Anti-Library


Books I haven’t read, but like the idea of having read, and plan to read in the future.

The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe (Complete in One Volume)

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century

Carolyn Marvin

Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers

Robert Jackall

Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

Lu Xun

Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety (Engineering Systems)

Nancy G. Leveson

Levels of the Game

John McPhee

The Call of the Wild / White Fang

Jack London

Will There Ever Be Another You

Patricia Lockwood

Technics and Civilization

Lewis Mumford

A New History of Greek Mathematics

Reviel Netz

Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800 (English and French Edition)

Fernand Braudel

Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

Gene Kranz

Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style

Virginia Tufte

Distinction

Pierre Bourdieu

A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 1

David Harvey

The Abolition of Man

C.S. Lewis

Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)

Marcel Proust

Differential Equations with Applications and Historical Notes, 2nd Edition

George F. Simmons

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

Christopher W. Alexander

The Image of the City

Kevin Lynch

On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume

Noam Chomsky

The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

Simon Winchester

How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)

George 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

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 Futures, 4)

Wendy Brown

Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)

Ada Palmer

The Maniac

Benjamín Labatut

Truth and Truthfulness

Bernard Williams

Exploratory Data Analysis

John W. Tukey

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

Jonathan Rose

Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

Tracy Kidder

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