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.
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
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
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
JJ 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
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
★★★★★
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, #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, #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 (The 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
★★★
