Reading List
A list of books that I have read, am reading, or would like to read, in no particular order. Eventually, my hope is for this to become a book review list as well.
Standard disclaimer that the presence of a book on this list is not necessarily an endorsement of any ideas contained within said book. Non-standard disclaimer that the presence of a book on this list probably signals that it’s pretty interesting.
Miscellaneous
- Douglas Hofstadter - Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
- Christopher Caldwell - The Age of Entitlement
- George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
- Iain McGilchrist - The Master and His Emissary
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow
- A.M. Gray - Warfighting
- James Carse - Finite and Infinite Games
- Richard Fischl and Jeremy Paul - Getting to Maybe
Back to school (or not)
- John Holt - How Children Fail
- Kieran Egan - The Educated Mind
- Fredrik deBoer - The Cult of Smart
- Bryan Caplan - The Case Against Education
Keeping things classy
- Paul Fussell - Class
- Pierre Bourdieu - Distinction
- Keith Johnstone - Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
- Thomas Sowell - Intellectuals and Society
- Robert Jackall - Moral Mazes
- Robin Hanson - The Elephant in the Brain
Mostly nonfictional
- Hamilton Gregory - McNamara’s Folly
- Iceberg Slim - Pimp
- Robert Moses - The Power Broker
- Richard McGregor - The Party
Slightly less nonfictional
- Frank Herbert - Dune
- Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past
- Greg Egan - Axiomatic
- Ted Chiang - Stories of Your Life and Others; Exhalation
- Ken Liu - The Paper Menagerie; The Hidden Girl
- Ursula K LeGuin - everything, but especially the Hainish Cycle & The Dispossessed
- Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths
- Iain M. Banks - The Player of Games (and the rest of the Culture series)
- China Mieville - Embassytown; The City & The City
- Vernor Vinge - A Fire Upon the Deep
- Sven Bernecker, Kourken Michaelian - The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory
- Plato - Theaetetus
- Aristotle - De Memoria et Reminiscentia
- Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- Maurice Halbwachs - On Collective Memory
- Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
- James Scott - Seeing Like a State
- Michael Keen, Joel Slembrod - Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue
- Dan Moller - Governing Least
- Robert Ellickson - Order Without Law
- Richard Posner - How Judges Think
- Albert Hirschman - Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
- David Friedman - The Machinery of Freedom; Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
- Henry George - Progress and Poverty
- David Maister - Managing the Professional Service Firm
- Joseph Tainter - The Collapse of Complex Societies
- William Stuntz - The Collapse of American Criminal Justice
- Peter Leeson - The Invisible Hook
Markets et cetera
- Daniel Davies - Lying for Money
- Alvin Roth - Who Gets What and Why
- Abhijit Banerjee and Ester Buflo - Poor Economics
- Nassim Taleb - Incerto series
- John Cassidy - How Markets Fail
- Agustin Lebron - The Laws of Trading
- Annie Duke - Thinking in Bets
- Michael Lewis - Liar’s Poker
Practical?
- Kim Scott - Radical Candor
- Ben Horowitz - The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- Peter Thiel - Zero to One
- Michael Lopp - Managing Humans
- Matt Lemay - Product Management in Practice
- Matthew Skelton, Manual Pais - Team Topologies
- Chip & Dan Heath - Switch
- Julia Galef - The Scout Mindset
- Tyler Cowen - Talent
Systems
- Donella Meadows - Thinking in Systems
- Gerald Weinberg - An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
- Thomas Chermack - Using Scenarios
Design
- Kurt Kohlstedt, Roman Mars - The 99% Invisible City
- Don Norman - The Design of Everyday Things