Book Pipeline
Last updated: February 2022. If this gets too out of date, I’d appreciate a reminder.
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Books read and reviewed, by year
2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
Currently Reading
- The Manager’s Path, Camille Fournier
- Inside Out: A personal history of Pink Floyd, Nick Mason
On Deck / Hoping To Read Soon
- The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander - recommended by Hannah Doherty
- The Western Canon, Harold Bloom
- Sovereign Individual, James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg - recommended by Balaji Srinivasan
- Triumph of the City, Edward Glaeser
- Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Lawrence Lessig - recommended by Felipe Echandi
- How to Change, Katy Milkman
- Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Robert Nozick
- Open Society, Karl Popper - recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Eternally Reading / Unfinished
My Recommendations
Biography/Memoir
- Zealot, Reza Azlan (review)
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (review)
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, Richard Feynman (review)
- In Other Words, Jumpha Lahiri
- 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
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
- But What If We're Wrong?, Chuck Klosterman - recommended by Russ Roberts (review)
Design
- The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman (review)
Economics
- Lombard Street, Walter Bagehot
- 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)
- The Deficit Myth, Stephanie Kelton
- 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
- Founders at Work, Jessica Livingston (review)
- What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us, Tim O'Reilly (review)
- Zero to One, Peter Thiel (Twitter thread)
- The Making of a Manager, Julie Zhuo
Fiction
- La casa de los espíritus, Isabel Allende
- Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory, Raphael Bob-Waksberg
- Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
- Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino (review)
- Rayuela, Julio Cortázar (review)
- Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco - recommended by Gustavo Solórzano (review)
- The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- 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
- The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
- Pachinko, Min Jin Lee - recommended by Nicole Zhu
- Los Palimpsestos, Aleksandra Lun - recommended by Alvaro Videla
- Severance, Ling Ma
- Crónica de una muerte anunciada, Gabriel García Márquez
- Cien Años de Soledad, Gabriel García Márquez
- Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky
- In The First Circle, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - recommended by Russ Roberts (review)
- La Ciudad y Los Perros, Mario Vargas Llosa
- Candide, Voltaire - recommended by Hannah Doherty (review)
- Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
History
- Against The Gods, Peter L. Bernstein
- Alaric The Goth, Douglas Boin
- Vanished Kingdoms, Norman Davies (review)
- Turing's Cathedral, George Dyson (review)
- The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson
- Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan - recommended by Alvaro Videla
- Black Mass, John Gray
- The Yellow Wind, David Grossman
- These Truths, Jill Lepore - recommended by Russ Roberts, Amol Mody
- Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell - recommended by Noah Smith
- What is Progress, Aldo Schiavone
- A Paradise Built In Hell, Rebecca Solnit (review)
- Season of the Witch, David Talbot (review)
- Everything and More, David Foster Wallace - recommended by Vipul Ved Prakash (review)
Memoir
- The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
Philosophy
- For the Time Being, Annie Dillard
- Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl - recommended by Dana Szlak (review)
- This Life, Martin Hägglund
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs (review)
- Cool Gray City of Love, Gary Kamiya (review)
- Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit (review)