From 13e590802c522714c6074ac548fca6ee66a40158 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: brianschnee <brian.a.schnee@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2026 03:26:14 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat: new page to track reading list

---
 app/reading/page.tsx   |  19 ++++++++
 components/Header.tsx  |  27 ++++++++++-
 components/Reading.tsx |  37 ++++++++++++++
 lib/books.ts           | 107 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 188 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 app/reading/page.tsx
 create mode 100644 components/Reading.tsx
 create mode 100644 lib/books.ts

diff --git a/app/reading/page.tsx b/app/reading/page.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8a9045c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/reading/page.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import Reading from "@/components/Reading";
+import Heading from "@/components/ui/Heading";
+import Summary from "@/components/Summary";
+
+const ReadingPage = async () => {
+  return (
+    <>
+      <Heading title="Reading" emoji="📚" />
+      <Summary>
+        A running list of books I’ve read or am currently reading. Most connect
+        back to software in some way, whether through code, systems, teams,
+        decision-making, or shaping ideas into useful things.
+      </Summary>
+      <Reading />
+    </>
+  );
+};
+
+export default ReadingPage;
diff --git a/components/Header.tsx b/components/Header.tsx
index 4164e35..781dc0f 100644
--- a/components/Header.tsx
+++ b/components/Header.tsx
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ const Header = () => {
     <>
       <div className="mt-28 w-full lg:mt-36"></div>
       <nav className="fixed z-10 w-full max-w-xl">
-        <ul className="outside-padding-cover opaque pointer-events-auto flex w-full gap-8 pb-1 pt-8 lg:pt-20">
+        <ul className="outside-padding-cover opaque pointer-events-auto flex w-full gap-8 pt-8 pb-1 lg:pt-20">
           <li
             className={`outside-padding group hover:cursor-pointer ${
               pathname === "/" && "active"
@@ -84,7 +84,30 @@ const Header = () => {
               </svg>
             </Link>
           </li>
-          <li className="z-10 h-4 w-px bg-tertiary"></li>
+          <li
+            className={`outside-padding group hover:cursor-pointer ${
+              pathname === "/reading" && "active"
+            }`}
+          >
+            <Link href="/reading" title="reading">
+              <svg
+                className="group-hover:stroke-accent"
+                xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
+                width="16"
+                height="16"
+                viewBox="0 0 24 24"
+                fill="none"
+                stroke="var(--primary)"
+                strokeWidth="1.25"
+                strokeLinecap="round"
+                strokeLinejoin="round"
+              >
+                <path d="M10 2v8l3-3 3 3V2" />
+                <path d="M4 19.5v-15A2.5 2.5 0 0 1 6.5 2H19a1 1 0 0 1 1 1v18a1 1 0 0 1-1 1H6.5a1 1 0 0 1 0-5H20" />
+              </svg>
+            </Link>
+          </li>
+          <li className="bg-tertiary z-10 h-4 w-px"></li>
           <li className="outside-padding group hover:cursor-pointer">
             <a
               href="https://www.github.com/schneedotdev"
diff --git a/components/Reading.tsx b/components/Reading.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e8b6962
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/Reading.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+import { books } from "@/lib/books";
+
+const Reading = () => {
+  return (
+    <section className="mt-10">
+      <ul className="grid gap-4 md:grid-cols-2">
+        {books.map((book) => (
+          <li key={book.title}>
+            <article className="border-tertiary/25 flex h-full flex-col gap-4 rounded-md border bg-[#f2f2f308] p-5">
+              <div className="flex items-start justify-between gap-3">
+                <div>
+                  <h2 className="text-primary text-base">{book.title}</h2>
+                  <p className="text-tertiary mt-1 text-xs">{book.author}</p>
+                </div>
+              </div>
+
+              <p className="text-secondary leading-relaxed">
+                {book.description}
+              </p>
+
+              <ul className="flex flex-wrap gap-2 text-xs">
+                {book.tags.map((bookTag) => (
+                  <li key={bookTag} className="text-tertiary">
+                    <span className="text-accent">#</span>
+                    {bookTag}
+                  </li>
+                ))}
+              </ul>
+            </article>
+          </li>
+        ))}
+      </ul>
+    </section>
+  );
+};
+
+export default Reading;
diff --git a/lib/books.ts b/lib/books.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bc3d95f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/books.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+type Book = {
+  title: string;
+  author: string;
+  tags: string[];
+  description: string;
+};
+
+export const books: Book[] = [
+  {
+    title: "SSH Mastery",
+    author: "Michael W. Lucas",
+    tags: ["systems", "security", "networking"],
+    description:
+      "A practical systems book focused on using SSH beyond the basics, from configuration to agents and key management.",
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Functional Programming in Scala",
+    author: "Paul Chiusano and Rúnar Bjarnason",
+    tags: ["scala", "functional-programming", "software"],
+    description:
+      "An introduction to functional design, composable abstractions, and using types to structure programs.",
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Asynchronous Programming in Rust",
+    author: "Carl Fredrik Samson",
+    tags: ["rust", "async", "systems"],
+    description:
+      "A focused guide to async programming in Rust, covering futures, tasks, executors, and the mental model behind asynchronous systems.",
+  },
+  {
+    title: "The Man from the Future",
+    author: "Ananyo Bhattacharya",
+    tags: ["history", "computing", "science"],
+    description:
+      "A biography of John von Neumann and the ideas that influenced computing, mathematics, science, and strategy.",
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Build",
+    author: "Tony Fadell",
+    tags: ["building", "teams", "decision-making"],
+    description:
+      "A practical book about building products, teams, and organizations from the perspective of someone who has done it repeatedly.",
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Writing an Interpreter in Go",
+    author: "Thorsten Ball",
+    tags: ["go", "interpreters", "language-design"],
+    description:
+      "A hands-on walkthrough of building an interpreter from scratch, one piece at a time.",
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Turn the Ship Around!",
+    author: "L. David Marquet",
+    tags: ["leadership", "teams", "decision-making"],
+    description:
+      "A leadership book centered on ownership, intent, and distributing decision-making closer to the work.",
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Measure What Matters",
+    author: "John Doerr",
+    tags: ["goals", "execution", "teams"],
+    description:
+      "An introduction to OKRs and the role clear goals can play in aligning teams and organizations.",
+  },
+  {
+    title: "The Rust Programming Language",
+    author: "Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols",
+    tags: ["rust", "programming", "systems"],
+    description:
+      "The official Rust book, covering ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, traits, error handling, and the language's core programming model.",
+  },
+  {
+    title: "The Effective Engineer",
+    author: "Edmond Lau",
+    tags: ["engineering", "leverage", "career"],
+    description:
+      "A book about engineering impact, prioritization, and focusing effort where it creates the most leverage.",
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals",
+    author: "Heidi Grant Halvorson",
+    tags: ["goals", "psychology", "decision-making"],
+    description:
+      "A research-backed look at goal setting, motivation, and the behaviors that make progress more likely.",
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Operating System Concepts",
+    author: "Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin, and Greg Gagne",
+    tags: ["operating-systems", "systems", "computer-science"],
+    description:
+      "A foundational text on operating system design, covering processes, memory, storage, concurrency, and file systems.",
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Clean Code",
+    author: "Robert C. Martin",
+    tags: ["software", "craft", "maintainability"],
+    description:
+      "A widely discussed book on naming, structure, readability, and the day-to-day habits of writing maintainable code.",
+  },
+  {
+    title: "The C Programming Language",
+    author: "Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie",
+    tags: ["c", "systems", "programming"],
+    description:
+      "A compact classic that introduces C through concise examples and close attention to the language's core ideas.",
+  },
+];