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krenkz
Currently reading (4)
How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer, Sebastian Rosato
Java Persistence with Spring Data and Hibernate by Catalin Tudose
Effective Java: Third Edition by Joshua Bloch
I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Second Edition: No Guilt. No Excuses. No Bs. Just a 6-Week Program That Works by Ramit Sethi

Mainly reads nonfiction books that are informative, challenging, and reflective.

Typically chooses slow-paced books that are 300-499 pages long.

Read recently
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World by Anu Bradford
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Grokking The Java Developer Interview: More Than 200 Questions To Crack The Java, Spring, SpringBoot & Hibernate Interview by Jatin Arora

To-Read Pile
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The Melian Dialogue by Thucydides
The Melian Dialogue
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Thucydides
God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 1: The Origins to 1795 by Norman Davies
Josephus by Lion Feuchtwanger
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney

Challenges

2023 Reading Goal

18 books

78% (14 books)

Hosted challenges
Read at least 2 books on economics in 2023

3 prompts | 4 participants | 2 books added

Re-read 5 great books in 2023

4 prompts | 1 participant | 14 books added

Antiquity reading challenge

7 prompts | 4 participants | 4 books added