Book Pipeline

Last updated: October 2024. If this gets too out of date, I’d appreciate a reminder.

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Books read and reviewed, by year

2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016

Currently Reading

• Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
• Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Döblin
• Demand Side Sales, Bob Moesta
• Anabasis, Xenophon

On Deck / Hoping To Read Soon

• Works and Days and Theogony, Hesiod - recommended by Stephen Pimentel
• The Western Canon, Harold Bloom
• The Phoenix Project, Gene Kim
• Mutual Aid, Peter Kropotkin
• Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
• Capitalism, Alone, Branko Milanovic
• Open Society, Karl Popper
• Notes On Complexity, Neil Theise
• The Need for Roots, Simone Weil

My Recommendations

Biography/Memoir

• Zealot, Reza Azlan (review)
• Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
• Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, Jennifer Burns
• Hamilton, Ron Chernow
• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (review)
• The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (review)
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, Richard Feynman (review)
• Acid for the Children, Flea
• The Storyteller, Dave Grohl
• In Other Words, Jumpha Lahiri (review)
• Inside Out: A personal history of Pink Floyd, Nick Mason (review)
• A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz
• A Primate's Memoir, Robert Sapolsky (review)

Computer Science

• Hackers and Painters, Paul Graham (review)
• Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter - recommended by Max Faingezicht
• Society of Mind, Marvin Minsky
• In The Beginning, There Was The Command Line, Neal Stephenson (review)

Culture

• What Tech Calls Thinking, Adrian Daub (review)
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion (review)
• But What If We're Wrong?, Chuck Klosterman - recommended by Russ Roberts (review)

Design

• The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman (review)

Economics

• The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly - recommended by Richard Walker
• Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman
• Individualism and Economic Order, Friedrich Hayek - recommended by Russ Roberts (review)
• Flash Boys, Michael Lewis (review)
• The Value of Everything, Mariana Mazzucato - recommended by Tim O'Reilly (review)
• Radical Markets, Glen Weyl, Eric Posner (Twitter thread, review)
• What Money Can't Buy, Michael Sandel - recommended by Meghan Fraley
• The Company of Strangers, Paul Seabright - recommended by Richard Walker

Entrepreneurship/Management

• The Manager’s Path, Camille Fournier (review)
• Founders at Work, Jessica Livingston (review)
• The Power Law, Sebastian Mallaby (review)
• What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us, Tim O'Reilly (review)
• Zero to One, Peter Thiel (Twitter thread)
• The Founder's Dilemmas, Noam Wasserman - recommended by Leo Polovets
• Founder vs Investor, Elizabeth Zalman and Jerry Neumann
• The Making of a Manager, Julie Zhuo (review)

Fiction

• La casa de los espíritus, Isabel Allende (review)
• Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory, Raphael Bob-Waksberg (review)
• Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
• Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino (review)
• La invención de Morel, Adolfo Bioy Casares
• Rayuela, Julio Cortázar (review)
• Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco - recommended by Gustavo Solórzano (review)
• The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• My Brilliant Friend (Series), Elena Ferrante
• Family Lexicon, Natalia Ginzburg - recommended by Hannah Doherty (review)
• 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, Rebecca Goldstein
• Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse - recommended by Goldy Levy (review)
• Telex From Cuba, Rachel Kushner - recommended by Hannah Doherty (review)
• Un Verdor Terrible, Benjamín Labatut
• The Namesake, Jumpha Lahiri (review)
• Pachinko, Min Jin Lee - recommended by Nicole Zhu
• Los Palimpsestos, Aleksandra Lun - recommended by Alvaro Videla (review)
• Severance, Ling Ma (review)
• Crónica de una muerte anunciada, Gabriel García Márquez
• Cien Años de Soledad, Gabriel García Márquez (review)
• Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky
• Life: A User's Manual, Georges Perec (review)
• The Overstory, Richard Powers (review)
• Blindness, José Saramago
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (review)
• In The First Circle, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - recommended by Russ Roberts (review)
• La Ciudad y Los Perros, Mario Vargas Llosa (review)
• Candide, Voltaire - recommended by Hannah Doherty (review)
• Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe (review)

History

• Lords of Finance, Liaquat Ahamed
• Against The Gods, Peter L. Bernstein (review)
• Alaric The Goth, Douglas Boin (review)
• Vanished Kingdoms, Norman Davies (review)
• Slouching Towards Utopia, J. Bradford DeLong
• Turing's Cathedral, George Dyson (review)
• The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson (review)
• Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan - recommended by Alvaro Videla (review)
• Black Mass, John Gray (review)
• The Yellow Wind, David Grossman (review)
• These Truths, Jill Lepore - recommended by Russ Roberts, Amol Mody (review)
• Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell - recommended by Noah Smith
• A Paradise Built In Hell, Rebecca Solnit (review)
• Zionism and the Fin de Siècle, Michael Stanislawski
• Season of the Witch, David Talbot (review)
• Everything and More, David Foster Wallace - recommended by Vipul Ved Prakash (review)
• The Verge, Patrick Wyman

Philosophy

• For the Time Being, Annie Dillard (review)
• Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl - recommended by Dana Szlak (review)
• This Life, Martin Hägglund (review)
• Wild Problems, Russ Roberts (review)
• Skin in the Game, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (review)
• The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Political Science

• Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson - recommended by Marco Blanco (review)
• Cosmopolitanism, Kwame Anthony Appiah - recommended by Michael S. Roth (review)
• Invisible Countries, Joshua Keating - recommended by Balaji Srinivasan (review)
• Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Robert Nozick (review)
• What is Progress, Aldo Schiavone (review)
• Seeing like a State, James C. Scott - recommended by Quinn Norton (review)
• The Age of Surveilance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff - recommended by Russ Roberts (Twitter thread, review)

Science

• The Mind of God, Paul Davies
• The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
• Chaos, James Gleick (review)
• A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking - recommended by Max Faingezicht
• Why Information Grows, César Hidalgo - recommended by Russ Roberts (review)
• Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows (review)

Science Fiction

• Three Body Problem, Liu Cixin (This is a trilogy, where I’d rate the books as 3 > 1 > 2, review, review.)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick (review)
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Cory Doctorow (review)
• Radicalized, Cory Doctorow (review)
• Walkaway, Cory Doctorow (review)
• Permutation City, Greg Egan
• Neuromancer, William Gibson - recommended by Richard Walker (review)
• Infomocracy (Centenal Cycle trilogy), Malka Older (review)
• Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson - recommended by Stephen Pimentel, Amy Campbell (review)

Urban

• Order without Design, Alain Bertaud (review)
• Triumph of the City, Edward Glaeser
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs (review)
• Cool Gray City of Love, Gary Kamiya (review)
• Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit (review)