Reading list
A list of books, essays, and articles I’ve read recently.
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Haruki Murakami
Novelist as a Vocation
Haruki Murakami
Youth and Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
S.P.Q.R: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard
First Person Singular: Stories
Haruki Murakami
The Socrates Express
Eric Weiner
Mythos
Stephen Fry
The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien
Free As In “Me”
Merlin Mann
The Cabinet of Wikipedian Curiosities
Sam Enright
The End of Writing
Oliver Reichenstein
Maya bones bring a lost civilization to life
Erik Vance
What if Hale County, Ala., Is the Heart of America?
Margaret Renkl
Widening Highways Doesn’t Fix Traffic. So Why Do We Keep Doing It?
Eden Weingart
A Smarter Way to Reduce Gun Deaths
Nicholas Kristof
The Dawn of Everything
David Graeber and David Wengrow
Golems, smart objects, and the file metaphor
Matt Webb
A three-line WIP
Cennydd Bowles
The Dutch House
Ann Patchett
These Precious Days
Ann Patchett
The Age of Social Media Is Ending
Ian Bogost
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
The Quartet
Joseph J. Ellis
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
George Saunders
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Anne Lamott
Good Services: How to Design Services That Work
Lou Downe
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman
Killing Commendatore
Haruki Murakami
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication
Ruben Pater
Recommended reading
Life
Getting Things Done: The art of stress-free productivity
David Allen
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Marie Kondō
Several Short Sentences About Writing
Verlyn Klinkenborg
Principles: Life and Work
Ray Dalio
Creativity and leadership
Start With Why
Simon Sinek
Change By Design
Tim Brown
Creative Confidence
Tom Kelley and David Kelley
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
Matthew Frederick
Shape Up
Ryan Singer
Typography and graphic design
Stop Stealing Sheep (and learn how typography works)
Erik Spiekermann
Thinking With Type
Ellen Lupton
Practical Typography
Matthew Butterick
The Elements of Typographic Style
Robert Bringhurst
Type & Typography
Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam
Typographic Systems: Rules for Organizing Type
Kimberly Elam
Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type
Kimberly Elam
Making and Breaking the Grid
Timothy Samara
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward Tufte
The Vignelli Canon
Massimo Vignelli
Fiction
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Nonfiction
Night
Elie Wiesel