Also see movies, games, and other lists.

Books I’d like to read:

The Immortal King Rao f

N.K. Jemisin – The City We Became f

qntm – Fine Structure f

Martin Kleppmann – Designing Data Intensive Applications nf

Katie Hafner – The Boys f

Marcus Aurelius – Meditations nf

Vernor Vinge – Across Realtime f

Stewart Brand – The Maintenance Race nf

Vaclav Smil – Numbers Don’t Lie nf

Michael S. Malone – The Big Score nf

Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan – The Demon-Haunted World nf

Chris Hanson, Gerald Sussman – Software Design For Flexibility nf

Donald Knuth – The Art Of Computer Programming (all volumes) nf

Gene Wolfe – The Book Of The New Sun, The Fifth Head Of Cerberus f

George Eliot – Middlemarch f

John Cornwell et al – Nature’s Imagination nf

Charlie Kaufman – Antkind f

Kim Stanley Robinson – The Ministry For The Future f

Colson Whitehead – The Underground Railroad f

Peter Galison – Image and Logic nf

Freeman Dyson – The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet nf

Ian McEwan – Machines Like Me f

Mariana Mazzucato – The Value of Everything nf

Rana Dasgupta – After Nations nf

Neal Stephenson – Seveneves f

Ayn Rand – The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged f

Ruth Ozeki – A Tale For The Time Being f

Terry Pratchett – The Long Earth, The Long Mars, etc. f

Books I’ve read:

Adrian Hon – A New History Of The Future In 100 Objects f

Ken Kesey – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest f

Te Ping Chen – Land Of Big Numbers f

qntm – There Is No Antimemetics Division f

Zachary Mason – Void Star f

Ted Chiang – Stories of Your Life f

Charles Dickens – Bleak House f

Fritz Leiber – Our Lady Of Darkness f

Howard Baetjer Jr. – Software As Capital nf

David Berry – The Philosophy of Software nf

Jeffrey Eugenides – The Marriage Plot f

Spike Milligan – War Memoirs nf

Balaji Srinivasan – The Network State nf

Mick Herron – Slow Horses f

David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet f

Michael Lopp – The Art of Leadership nf

Robin Sloan – Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore f

Stewart Brand – The Clock of the Long Now nf

Kenneth Grahame – The Wind In The Willows f

James Malcolm Rymer – The String Of Pearls (aka Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) f

Christopher Booker – The Seven Basic Plots nf

Joseph Campbell – The Hero With A Thousand Faces nf

Amor Towles – A Gentleman In Moscow f

James C. Scott – Seeing Like A State nf

Donald Braben – Scientific Freedom nf

Neil Gaiman – American Gods f

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra – Don Quixote f

Dan Davies – Lying For Money nf

Lawrence Kesteloot – Coding Machines (short story) f

Mark Twain – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer f , The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn f

John le Carré – The Spy Who Came In From The Cold_ f

Amartya Sen – Development As Freedom nf

Richard Powers – Galatea 2.2 f

Matt Ridley – How Innovation Works nf

Konstantinos Dimopoulos – Virtual Cities nf

Tom Nichols – The Death Of Expertise nf

Max Porter – Lanny f

Rana Dasgupta – Tokyo Cancelled f

Jerome K. Jerome – Three Men in a Boat f , Three Men on the Bummel f

Sun Tzu – The Art Of War nf

Arkady Martine – A Memory Called Empire f

Jeff Vandermeer – Annihilation f

Andrew McAfee – More From Less nf

Erin Morgenstern – The Night Circus f

Carmen Maria Machado – Her Body And Other Parties f

Ellen Ullman – Life in Code nf

William Thackeray – Vanity Fair f

Nick Suttner – Shadow Of The Colossus

Annalee Newitz – Autonomous f

Paul Hawken et al – Drawdown nf

Black Elk – The Sacred Pipe nf

Benjamin Grant – Overview: A New Perspective Of Earth nf

The Gentle Author – The Creeping Plague Of Ghastly Facadism nf

Richard Powers – The Overstory f

C. P. Snow – The Two Cultures And The Scientific Revolution nf

Yanis Varoufakis – Talking To My Daughter About The Economy nf

David Gray – Liminal Thinking nf

Douglas Laux – Left Of Boom nf

Bill Buford – Among The Thugs nf

The Arabian Nights / The Thousand and One Nights f

John Milton – Paradise Lost f

Neal Stephenson – Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell f

Lewis Carroll – Alice In Wonderland, Through The Looking Glass f

Italo Calvino – If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler f

Ursula K Le Guin – The Disposessed f

Paul Feyerabend – Against Method nf

Thomas Pynchon – Bleeding Edge f

N.K. Jemisin – The Fifth Season , The Obelisk Gate f (Broken Earth)

Robert Jackson Bennett – City Of Stairs f

P.G. Wodehouse – Right Ho, Jeeves f

Italo Calvino – The Complete Cosmicomics f

Mark Z. Danielewski – House Of Leaves f

Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff nf

Greg Bear – Darwin’s Radio f

Daniel Lerch et al – The Community Resilience Reader

Paul Beatty – The Sellout f

Stewart Brand – How Buildings Learn nf

Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao f

Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor – Welcome to Night Vale (web site) f

Ann Leckie – Ancillary Justice f

Philip Roth – Goodbye, Columbus f

Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island f

G. H. Hardy – A Mathematician’s Apology nf

Don DeLillo – White Noise f

Joshua Foer, Ella Morton, Dylan Thuras – Atlas Obscura (site) nf

Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale f

Michael Lopp – Managing Humans nf

Kevin Kelly – The Inevitable nf

Renata Adler – Speedboat f

Cixin Liu – The Three Body Problem f

Chuck Klosterman – But What If We’re Wrong? nf

Jane Nelsen – Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World nf

Daniel Lisi – World Of Warcraft nf

George Polya – How To Solve It nf

H.P. Lovecraft – The Call Of Cthulhu f , The Outsider f , In The Walls Of Eryx f

Derek Yu – Spelunky nf

Jonathan Franzen – Purity f

The Rap Year Book nf

Philip K. Dick – Vulcan’s Hammer f

Thomas Paine – Common Sense nf

Jorge Luis Borges – The Garden of Forking Paths f

David Gerrold – The Man Who Folded Himself f

A Streetcar Named Desire f

Edward Albee – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? f

Jaron Lanier – Who Owns the Future? nf
I felt the exact same way about this that I did about his last book: “Thoughtfully contrarian, in a good way. I didn’t find all of his arguments compelling, but I’m very, very glad that someone’s making them!”

Randall Munroe – Thing Explainer nf

Walter M. Miller Jr. – A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1) f

Roland Barthes – Death Of The Author nf

Joshua Cohen – Book Of Numbers f
Much heralded. I wanted to like it, and I did like the first section, but the second section, a long transcribed interview with a billionaire tech founder, just didn’t work. Maybe it’s because I live in that world, but the language and tone felt totally, gratingly wrong. Sad.

John Brockman – By the Late John Brockman nf

Jon Irwin – Super Mario Bros. 2 nf

William Gibson – The Peripheral f

Mikito Takada – Distributed Systems: for fun and profit nf

Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder nf

Michael Faber – The Book Of Strange New Things f
Meh. Forgettable. None of the character or settings really grabbed me, nor did the themes of relationships, faith, and evangelism. Not horrible, but not great either.

Ed Finn – Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future f

David Mitchell – The Bone Clocks f

David Foster Wallace – The Soul is Not a Smithy nf

Jennifer Senior – All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood nf
A must read if you’re a parent, or even just curious. Way more useful than all the popular how-to, what-to-expect, and reference books. The last chapter is mixed, but the rest more than makes up for it.

Mark Russell – God Is Disappointed in You nf
Pretty damn funny. And a surprisingly good cliff’s notes, to boot.

Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises f
Very very very not my kind of thing.

Adrian Hon – A History of the Future in 100 Objects f

Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness f

Pierre Bayard – How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read nf
Maybe I should have taken the author’s advice and written this without reading the book. :P I couldn’t tell how much was serious and how much was a joke. Not a great sign. My sense of humor may not be refined enough, but of his main points, only one made sense to me:

1. Reading/not reading a book isn’t binary but a spectrum. You can hear about a book, read parts of it, read it and then forget some of it, or even forget you read it at all. (OK.)
2. We all interpret books differently, and our interpretations are more important and valuable than the books themselves. (Um…not so much.)
3. It’s usually better not to read any given book than to read it, since it’s mostly unnecessary and it imposes an opportunity cost. (Um…not so much.)
4. Finally, the ultimate aim of thinking and talking about books (and other works of art) is to be creative, in particular about ourselves. (Creative, sure, but about ourselves? Narcissism, no thanks.)
    

Daniel C. Dennett – Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking nf
Meh. I love Dennett’s work in general, but this just didn’t hang together well enough for me. The bulk of it isn’t intuition pumps at all, but loosely connected essays on topics like computation, evolution, and free will, lightly interspersed with the titular thought experiments.
Dennett himself describes it best: “Some readers…expressed surprise and disappointment that [this book] didn’t include some of my best-known intuition pumps.” Yup.

Meg Wolitzer – The Interestings f
Not much of a plot, but great characters and relationship arcs.

Niccolò Machiavelli – The Prince nf
Not nearly as crazy or controversial as its reputation suggests. I was expecting over-the-top malicious, underhanded, downright sadistic stories and techniques, but it was actually pretty tame, even logical and common sense.
Sadly, that also made it less exciting. Lots of politics, campaigning, managing employees and projects, governance and public policy, etc. Important topics, to be sure, but we’ve learned a bit more about them since Machiavelli’s day.

Denis Johnson – Jesus’ Son f
Felt like Haruki Murakami meets Hunter S. Thompson…except I like both of them, and I definitely didn’t like this. Ah well.

Ted Chiang – The Lifecycle of Software Objects f

Umberto Eco – Foucault’s Pendulum f

Jon Gertner – The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation nf
The list of Bell Labs’s inventions is simply stunning: the transistor, switched networking, microwave and satellite communication, digital information theory, fiber optics, cellular radio and telephony, Unix and C, the CCD. Add in a few things from Fairchild and Xerox PARC, like the IC, and you have pretty much all modern computer and telecom technology. This is worth reading as a reminder of that alone.

Michel Houellebecq – The Elementary Particles f

Ernest Cline – Ready Player One f

Marilynne Robinson – Gilead f
Not my style. Wish it was. Ah well.

James Joyce – Dubliners f, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man f

John Brockman – This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works nf
Lots of great content! The format isn’t ideal, though. The essays are only a couple pages each or so, so you bounce between ideas a bit too fast. Still good in small doses though.

Leonard Richardson – Constellation Games f

Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl f
Very fast, very dark, pretty damn good.

Annalena McAfee – The Spoiler f
I gave up about a third of the way in. It’s slow, uninteresting, joyless, and devoid of any characters I can relate to at all. I’m sure it works for some people, but not for me.

Steven Pinker – The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature nf
The first half or so, parts 1 through 3, are great. Read them alone and you have a five star book. Parts 4 and 5 got too unfocused, though, at least for me.

David Foster Wallace – The Pale King f
Finished, this could have been a great book. Unfinished, it’s just too disjointed, even for DFW. It may not be experimental fiction, exactly, but it’s not far off. It’s basically a series of loosely related vignettes, some short, some longer, with a handful of recurring characters. It’s still enjoyable, and occasionally rises to the brilliance I’d hoped for, but as a whole it’s nowhere near the level of Infinite Jest or Broom of the System. Ah well!

Jaron Lanier – You Are Not a Gadget nf
Thoughtfully contrarian, in a good way. I didn’t find all of his arguments compelling, but I’m very, very glad that someone’s making them!

Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas f

Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow f
I know there’s a brilliant book hidden in here somewhere, but I couldn’t get through enough to find it. I stopped about halfway through. :/

Tom McCarthy – Men in Space f

Tom Wolfe – The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test nf

David Foster Wallace – This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life nf

Steven Johnson – Where Good Ideas Come From nf

Ian McEwan – Sweet Tooth f

Daniel Pink – Drive nf

John Keegan – A History of Warfare nf (didn’t finish)

Philippa Perry – How To Stay Sane nf

Tom Wolfe – Back To Blood f

David Brin – Existence f (didn’t finish)

Michael Nielsen – Reinventing Discovery nf

Lawrence Osborne – The Forgiven f

Craig Thompson – Blankets f

Thomas Sowell – A Conflict Of Visions nf

Larry Niven – Ringworld f

Max Ernst – Une Semaine de Bonté f

Brendan Keogh – Killing Is Harmless nf

Kevin Kelly – What Technology Wants nf

Stewart Brand – Whole Earth Discipline nf

The Ph.D. Grind nf

David Byrne – How Music Works nf

David MacKay – Sustainable Energy Without The Hot Air nf

Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross – The Rapture Of The Nerds f

Beowulf f

Ben Marcus – The Flame Alphabet f

Lewis Carroll – The Hunting Of The Snark f

Siddhartha Mukherjee – The Emperor Of All Maladies nf

Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow f (didn’t finish)

John Berendt – Midnight in the garden of good and evil f

Haruki Murakami – 1Q84 f

George Orwell – 1984 f

Hugh Howey – Wool f

Téa Obreht – The Tiger’s Wife f

Sam Harris – Lying nf

Daniel Solove – Nothing to Hide nf

China Mieville – Embassytown f

Alan Lightman – Einstein’s Dreams f

Bruce Schneier – Liars and Outliers nf

Cormac McCarthy – Blood Meridian f

Bret Easton Ellis – Less Than Zero f

Tom McCarthy – Men in Space f

Jay McInerney – Bright Lights Big City , Story of My Life f

Daniel Kahneman – Thinking, Fast and Slow nf

Tyler Cowen – The Great Stagnation nf

Richard K. Morgan – Altered Carbon f

Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities f

Kurt Vonnegut – Sirens of Titan f

Upton Sinclair – The Jungle f

Tom McCarthy – C f (didn’t finish)

Charles Perrow – Normal Accidents nf

T. S. Eliot – The Waste Land f

Ian McEwan – Solar f

Daniel Paul Schreber – Memoirs of My Nervous Illness nf

Edwin A Abbott – Flatland f

David Foster Wallace – Infinite Jest f

Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon f

Cormac McCarthy – The Road f

Terry Pratchett – The Color of Magic f, Going Postal f

Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad f

Gever Tulley – Beware Dangerism nf

Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep f

Jonathan Franzen – Freedom f

Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now nf

Hank Taggart – How to Purchase Anonymously on the Internet nf

Steven Levy – In the Plex nf

Douglas Hofstadter – I Am a Strange Loop nf

Alan Moore, David Gibbons – Watchmen f

Neal Stephenson – Anathem f

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – The Little Prince f

Monkey: A Journey to the West f

Matt Ridley – The Rational Optimist nf

Lynd Ward – Woodcut Novels f
Gods’ Man , Madman’s Drum , Wild Pilgrimage , Prelude to a Million Years , Song Without Words , Vertigo

Sep Kamvar, Jonathan Harris – We Feel Fine nf

Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections f

Nassim Nicholas Taleb – The Black Swan nf

Michael Pollan – Food Rules nf

Robert J. Sawyer – Flash Forward, etc. f

John Updike – Rabbit Run f

Gary Taubes – Good Calories, Bad Calories nf

Vernor Vinge – A Fire Upon the Deep f

Robert Heinlein – Stranger in a Strange Land f

Jonah Lehrer – How We Decide nf

E.M. Forster – The Machine Stops f

Ted C. Fishman – China Inc. nf

Clay Gordon – Discover Chocolate nf

Anthony Swofford – Jarhead nf

Clive Cussler – Atlantis Found f, The Chase f

Scott McCloud – Understanding Comics nf

Andy Oram, Greg Wilson et al – Beautiful Code nf

Stieg Larsson – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo f, The Girl Who Played with Fire f

US Army Counterinsurgency Field Manual nf

Kemble Scott – The Sower f

Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay f

Peter Seibel – Coders at Work nf

Iain M Banks – The Algebraist f, Excession f

Richard Bach – Jonathan Livingston Seagull f

Dan Simmons – Hyperion f, The Fall of Hyperion f

David Foster Wallace – The Broom of the System f, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again nf

William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury f

Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse 5 f, Player Piano f

Bertrand Russell – The Problems of Philosophy nf

Tom Wolfe – Bonfire of the Vanities f, I Am Charlotte Simmons f, A Man in Full f

J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye f

Philip Roth – American Pastoral f

Steve Lopez – The Soloist f

Jill Taylor – My Stroke of Insight nf

Aubrey de Grey – Ending Aging nf

William Strunk, E. B. White – The Elements of Style nf

Dave Eggers – What Is the What f

Stephen King – On Writing nf

Chloé Doutre-Roussel – The Chocolate Connoisseur nf

Blastland, Dilnot – The Tiger That Isn’t nf

Rebecca Walker – What Makes a Man nf

Iain Simons – Inside Game Design nf

Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle – The Mote in God’s Eye , The Gripping Hand f

Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner – f

Geoffrey Stone – War and Liberty nf

Chris DiBona – Bruce Napoleon, Vampire Veterinarian f

James W. Loewen – Lies My Teacher Told Me nf

John Perkins – Confessions of an Economic Hit Man nf

Cory Doctorow – Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom , Eastern Standard Tribe , Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town f

Daniel Solove – I’ve Got Nothing to Hide… nf

Haruki Murakami – Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World , The Elephant Vanishes , After Dark f

Vernor Vinge – True Names , Rainbow’s End (available online!) f

Edge – The 100 Best Videogames nf

Christof Koch – The Quest for Consciousness nf

Zadie Smith – On Beauty f

Freeman Dyson – Our Biotech Future and Joyce Carol Oates – Lest We Forget, from the New York Review of Books nf

Daniel Gilbert – Stumbling on Happiness nf

Tim O’Reilly in a Nutshell (available for free!) nf

Etgar Keret – The Bus Driver who Wanted to be God f

Raby, Ruggeri – How To Protect Your Personal Information nf

Orson Scott Card – Getting Lost nf

Carter Scholz – Radiance f

Bruce Sterling – The Difference Engine , Mirrorshades , Schismatrix f

Robert Charles Wilson – Spin , Axis , Blind Lake , Darwinia , The Chronoliths f

Ken MacLeod – Learning The World f

J. J. Luna – Invisible Money nf

Scott Rosenberg – Dreaming in Code nf

David Simon – Homicide , The Corner nf

Tom McCarthy – Remainder f

Salman Rushdie – Shalimar the Clown f

Kemble Scott – SoMa f

David Sedaris – Naked nf

Lewis et al – A General Theory of Love nf

James Gwartney et al – Common Sense Economics nf

Thomas Nagel – Concealment and Exposure nf

Bobby Henderson – The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster nf

Mike Cohn – Agile Estimating and Planning nf

Jeff Hawkins – On Intelligence nf

Penny Arcade – Attack of the Bacon Robots! nf

William Gibson – Neuromancer , Pattern Recognition f

John Battelle – The Search nf

J. J. Luna – How to Be Invisible nf

Neil Strauss – The Game nf

Terry Grossman and Ray Kurzweil – Fantastic Voyage nf

Ellen Fein, Sherrie Schneider – The Rules nf

Max Brooks – World War Z f

Niel Gaiman – Neverwhere f

Michael Roizen, Mehmet Oz – You, The Owner’s Manual nf

Steven Johnson – Everything Bad is Good for You , Mind Wide Open nf

Bruce Schneier – Beyond Fear nf

Helen Fisher – Why We Love nf

Lauren Weisberger – The Devil Wears Prada f

Thomas Kuhn – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions nf

Stephen Wolfram – A New Kind of Science nf

Joel Spolsky – The Best Software Writing I nf

Michael J. Behe – Darwin’s Black Box nf

John Allen Paulos – Innumeracy nf

Freeman Dyson – Disturbing the Universe nf

Susan Blackmore – The Meme Machine nf

Matt Ridley – Genome , Nature Via Nurture , The Red Queen nf

Drew McDermott – Mind and Mechanism nf

Steven Strogatz – Sync nf

Frank Close – Lucifer’s Legacy nf

John F. X. Sundman – Acts of the Apostles f

John Compton Sundman – Cheap Complex Devices f

Randy Cohen – The Good, The Bad and The Difference nf

Mark Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time f

Matt Ruff – Set this House in Order f

Sean Stewart – Perfect Circle f

Bill Bryson – A Short History of Nearly Everything nf

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Flow , Creativity nf

Ray Kurzweil – The Age of Spiritual Machines , The Age of Intelligent Machines , The Ray Kurzweil Reader nf

Thomas Friedman – Longitudes & Attitudes , The World is Flat nf, Hot, Flat, and Crowded nf

Lawrence Lessig – The Future of Ideas , Code nf

Richard Dawkins – The Selfish Gene , The Blind Watchmaker , Unweaving the Rainbow nf

Steven Levy – Hackers , Insanely Great nf

Neal Stephenson – The Diamond Age , Cryptonomicon , Snow Crash f

Neal Stephenson – In the Beginning…Was the Command Line nf

Charles Stross – Accelerando , Singularity Sky , Iron Sunrise , Glasshouse f

China Miéville – Perdido Street Station , The Scar , Iron Council , King Rat f, The City & The City f

James Trefil – 101 Things You Don’t Know about Science and No On Else Does Either nf

Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman – Godel’s Proof nf

David Brin – Sundiver f

M. T. Anderson – Feed f

Franz Kafka – The Trial f

Stewart Brand – The Media Lab nf

Stephen R. Covey – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People nf

Alec Mackenzie – The Time Trap nf

Ian McEwan – Atonement f

Michael E. Edleson – Value Averaging nf

Jeff Fischer – Investing Without a Silver Spoon nf

David and Tom Gardner – The Motley Fool Investment Guide nf

Percival Everett – American Desert f

Richard Feynman – Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feynman nf, The Character of Physical Law nf, Six Not-So-Easy Pieces nf

Stephen Hawking – Black Holes and Baby Universes nf

Dave Eggers – You Shall Know Our Velocity , A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius f

Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being f

Tao Te Ching nf

Shunryu Suzuki – Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind nf

Paul Reps and Nyugen Senzaki – Zen Flesh Zen Bones nf

Leonard Shlain – Sex, Time, and Power nf

Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude , Love in the Time of Cholera , etc. f

Jared Diamond – Guns, Germs, and Steel nf

Richard Adams – Watership Down , Tales from Watership Down f

Laura Schlessinger – Ten Things Women Do to Mess Up their Lives , Ten Things Men Do to Mess Up their Lives nf

Richard Watson – Cogito, Ergo Sum nf

T. R. Reid – Confucius Lives Next Door nf

Guy Gavriel Kay – Tigana , A Song for Arbonne , The Lions of Al-Rassan f

Arnold C. Schonberg – The Great Pianists nf

Nick Bollettieri – My Aces, My Faults nf

John Nunn – Secrets of Rook Endings nf

A. J. Gillam – Simple Checkmates nf

Al Horowitz – Chess nf

Suparna Damany and Jack Bellis – It’s Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome! nf

Eric Raymond – The Cathedral and The Bazaar, The Art of Unix Programming nf

Frank Herbert – Dune , Dune Messiah , Children of Dune , etc. f

Douglas Adams – The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, etc. f

Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides – Design Patterns nf

Robert Silverberg – Lord Valentine’s Castle, Valentine Pontifex, Majipoor Chronicles, etc. f

Stephen King – The Stand, It, Needful Things, Cujo, etc. f

Plato – Republic nf

Melvin Rader and Jerry H. Gill – The Enduring Questions nf

Immanuel Kant – Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals nf

Rene Descartes – Collected Writings nf

Aristotle – Ethics nf

David Hume – An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding nf

Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights f

Charles Dickens – Great Expectations f

Bernard Williams – Morality nf

William James – Essays in Pragmatism nf

Thomas Aquinas – On Law, Morality, and Politics nf

Lex Williford and Michael Martone – The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction nf

Michael Crichton – Rising Sun, Sphere, The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man, Congo f

Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender’s Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow Of the Giant f

Piers Anthony – A Spell for Chameleon and the Xanth series, the Incarnations series, and many others f

Books I’ve read Blinkist summaries of:

David Epstein – _Range_

Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Skin In The Game, Fooled By Randomness

Malcolm Gladwell – David And Goliath, Blink, Outliers

Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson – _It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work_

Lisa Damour – Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions Into Adulthood nf

Angela Duckworth – Grit nf

Robert M. Pirsig – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance f

Paul Bloom – Against Empathy nf

Tim O’Reilly – WTF? nf

Shop Class As Soulcraft nf

Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish – How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk nf

Hans Rosling – Factfulness nf

James Carse – Finite And Infinite Games nf

The Almost Nearly Perfect People nf

Steven Pinker – _Enlightenment Now__ nf

The Ceo Next Door nf

Susan Cain – Quiet nf

J. Craig Venter – Life at the Speed of Light nf

Yuval Noah Harari – Sapiens nf

Tim Wu – The Master Switch nf