Small Networks, By Seth Enoka
• Network Programming with Go, By Adam Woodbeck
• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python – Practical Programming for Total Beginners, By Al Sweigart
• How Cybersecurity Really Works: A Hands-On Guide for Total Beginners, By Sam Grubb
• Learning ESP8266 – Build the Internet of Things with the Arduino IDE & Raspberry Pi, By Alasdair Allan
• Penetration Testing with Raspberry Pi, By Michael McPhee, Jason Beltrame

O’Reilly Publishing

• Site Reliability Engineering – How Google Runs Production Systems, By Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Murphy
• The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE, By Betsy Beyer, Niall Richard Murphy, David K. Rensin
• Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems

Packt Publishing

• Mastering Ubuntu Server, 4th Ed., By Jay LaCroix
• Applied Network Security, By Arthur Salmon, Warun Levesque, Michael McLafferty
• Python: Penetration Testing for Developers, By Christopher Duffy, Mohit, Cameron Buchanan, Terry Ip, Andrew Mabbitt
• Penetration Testing: A Survival Guide, By Wolf Halton, Bo Weaver, Juned Ahmed Ansari, Srinivasa Rao Kotipalli, El. al.

Non Tech

• Rich Girl Nation, By Katie Gatti Tassin
• Laziness Does Not Exist, By Devon Price, PhD
• Me vs. Brain, By Hayley Morris
• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, By Nir Eyal and Ryan Hoover
• LIFTOFF: Couch to Barbell, By Casey Johnston
• A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting, By Casey Johnston
• The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life, By Anu Partanen
• The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back, By Donald Cohen ,Allen Mikaelian
• Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom, By Grace Blakeley
• The Martian, By Andy Weir
• Project Hail Mary, By Andy Weir
• Artemis, By Andy Weir
• LIFTOFF: Elon Musk and The Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX, By Eric Berger
• Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, By Richard Hofstadter
• Jam, By Yahtzee Croshaw

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