Going through 100 notable books of the year from the New York Times was a bit depressing, since out of 100 books that NYT deemed the most notable I have read zero. Even worse, just one looked interesting – Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos. Ok, to be fair, I managed to get through quite a few books lately – The Art of SQL, Condensed Knowledge, Data Structures and Algorithms, In search of Stupidity, 2nd ed., but none of those made the list this year.
