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
★★★
