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!

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

• The Book of Difficult Fruit by Kate Lebo
• A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Non-fiction

• Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas
• Mutual Aid by Dean Spade
• Seeing Like A State by James C. Scott
• The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian
• The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber
• Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
• Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang
• Radical Markets by Eric A. Posner and E Glen Weyl
• Roads and Bridges by Nadia Eghbal
• The Disappearance of Rituals by Byung-Chul Han
• Postmortems by Raph Koster
• Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall

Current

• How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
• Ghost Work by Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri

Past

2021

• 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 Eghbal
• 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 Endeavor by Hank Green
• The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy