# Technical Books for 2024 (and 2025)

I strongly advocate for *learning in the public* due to several compelling reasons:

1. One or two people can learn from you.
    
2. Builds up the *culture of life-long learning* -- learning never ends as long as you are alive.
    
3. My main focus for sharing this is for the young folks coming after us, especially those in college right now. *Don't waste your college life*, some of the books I'm reading now I wish I read while in campus when *I had so much time* (I wish) and less pressures of life :)
    

Here is a list of books, [*God willing*](https://www.bible.com/bible/59/JAS.4.13-16.ESV)*,* I intend to finish reading in 2024 (and 2025) -- [https://profnandaa.notion.site/c05c95bda2994c34846b36ad88c0a94d?v=a3c50046675641debdf7c2cb78fdf07a&pvs=4](https://profnandaa.notion.site/c05c95bda2994c34846b36ad88c0a94d?v=a3c50046675641debdf7c2cb78fdf07a&pvs=4)

[![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1703613040244/f028b3ee-15a9-4e8a-9917-32fb3126d772.png align="center")](https://profnandaa.notion.site/c05c95bda2994c34846b36ad88c0a94d?v=a3c50046675641debdf7c2cb78fdf07a)

Please note that this is a lopsided list mainly due to my current system-engineering-heavy work. I encourage you to create your own too. For a good list of great recommended books, check this out: [csklub/swe-essential-books: The canonical and partly opinionated list of books that every software engineer should read in their lifetime. (github.com)](https://github.com/csklub/swe-essential-books/tree/main). You won't go wrong with any random pick from this list.

> **<mark>UPDATE: </mark>** I'll be covering some these books on the **blackbored.** Youtube channel. If you would like to come over and discuss any technical book you are reading, send me an email on **books \[at\] bored.black**

%[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3TyKufJHiA] 

> **<mark>UPDATE(2):</mark>** I didn’t get to complete all the 32 books in 2024, completed roughly 6 books, I’m giving it a good shot in 2025.