reading
currently
- Liu, Cixin. (2020). To Hold Up the Sky.
- Palmieri, Luca. (2022). Zero to Production in Rust.
- Chekhov, Anton. (1894). Forty Stories.
- Lockwood, Patricia. (2021). No One Is Talking About This.
recently finished
- Various. (2024). McSweeney's Advent Box 2024. (rated 2/5)
- Sosnin, H.A.. (1964). Arc Welding Instructions for the Beginner. (rated 4/5)
- Poe, Edgar Allen. (1842). The Mask of the Red Death. (rated 4/5)
- Various. (2024). McSweeney's #75. (rated 3/5)
- Bachelard, Gaston. (1958). The Poetics of Space. (rated 5/5)
- Theroux, Paul. (1975). The Great Railway Bazaar. (rated 4/5)
- López-Pérez, Daniel. (2018). R. Buckminster Fuller: Pattern-Thinking. (rated 3/5)
favorite all-time
- Bachelard, Gaston. (1958). The Poetics of Space.
- Borges, Jorge Luis. (1944). Ficciones.
- Cooley, Peter. (1975). The Company of Strangers: Poems.
- Frege, Gottlob. (1884). The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number.
- Thompson, Hunter S.. (1970). The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved.
- Borges, Jorge Luis. (1968). This Craft of Verse.
- Joyce, James. (1922). Ulysses.
- Eco, Umberto. (2009). The Infinity of Lists.
unread (queue)
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor. (1864). Notes from Underground.
- Calloway, Colin. (2003). One Vast Winter Count.
- Camus, Albert. (1955). The Myth of Sisyphus. (recommended by George W.)
- Blodgett, Omer W.. (1968). Design of Welded Structure.
- Cowley, David. (2020). How We'd Talk if the English Had Won in 1066. (recommended by Devine L.)
- Jefferson, TB & Woods, Gorham. (1962). Metals and How To Weld Them.
- Lincoln, James F. Foundation. (2003). Procedure Handbook of Arc Welding.
- Woodcock, George. (1962). Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements.
- Searle, John R.. (1983). Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind. (recommended by Lee P.)
- Márquez, Gabriel García. (1967). One Hundred Years of Solitude.
- hooks, bell. (1999). All About Love. (recommended by Julian P.)
- Tufte, Virginia. (2006). Artful Sentences.
- Steinbeck, John. (1952). East of Eden. (recommended by Elizabeth B.)
- Klaas, Brian. (2024). Fluke. (recommended by Catherine P.)
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. (1973). Gulag Archipelago.
- Pahlka, Jennifer, Nitze, Marina. (2022). Hack Your Bureaucracy.
- Mangnall, Richmal. (1798). Mangnall's Historical Questions.
- Reed, Em. (2023). More Bugs.
- Kingsolver, Barbara. (2000). Prodigal Summer. (recommended by Amber W.)
- Krogerus, Mikael & Tschäppeler, Roman. (2011). The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic Thinking.
- Kingsolver, Barbara. (2009). The Lacuna. (recommended by Amber W.)
- Team, Monocle Editorial. (2020). The Monocle Companion Fifty Ideas Better Cities.
- Heilbroner, Robert L.. (1953). The Worldly Philosophers.
- NASA. (1972). XB-70 Aircraft Study Final Report.
- Gioia, Ted & Gleason, Ralph J. & Gleason, Toby. (2016). Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews.
- Egan, Kieran. (1997). The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding.
- Searle, John R.. (2002). Consciousness and Language. (recommended by Lee P.)
- Hossenfelder, Sabine. (2018). Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray.
- Daumal, Rene. (1990). Pataphysical Essays.
- Woodcock, George. (1950). The Anarchist Prince: A Biographical Study of Peter Kropotkin.
- Various & Various. (2012). The Cynic Philosophers: From Diogenes to Julian.
- Taylor, John. (1948). African Rifles & Cartridges.
- Griffiths, Tom & Christian, Brian. (2016). Algorithms to Live by: The Computer Science of Human Decisions. (recommended by Ari M.)
- Petzold, Charles. (2000). Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software. (recommended by Ari M.)
- Lovecraft, H.P.. (1930). Fungi from Yuggoth.
- Llinás, Rodolfo R.. (2001). I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self. (recommended by Lee P.)
- Quinn, Daniel. (1992). Ishmael. (recommended by Devine L.)
- Ellmann, Richard. (1959). James Joyce.
- Brown, Peter C.. (2014). Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning.
- Alinsky, Saul D.. (1971). Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals.
- Knuth, Donald Ervin. (1968). The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms.
- Knuth, Donald Ervin. (1969). The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms.
- Knuth, Donald Ervin. (1973). The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 3: Sorting and Searching.
- Knuth, Donald Ervin. (2011). The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1.
- Hamming, Richard. (1997). The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn.
- Raymond, Eric S.. (2003). The Art of UNIX Programming.
- Piening, Jenny & Krogerus, Mikael & Tschäppeler, Roman & Earnhart, Philip. (2008). The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic Thinking.
- Urrea, Luis Alberto. (2004). The Devil's Highway. (recommended by Cynthia P.)
- Barry, John M.. (2004). The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History. (recommended by Cynthia P.)
- Knuth, Donald Ervin. (2009). The MMIX Supplement.
- Khaldun, Ibn. (1377). The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History.
- Lorenzo, Mark Jones. (2017). The Paper Computer Unfolded.
- Covey, Stephen M. R.. (2006). The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything.
- Perlroth, Nicole. (2021). This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race.
- Weber, Max. (1994). Weber: Political Writings.
