Matt Leaverton

Software and Electronics.

Currently Senior Software Engineer at Glowforge

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Books From Before

Historical highlights of books from before I started tracking - from memory and Audible history:

  • Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan / Brandon Sanderson - a sizeable portion of my 2017
  • Artemis - Andy Weir
  • Redshirts, The Collapsing Empire - John Scalzi - Forever grateful to Wil Wheaton for narrating Ready Player One so enjoyably that I looked for other books narrated by him and discovered the marvelous John Scalzi.
  • The Stand - Stephen King - Flinched at my co-workers' every sniffle for weeks
  • Start With Why - Simon Sinek
  • The Martian - Andy Weir
  • Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
  • Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
  • When to Rob a Bank - Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt - Part of my multi-year Freakonomics commitment
  • Magician - Raymond Feist
  • The Magicians - Lev Grossman - Purchased by mistake when recommended Raymond Feist's "Magician" by a friend - an enjoyable mistake
  • Name of the Wind and Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
  • Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Maze Runner - James Dashner - Beach reads on my honeymoon
  • Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
  • Divergent trilogy - Veronica Roth
  • Dune - Frank Herbert - Early foray into audiobooks during university
  • Assorted James Patterson - Great car listens
  • Assorted Dan Brown
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Agatha Christie
  • Redwall - Brian Jacques - Foundational staples of my early reading life