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I have a large backlog of things to review so am going to break them up.

Books:
Game Programming Patterns
Snowspelled

Manga and Webtoons:
A Red Knight Does Not Blindly Follow Money
Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai/Please Love the Useless Me
The Reason Why Raeliana Ended up at the Duke’s Mansion
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Behold: What to Watch, a webpage to help me decide what to watch next out of my backlog of tv and games etc.

Note: this is not a rec list. I have not seen most of these things and the rating is just an estimation of how much I think I'll like it. Also the code is shonky as hell, I poked it until it worked and then stopped. "Add new work" is useless unless you host your own version of the webpage.

But it wasn't much extra effort to put the site online once I'd made it, and someone might find it useful.

(And look: I figured out checkboxes in javascript after all, yay me! Couldn't figure out radio buttons, though >.>)

Since it's come up a few times for me, and I imagine others might find it useful too.

Ren'py is a Python based visual novel engine for creating interactive stories. It's designed for stories which rely mainly on character sprites and dialogue, which means most of the code looks a lot like the script of a play. It's aimed at non programmers and relatively easy to use, but there's a few things that seem to trip everyone up when they start.
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Code Academy Turns learning to code into an interactive game. I only got a little way in since it's not really aimed at people who already know how to code, but what I saw looked like fun.

Men's Versus Women's Poses Trying to re-enact fantasy novel covers in real life.

Open Culture Free online stuff! I haven't actually had much of a chance to check it out but it looks pretty cool.

Some of the original draft of Peter Pan, very interesting and and in some places very different.

English language dating sims with f/f options ("parent" leads to a general f/f media rec thread)

From that list: I've been playing Magical Diary and it's RIDICULOUS AND AMAZING. It's a thinly veiled Harry Potter self insert fantasy set in the US, except with more POC and ladies and no saving the world. I keep failing my exams (the magic system is actually kind of involved, which has made the game more interesting) and eventually got expelled after one particularly unfortunate life choice, but once I get over that I intend to get back to flirting and doing Science with my adorable roommate :D I have a side playthrough where I'm seeing what happens when you date the mysterious blue-skinned bat-winged bad boy Damien (this game), and there's been some new plot elements though the basic structure is the same. It's not a deep game but I'm enjoying it :)

I found the "The Crow"/"The Dark Knight"/"V for Vendetta" vid Anarchy really interesting: I hadn't thought of the Joker and V as similar before (I haven't seen the Crow)