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
★★★

Hard Times

Charles Dickens