Books

Below is an (airbushed, slightly out-of-order) list of books I've read. I found that having a Goodreads account made me too self concious about my reading, and having to rate and/or review every book was stressful. This list might still be too much, but it's a quick way of communicating my interests and values. Any recommendations welcome!

Logging our consumption of books, films, and music often provides community for us, but I worry that it warps our minds a little, that it might turn consumption into a performance. I'll write a fill blog on it one day I think.

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Against Landlords - Nick Bano
Can Democracy Handle Climate Change? - Daniel J. Fiorino
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union - Sheila Fitzpatrick
Rules for Radicals - Sali D. Alinsky
Love in Exile - Shon Faye
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Vulture Capitalism - Grace Blakely
Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman
Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher
Understanding Marx's Capital - Rob Sewell
Mad World - Micha Frzder-Caroll
Fully Automated Luxury Communism - Aaron Bastani
The Deficit Myth - Stephanie Kelton
The Transgender Issue - Shon Faye
This is Vegan Propaganda - Ed Winters
Sex, Power, Money - Sara Pascoe
How to be Perfect - Michael Schur
Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup
The Refusal of Work - David Frayne
The Uninhabitable Earth - David Wallace-Wells
Difficult Women - Helen Lewis
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster - Bill Gates
This Land: The Struggle for The Left - Owen Jones
No One is Too Small to Make a Difference - Greta Thunberg
What White People can do Next - Emma Dabiri
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker
Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
Humankind - Rutger Bregman
Loosing Earth - Nathaniel Rich
Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall
Lost Connections - Johanm Hari
Saving Capitalism - Robert B. Reich
If Only they Didn't Speak English - Jon Sopel
Utopia for Realists - Rutger Bregman
The Martian - Andy Weir
Why We get the Wrong Politicians - Isable Hardman
The Establishment - Owen Jones
Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning - Peter C. Brown

I wish I'd read more over the recent years but alas. Coming from a Computer Science background, I never really learned how to read and so I still feel like I'm playing catch-up a little bit. If I had my time again I would have studied English Literature and Philosophy I like to think.