Books I Want to Read or Listen to
Lists of books for inspiration
Non-fiction
Technical, science
- A new Kind of Science – Stephen Wolfram
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics I–III
How to 2 – Randal MunroeDONENumbers Don’t Lie – Václav SmilDONE- Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed – Nem R. Rich, Leo Janos
Programming, software engineering
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – Harold Abelson
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications – Martin Kleppmann
- Software Engineering at Google
- The Mythical Man-Month – Frederkck Brooks
- Staff Engineer
- How to Design Programs (recommended by P. Norvig)
- The Linux Programming Interface (recommended by Julia Evans)
- Hacking, The Art of Exploitation (recommended by Julia Evans)
- The Manager’s Path (rec. by Julia Evans)
- Corporate rebels (recommended by Michal Cukr)
Art, Creativity
- F**k it Do what you Love (recommended by Venus Theory)
- The art of Impossible Steven Kotler (recommended by Venus Theory)
- Show Your Work Austin Kleon (recommended by Venus Theory)
- The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (recommended by Venus Theory)
Misc
- Nowhere for very long – Brianna Madia (Baru)
- Blood Meridian (or The Evening Redness in the West) – Cormac McCarthy
- Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth – Buckminster Fuller
- Critical Path – Buckminster Fuller
- Dawn of Everything – Graeber
- How to Argue With a Racist – Adam Rutherford
- If this is a man – Primo Levi
- The hard thing about hard things – Ben Horowitz
- How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read – Venkatesh Rao
- The Ancient City – extreme tribalism of old nations
- Playful Parenting
Health
- Outlive – Peter Attia, recommended by Sivers
Society, history
- The Story of Us – Tim Urban
- Humankind: A Hopeful History – Rutger Bregman
Language
- Le Ton beau de Marot – Douglas Hofstadter
Popular science
- Science Set Free – Rupert Sheldrake
- Sync – Strogatz, Steven H.
- The Dispossessed
- The Innovators – Walter Isaacson
- Nature Via Nurture – Ridley, Matt
Superintelligence – Nick BostromDONEHow to Avoid a Climate Disaster – Bill GatesDONE
Philosophy (of science)
- The Logic of Scientific Discovery – Karl Popper
- The Open Society and Its Enemies – Karl Popper, Václav Havel
- Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
- Platón – Faidón
Thinking, self-improvement
- Metaphors We Live By – George Lakoff
- Think Again – Adam Grant
- The Portable Atheist – Christopher Hitchens
- Star With Why – Simon Sinek
- The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
- Getting Things Done – David Allen
- The Listening Book – W. A. Mathieu, recommended by Sivers
- Several Short Sentences About Writing – Verlyn Klinkenborg, recommended by Sivers
- Getting to Yes (a book about negotiation)
Thinking in BetsDONE – Annie DukeHow to Live – Derek SiversDONESuperforecasting – Philip E. TetlockDONE
Investing, economy
- Zero to One – Peter Thiel
- Good Economics for Hard Times – Abhijit Banerjee
- To be Honest: A memoir – Michael Leviton
- The Design of Everyday Things – Don Norman
Fiction
- Recursion – Blake Crouch
- Stories of Your Life and Others – Ted Chiang
- The Quantum Thief – Neil Stephenson
- Cryptonomicon – Neil Stephenson
Snow Crash – Neil StephensonDONE
published: 2022-01-01
modified: 2023-08-27
modified: 2023-08-27