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2023

February 2023

  1. Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
    • Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim

2022

September 2022

  1. The Soul of a New Machine
    • Tracy Kidder
    • audiobook

August 2022

  1. The Second Sex
    • Simone de Beauvoir
    • audiobook

July 2022

  1. Beyond Good and Evil
    • Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufmann
    • bookmarks

June 2022

  1. The Birth of Tragedy
    • Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufmann
    • bookmarks

May 2022

  1. The methodology of scientific research programmes

November 2021 - April 2022

  1. On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
    • Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufmann and RJ Hollingdale
    • bookmarks

2021

November 2021

  1. Start with Why
    • Simon Sinek

October 2021

  1. The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition

September 2021

  1. Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
    • Friedrich Nietzsche

March 2021

  1. Shape Up
    • Ryan Singer
  2. REWORK
    • Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

2020

September 2019 - February 2020

  1. Four Existential Theologians
    • Will Herberg

2019

September 2019

  1. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
    • Walter Benjamin
  2. Ceramic Design
    • John B. Kenny

March 2019

  1. Wittgenstein’s Poker
    • David Edmonds & John Eidinow

2018

May 2018

  1. Art/Work: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career
    • Heather Darcy Bhandari & Jonathan Melber

March - June

  1. Ethics, Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters
    • Baruch Spinoza

February 2018

  1. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    • Thomas S. Kuhn
  2. How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
    • Pierre Bayard

January 2018

  1. Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
    • René Descartes

2017

November 2017

  1. Farewell to Reason
    • Paul Feyerabend

October 2017

  1. Billy Budd, Sailor
    • Herman Melville

September 2017

  1. Politics
    • Aristotle, translated by Benjamin Jowett
  2. The Social Contract: Or Principles Of Political Right
    • Jean Jacques Rousseau, translated by G. D. H. Cole

August 2017

  1. Philosophy Of Law: A Very Short Introduction
    • Raymond Wacks

April 2017

  1. The Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
    • Immanuel Kant, translated by James W. Ellington
  2. Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom
    • F. W. J. Schelling

January - March 2017

  1. Critique of Pure Reason
    • Immanuel Kant, translated by Werner S. Pluhar
  2. The Phenomenology of Spirit
    • G. W. F. Hegel, translated by A. V. Miller and J. N. Findlay

2016

November 2016

  1. Ubik
    • Philip K. Dick

August - October 2016

  1. The Trial and Execution of Socrates: Sources and Controversies
    • Thomas C. Brickhouse & Nicholas D. Smith

June 2016

  1. Cat’s Cradle
    • Kurt Vonnegut
  2. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace
    • Joseph M. Williams
  3. Against Method
    • Paul Feyerabend

January 2016

  1. Orientalism
    • Edward W. Said

2015

December 2015

  1. A Clockwork Orange
    • Anthony Burgess

November 2015

  1. What Makes You Not a Buddhist
    • Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
  2. Fahrenheit 451
    • Ray Bradbury

September 2015

  1. My Land and My People
    • His Holiness the Dalai Lama
  2. The Meaning of Life
    • His Holiness the Dalai Lama

August 2015

  1. Siddhartha
    • Hermann Hesse, translated by Hilda Rosner
  2. Brave New World
    • Aldous Huxley

July 2015

  1. Hackers & Painters
    • Paul Graham

April - May 2015

  1. Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
    • Steven Levy

March 2015

  1. The Dark Haired Girl
    • Philip K. Dick
  2. The Mythical Man-Month
    • Fred Brooks

February 2015

  1. The Republic
    • Plato

2014

November 2014

  1. The Cathedral and the Bazaar
    • Essay by Eric S. Raymond
  2. The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
    • Seth Godin

September 2014

  1. “What Do You Care What Other People Think?”: Further Adventures of a Curious Character
    • Richard P. Feynman
  2. The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
    • Richard P. Feynman

August 2014

  1. Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges
    • Loren Pope
  2. Americanah
    • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  3. Animal Farm
    • George Orwell
  4. Nineteen Eighty-Four
    • George Orwell
  5. The Salmon of Doubt
    • Douglas Adams
  6. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
    • Richard P. Feynman

January - May 2014

  1. The Art of War
    • Sun Tzu
  2. The Google Way: How One Company is Revolutionizing Management As We Know It
    • Bernard Girard

2013

  1. How to Read a Book
    • Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
  2. Civilization and its Discontents
    • Sigmund Freud
  3. Man’s Search For Meaning
    • Viktor E. Frankl
  4. Steve Jobs
    • Walter Isaacson

Programming & Computer Science

2023

  1. Sustainable Web Development with Ruby on Rails
    • David Bryant Copeland

2021

  1. Elixir in Action
    • Saša Jurić

2019

  1. Site Reliability Engineering
    • Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, and Niall Murphy

2018

  1. Practical Common Lisp
    • Peter Seibel
  2. The Rust Programming Language
    • Steve Klabnik & Carol Nichols
  3. The Go Programming Language
    • Alan A. A. Donovan & Brian W. Kernighan

2017

  1. Computer Networks
    • Andrew S. Tanenbaum

2015

  1. The TeXbook
    • Donald Knuth
  2. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
    • Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, and Julie Sussman

2014

  1. The Little Schemer
    • Daniel P. Friedman & Matthias Felleisen

Last updated: 2024-07-11