Book Pipeline

Last updated: November 2021. If this gets too out of date, I’d appreciate a reminder.

For a full read and to be read list, click here.

Books read and reviewed, by year

2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016

Currently Reading / Unfinished

• Order without Design, Alain Bertaud
• Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan - recommended by Alvaro Videla
• Telex From Cuba, Rachel Kushner
• Das Kapital, Karl Marx (Twitter thread)

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
• The Manager’s Path, Camille Fournier
• Triumph of the City, Edward Glaeser
• Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Lawrence Lessig - recommended by Felipe Echandi
• Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Robert Nozick
• Open Society, Karl Popper - recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My Recommendations

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)
• 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)

History

• Zealot, Reza Azlan (review)
• 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
• 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
• Season of the Witch, David Talbot (review)
• Everything and More, David Foster Wallace - recommended by Vipul Ved Prakash (review)

Memoir

• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (review)
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, Richard Feynman (review)
• A Primate's Memoir, Robert Sapolsky (review)

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

• The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs (review)
• Cool Gray City of Love, Gary Kamiya (review)
• Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit (review)