# Bookshelf

- Canonical: https://drimchansky.dev/en/bookshelf/
- All: 144 · Fiction: 94 · Non-fiction: 50

## Currently reading

- **A Promised Land** — Barack Obama · English

## 2026

- **Pollen** — Jeff Noon · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Software Engineer's Guidebook** — Gergely Orosz · 4 out of 5 · English
- **Reef** — Alexey Polyarinov · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike** — Phil Knight · 5 out of 5 · English
- **Center of Gravity** — Alexey Polyarinov · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Continuous Discovery Habits** — Teresa Torres · 4 out of 5 · English
- **Prisoners of Power** — Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Golden Calf** — Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov · 5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Vurt** — Jeff Noon · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Cadavres** — Alexey Polyarinov · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Jedi Techniques of Constructive Communication** — Alexander Orlov · 1.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Never Split the Difference** — Chris Voss · 4.5 out of 5 · English

## 2025

- **Neverwhere** — Neil Gaiman · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement** — Eliyahu M. Goldratt · 4 out of 5 · English
- **Marabou Stork Nightmares** — Irvine Welsh · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Design of Everyday Things** — Donald A. Norman · 5 out of 5 · English
- **The City and Its Uncertain Walls** — Haruki Murakami · 4.5 out of 5 · English
- **Thinking in Systems: A Primer** — Donella H. Meadows · Did not finish · Russian
- **Telluria** — Vladimir Sorokin · Did not finish · Russian
- **The Mom Test** — Rob Fitzpatrick · 5 out of 5 · English
- **Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love** — Marty Cagan · 4.5 out of 5 · English
- **The Deal of a Lifetime and Other Stories** — Fredrik Backman · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Gadfly** — Ethel Lilian Voynich · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Sputnik Sweetheart** — Haruki Murakami · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Hard Thing About Hard Things** — Ben Horowitz · 4 out of 5 · English
- **Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage** — Haruki Murakami · 3 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Castle** — Franz Kafka · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Refactoring UI** — Adam Wathan, Steve Schoger · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Culture Map** — Erin Meyer · 4 out of 5 · English
- **The Winners** — Fredrik Backman · 5 out of 5 · Russian

## 2024

- **Us Against You** — Fredrik Backman · 5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Wind/Pinball: Two Novels** — Haruki Murakami · 3 out of 5 · Russian
- **Beartown** — Fredrik Backman · 5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Meditations** — Marcus Aurelius · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Five Dysfunctions of a Team** — Patrick Lencioni · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!** — Richard P. Feynman · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Daily Stoic** — Ryan Holiday · 3 out of 5 · English
- **The Brothers Karamazov** — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 3 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Choice: Embrace the Possible** — Edith Eger · 5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Debt: The First 5,000 Years** — David Graeber · 5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Jedi Techniques** — Maxim Dorofeev · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **A Country Doctor's Notebook** — Mikhail Bulgakov · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **South of the Border, West of the Sun** — Haruki Murakami · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention** — Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer · 4 out of 5 · English
- **The First 90 Days** — Michael D. Watkins · 2 out of 5 · Russian
- **Things My Son Needs to Know About the World** — Fredrik Backman · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Kafka on the Shore** — Haruki Murakami · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Trial** — Franz Kafka · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **A Wild Sheep Chase / Dance Dance Dance** — Haruki Murakami · 4 out of 5 · Russian

## 2023

- **Games People Play** — Eric Berne · Did not finish · Russian
- **1Q84** — Haruki Murakami · 5 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle** — Haruki Murakami · 5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Murakami Radio** — Haruki Murakami · 3 out of 5 · Russian
- **My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry** — Fredrik Backman · 5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion** — Robert B. Cialdini · 3 out of 5 · Russian
- **No More Mr. Nice Guy** — Robert A. Glover · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Anxious People** — Fredrik Backman · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Britt-Marie Was Here** — Fredrik Backman · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Idiot** — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 5 out of 5 · Russian
- **To Kill a Mockingbird** — Harper Lee · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian

## 2022

- **Demons** — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Algorithm Design Manual** — Steven S. Skiena · Did not finish · Russian
- **Frost and Fire** — Ray Bradbury · 3 out of 5 · Russian
- **Designing Data-Intensive Applications** — Martin Kleppmann · 3.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Mom, I'm a Team Lead!** — Marina Pereskokova · 3.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Russian Problems in English Speech** — Lynn Visson · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Start with No** — Jim Camp · 5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Nine Stories** — J.D. Salinger · 3 out of 5 · Russian
- **Thinking, Fast and Slow** — Daniel Kahneman · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Voyage of the Heretique** — Alain Bombard · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Site Reliability Engineering** — Betsy Beyer · 4 out of 5 · English
- **The Living and the Dead Word** — Nora Gal · 4 out of 5 · Russian

## 2021

- **After Dark** — Haruki Murakami · 3 out of 5 · Russian
- **Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World** — Haruki Murakami · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Clean Architecture** — Robert C. Martin · 2.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Creativity, Inc.** — Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Dive Into Design Patterns** — Alexander Shvets · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Blood, Sweat, and Pixels** — Jason Schreier · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Killing Commendatore** — Haruki Murakami · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Programming TypeScript** — Boris Cherny · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Gambler** — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian

## 2020

- **A Man Called Ove** — Fredrik Backman · 5 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Art of War** — Sun Tzu · 3.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Defining Decade** — Meg Jay · 2 out of 5 · Russian
- **Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less** — Greg McKeown · 3 out of 5 · Russian
- **An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth** — Chris Hadfield · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future** — Ashlee Vance · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Grokking Algorithms** — Aditya Y. Bhargava · 3.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Steve Jobs** — Walter Isaacson · 5 out of 5 · Russian
- **To Pixar and Beyond** — Lawrence Levy · 5 out of 5 · Russian

## 2019

- **Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software** — Charles Petzold · 3.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **What I Talk About When I Talk About Running** — Haruki Murakami · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Norwegian Wood** — Haruki Murakami · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Picture of Dorian Gray** — Oscar Wilde · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Dandelion Wine** — Ray Bradbury · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Animal Farm** — George Orwell · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Invisible Man** — H.G. Wells · 3 out of 5 · Russian

## 2018

- **All Quiet on the Western Front** — Erich Maria Remarque · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Night in Lisbon** — Erich Maria Remarque · 5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Great Expectations** — Charles Dickens · 3.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **American Gods** — Neil Gaiman · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Pulp** — Charles Bukowski · 3 out of 5 · Russian
- **Dead Souls** — Nikolai Gogol · 5 out of 5 · Russian
- **A Hero of Our Time** — Mikhail Lermontov · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Heart of a Dog** — Mikhail Bulgakov · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Black Snow** — Mikhail Bulgakov · 3 out of 5 · Russian
- **City** — Clifford D. Simak · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade** — Kurt Vonnegut · 5 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Twelve Chairs** — Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov · 5 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Decameron** — Giovanni Boccaccio · Did not finish · Russian
- **The Mysterious Island** — Jules Verne · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Sea-Wolf** — Jack London · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Beetle in the Anthill** — Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Martin Eden** — Jack London · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **An American Tragedy** — Theodore Dreiser · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Dubrovsky** — Alexander Pushkin · 3 out of 5 · Russian
- **Flowers for Algernon** — Daniel Keyes · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Go and Sin No More** — Valentin Pikul · 3.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Men Without Women** — Haruki Murakami · 3.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Metro 2033** — Dmitry Glukhovsky · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Captain's Daughter** — Alexander Pushkin · 3 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Government Inspector** — Nikolai Gogol · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Martian Chronicles** — Ray Bradbury · 3 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Waves Extinguish the Wind** — Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky · 4 out of 5 · Russian

## 2017

- **The Great Gatsby** — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Stars Look Down** — A.J. Cronin · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **T** — Victor Pelevin · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Metamorphosis** — Franz Kafka · 3.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Lord of the Flies** — William Golding · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **War and Peace** — Leo Tolstoy · 2 out of 5 · Russian
- **CSS: The Missing Manual** — David Sawyer McFarland · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Fahrenheit 451** — Ray Bradbury · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Brave New World** — Aldous Huxley · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Island** — Aldous Huxley · 3 out of 5 · Russian
- **No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories** — Gabriel García Márquez · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Master and Margarita** — Mikhail Bulgakov · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Generation "P"** — Victor Pelevin · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **We** — Yevgeny Zamyatin · 3.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Keep the Aspidistra Flying** — George Orwell · 3.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **1984** — George Orwell · 4.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Adolescent** — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 3 out of 5 · Russian
- **Leaf Storm and Other Stories** — Gabriel García Márquez · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **The General in His Labyrinth** — Gabriel García Márquez · 2 out of 5 · Russian
- **The Time Machine** — H.G. Wells · 5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Buddha's Little Finger** — Victor Pelevin · 5 out of 5 · Russian
- **Roadside Picnic** — Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky · 4 out of 5 · Russian
- **Omon Ra** — Victor Pelevin · 3.5 out of 5 · Russian
- **One Hundred Years of Solitude** — Gabriel García Márquez · 5 out of 5 · Russian