I keep getting into conversations with people about books I’m reading or have read recently, and I always say something like “I have a list of books I can recommend on this topic” but don’t actually. Until now. This will be a general space for books I’m reading, have read, or are looking at reading next. I’ll have more specific starting places for particular topics that will reference these books.
The links below are to pages that include some of my thoughts about the respective books if I have any, and also have a link to where you can buy the book (no affiliate links). Otherwise, I might just have a link directly to Bookshop.org (again, no affiliate links) if I haven’t written anything up yet.
I’m one of those people who really doesn’t like marking up books, but I’m beginning to feel I agree with the idea that reading a book is a conversation with the author. Since I don’t like to mark up books, and because I use Obsidian Sync1, I have the vault that backs this site on my phone and can add things as I’m doing other things, so these pages will initially include things that would be margin notes. Eventually, I’ll polish them up and refine them like anything else in the garden.
Current Reading List
This is my to-read list. Maybe keeping it here will make me get on these sooner.
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icon indicates what I’m currently reading, yeah I probably try to read too much at once. - The
icon indicates a book I started but have stalled out on. It happens sometimes. I’ll get back to it… maybe.
Non-fiction
- Debt - The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
- The Myth of the Rational Market by Justin Fox
- The Staff Engineer’s Path by Tanya Reilly
- The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow
- Out of the Crisis by W. Edwards Deming
- Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
- It’s Okay to Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
- The New Industrial State by John Kenneth Galbraith
- The Big Myth by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway
- English After RP by Geoff Lindsey
- Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant
- Wayfinding by M. R. O’Conner
- The Science of the Artifical by Herbert Simon
This one was recommended by Alan Kay in a talk I watched recently.
Fiction
- Babel: an Arcane History by R. F. Kuang
I started reading this one to my partner, a practice that started with late nights with our newborn, and we’ve kinda stalled on it. Need to get back to this one, because it’s good so far. - The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab
- The Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab
- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
Books I’ve read
These are too many to list, so I’ll just include the ones that I think are worth re-reading or telling others about. Mostly I want to make sure to keep references to books that I’ll talk about in other places.
Non-fiction
- Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis
- No Contest by Alfie Kohn
- Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn
- A Specter, Haunting by China Miéville
- Who Decides Who Decides by Ted J. Rau
- Many Voices One Song by Ted J. Rau & Jerry Koch-Gonzalez
- The Rise And Fall of the Neoliberal Order by Gary Gerstle
- And The Weak Suffer What They Must by Yanis Varoufakis
- The Global Minotaur by Yanis Varoufakis
- Adults In The Room by Yanis Varoufakis
- Talking to My Daughter About the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
- Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky
- On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
- The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Don’t Be A Jerk by Brad Warner
- Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
- The Little Schemer Series by various authors
Fiction
- Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys
- Deep Roots by Ruthanna Emrys
- Translation State by Ann Leckie
- The Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
- Another Now by Yanis Varoufakis
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Left Hand of Darkenss by Ursula K. Le Guin
- A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
- Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
- Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
- The Shades of Magic Trilogy by V.E. Schwab
- Dune by Frank Herbert
Footnotes
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My way of paying for the thing I’m using. I could use something like syncthing, but I want to support this product. Also, syncthing doesn’t work on iOS as far as I know and this does.
