Bookshelf
Going back over my books I’m shocked at how little I remember of them, and some books have been left out of the bookshelf for this reason. Andy was right, books don’t work. However books are still a great escape from the high-stimulation world of computers, fiction is still very fun to read, and even non-fiction has its place: I’m thinking of nonfiction now less like “I want to learn about this” and more like “I like the idea that this book is about, and want a physical thing to remind me of that, and hopefully will get to talk to other people about this and thereby keep the idea alive”.
Nonfiction
Thinking about thinking
- Laws of Form (in-progress)
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering (in-progress)
- I Am a Strange Loop (⭐), read 2024
- The Begining of Infinity (⭐), read 2023
- Godel Escher Bach (⭐), read 2020
Personal development
- Existential Kink (in-progress)
- How to Win Friends and Influence People (in-progress)
- Getting to Yes (⭐), read 2024
- Tiny Habits (⭐), read 2024
- Designing your Life, read 2020
Computers
- The Dream Machine (in-progress)
- The Little Schemer
Other Fiction
- Build, Baby, Build, read 2024
Fiction
Classics
- The Brothers Karamazov (⭐), read 2023
- Anna Karenina (⭐), read 2022
- The Idiot, read 2019
Science fiction
- Anathem (in-progress)
- Lord of Light
- Termination Shock (⭐), read 2022
- Old Man’s War, read 2022
- The Three Body Problem series (⭐), read 2021
Adventures and more
- Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family (in-progress)
- UNSONG (in-progress)
- The road
- On The Road, read 2024
- Big Sur
- Siddhartha (⭐) (it’s free as an album on Spotify!)
Childhood favorites
- Redwall series (⭐)
- Most books by Garth Nix
- Masters of Deception (book of profiles of artists who do optical illusions)
- All kinds of newspaper comics, especially Calvin and Hobbes