Jeff Avery


What Am I Reading?

Khaled Hosseini. 2003. The Kite Runner.

  • Historical fiction, set at the time of the collapse of the monarchy. This has been on my to-read list for far too long.

Jon Ousterhout. 2018. A Philosophy of Software Design.

  • Based on a design course that he teaches at Stanford University. A discussion of software complexity.

What’s next?

Marco Vermeulen et al. 2019. Functional Programming in Kotlin.

  • Functional programming from first principles, using Kotlin examples. This book pitches itself as the Kotlin equivilant of “Functional Programming in Scala”, which was a significant book for that language.

Michael L. Scott. 2015. Programming Language Pragmatics (4th ed)

  • The languages textbook that I’ve been meaning to read for years. Maybe I’ll get through it this time before they release a new version and I repurchase it (again).

Brandon Sanderson. 2006. Mistborn: The Final Empire.

  • I’ve certainly known about Sanderson’s novels for a long time, but I’ve never dug into any of his series. On his website, he suggests this is a great series to start with.

Alan Moore. 2023. Miracleman: The Original Epic

  • This is a re-release of the original series, which was originally published in the 1980s. I’ve been a fan of Moore’s work since reading Watchmen.

Completed (2025)