Anti-Library
Books I haven’t read, but like the idea of having read, and plan to read in the future.
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Simon Winchester
Middlemarch
George Eliot
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)
G. Pólya
Computer Lib/Dream Machines
Ted Nelson
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Tony Judt
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
2666
Roberto Bolaño
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
Hilary Mantel
Austerlitz
W.G. Sebald
The Known World
Edward P. Jones
Book of Numbers
Joshua Cohen
The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar
Rodney Huddleston
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Pierre Bourdieu
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
Kathryn Paige Harden
The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
Thomas Frank
High Noon: The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems
Karen Southwick
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
Thomas Harris
Analogie: de kern van ons denken (Dutch Edition)
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy
Henry George
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Adam Kay
Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Near Future Series)
Wendy Brown
Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)
Ada Palmer
The Maniac
Benjamín Labatut
Truth and Truthfulness
Bernard Williams
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
Exploratory Data Analysis
John W. Tukey
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Jonathan Rose
Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
Tracy Kidder
From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society
Fei Xiaotong
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
Robert Hughes
The Glass Teat
Harlan Ellison
Chronopolis and Other Stories
J.G. Ballard
High-Rise
J.G. Ballard
Caveman Chemistry: 28 Projects, from the Creation of Fire to the Production of Plastics
Kevin M. Dunn
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
The Making of the English Working Class
E.P. Thompson
The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine
Andrew Cockburn
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Daniel Yergin
God & Golem, Inc.
Norbert Wiener
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro
Simone Weil: An Anthology
Simone Weil
How to Read and Why
Harold Bloom
The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome
Michael Parenti
The Woman Destroyed
Simone de Beauvoir
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
George Saunders
The Labours of Hercules (Hercule Poirot, #27)
Agatha Christie
Right-Wing Women
Andrea Dworkin
The Spell
Alan Hollinghurst
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
Method or Madness?
Robert Lewis
The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique
William Esper
