What I've Been Reading
2025
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X with Alex Haley
- The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
- Stiff by Mary Roach
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
- The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
- When the Earth Was Green by Riley Black
- The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
- Which country has the world's best health care? by Ezekiel J. Emanuel
- A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
- The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
- An Indigenous People's History of the United States by Roxanne-Dunbar Ortiz
- Hunting by Stars by Cherie Dimaline
- AI Engineering by Chip Huyen
- The Will to Change by bell hooks
- Free Agent Nation by Daniel Pink
2024
- On Loyalty by Troy Jollimore
- How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
- Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari
- Confident Ruby by Avdi Grimm
- Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
- The AWK Programming Language by Alfred V. Aho, Peter J. Weinberger and Brian W. Kernighan
- Autocracy Inc. by Anne Applebaum
- Useful Not True by Derek Sivers
- Survival of the Friendliest by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods
- The Most Good You Can Do by Peter Singer
- The Free People's Village by Sim Kern
- The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle
2023
- Refuse to Choose! by Barbara Sher
- Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
- The Next Millionaire Next Door by Sarah Stanley Fallaw
- Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
- The Good Life for Wage Slaves by Robert Wringham
- Palestine by Joe Sacco
- How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion by David McRaney
- A Prosperous Way Down by Howard T. Odom and Elizabeth C. Odom
- A Handmade life by William Coperthwaite
- 98.6 Degrees - The Art of Keeping your Ass Alive! by Cody Lundum
- Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund Fisker (reread)
- Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond
- Power to the Public by Tara Dawson McGuiness and Hana Schank
- A People's Guide to Capitalism by Hadas Their
- Wild Problems by Russ Roberts
2022
- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Persuaders by Anand Giridharadas
- The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
- Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
- Alfajiri by Michael LaBorn
- Persepolis 2 - The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
- Persepolis - The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
- All About Love - New Visions by bell hooks [4/5 stars]
- Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson [3/5 stars]
- Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price [5/5 stars]
- Unwinding Anxiety by Judson Brewer [3/5 stars]
2021
- On Desire: Why We Want What We Want by William B. Irvine
- Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Amelia Nagoski and Emily Nagoski
- The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr [4/5 stars]
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir [4/5 stars]
- How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald J. Robertson
- Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- How to Live by Derek Sivers [4/5 stars]
- Clean Getaway by Nic Stone
- The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix [4/5 stars]
2020
- Hell Yeah or No: What's Worth Doing by Derek Sivers
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
- The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish
- How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
- The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date by Samuel Arbesman
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
- Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- Energy: A Human History by Richard Rhodes
- The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
- Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin
- Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior by James B. Stockdale
- Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott
- The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers by Tom Standage
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Micromastery: Learn Small, Learn Fast, and Find the Hidden Path to Happiness by Robert Twigger
- The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang
- Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
- Aha!: The Moments of Insight that Shape Our World by William B. Irvine
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
- When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink
- Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan
- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt
- The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate — Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
- The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks
2019
- Building a Better World in Your Backyard: Instead of Being Angry at Bad Guys by Paul Wheaton
- Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
- How to Live Well Without Owning a Car: Save Money, Breathe Easier, and Get More Mileage Out of Life by Chris Balish
- Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career by Scott H. Young
- The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient by William B. Irvine
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It by Adam Savage
- Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright
- Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest by Finn Brunton
- Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
- The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
- Kissing Fish: christianity for people who don’t like christianity by Roger Wolsey
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Transformative Experience by L.A. Paul
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff
- Educated by Tara Westover
2018 and before
Since I remember reading these, but not precisely when, they're ordered by publication date
- [2018] Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
- [2018] Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
- [2018] Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
- [2018] Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
- [2018] 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
- [2018] Learning React by Kirupa Chinnathambi
- [2017] Checking Out: How Searching More and Checking Less Can Save You From Your Smartphone by Jeremiah Overland
- [2017] Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- [2017] How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barret
- [2017] How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life by Massimo Pigliucci
- [2017] Set for Life: Dominate Life, Money, and the American Dream by Scott Trench
- [2017] Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
- [2016] Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert B. Cialdini
- [2016] We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor
- [2016] The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter David Sax
- [2016] The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
- [2016] The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis
- [2016] The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking
- [2016] Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
- [2016] Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson
- [2016] Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam M. Grant
- [2016] Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
- [2016] Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
- [2016] Utopia Is Creepy by Nicholas Carr
- [2015] A Spy's Guide to Thinking by John Braddock
- [2015] Mazes for Programmers: Code Your Own Twisty Little Passages by Jamis Buck
- [2015] The Mathematics of Love by Hannah Fry
- [2015] The Road to Character by David Brooks
- [2015] Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
- [2015] The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos
- [2015] When to Rob a Bank: ...and 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- [2014] Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- [2014] Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
- [2014] C++: How to Program by Harvey M. Deitel
- [2014] Dataclysm: Who We Are by Christian Rudder
- [2014] More Than Two by Eve Rickert and Andrea Zanin
- [2014] The Long Mars by Terry Pratchett
- [2014] Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual by John Z. Sonmez
- [2014] What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
- [2014] Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris
- [2014] 10% Happier by Dan Harris
- [2013] Burning Paradise by Robert Charles Wilson
- [2013] Ruby Under a Microscope by Pat Shaughnessy
- [2013] Choose Yourself: Be Happy, Make Millions, Live the Dream by James Altucher
- [2013] Retiring Sooner: How to Accelerate Your Financial Independence by Darrow Kirkpatrick
- [2013] The Long War by Terry Pratchett
- [2013] A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt--And Why They Shouldn't by William B. Irvine
- [2013] Remote: Office Not Required by David Heinemeier Hansson
- [2013] Stoicism and the Art of Happiness by Donald J. Robertson
- [2012] Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar by Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni
- [2012] We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency by Parmy Olson
- [2012] Programming in Go by Mark Summerfield
- [2012] Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson
- [2012] The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust by Robert David Steele
- [2012] So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
- [2012] Scam School Book 1 by Brian Brushwood
- [2012] The Cynic Philosophers: From Diogenes to Julian translated by Robert Dobbin
- [2012] The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett
- [2012] The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- [2012] The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
- [2012] Free Will by Sam Harris
- [2012] Redshirts by John Scalzi
- [2012] The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
- [2011] The Folly of Fools by Robert Trivers
- [2011] The Cucumber Book by Matt Wynne
- [2011] Lean from the Trenches by Henrik Kniberg
- [2011] The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene
- [2011] The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You by Eli Pariser
- [2011] The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- [2011] The Martian by Andy Weir
- [2011] Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America by Jeff Ryan
- [2011] The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins
- [2011] Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- [2011] Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- [2011] Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
- [2011] Vortex by Robert Charles Wilson
- [2011] Lying by Sam Harris
- [2011] Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton
- [2010] Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
- [2010] Being Geek by Michael Lopp
- [2010] Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble
- [2010] Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails by Paul Dix
- [2010] Metaprogramming Ruby: Program Like the Ruby Pros by Paolo Perrotta
- [2010] The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris
- [2010] The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
- [2010] Early Retirement Extreme: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Financial Independence by Jacob Lund Fisker
- [2009] Super Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- [2009] The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
- [2009] The RSpec Book by David Chelimsky
- [2009] Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions edited by Toby Segaran
- [2009] Language Implementation Patterns: Techniques for Implementing Domain-Specific Languages by Terence Parr
- [2009] Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
- [2009] Dive into Python 3 by Mark Pilgrim
- [2009] 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
- [2009] Free by Chris Anderson
- [2009] Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe Greg M. Epstein
- [2009] How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
- [2009] I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works by Ramit Sethi
- [2009] Programming the Semantic Web: Build Flexible Applications with Graph Data by Toby Segaran
- [2009] Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
- [2009] The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
- [2008] Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- [2008] The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan
- [2008] JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
- [2008] A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
- [2008] Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
- [2008] Blasphemy by Douglas Preston
- [2008] Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up by John Allen Paulos
- [2008] Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
- [2008] The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- [2008] Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment Phil Zuckerman
- [2007] Axis by Robert Charles Wilson
- [2007] The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun
- [2007] Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg
- [2007] God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
- [2007] Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things by Richard Wiseman
- [2007] The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- [2007] The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
- [2006] Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade
- [2006] C# Cookbook by Jay Hilyard and Stephen Teilhet
- [2006] CLR via C# by Jeffrey Richter
- [2006] HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS by Rachel Andrew
- [2006] Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality by Bob Walsh
- [2006] The Calculus Wars: Newton, Leibniz, and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All Time by Jason Socrates Bardi
- [2006] The Millionaire Mind by Thomas J. Stanley
- [2006] No B.S. Wealth Attraction for Entrepreneurs by Dan Kennedy
- [2006] The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
- [2006] The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
- [2006] Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks by Arthur T. Benjamin
- [2006] Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
- [2005] Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
- [2005] Holy Silence: The Gift Of Quaker Spirituality by J. Brent Bill
- [2005] Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- [2005] Pragmatic Version Control: Using Subversion by Mike Mason
- [2005] Advanced Perl Programming by Simon Cozens
- [2005] Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson
- [2005] The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
- [2005] New Rules by Bill Maher
- [2005] Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
- [2005] The Truth with Jokes Al Franken
- [2005] On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
- [2005] The Best Software Writing I edited by Joel Spolsky
- [2005] The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology Ray Kurzweil
- [2005] Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment by David F. Swensen
- [2004] Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions by Ben Mezrich
- [2004] Pragmatic Project Automation: How to Build, Deploy, and Monitor Java Apps by Mike Clark
- [2004] Microsoft Windows Internals by Mark E. Russinovich and David A. Solomon
- [2004] Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers
- [2004] Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate by George Lakoff
- [2004] On Intelligence of Jeff Hawkins
- [2004] The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
- [2004] Six Questions of Socrates by Christopher Phillips
- [2004] SEO for Dummies by Peter Kent
- [2004] Building Your Business With Google for Dummies by Brad Hill
- [2004] Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants by Jay Conrad Levinson
- [2004] Time Power by Brian Tracy
- [2004] Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- [2004] The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
- [2004] Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky
- [2003] Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit by Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck
- [2003] Game Programming With Python by Sean Riley
- [2003] Blankets by Craig Thompson
- [2003] A History of Modern Russia: From Nicholas II to Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
- [2003] Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
- [2003] Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore
- [2003] Speed Mathematics: Secret Skills for Quick Calculation by Bill Handley
- [2003] The Myth of Homeland Security by Marcus Ranum
- [2003] Masters of Doom by David Kushner
- [2003] Doubt: A History by Jennifer Michael Hecht
- [2003] The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr
- [2002] Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich
- [2002] Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense by Stuart McClure
- [2002] Hidden Empire by Kevin J. Anderson
- [2002] Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications by Toby Segaran
- [2002] The Good, the Bad & the Difference by Randy Cohen
- [2002] Crashing the Party by Ralph Nader
- [2002] Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
- [2002] The One Minute Millionaire by Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen [0/5 stars]
- [2001] Freelancing For Dummies by Susan M. Drake
- [2001] Sams Teach Yourself Uml in 24 Hours by Joseph Schmuller
- [2001] Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy by Christopher Phillips
- [2001] American Gods Neil Gaiman
- [2001] Extreme Programming Examined by Giancarlo Succi and Michele Marchesi
- [2001] Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- [2001] The Liar's Tale: A History of Falsehood by Jeremy Campbell
- [2001] The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality by Kyriacos C. Markides
- [2001] How to be Good by Nick Hornby
- [2000] Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
- [2000] Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam
- [2000] Assembly Language Step-by-step by Jeff Duntemann
- [2000] PHP 4 Bible by Tim Converse and Joyce Park
- [2000] Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide by Dave Thomas
- [2000] Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire by Chalmers Johnson
- [2000] Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
- [2000] Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
- [2000] The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
- [2000] The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
- [2000] Under the Skin by Michel Faber
- [1999] Python Essential Reference by David Beazley
- [1999] Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0 by David Buser, Chris Ullman and John Duckett
- [1999] MySQL by Paul DuBois
- [1999] A Programmer's Guide to Java Certification by Khalid A. Mughal
- [1999] Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- [1999] Be Cool by Elmore Leonard
- [1999] The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
- [1999] How To Win A Local Election by M. Andrew Grey
- [1999] A Deepness in the Sky Vernor Vinge
- [1999] The Pragmatic Programmer Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
- [1999] Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler
- [1998] The Transparent Society by David Brin
- [1998] The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh
- [1998] A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
- [1997] Software Project Survival Guide by Steve McConnell
- [1997] Web Security, Privacy and Commerce by Simson Garfinkel
- [1997] The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
- [1997] Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
- [1997] Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
- [1996] Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
- [1996] Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models by Martin Fowler
- [1996] The Truth About Money by Ric Edelman
- [1996] Rapid Software Development by Steve McConnell
- [1996] Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
- [1995] The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
- [1995] Extreme Programming for Web Projects by Doug Wallace
- [1995] The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley
- [1995] Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
- [1994] Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Grady Booch, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides
- [1994] No B.S. Sales Success by Dan Kennedy
- [1994] You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train by Howard Zinn
- [1993] Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell
- [1993] No B.S. Business Success by Dan Kennedy
- [1992] Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez
- [1992] TCP/IP Network Administration by Craig Hunt
- [1992] Film Animation Techniques by Lafe Locke
- [1992] Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology by Steven Levy
- [1992] Guerrilla Selling by Jay Conrad Levinson, Bill Gallagher and Orvel Ray Wilson
- [1992] A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge
- [1992] Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- [1991] How to Learn Any Language by Barry Farber
- [1991] Programming Perl by Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant and Larry Wall
- [1991] There Are No Electrons: Electronics for Earthlings by Kenn Amdahl
- [1991] The Ultimate Marketing Plan by Dan S. Kennedy
- [1991] Maus II by Art Spiegelman
- [1990] Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
- [1990] Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- [1990] Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
- [1990] Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
- [1989] The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
- [1989] The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll
- [1988] A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- [1988] Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences John Allen Paulos
- [1988] Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions by Robert H. Frank
- [1987] The World of Lego Toys by Henry Wiencek
- [1986] Maus I by Art Spiegelman
- [1985] The E-myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
- [1985] Atari Basic, XL Edition by Bob Albrecht
- [1985] "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
- [1985] Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage by Paul Ekman
- [1985] Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- [1985] Little Myth Marker by Robert Lynn Asprin
- [1984] Guerrilla Marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson
- [1984] Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
- [1984] From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest by T.Z. Lavine
- [1984] Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
- [1984] Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman
- [1984] So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
- [1984] The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
- [1984] Myth-ing Persons by Robert Lynn Asprin
- [1982] Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
- [1982] Myth Directions by Robert Lynn Asprin
- [1982] The BFG by Roald Dahl
- [1983] Hit or Myth by Robert Lynn Asprin
- [1982] Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions by James Randi
- [1981] The Witches by Roald Dahl
- [1980] The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
- [1980] Myth Conceptions by Robert Lynn Asprin
- [1979] Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- [1979] The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- [1978] The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie
- [1978] Another Fine Myth by Robert Lynn Asprin
- [1978] How to Read Slowly by James W. Sire
- [1977] A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
- [1977] How to Sell Anything to Anybody by Joe Girard
- [1976] The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- [1975] Game Theory and Politics by Steven J. Brams
- [1974] The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play by Harry Lorayne
- [1974] The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
- [1973] A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing by Burton G. Malkiel
- [1973] How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne
- [1972] Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
- [1971] Rules for Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky
- [1970] Ringworld by Larry Niven
- [1969] I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- [1968] The Way of the Sufi Idries Shah
- [1968] Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
- [1968] 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
- [1967] Calculus: An Intuitive and Physical Approach by Morris Kline
- [1966] Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes
- [1964] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- [1962] A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
- [1962] A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- [1962] One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
- [1961] Marx's Concept of Man by Erich Fromm
- [1961] Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
- [1961] Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
- [1961] Solaris by Stanisław Lem
- [1961] James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- [1961] Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- [1959] Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
- [1959] A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
- [1957] Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey by R. Duncan Luce and Howard Raiffa
- [1954] How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
- [1953] Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- [1953] The Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner
- [1953] Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- [1952] Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
- [1951] Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- [1950] Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist by Walter Kaufmann
- [1949] Animal Farm by George Orwell
- [1949] 1984 by George Orwell
- [1947] The Plague by Albert Camus
- [1939] The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- [1937] Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- [1936] How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- [1932] Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- [1928] Propaganda by Edward L. Bernays
- [1927] Why I am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell
- [1924] We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- [1926] The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
- [1915] The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- [1908] How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
- [1907] Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- [1905] The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- [1904] The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- [1885] The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- [1884] Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
- [1883] Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
- [1876] The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- [1846] The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- [1846] Typee by Herman Melville
- [1791] The Autobiography of Ben Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
- [1776] The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- [1516] Utopia by Thomas More
- [1513] The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- [1320] Inferno by Dante
- [180] Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- [125] The Enchiridion by Epictetus
- [44 BC] On Old Age by Cicero
- [351 BC] Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
- [375 BC] The Republic by Plato
- [401 BC] The Bhagavad Gita by Vyasa
- [501 BC] The Art of War by Sun Tzu