# Books

Long-form works being read, finished, or queued. Each entry is one line; status comes from the page's frontmatter.

## Reading

## Finished

## Want to read
- [[operating-systems-three-easy-pieces]] — Arpaci-Dusseau OS textbook (virtualization, concurrency, persistence)
- [[art-of-multiprocessor-programming]] — Herlihy & Shavit on linearizability and lock-free data structures
- [[concurrency-control-and-recovery-in-database-systems]] — Bernstein/Hadzilacos/Goodman foundational DB concurrency text (1987, free PDF)
- [[writing-for-developers]] — Sarna & Dunlop on technical blogging as a systems skill
- [[database-design-and-implementation]] — Sciore's SimpleDB build-it-as-you-read pedagogical DBMS book
- [[understanding-software-dynamics]] — Sites on observing real software with KUtrace
- [[systems-performance]] — Brendan Gregg's Linux performance methodology (2nd ed.)
- [[database-internals]] — Petrov's two-halves DB engineering survey (storage + distributed)

## Abandoned

## Sources

Tracked recommendation feeds — check periodically for new picks.

| Source | URL | Last checked | Next check | Notes |
|--------|-----|--------------|------------|-------|
| Phil Eaton's Software Internals Book Club | https://eatonphil.com/bookclub.html | 2026-05-12 | 2026-08-12 | 1 currently reading + 7 finished added 2026-05-12; ~15 speculative future picks below |

### Eaton bookclub — speculative future picks

Not yet committed by the club. Publisher links live in each page's `url:` frontmatter.

- [[garbage-collection-handbook]] — Jones/Hosking/Moss, 2nd ed., CRC Press
- [[designing-data-intensive-applications]] — Kleppmann, 2nd ed., O'Reilly
- [[high-performance-browser-networking]] — Grigorik, O'Reilly (free at hpbn.co)
- [[concurrency-works-of-leslie-lamport]] — Malkhi (ed.), ACM Books
- [[fault-tolerant-design]] — Dubrova, Springer
- [[replication-theory-and-practice]] — Charron-Bost/Pedone/Schiper (eds.), Springer LNCS
- [[art-of-computer-systems-performance-analysis]] — Jain, Wiley (publisher URL on source page was duplicate-suspect)
- [[virtual-machines-versatile-platforms]] — Smith & Nair, Morgan Kaufmann
- [[on-transactional-concurrency-control]] — Graefe, Morgan & Claypool / Springer
- [[feedback-control-for-computer-systems]] — Janert, O'Reilly
- [[hackers-delight]] — Warren, 2nd ed., Addison-Wesley
- [[transaction-processing]] — Gray & Reuter, Morgan Kaufmann
- [[memory-systems-cache-dram-disk]] — Jacob/Ng/Wang, Morgan Kaufmann
- [[building-a-debugger]] — Sy Brand, No Starch
- [[readings-in-database-systems]] — Bailis/Hellerstein/Stonebraker (eds.), redbook.io (free)