About Me
last updated: 2025-01-24 05:47:52.742891
Hi! Welcome to my bookshelf. I try to upload everything I'm currently reading here, including books, papers, and general gibberish. My portfolio: https://mattvredevoogd.com
Les Miserables
last updated: 2025-01-02 22:30:11.377186
The Road
last updated: 2023-01-28 18:07:21.554942
Moby Dick
last updated: 2022-12-25 18:03:43.666594
Buried in the Sky
last updated: 2022-12-18 19:06:11.855340
Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers: Asymptotic Methods and Perturbation Theory
last updated: 2022-08-08 23:26:59.351741
American Icon
last updated: 2022-07-24 19:09:06.820679
The Box
last updated: 2022-07-23 09:19:56.796964
The Overstory
last updated: 2022-07-18 15:30:29.940323
The Diamond Age
last updated: 2022-04-14 05:39:53.004535
Rockets and People, Pt 1-4
last updated: 2022-04-13 05:06:30.763633
Book lists I think are interesting
last updated: 2022-01-24 07:22:02.505852
https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf https://macwright.com/reading/ https://www.bookshelf.town/user/josh
Fourier Analysis and Its Applications
last updated: 2022-01-23 03:16:55.868373
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
last updated: 2022-01-17 05:00:08.652657
By Richard Hamming, reference from Stripe Press: https://press.stripe.com/the-art-of-doing-science-and-engineering
Crafting Interpreters
last updated: 2025-07-21 00:11:43.667360
Cadillac Desert
last updated: 2025-07-20 18:16:02.979657
Walden
last updated: 2025-07-09 19:19:39.638896
Finite Difference Methods for Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations
last updated: 2023-11-04 04:18:00.983360
Organic Chemistry 2nd Ed.
last updated: 2022-12-27 22:53:01.017942
I am reading this book against my will. This is a call for help.
Strapdown Analytics I & II
last updated: 2022-09-13 03:35:08.841009
The Soviet Chess Primer
last updated: 2022-05-07 02:14:49.281137
Hayduke Lives!
finished: 2025-08-01 02:03:41.532393
Down the River
finished: 2025-08-01 02:03:08.060840
The Exploration of the Colorado and It’s Canyons
finished: 2025-07-16 01:29:23.887589
The Monkey Wrench Gang
finished: 2025-07-14 00:03:39.832770
Beyond the Wall
finished: 2025-07-09 19:22:14.952430
Desert Solitare
finished: 2025-07-09 19:21:21.591855
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
finished: 2025-07-09 19:20:22.508579
Seveneves
finished: 2025-04-01 03:28:10.778253
The Brothers Karamazov
finished: 2024-09-02 00:00:00
A Walk in the Park
finished: 2025-01-02 22:28:31.830224
Wise Man's Fear
finished: 2024-06-11 14:25:40.907930
Name of the Wind
finished: 2024-05-25 23:15:24.942360
Skunk Works
finished: 2024-01-17 03:53:23.574110
Neuromancer
Silo: book 3
finished: 2023-07-10 07:00:00
Silo: book 2
finished: 2023-07-09 21:27:53.313820
Silo: book 1
finished: 2023-07-09 21:27:35.110922
Snowcrash
More than my fair share of it all.
finished: 2023-07-05 07:00:00
Excellent autobiography by Kelly Johnson.
Termination Shock
finished: 2022-12-25 18:06:40.190546
Termination Shock was a Neil Stephenson veneer over a Tom Clancy or Clive Cussler novel. Less interesting (with much less world building) than his older novels like Cryptonomicon or Anathem.
Prelude to Foundation
finished: 2022-12-13 06:10:56.569431
New York 2140
finished: 2022-07-18 15:29:50.593724
Homage to Catalonia
finished: 2022-07-13 04:43:57.528670
Mars Underground
finished: 2022-06-24 21:07:53.804738
A Childhood in Prison
finished: 2022-06-24 17:43:07.828465
Tracks Across Alaska
finished: 2022-06-19 21:11:54.987052
Memoir by Alastair Scott recounting his 1988 dog-sled 'expedition' from anchorage to Nome. Alastair is an entertaining author and manages to sneak in quite a bit of interesting history as he travels through the Yukon.
Fatal Storm
finished: 2022-06-18 19:11:33.025302
Korolev
finished: 2022-06-11 20:44:39.008048
Bio of Sergei P Korolev, architect of the Soviet space program.
The Crying of Lot 49
finished: 2022-06-05 22:10:53.717236
By Thomas Pynchon. I would like to say I enjoyed the book, but truly I finished reading in a fog, unable to distinguish between the scathing critique of 60s LA, analysis of mail service in the medieval Holy Roman Empire, and whatever boat Pynchon’s parody of the Beatles was stealing at the time. 10/10.
High Vacuum
finished: 2022-06-05 09:52:19.953770
Mining the Sky
finished: 2022-05-17 00:02:39.802753
A short, somewhat technical introduction to the resources available on the lunar surface and in the asteroid belt by John S. Lewis. Similar in detail to Structures by J.E. Gordon and very approachable.
October Light
finished: 2022-04-08 03:15:50.552225
50 Short Science Fiction Tales
finished: 2022-04-06 01:54:30.260295
What do You Care What Other People Think?
finished: 2022-04-04 14:46:46.428397
Part 2 of Richard Feynman’s sort of autobiography. I recommend this book to anyone working in the sciences or engineering, particularly the second half in which Feynman reviews his work on the Challenger investigation.
All Quiet on the Western Front
finished: 2022-04-04 00:46:14.232550
Kayaking the Vermillion Sea
finished: 2022-04-03 16:08:35.692924
Eight Hundred Miles Down the Baja by Jonathan Waterman.
The Silent Patient
finished: 2022-03-25 05:49:14.275611
The Mother Tongue - English and How it Got That Way
finished: 2022-02-19 19:44:01.518254
I have enjoyed this jumbled heap of facts. 9/10.
Project Hail Mary
finished: 2022-02-04 23:57:43.201022
Near future SciFi by Andy Weir (of The Martian) that asks the question: what would space bacteria look like? I dunno, it was a little overhyped, but still a fun read.
Leviathan Falls - The Expanse
finished: 2022-01-29 07:36:23.648393
Last book in the Expanse series. The books are pulpy SciFi grounded in thoroughly constructed theoretical technologies.