Library
Selected books that I’ve read for enjoyment or learning. I also wrote a post about how I read.
To see things I haven’t yet read browse the /anti-library. All my (crappy) book reviews are at /reviews.
An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital
Michael Heinrich
★★★★★
Data & Reality
William Kent
From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society
Fei Xiaotong
★★★
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Atul Gawande
★★★
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller
★★
The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan Novels, #4)
Elena Ferrante
★★★★★
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels, #3)
Elena Ferrante
★★★★★
Flames
Robbie Arnott
★★★
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
Hamilton Wright Helmer
★★★★
The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder
★★★★
Middlemarch
George Eliot
★★★★★
The Bacchae
Euripides
Orbital
Samantha Harvey
★★★★
How to Watch TV News
Neil Postman
★★★
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
Christopher Lasch
★★★★
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
★★★★★
Shakespearean Tragedy
A.C. Bradley
★★★★★
A Man's Place
Annie Ernaux
★★★
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
★★★★★
Transit
Rachel Cusk
★★★★
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
★★★★★
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
★★
The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up
Liao Yiwu
★★★
The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92)
Alan Kohler
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
Christopher Lasch
★★★★★
The Years
Annie Ernaux
★★★★★
The Plot Against America
Philip Roth
★★★★★
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Octavia E. Butler
Circe
Madeline Miller
★★★★
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
★★★★★
The Burnout Society
Byung-Chul Han
The Netanyahus
Joshua Cohen
★★★★★
The Guest
Emma Cline
★★★
Uncanny Valley
Anna Wiener
★★★
Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
Ellen Ullman
★★★★
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
John le Carré
★★★★
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
John le Carré
★★★★
The Road to Serfdom
Friedrich A. Hayek
★★
Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer
★★★★
The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, #2)
Elena Ferrante
★★★★★
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
★★★★☆
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
Mark Twain
★★★
Bewilderment
Richard Powers
★★★
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
Elena Ferrante
★★★★
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Marshall McLuhan
★★★★★
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
David Graeber
★★★★
The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury
★★
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Nancy MacLean
★★★★
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Meghan O'Gieblyn
★★★★
Trust
Hernan Diaz
★★★★★
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
★★★★
Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
★★
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
★★★★★
The Sellout
Paul Beatty
★★★★★
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
★★★★
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas Carr
★★★
The Rules of Attraction
Bret Easton Ellis
★★★
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman
★★★★
On Photography
Susan Sontag
★★★★★
How to Win Friends & Influence People
Dale Carnegie
★★★★
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
Paul Fussell
★★★★
God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
Frank Herbert
★★★
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Barbara Ehrenreich
★★★★★
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
★★★★
Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
E.D. Hirsch Jr.
★★★★
The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
Neil Postman
★★★★
The Martian
Andy Weir
★
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
★★★
Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
★★★★★
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
★★
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Mark Fisher
★★★★
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
★★★★
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Nadia Eghbal
★★★
Ways of Seeing
John Berger
★★★★
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
★★★★★
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
★★★★
China in Ten Words
Yu Hua
★★★★★
Priestdaddy
Patricia Lockwood
★★★★
The Man in the High Castle (Vintage)
Philip K. Dick
★★★
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
Isaac Asimov
★★★
The Gun Seller
Hugh Laurie
★★★
A Children's Bible
Lydia Millet
★★★★
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
★★★★
No One Is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood
★★★★★
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut
★★★★★
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
★★★★
Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
★★★★★
Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
Randal E. Bryant
★★★★★
The Rust Programming Language
Steve Klabnik
★★★★
The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
★★★★
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Andreas Malm
★★★★
The Candy House
Jennifer Egan
★★★★
Crafting Interpreters
Robert Nystrom
★★★★★
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
★★★★
Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
Peter Seibel
★★★★
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
Geoffrey A. Moore
★★★
API Design Patterns
J.J. Geewax
★★★★
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
★★★★
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Gene Kim
★★★
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
★★★★
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
★★★★
Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (Anchor Library of Science)
Eric Drexler
★★★
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
William Gibson
★★★★★
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
★★★
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
★★★★
The Sciences of the Artificial
Herbert A. Simon
★★★★
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
Ray Bradbury
★★★
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
★★★★
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★★
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★★
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
★★★★★
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)
Christian Rudder
★★★★
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
Will Larson
★★★
The Psychology of Computer Programming
Gerald M. Weinberg
★★
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
★★★★★
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
★★★
The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects
Marshall McLuhan
★★★★
Showstopper! the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
G. Pascal Zachary
★★★
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Jane Mayer
★★★★★
The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
Eric S. Raymond
★★★★★
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Paul Graham
★★★
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
Kim Stanley Robinson
★★★★
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
★★★★★
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
★★★★★
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
★★★★
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
Toni Morrison
★★★
The quiet revolution
Jim Cairns
★★
The Age of Spiritual Machines
Ray Kurzweil
★★★★
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
★★★★★
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Neal Stephenson
★★★★
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
★★★★
100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith
Sonia Arrison
★
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
★★★★★
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
★★★★★
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
★★★★
Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
★★
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
★★★★★
Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
★★★★
Children of Dune (Dune #3)
Frank Herbert
★★★★★
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
★★★★
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
★★★★
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
Isaac Asimov
★★★★
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
★★★★★
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman
★★★★★
Notes on Nationalism
George Orwell
★★★☆
Why We're Polarized
Ezra Klein
★★★★
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells
★★★★
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
★★★
