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
- Keith Johnstone - Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
- Hamilton Gregory - McNamara’s Folly
- Douglas Hofstadter - Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
- Henry George - Progress and Poverty
- Richard McGregor - The Party
- Christopher Caldwell - The Age of Entitlement
- Paul Fussell - Class
- Kurt Kohlstedt, Roman Mars - The 99% Invisible City
- Iceberg Slim - Pimp
- Tyler Cowen - Talent
- George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
- Iain McGilchrist - The Master and His Emissary
- David Friedman - Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow
- Frank Herbert - Dune
- A.M. Gray - Warfighting
- James Carse - Finite and Infinite Games
- Richard Fischl and Jeremy Paul - Getting to Maybe
- Thomas Sowell - Intellectuals and Society
- John Holt - How Children Fail
- Robert Jackall - Moral Mazes
- Robert Moses - The Power Broker
- Joseph Tainter - The Collapse of Complex Societies
- Kieran Egan - The Educated Mind
- Fredrik deBoer - The Cult of Smart
- Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past
Tangentially related
- James Scott - Seeing Like a State
- Michael Keen, Joel Slembrod - Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue
- Dan Moller - Governing Least
- David Friedman - The Machinery of Freedom
- Robert Ellickson - Order Without Law
- Donella Meadows - Thinking in Systems
- Gerald Weinberg - An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
- Daniel Davies - Lying for Money
- Abhijit Banerjee and Ester Buflo - Poor Economics
- Alvin Roth - Who Gets What and Why
- 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
- Don Norman - The Design of Everyday Things
- Ben Horowitz - The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- Peter Thiel - Zero to One
- Michael Lopp - Managing Humans
- Matt Lemay - Product Management in Practice
- Thomas Chermack - Using Scenarios
- Matthew Skelton, Manual Pais - Team Topologies
- Chip & Dan Heath - Switch
- Julia Galef - The Scout Mindset
- David Maister - Managing the Professional Service Firm