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 Antilibrary.
All my book reviews are at /reviews.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
★★★★
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
★★★★
Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
K. 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
Ray Bradbury
★★★
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
★★★★
The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle, #6)
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★★
The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle, #4)
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
★★★
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Nadia Eghbal
★★★
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 Message
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
★★★★★
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
★★★★
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
★★★
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
★★★★☆
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: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
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 Chronicles, #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
★★★
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
Camille Fournier
★★★
Dune Messiah (Dune Chronicles, #2)
Frank Herbert
★★★★
The End of Policing
Alex S. Vitale
★★★★
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
★★★
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
★★★★
Dune (Dune, #1)
Frank Herbert
★★★★★
Animal Farm
George Orwell
★★★★★
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
★★★★
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Michael Lewis
★★★★
Constructing the Political Spectacle
Murray Edelman
★★★★★
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
★★★★★
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
Clayton M. Christensen
★★★★★
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
★★★★★
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
★★★★
Normal People
Sally Rooney
★★★★
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
Kate Manne
★★★★★
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
★★★★
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel
★★★★
V for Vendetta
Alan Moore
★★★★★
Friday Black
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
★★
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
James Bridle
★★★
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
Robert M. Pirsig
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
Mariana Mazzucato
★★★
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
Douglas Adams
★★★★★
Why Knowledge Matters: Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories
E.D. Hirsch Jr.
★★★★☆
Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
Mark Costello
★★★
The Trial
Franz Kafka
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
Douglas Adams
★★★★★
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
★★★★
The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell
★★★★★
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis
★★★★★
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
Chris Anderson
★★★★
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Michael Lewis
★★★☆
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
★★★
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now
Meg Jay
★★★
Hard Times
Charles Dickens
Gorgias
Plato
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Antonio García Martínez
★★
The Conscience of a Conservative
Barry M. Goldwater
★
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
★★★★★
The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton
★★
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain de Botton
★★★
Maus: Un survivant raconte, tome 1: Mon père saigne l'histoire (Maus, #1)
Art Spiegelman
★★★★★
The Elements of Style
William Strunk Jr.
★★★★
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
★★★★
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
★★★★
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
★★★★
I Am a Strange Loop
Douglas R. Hofstadter
★★★★☆
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
★★★★
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
Lois Lowry
1984
George Orwell
★★★★
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
★★★★★
Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business
Mikkel Svane
★★
Richard III
William Shakespeare
★★★★★
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
★★★
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
★★★★
Enduring Love
Ian McEwan
★★★★
Modern Architecture Since 1900
William J.R. Curtis
★★★★★
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Robert Venturi
★★★★
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
Rem Koolhaas
★★★★★
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
Joseph E. Stiglitz
★★★★
The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder
★★★★
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
★★★★★
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
★★★★
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
★★★
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
★★★★
23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang
★★★★
The Shark Net
Robert Drewe
★★★
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
David Deutsch
★★★
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
David Deutsch
★★★★
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
★★★★★
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
Noam Chomsky
★★★
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
★★★★★
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Edward S. Herman
★★★★★
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
★★★★★
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
★★★★★
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
★★★
Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens
Nicholas Shaxson
★★★★
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
J.R.R. Tolkien
★★★★
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
J.R.R. Tolkien
★★★★☆
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
J.R.R. Tolkien
★★★★
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
J.R.R. Tolkien
★★★★★
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
★★★★
The Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
★★★★★
Reasons and Persons
Derek Parfit
★★★★★
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
Peter Singer
★★★
Animal Liberation
Peter Singer
★★★★★
Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell
★★★★
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
★★★★★
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
★★★★★
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Christopher Hitchens
★★★★
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Sam Harris
★★★
