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

Poetry

  • Without by David Hall

Current

  • The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop
  • Saving Time, Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell

Past

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2022

2021

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