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Books Read in 2022


My bookshelf

Technical

- Operating System: Three Easy Pieces. Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau.
- The Effective Engineer. Edmond Lau.
- English Grammar in Use. Raymond Murphy
- Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering. Brooks Jr., Frederick P. 
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd edition). Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister.
- A Philosophy of Software Design. John Ousterhout.
- Modern Computer Architecture and Organization: Learn x86, ARM, and RISC-V architectures and the design of smartphones, PCs, and cloud servers. Jim Ledin.

Thought Provoking

- Đúng Việc. Giản Tư Trung.
- A Brief History of Time. Stephen Hawking.
- Một đời như kẻ tìm đường. Phan Văn Trường.
- Một đời thương thuyết. Phan Văn Trường.
- Tinh hoa xử thế
- Dám bị ghét. Kishimi Ichiro, Koga Fumitake.
- Phép màu để vượt lên chính mình. Nhan Húc Quân.
- Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship Through Woodcraft. Robert Baden-Powell.
- Thay Đổi Cuộc Sống Với Nhân Số Học. David A. Phillips, Lê Đỗ Quỳnh Hương.
- Khoẻ hơn mười tuổi nhờ uống nước đúng cách. Seung-Nam Lee.
- Không sinh không diệt đường sợ hãi. Thích Nhất Hạnh.
- Hiểu Về Trái Tim. Minh Niệm.
- Tĩnh Lặng. Thích Nhất Hạnh.
- Từng bước nở hoa sen. Thích Nhất Hạnh.
- Hai Thế Giới. Jeffrey Archer.
- Tam Quốc Diễn Nghĩa (Tập 1). La Quán Trung.

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