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Books

Poorly maintained reading list/log.

*: good, ***: very good, -: reading

TitleAuthor
-Homo DeusYuval Noah Harari
-Guns, Germs, and SteelJared Diamond
-CollapseJared Diamond
Game MechanicsErnest Adams, Joris Dormans
*A Theory of Fun for Game DesignRaph Koster
*How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical ThinkingJordan Ellenberg
*What If?Randall Munroe
***Shoe DogPhil Knight,
When Breath Becomes AirPaul Kalanithi
What I Talk About When I Talk About RunningHaruki Murakami
The Storm of CreativityKyna Leski
Ultimate QuestionsBryan Magee
***SapiensYuval Noah Harari
Deep WorkCal Newport
Don’t Make Me ThinkSteve Krug
*This Is WaterDavid Foster Wallace
*The War of ArtSteven Pressfield
Tools of TitansTimothy Ferriss
*Thing ExplainerRandall Munroe
***Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful IdeasSeymour Papert
The Art of ProcrastinationJohn R. Perry
On the Shortness of LifeSeneca
Two Lessons on Animal and ManGilbert Simondon
A Spy’s Guide to ThinkingJohn Braddock
Ready Player OneErnest Cline
Grid systems in Graphic DesignJosef Müller-Brockmann
Seven Brief Lessons on PhysicsCarlo Rovelli
Design Is a JobMike Monteiro
Vivian Maier: Street PhotographerVivian Maier
Life Below: The New York City SubwayChristophe Agou
Magnum Contact SheetsKristen Lubben
Street Photography NowSophie Howarth, Stephen Mclaren
The Design of Everyday ThingsDonald A. Norman
Sketching User ExperiencesBill Buxton
About Face 3Alan Cooper
*Zero to OnePeter Thiel
The Sketchnote HandbookMike Rohde
***The Catcher in the RyeJ.D. Salinger
*FlowMihaly Csikszentmihalyi
ReworkJason Fried
Eloquent JavaScriptMarijn Haverbeke
RemoteJason Fried
30 Lessons for LivingKarl Pillemer
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His SonJohn Graham
A Practical Guide to Information ArchitectureDonna Spencer
How to Read a BookMortimer J. Adler
Designing with the Mind in MindJeff Johnson
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour BookstoreRobin Sloan
The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway
Man 2.0: Engineering the AlphaJohn Romaniello
Ernest Hemingway on WritingLarry W. Phillips
Learn Python The Hard WayZed A. Shaw
Film Is Not DeadJonathan Canlas