Books I want to read

Italics mean the title is unreleased.

Science

• Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
• Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
• The Curious World of Seaweed
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
• Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education
• Viruses, Plagues, and History: Past, Present, and Future
• Letters to a Young Scientist
• Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
• Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight

Statistics

• The Data Detective
• Introduction to Empirical Bayes: Examples from Baseball Statistics
• Statistics Done Wrong

Travel

• Kissa by Kissa
• Mountains and Marshes: Exploring the Bay Area’s Natural History
• Europe’s Best Bakeries

Cooking

• The Bread Baker’s Apprentice

Social

• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
• The Year of Magical Thinking
• How to Argue with a Racist
• Exhalation: Stories
• Breasts and Eggs
• Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
• The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice
• Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
• What Are People For?
• A Promised Land
• The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
• The Shepherd’s Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
• Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
• Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom

Writing

• Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Technology

• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
• Reamde
• Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundation of the Digital Arts
• The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
• In the Beginning… Was the Command Line
• Ghost in the Wires
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about It, Devops, and Helping Your Business Win
• Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
• Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
• A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
• Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure
• A People’s History of Computing in the United States

Engineering

• Working Effectively with Legacy Code
• Brutal Refactoring: More Working Effectively with Legacy Code
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• Noise Matters: The Evolution of Communication
• UNIX: A History and a Memoir
• The Timeless Way of Building
• Software Design for Flexibility
• Dreaming in Code
• Let Over Lambda
• The Art and Craft of Geometric Origami
• The Complete Book of Origami Polyhedra
• Designed for Use
• Software Design X-Rays
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
• An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
• Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
• Getting Started with CNC: Personal Digital Fabrication with Shapeoko and Other Computer-Controlled Routers

Business

• The Ride of a Lifetime
• The Psychology of Money

History

• The Things They Carried
• Tracks, Tires, & Wires: Public Transportation in California’s Santa Clara Valley
• Bart: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System
• Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
• History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America
• Astounding
• In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman: Mathematics at the Limits of Computation
• On Desperate Ground: The Epic Story of Chosin Reservoir–The Greatest Battle of the Korean War
• Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon
• No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Animal in History
• Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
• The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story

Sci-Fi

• Artemis
• Anathem
• The Overstory
• Seveneves

Historical Fiction

• News of the World

Humor

• Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema
• No One Asked for This

Fiction

• The Remains of the Day
• Circe

Art

• Computational Drawing

Lists

I’ve collected other people’s book lists for inspiration:

• Patrick Collison
• Bill Gates
• Tom Macwright
• Ole Begemann
• Samuel Thomas Davies
• Dave Rupert
• Brandur
• Derek Sivers
• Paul Stamatiou
• James Clear
• Jeremy Keith
• Gwern
• The Rabbit Hole
• Maggie Appleton
• Christina Cacioppo
• Warren Ellis
• Vellum
• Eli Bendersky
• Dustin
• Jamie
• Brendan Schlagel’s Antilibraries
• Gordon Brander
• Liam Cook
• Devine Lu Linvega
• Chris Krycho
• Wes De Silvestro
• Clarity
• mrusme
• Jestem Króliczkiem
• Ben Overmyer
• David Golden’s Craft of coding reading list
• superkuh’s hard sci-fi