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 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 ★★★★☆ Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present David Foster Wallace ★★★ 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 ★★★ Infidel Ayaan Hirsi Ali ★★★ 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 ★★★ The God Delusion Richard Dawkins ★★★★