BOOKSHELF


2024

  • Fox 8 (2013) - George Saunders

  • A Psalm for the Wild-Built (2021) - Becky Chambers

  • Night Theater (2017) - Vikram Paralkar

  • Busy Doing Nothing (2021) - Rekka Bellum & Devine Lu Linvega

  • Before The Coffee Gets Cold (2019) - Toshikazu Kawaguchi

2023

  • Hell Yeah Or No (2020) - Derek Sivers

  • Whereabouts (2018) - Jhumpa Lahiri

  • The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (1938) - Georges Simenon

  • Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track (2021) - Will Larson

2022

  • Project Hail Mary (2021) - Andy Weir

  • How Music Works (2012) - David Byrne

  • Happiness Hypothesis (2006) - Jonathan Haidt

  • Lady Doctors (2021) - Kavitha Rao

  • Exhalation: Stories (2019) - Ted Chiang

  • Introspect (2022) - Visakan Veerasamy

2021

  • The Nasty Bits (2006) - Anthony Bourdain

2020

  • Honeymoon in Tehran (2010) - Azadeh Moaveni

  • Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (2019) - Hanif Abdurraqib

  • Spotify Teardown (2019) -  Maria Eriksson, Anna Johansson, et al (notes)

  • Running On Empty (2013) - Jonice Webb

  • Socialist Realism (2019) - Trisha Low

2019

  • Infinite Detail (2019) - Tim Maughan

  • But What If We’re Wrong? (2016) - Chuck Klosterman (notes)

  • Happy City (2013) - Charles Montgomery

  • The Rest Is Noise (2007) - Alex Ross [taking a break from this one]

  • No Logo (1999) - Naomi Klein [re-read]

2018

  • The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (2015) - David Graeber

  • The Three Body Problem (2008), The Dark Forest (2008) - Liu Cixin

  • Hysterical and Useless - Martin Clarke

2017

  • Flatlands (1884) - Edwin A. Abbott

  • If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler (1979) - Italo Calvino

  • How Not To Network A Nation (2016) - Benjamin Peters

2016

  • Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization (2004) - Alexander Galloway

  • Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure (2016) - Ingrid Burrington

  • The Human Use of Human Beings (1950) - Norbert Wiener

  • Designs on the Public: The Private Lives of New York’s Public Spaces (2007) - Kristine F. Miller

Find a compilation of things I read during grad school (2015-2017) here.