Book Pipeline
Last updated: June 2020. If this gets too out of date, I’d appreciate a reminder.
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Currently Reading / Unfinished
- Exile, Statelessness, and Migration Seyla Benhabib
- These Truths Jill Lepore - recommended by Russ Roberts, Amol Mody
- Das Kapital Karl Marx (Twitter thread)
- Homage to Catalonia George Orwell - recommended by Noah Smith
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
- For the Time Being Annie Dillard
- The Manager’s Path Camille Fournier
- Silk Roads Peter Frankopan - recommended by Alvaro Videla
- Triumph of the City Edward Glaeser
- Payments Systems in the U.S Russ Jones, Coye Benson, Loftesness
- 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
- Bowling Alone Robert Putnam
- A Paradise Built In Hell Rebecca Solnit
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
- 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
- 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)
Fiction
- 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
- Siddhartha Hermann Hesse - recommended by Goldy Levy (review)
- Pachinko Min Jin Lee - recommended by Nicole Zhu
- Crónica de una muerte anunciada Gabriel García Márquez
- In The First Circle Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - recommended by Russ Roberts (review)
- Candide Voltaire - recommended by Hannah Doherty (review)
History
- Zealot Reza Azlan (review)
- Vanished Kingdoms Norman Davies (review)
- Turing's Cathedral George Dyson (review)
- 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
- Man's Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl - recommended by Dana Szlak (review)
- 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 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
- 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)
Books read and reviewed, by year