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When I moved away from Barcelona in 2024 I had to pack up my bookshelf. It was made from a pile of driftwood I found in the street, extended with a gong, and had collected most of the books I'd read over the 7 years I'd lived there. I shared the below picture to Farcaster and asked if based on those books, anyone could recommend me what to read next. The response was pretty amazing an I ended up ordering a few of the suggestions.
That made me think it might be worth doing a more complete digital version.
| Rating ▲ | Name | Author | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Adams, Douglas | ||
| How to Take Smart Notes | Ahrens, Sönke | ||
| Pure Invention | Alt, Matt | ||
| Introducing Postmodernism | Appignanesi, Richard, | ||
| Foundation | Asimov, Isaac | ||
| I, Robot | Asimov, Isaac | ||
| Outlive | Attia, Peter | ||
| Meditations | Aurelius, Marcus | ||
| Evolution of Cooperation | Axelrod, Robert | ||
| The Dark Net | Bartlett, Jamie | ||
| Introducing Psychology | Benson, Nigel | ||
| John von Neumann: The Man from the Future | Bhattacharya, Ananyo | ||
| Nomadland | Bruder, Jessica | ||
| Proof of Stake | Buterin, Vitalik | ||
| The Myth of Sisyphus | Camus, Albert | ||
| + | The Outsider | Camus, Albert | |
| How to get from A to B | Canfield, Jack | ||
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | Carnegie, Dale | ||
| Working Backwards | Carr, Bill & Bryar, Colin | ||
| The Glass Cage | Carr, Nicholas G. | ||
| Cold Start Problem | Chen, Andrew | ||
| Media Control | Chomsky, Noam | ||
| + | Algorithms to Live By | Christian, Brian & Griffiths, Tom | |
| Begining of Infinity | Deutsch, David | ||
| Guns, Germs, and Steel | Diamond, Jared | ||
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Dick, Philip K. | ||
| Eco Design Lamps | Dickenstein, Alicia | ||
| Read, Write, Own | Dixon, Chris | ||
| Freakonomics | Dubner, Stephen J. & Levitt, Steven D. | ||
| Bobby Fischer Goes to War | Eidinow, John & Edmonds, David | ||
| American Psycho | Ellis, Bret Easton | ||
| Hooked | Eyal, Nir | ||
| Build | Fadell, Tony | ||
| 4 Hour Chef | Ferriss, Timothy | ||
| Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! | Feynman, Richard | ||
| What Do You Care What Other People Think? | Feynman, Richard | ||
| 6 Not So Easy Pieces | Feynman, Richard | ||
| 1000 Lamps | Fiell, Charlotte & Peter | ||
| 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School | Frederick, Matthew | ||
| 101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School | Frederick, Matthew | ||
| An Introduction to Physcoanalysis | Freud, Sigmund | ||
| Mythos | Fry, Stephen | ||
| The Economics of Blockchain Consensus | Gans, Joshua | ||
| The Quark and the Jaguar | Gell-Mann, Murray | ||
| The Idea Factory | Gertner, Jon | ||
| What the Dog Saw | Gladwell, Malcolm | ||
| Blink | Gladwell, Malcolm | ||
| Outliers | Gladwell, Malcolm | ||
| Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics | Gleick, James | ||
| 48 Laws of Power | Greene, Robert | ||
| Einstien, A Life in Science | Gribbin, John & White, Michael | ||
| The Digital Ape | Hampton, Roger & Shadbolt, Nigel | ||
| Hyperculture | Han, Byung-Chul | ||
| Sapiens | Harari, Yuval Noah | ||
| Brief History of Time | Hawking, Stephen | ||
| Essential Einstein | Hawking, Stephen | ||
| Catch 22 | Heller, Joseph | ||
| The Old Man and the Sea | Hemingway, Ernest | ||
| Dune | Herbert, Frank | ||
| Hitch 22 | Hitchens, Christopher | ||
| The Same & Not the Same | Hoffmann, Roald | ||
| * | I am a Strange Loop | Hofstadter, Douglas | |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach | Hofstadter, Douglas | ||
| The Hard Thing About Hard Things | Horowitz, Ben | ||
| Birds of Britain and Europe | Hume, Rob | ||
| Brave New World | Huxley, Aldous | ||
| Doors of Perception | Huxley, Aldous | ||
| The Energetics of Computing in Life and Machines | Institute, Santa Fe | ||
| Steve Jobs | Isaacson, Walter | ||
| Small Architecture | Jodidio, Philip | ||
| David Chipperfield | Jodidio, Philip | ||
| The Dubliners | Joyce, James | ||
| Metamorphesis | Kafka, Franz | ||
| Before The Coffee Gets Cold | Kawaguchi, Toshikazu | ||
| Elephants on Acid | Keane, John | ||
| One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest | Kesey, Ken | ||
| Show Your Work | Kleon, Austin | ||
| Unreasonable Success | Koch, Richard | ||
| Masters of Doom | Kushner, David | ||
| Prisoners of Geography | Marshall, Tim | ||
| Chip War | Miller, Chris | ||
| The Puzzle Universe: A History of Mathematics in 315 Puzzles | Moscovich, Ivan | ||
| The Gig Economy | Mulcahy, Diane | ||
| Design as Art | Munari, Bruno | ||
| The Design of Everyday Things | Norman, Don | ||
| Hans J. Wegner: Just One Good Chair | Olesen, Christian Holmsted | ||
| 1984 | Orwell, George | ||
| Animal Farm | Orwell, George | ||
| The Emporors New Mind | Penrose, Roger | ||
| Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design | Petroski, Henry | ||
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Pirsig, Robert M. | ||
| How to Predict the Unpredictable | Poundstone, William | ||
| A Designers Art | Rand, Paul | ||
| Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst | Reingold, Dan | ||
| Skunk Works | Rich, Ben | ||
| Introducing Philospohy | Robinson, Dave | ||
| The Phychopath Test | Ronson, Jon | ||
| Midnight's Children | Rushdie, Salman | ||
| + | On the Move | Sacks, Oliver | |
| Awakenings | Sacks, Oliver | ||
| The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat | Sacks, Oliver | ||
| Orientalism | Said, Edward | ||
| The Catcher in the Rye | Salinger, J.D. | ||
| Naom Gabo | Sidlina, Natalia | ||
| Fermats Last Theorem | Singh, Simon | ||
| The Puzzle of Left Handedness | Smits, Rik | ||
| Uncommon Knowledge | Standage, Tom | ||
| Truley Peculiar | Standage, Tom | ||
| Jekyll and Hyde | Stevenson, Robert Louis | ||
| Nudge | Sunstein, Cass R. & Thaler, Richard H. | ||
| Alchemy | Sutherland, Rory | ||
| Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | ||
| Black Swan | Taleb, Nassim Nicholas | ||
| Antifragile | Taleb, Nassim Nicholas | ||
| Lighting Design | TBC | ||
| + | My Inventions and Other Writings | Tesla, Nikola | |
| Zero to One | Thiel, Peter | ||
| Pragmatic Programmer | Thomas, David & Hunt, Andrew | ||
| Talking to my Daughter | Varoufakis, Yanis | ||
| Candide | Voltaire | ||
| Cat's Cradle | Vonnegut, Kurt | ||
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Vonnegut, Kurt | ||
| Mother Night | Vonnegut, Kurt | ||
| Never Split the Difference | Voss, Chris | ||
| This is it | Watts, Alan | ||
| 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People | Weinschenk, Susan | ||
| The Martian | Weir, Andy | ||
| The Invisible Man | Wells, H.G. | ||
| War of the Worlds | Wells, H.G. | ||
| Radical Markets | Weyl, E. Glen & Posner, Eric | ||
| The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test | Wolfe, Tom | ||
| The Right Stuff | Wolfe, Tom | ||
| Introducing Marxism | Woodfin, Rupert |