[Barrin92]

one, maybe two? One technical book a month sounds like way too much provided you actually aim to work through the book thoroughly. I recently made my way through SICP because I never finished it when I was studying and that took me like half a year during my free time.

[cenny]

SICP is of course a big and long book that understandably takes a lot of time for most people to get through (depending on prior experience).

There are many other good books that are much easier and shorter reads than SICP. Maybe try some shorter books in-between the long books.

Check out my side project for tips (and a roadmap for reading programming books https://www.programmingbooks.dev)