A list of what I'm currently and previously reading. Source library.json available, inspired by Tom Critchlow.
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Debt The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
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Shantytown
CΓ©sar Aira
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Familiar Face
Michael DeForge
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The Man Without Talent
Yoshiharu Tsuge
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Year of the Rabbit
Tian Veasna
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The House of Owls
Tony Angell
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Algorithms to live by the computer science of human decisions
Brian Christian
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Exhalation
Ted Chiang
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Freedom Hospital
Hamid Sulaiman
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Fire on the Water
Scott MacGregor
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Little Eyes
Samanta Schweblin
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Uncanny Valley
Anna Wiener
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Killing and Dying
Adrian Tomine
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On the Cusp of Contact
Jean Barman
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Unbuilt Victoria
Dorothy Mindenhall
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At first I wasn't sure if I needed to learn about buildings in Victoria that never were. This turned out to be an illuminating look at the history, bureaucracy and grand designs of those in the city for the last few centuries.
How to Measure Anything
Douglas W. Hubbard
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British Columbia's Magnificent Parks The First 100 Years
James D. Anderson
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The Secret Commonwealth (Book of Dust, Volume 2)
Philip Pullman
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Showa 1953β1989
Shigeru Mizuki
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Bandwidth
Eliot Peper
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Embassytown
China MiΓ©ville
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A crunchy jigsaw puzzle of a book. I felt it collapsed a little by the end but I enjoyed it overall.
Non-Violent Communication
Marshall B. Rosenberg
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La Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust, Volume 1)
Philip Pullman
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Thoroughly enjoyable, faintly nostalgic and full of quaint details.
Radicalized
Cory Doctorow
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I bailed halfway through this one, some good idea sparks but overall quite heavy-handed. I also lost count of the times the word 'roil' was used.
Sandworm
Andy Greenberg
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~Thirty smart Wired articles stuffed into a book. Fascinating and gripping.
Kitten Clone Inside Alcatel-Lucent
Douglas Coupland
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I love Douglas Coupland's pithy and astute tech writing. His musings on the past, present and future of "Alca-Loo" in 2013 was a rewarding read.
Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
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I found this interesting from a product management perspective. Some references are a little dated but it will definitely make me appreciate small details in the design of products I use day-to-day.
Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg This Is Our Territory
Gidigaa Migizi (Doug Williams)
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Atomic Habits An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
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Eye-opening and accessible. I didn't expect this to be so helpful and motivating.
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch
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I resented the first 75% of this book but (sunk cost fallacy) I figured I shouldn't give up on it. Too reminiscent of Blake's later novel Recursion.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
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Nice to read some auto-biographical Murakami, this was inspiring and interesting in equal measures.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami
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Never quite felt at home with this one. Some of the humor is great but it fizzled out for me.
Three Years with the Rat
Jay Hoskin
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A little twisty with some good (small) mysteries along the way. Didn't land the ending.
9 Stories
J. D. Salinger
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Permutation City
Greg Egan
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Hard comp-sci-fi, quite a dense text with lots of conversations-as-exposition. Some flashes of brilliance.
100 Days in Uranium City
Ariane DΓ©nommΓ©
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I liked the spare pencil art in this. A little bleak.
Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
L. David Marquet
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Good read.
Shortcomings
Adrian Tomine
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Great portrayal of a flawed person.
Creation
Sylvia Nickerson
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Blankets
Craig Thompson
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Black Blizzard
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
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A charming, fun romp.
Maggie Garrison
Lewis Trondheim and Oiry
βοΈ β’
I expected more from this, found it quite predictable.
Beverly
Nick Drnaso
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Phenomenal graphic novelist, I loved this.
Off Season
James Sturm
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I didn't enjoy this.
Brother
David Chariandy
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Very moving & beautifully written.
Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport
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Most Human Human
Brian Christian
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Perhaps a little too philosophical for me but I enjoyed it.