A (mostly) up-to-date list of books I at some point, have wanted to read, am reading, or finished reading. Links are to pages/blog posts/ideas that were inspired by the book that’s linked!
“the end of a book’s wisdom appears to us as merely the start of our own,” Nussbaum writes
To Read
What is an antilibrary? To put it simply, an antilibrary is a private collection of unread books. Instead of a celebration of everything you know, an antilibrary is an ode to everything you want to explore.
Fiction
- Accelerando by Charles Stross
- Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga
- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Non-fiction
- Dealers of Lighting by Michael A. Hiltzik
- Creation: Life and How to Make it by Steve Grand
- The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber
- Inventing the Medium by Janet J. Murray
- Designing an Internet by David D. Clark
- Playing Software by Miguel Sicart
- Designs for the Pluriverse by Arturo Escobar
- New Media Art by Mark Tribe/Reena Jana
- are we human? notes on an archaeology of design by Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- Dancing on the Ceiling: Art & Zero Gravity by Kathleen Forde
- Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher Alexander
- Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action by Pierre Bourdieu
Poetry
- Without by David Hall
Current
- The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop
Past
2024
- Saving Time by Jenny Odell
- Bluets by Maggie Nelson
- Récoltes et Semailles by Alexandre Grothendieck
2023
- The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
- Design as Art by Bruno Munari
- Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization by Donald W. Braben
- Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
- A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
- Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
2022
- Seeing Like A State by James C. Scott
- Games Agency as Art by C. Thi Nguyen
- Permutation City by Greg Egan
- Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee
- The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
- Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich
- Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
- The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
- Walden Two by B. F. Skinner
- In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life by Robert Kegan
- Ghost Work by Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- Archipelago by Édouard Glissant
- Unflattening by Nick Sousanis
2021
- How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
- Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia by Bernard Suits
- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner
- Design Justice by Sasha Costanza-Chock
- Mindstorms by Seymour A. Papert
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- 1984 by George Orwell
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
- The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Asparouhova
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
2020
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Measure What Matters by John Doerr
- A Beautifully Foolish Endeavour by Hank Green
- The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy