Reading List

I’m getting serious about writing in English just this year, and this post will track my reading list in order to see how my writing skills advance along reading more.

2019

Literacy

1. King, Stephen. On writing. Simon and Schuster, 2002.
2. Rule, Ann. Every breath you take: a true story of obsession, revenge, and murder. Simon and Schuster, 2002.
3. James Patterson, 12th of Never.
4. Parker, Geoffrey G., Marshall W. Van Alstyne, and Sangeet Paul Choudary. Platform revolution: how networked markets are transforming the economyand how to make them work for you. WW Norton & Company, 2016.
5. Díaz, Junot. This is how you lose her. Penguin, 2013. (Could not finish due to the author’s extensive usage of idioms which I have troubles to understand)
6. Strunk, William. The elements of style. Penguin, 2007.
7. SEE, LISA. ISLAND OF SEA WOMEN. SCRIBNER UK, 2020.
8. Morton, Kate. The Clockmaker’s Daughter. Atria Books, 2018
9. Rothfuss, Patrick. The Name of the Wind. Daw Books, 2008

Technical

1. Kleinberg, Jon, and Eva Tardos. Algorithm design. Pearson Education India, 2006.
2. Skiena, Steven S. The algorithm design manual: Text. Vol. 1. Springer Science & Business Media, 1998.
3. Manber, Udi. Introduction to algorithms: a creative approach. Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., 1989.

2020

1. Rothfuss, Patrick. The Wise Man’s Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle. Hachette UK, 2011.
2. Mystery, Pierce, Black. If She Knew: Kate Wise Mystery Series, 2018
3. M. Louisa Locke, Maids of Misfortune: A Victorian San Francisco Mystery #1, 2009.

12/25/2019

It is only four months since I decided to track my journey to bring my English writing and vocabulary to the next level, but I can clearly see the progress I made. Reading is way less stressful and more of a pleasure; writing itself comes out more fluently. “Finish the sentence! Always!” This constantly resonates in my mind as I was and am writing, the best I got from my writing English tutor who herself is a student in Linguistics.

2020, I shall keep reading, writing, learning, and see where I can get.