Boris Cherny's Reading List

Head of Claude Code at Anthropic; software engineer with deep sci-fi taste.

Books from Lenny's Podcast: Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris Cherny (2026)

Extracted via LLM from auto-captions of Lenny's Podcast (2026-02-19).

Paul Chiusano · 2013 · Buy on Amazon

"It is functional programming in Scala. This is the single best technical book I've ever read."

Charles Stross · 2005 · Buy on Amazon

"Accelerando is just this incredible book and it it it's just so fast-paced. The pace gets faster and faster and faster."

刘慈欣 · 2019 · Buy on Amazon

"Wandering Earth is one of the short story collections and it just has some really really amazing stories."

Liu Cixin · 2008 · Buy on Amazon

"I actually I think The Three-Body Problem was awesome, but I actually liked his short stories even more."

Vernor Vinge · 1992 · Buy on Amazon

"Uh this is Vinge, right? Yeah. It's great."

Vernor Vinge · 1999 · Buy on Amazon

"Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I like Deepness in the Sky also."