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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.

bookshelf
Rating Name Author
Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyAdams, Douglas
How to Take Smart NotesAhrens, Sönke
Pure InventionAlt, Matt
Introducing PostmodernismAppignanesi, Richard,
FoundationAsimov, Isaac
I, RobotAsimov, Isaac
OutliveAttia, Peter
MeditationsAurelius, Marcus
Evolution of CooperationAxelrod, Robert
The Dark NetBartlett, Jamie
Introducing PsychologyBenson, Nigel
John von Neumann: The Man from the FutureBhattacharya, Ananyo
NomadlandBruder, Jessica
Proof of StakeButerin, Vitalik
The Myth of SisyphusCamus, Albert
+The OutsiderCamus, Albert
How to get from A to BCanfield, Jack
How to Win Friends and Influence PeopleCarnegie, Dale
Working BackwardsCarr, Bill & Bryar, Colin
The Glass CageCarr, Nicholas G.
Cold Start ProblemChen, Andrew
Media ControlChomsky, Noam
+Algorithms to Live ByChristian, Brian & Griffiths, Tom
Begining of InfinityDeutsch, David
Guns, Germs, and SteelDiamond, Jared
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Dick, Philip K.
Eco Design LampsDickenstein, Alicia
Read, Write, OwnDixon, Chris
FreakonomicsDubner, Stephen J. & Levitt, Steven D.
Bobby Fischer Goes to WarEidinow, John & Edmonds, David
American PsychoEllis, Bret Easton
HookedEyal, Nir
BuildFadell, Tony
4 Hour ChefFerriss, Timothy
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!Feynman, Richard
What Do You Care What Other People Think?Feynman, Richard
6 Not So Easy PiecesFeynman, Richard
1000 LampsFiell, Charlotte & Peter
101 Things I Learned in Architecture SchoolFrederick, Matthew
101 Things I Learned in Urban Design SchoolFrederick, Matthew
An Introduction to PhyscoanalysisFreud, Sigmund
MythosFry, Stephen
The Economics of Blockchain ConsensusGans, Joshua
The Quark and the JaguarGell-Mann, Murray
The Idea FactoryGertner, Jon
What the Dog SawGladwell, Malcolm
BlinkGladwell, Malcolm
OutliersGladwell, Malcolm
Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern PhysicsGleick, James
48 Laws of PowerGreene, Robert
Einstien, A Life in ScienceGribbin, John & White, Michael
The Digital ApeHampton, Roger & Shadbolt, Nigel
HypercultureHan, Byung-Chul
SapiensHarari, Yuval Noah
Brief History of TimeHawking, Stephen
Essential EinsteinHawking, Stephen
Catch 22Heller, Joseph
The Old Man and the SeaHemingway, Ernest
DuneHerbert, Frank
Hitch 22Hitchens, Christopher
The Same & Not the SameHoffmann, Roald
*I am a Strange LoopHofstadter, Douglas
Gödel, Escher, BachHofstadter, Douglas
The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsHorowitz, Ben
Birds of Britain and EuropeHume, Rob
Brave New WorldHuxley, Aldous
Doors of PerceptionHuxley, Aldous
The Energetics of Computing in Life and MachinesInstitute, Santa Fe
Steve JobsIsaacson, Walter
Small ArchitectureJodidio, Philip
David ChipperfieldJodidio, Philip
The DublinersJoyce, James
MetamorphesisKafka, Franz
Before The Coffee Gets ColdKawaguchi, Toshikazu
Elephants on AcidKeane, John
One Flew Over the Cuckoos NestKesey, Ken
Show Your WorkKleon, Austin
Unreasonable SuccessKoch, Richard
Masters of DoomKushner, David
Prisoners of GeographyMarshall, Tim
Chip WarMiller, Chris
The Puzzle Universe: A History of Mathematics in 315 PuzzlesMoscovich, Ivan
The Gig EconomyMulcahy, Diane
Design as ArtMunari, Bruno
The Design of Everyday ThingsNorman, Don
Hans J. Wegner: Just One Good ChairOlesen, Christian Holmsted
1984Orwell, George
Animal FarmOrwell, George
The Emporors New MindPenrose, Roger
Success through Failure: The Paradox of DesignPetroski, Henry
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenancePirsig, Robert M.
How to Predict the UnpredictablePoundstone, William
A Designers ArtRand, Paul
Confessions of a Wall Street AnalystReingold, Dan
Skunk WorksRich, Ben
Introducing PhilospohyRobinson, Dave
The Phychopath TestRonson, Jon
Midnight's ChildrenRushdie, Salman
+On the MoveSacks, Oliver
AwakeningsSacks, Oliver
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a HatSacks, Oliver
OrientalismSaid, Edward
The Catcher in the RyeSalinger, J.D.
Naom GaboSidlina, Natalia
Fermats Last TheoremSingh, Simon
The Puzzle of Left HandednessSmits, Rik
Uncommon KnowledgeStandage, Tom
Truley PeculiarStandage, Tom
Jekyll and HydeStevenson, Robert Louis
NudgeSunstein, Cass R. & Thaler, Richard H.
AlchemySutherland, Rory
Gulliver's TravelsSwift, Jonathan
Black SwanTaleb, Nassim Nicholas
AntifragileTaleb, Nassim Nicholas
Lighting DesignTBC
+My Inventions and Other WritingsTesla, Nikola
Zero to OneThiel, Peter
Pragmatic ProgrammerThomas, David & Hunt, Andrew
Talking to my DaughterVaroufakis, Yanis
CandideVoltaire
Cat's CradleVonnegut, Kurt
Slaughterhouse-FiveVonnegut, Kurt
Mother NightVonnegut, Kurt
Never Split the DifferenceVoss, Chris
This is itWatts, Alan
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About PeopleWeinschenk, Susan
The MartianWeir, Andy
The Invisible ManWells, H.G.
War of the WorldsWells, H.G.
Radical MarketsWeyl, E. Glen & Posner, Eric
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid TestWolfe, Tom
The Right StuffWolfe, Tom
Introducing MarxismWoodfin, Rupert

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