Books I Want to Read or Listen to

Lists of books for inspiration

• Taylor Town
• Derek Sivers

Non-fiction

Technical, science

• A new Kind of Science – Stephen Wolfram
• The Feynman Lectures on Physics I–III
• How to 2 – Randal Munroe DONE
• Numbers Don’t Lie – Václav Smil DONE
• 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 Bostrom DONE
• How to Avoid a Climate Disaster – Bill Gates DONE

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 Bets DONE – Annie Duke
• How to Live – Derek Sivers DONE
• Superforecasting – Philip E. Tetlock DONE

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 Stephenson DONE