Reading
All 182 books I've read since 2014 in reverse chronological order
- A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami
- Why Grow Up? Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age, Susan Neiman
- The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi
- The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing, Larimore, Lindauer, LeBoeuf
- Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
- Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, Cho Nam-Joo
- Ego Is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday
- The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa
- Thinking in Bets, Annie Duke
- The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
- The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
- How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Bill Gates
- Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut
- The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells
- The Address Book, Deirdre Mask
- Philosophy for Polar Explorers, Erling Kagge
- Iron John: a Book About Men, Robert Bly
- Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman
- Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
- A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
- Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet, Gernot Wagner, Martin Weitzman
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Phillip K. Dick
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, David Wallace-Wells
- Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, James C. Scott
- On the Abolition of All Political Parties, Simone Weil
- The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From Here, Hope Jahren
- The Fragile Earth: Writing From the New Yorker on Climate Change,
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win, Jocko Willink
- The Personal MBA, Josh Kaufman
- Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
- The Confusions of Young Törless, Robert Musil
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
- Managing Oneself, Peter Drucker
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Donella H. Meadows
- Freedom from the Known, Jiddu Krishnamurti
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, Ernest Hemingway
- A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
- Age of Folly: America Abandons Its Democracy, Lewis Lapham
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
- The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View, Ellen Meiksins
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
- Dune, Frank Herbert
- The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
- Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman, Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye
- The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, John M. Barry
- Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis
- Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, David Graeber
- Orlando, Virginia Woolf
- Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
- How to Be an Existentialist, Gary Cox
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- The Dumb Things Smart People Do with Their Money: Thirteen Ways to Right Your Financial Wrongs, Jill Schlesinger
- Consider the Lobster and Other Essays, David Foster Wallace
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas
- Conversationally Speaking: Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness, Alan Garner
- Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World, Admiral William H. McRaven
- The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now, Meg Jay
- The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett
- The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, John le Carré
- Pragmatism and Other Writings, William James
- Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World, Oliver Bullough
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems, Martin Kleppmann
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
- Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware, Andy Hunt
- The Rust Programming Language, Steve Klabnik & Carol Nichol
- The City & The City, China Miéville
- The Conquest of Bread, Peter Kropotkin
- Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
- The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America, Barbara Ehrenreich
- Utopian for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World, Rutger Bergman
- Travels with Epicurus: A Jouney to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life, Daniel Klein
- Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation, Parker J. Palmer
- The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Jenny Odell
- The Religious Case Against Belief, James Carse
- The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement, David Graeber
- Practical Object-Oriented Design: An Agile Primer Using Ruby, Sandi Metz
- On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder
- Sh*t my Dad Says, Justin Halpern
- A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories, Flannery O'Connor
- The Trial, Franz Kafka
- A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut
- How Linux Works, Brian Ward
- Galápagos, Kurt Vonnegut
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber
- The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking, Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird
- Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes, Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein
- Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games, Ian Bogost
- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy, William B. Irvine
- Status Anxiety, Allan de Botton
- Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests, Steve Freeman & Nat Pryce
- Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
- The Plague, Albert Camus
- The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy, David Graeber
- How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
- Contingency, Irony, Solidarity, Richard Rorty
- Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
- Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag
- A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
- Composing a Life, Mary Catherine Bateson
- Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
- East of Eden, John Steinbeck
- BDD in Action: Behavior-Driven Development for the whole Software Lifecycle, John Feguson Smart
- Clean Code, Robert C. Martin
- Working Out Loud: For a Better Career and Life, John Stepper
- Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
- Babbit, Sinclair Lewis
- Learning Drupal 8, Nick Abbott & Richard Jones
- The Last Templar, Raymond Khoury
- The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths, John Gray
- The Nature of Software Development, Ron Jeffries
- The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius
- Ill Fares The Land, Tony Judt
- Violence: Six Sideways Reflections, Slavoj Žižek
- The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essay, Albert Camus
- How to Think Like an Entrepreneur, Philip Delves Broughton
- Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy, Simon Blackburn
- Beautiful JavaScript, Anton Kovalyov
- Designing Information: Human Factors and Common Sense in Information Design, Joel Katz
- Nausea, Jean Paul Sartre
- Travels with Charley: In Search of America, John Steinbeck
- Next, Michael Crichton
- Dark Debts, Karen Hall
- Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Steve Krug
- Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else, Geoff Colvin
- Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, Chris Hedges
- The End of Absence, Michael Harris
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Atul Gawande
- Social Physics, Alex Pentland
- The News: A User’s Manual, Alain de Botton
- Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work, Matthew Crawford
- A Guide for the Perplexed, E.F. Schumacher
- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, Niall Ferguson
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Cal Newport
- Predictive Analytics, Eric Siegel
- Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, Sherry Turkle
- Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry, Helaine Olen
- How To Find Fulfilling Work, Roman Krznaric
- All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan, Elizabeth Warren
- The Internet Is Not the Answer, Andrew Keen
- Automatic Wealth for Grads… and Anyone Else Just Starting Out, Michael Masterson
- You Are Not a Gadget, Jaron Lanier
- Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths That Are Destroying Your Prosperity, Garrett B. Gunderson
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, Charles Duhigg
- If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young, Kurt Vonnegut
- Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility, James P. Coarse
- Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data, Charles Wheelan
- What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, Michael J. Sandel
- You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself, David McRaney
- The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You, Eli Pariser
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt
- The Stranger, Albert Camus
- On Photography, Susan Sontag
- First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Slavoj Žižek
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy
- A Tour of Bones: Facing Fear and Looking for Life, Denise Inge
- Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen
- Polio: An American Story, David M. Oshinsky
- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, Neil Postman
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away, Rebecca Goldstein
- Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, Neil Postman
- Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries, Jon Ronson
- Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche
- Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics, Simon Blackburn
- How to Lie with Statistics, Darrel Huff
- Truth: A Guide, Simon Blackburn
- My Lifee, Anton Chekov
- How Proust Can Change Your Life, Alain de Botton
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, Atul Gawande
- 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People, Susan M. Weinschenk
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Greg McKeown
- Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
- The Flight of the Iguana, David Quammen
- A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed
- Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut