reading !

what am i have read, am reading, and plan to read to learn more abt diff topics!

here are the books in my list, filtered by category.

entries prefixed with '>' are books i am currently reading

those with an accommodating link are entries i have finished

entries prefixed with 'X' are books i chose not to finish

psychology

X thinking fast and slow - daniel kahneman

the interpretation of dreams - sigmund freud

the social animal - elliot aronson

how to change your mind - mike pollan

the shallows - nicholas carr

psych: the story of the human mind - paul bloom

the engima of reason - hugo mercier

innumeracy - john paulos

influence - robert cialdini

philosophy

reasons and persons - derek parfit

meditations - marcus aurelius

godel escher bach - douglas hofstadter

i am a strange loop - douglas hofstadter

nicomachean ethics - aristotle

groundwork for the metaphysics of morals - immanuel kant

X finite and infinite games - james p carse

bhagavad gita

plato complete works

the burnout society - byung chul han

the agony of eros - byung chul han

psychopolitics - byung chul han

the human condition - hannah arendt

the structure of everyday life - fernand braudel

capitalist realism - mark fisher

postcapitalist desire - mark fisher

sociology

the presentation of self in everyday life - erving goffman

suicide - emile durkheim

distinction - pierre bourdieu

anti-intellectualism in american life - richard hofstadter

outliers: the story of success - malcolm gladwell

sapiens: a brief history of humankind - yuval noah harari

> bowling alone - robert putnam

liquid modernity - zygmunt bauman

manufacturing consent - edward herman

the hidden dimension - edward hall

political

the republic - plato

on liberty - john stuart mill

the second sex - simone de beauvoir

the communist manifesto - karl marx

das kapital - karl marx

strong towns - charles marohn jr

the sovereign individual - james davidson

gender trouble - judith butler

undoing gender - judith butler

intersectionality - patricia collins

women race and class - angela davis

queer theory - annamarie jagose

the new jim crow - michelle alexander

the war on normal people - andrew yang

the jakarta method - vincent bevins

systems thinking

> thinking in systems - donella meadows

complexity a guided tour - melanie mitchell

economics

the origins of wealth - eric beinhocker

a random walk down wall street - buron malkiel

the wealth of nations - adam smith

the general theory of employment interest and money - john maynard keynes

> capital in the 21st century - thomas piketty

the case against education - bryan caplan

technofeudalism - yanis varoufakis

the trading game - gary stevenson

urban planning

the death and life of great american cities - jane jacobs

the image of the city - kevin lynch

> cities for people - jan gehl

order without design - alain bertuad

delirious new york - rem koolhaas

the arts

the aesthetic brain - anjan chatterjee

aesthetics: problems in the philosophy of criticism - monroe beardsley

art as experience - john dewey

make it bigger - paula scher

the creative act: a way of being - rick rubin

steal like an artist - austin kleon

thinking with type - ellen lupton

form+code in design art and architecture - LUST

interaction of color - josef albers

designing design - keyna hara

> the design of everyday things - don norman

framed ink - marcos mateu-mestre

creative illustration - andrew loomis

picture this: how pictures work - molly bang

color and composition for film - hans bacher

light for visual artists - richard yot

color and light - james gurney

perspective made easy - ernest norling

how to render - scott robertson

figure drawing - michael hampton

dream worlds - hans bacher

the art of color - johannes itten

the medium is the message - marshall mcluhan

computer science

operating systems three easy pieces - dusseau

the art of multiproccessor programming

rust atomics and locks - mara bos

designing data intensive applications - martin kleppman

architecture of open source applications 1 & 2

database internals - alex petrov

probability and computing - purdue

introductory combinatorics

high performance browser networking - ilya grigorik

randomized algorithms - motwani

> streaming systems - slava chernyak

pc assembly language - paul carter

> computer architecture - patterson hennessy

writing

> the sense of style - steven pinker

on writing well - william zinsser

the pyramid principle - barbara minto

writing with style - john trimble

thank you for arguing - jay heinrichs

the art of thinking clearly - rolf dobelli

how to write a sentence - stanley fish

several short sentences about writing - veryln klinkenborn

style: towards clarity and grace - joseph williams

draft no. 4 - john mcphee