Booklist

Last updated May 9, 2023 Edit Source

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!

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.

• Accelerando by Charles Stross
• Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga
• The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

• Dealers of Lighting by Michael A. Hiltzik
• Creation: Life and How to Make it by Steve Grand
• The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber
• Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall
• The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop
• The Limits to Capital by David Harvey
• Inventing the Medium by Janet J. Murray
• Saving Time, Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
• 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

• none :)

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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