Reading List

Note: Books with an asterisk (*) are ones I particularly enjoyed

  • Trout Fishing in America - Richard Brautigan
  • Perfecting Sound Forever - Greg Milner *
  • On The Road - Jack Kerouac *
  • Hands of Time - Rebecca Struthers
  • Game Over - David Sheff
  • Do Not Sell At Any Price - Amanda Petrusich
  • In Praise of Shadows - Junichiro Tanizaki
  • Careless People - Sarah Wynn-Williams
  • The Abolition of Man - CS Lewis
  • A Short History of the British Industrial Revolution - Emma Griffin
  • Sellout - Dan Ozzi
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman *
  • Happiest Baby on the Block - Harvey Karp
  • Range - David Epstein
  • Goodbye Tsugumi - Banana Yoshimoto
  • You Have Not Heard Your Favourite Song Yet - Glenn McDonald
  • Lessons of History - Will Durant
  • Generations - Jean Twenge
  • House Divided - Alex Bozikovic *
  • Losing the Signal - Jacquie McNish
  • The Dream Machine - M. Mitchell Waldrop *
  • Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
  • The Undoing Project - Michael Lewis
  • The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Creative Selection - Ken Kocienda
  • The Changing World Order - Ray Dalio
  • Strange Weather in Tokyo - Hiromi Kawakami
  • Designing Data Intensive Applications - Martin Kleppman
  • Eat a Peach - David Chang
  • The Price of Admission - Daniel Golden
  • Building a Career in Software - Daniel Heller
  • Wind/Pinball - Haruki Murakami
  • How To Not Die Alone - Logan Ury
  • Never Be Alone Again - Lina Abascal
  • The Four - Scott Galloway
  • Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche - Haruki Murakami
  • The Tanning of America - Steve Stoute
  • The Song Machine - John Seabrook *
  • The Everything Store - Brad Stone
  • Rework - Jason Fried/DHH
  • The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Free PR - Cameron Herold/Adrian Salamunovic
  • Lost Illusions - HonorĂ© de Balzac
  • The Colorless Pilgrimage of Tsukuru Tazaki - Haruki Murakami
  • Totally Wired - Andrew Smith
  • Bad Blood - John Carreyrou
  • Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Talking to Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Stranger - Albert Camus *
  • A Philosophy of Software Design - John Ousterhout *
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
  • Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev *
  • Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
  • The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Lean Startup - Eric Ries