*: good, ***: very good, -: reading
| Title | Author | |
|---|---|---|
- | Homo Deus | Yuval Noah Harari |
- | Guns, Germs, and Steel | Jared Diamond |
- | Collapse | Jared Diamond |
| Game Mechanics | Ernest Adams, Joris Dormans | |
* | A Theory of Fun for Game Design | Raph Koster |
* | How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking | Jordan Ellenberg |
* | What If? | Randall Munroe |
*** | Shoe Dog | Phil Knight, |
| When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi | |
| What I Talk About When I Talk About Running | Haruki Murakami | |
| The Storm of Creativity | Kyna Leski | |
| Ultimate Questions | Bryan Magee | |
*** | Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari |
| Deep Work | Cal Newport | |
| Don’t Make Me Think | Steve Krug | |
* | This Is Water | David Foster Wallace |
* | The War of Art | Steven Pressfield |
| Tools of Titans | Timothy Ferriss | |
* | Thing Explainer | Randall Munroe |
*** | Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas | Seymour Papert |
| The Art of Procrastination | John R. Perry | |
| On the Shortness of Life | Seneca | |
| Two Lessons on Animal and Man | Gilbert Simondon | |
| A Spy’s Guide to Thinking | John Braddock | |
| Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | |
| Grid systems in Graphic Design | Josef Müller-Brockmann | |
| Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Carlo Rovelli | |
| Design Is a Job | Mike Monteiro | |
| Vivian Maier: Street Photographer | Vivian Maier | |
| Life Below: The New York City Subway | Christophe Agou | |
| Magnum Contact Sheets | Kristen Lubben | |
| Street Photography Now | Sophie Howarth, Stephen Mclaren | |
| The Design of Everyday Things | Donald A. Norman | |
| Sketching User Experiences | Bill Buxton | |
| About Face 3 | Alan Cooper | |
* | Zero to One | Peter Thiel |
| The Sketchnote Handbook | Mike Rohde | |
*** | The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger |
* | Flow | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
| Rework | Jason Fried | |
| Eloquent JavaScript | Marijn Haverbeke | |
| Remote | Jason Fried | |
| 30 Lessons for Living | Karl Pillemer | |
| Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son | John Graham | |
| A Practical Guide to Information Architecture | Donna Spencer | |
| How to Read a Book | Mortimer J. Adler | |
| Designing with the Mind in Mind | Jeff Johnson | |
| Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore | Robin Sloan | |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | |
| Man 2.0: Engineering the Alpha | John Romaniello | |
| Ernest Hemingway on Writing | Larry W. Phillips | |
| Learn Python The Hard Way | Zed A. Shaw | |
| Film Is Not Dead | Jonathan Canlas |