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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 | |
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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 |