# Books Reading, read, or around. (Inspired by Max's [biblio](https://maxfenton.com/biblio/), Aaron's [book list](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KGlk0-woJlTXdDjl0-TRHpHfuyjEOyZWwLshcT4wDkI/edit), and Mandy's [working library](https://aworkinglibrary.com)) See also: - [[Bedroom Stack]] - [[Books To Borrow Or Get]] --- ## 2020 [[How To Take Smart Notes]]: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers — [[Sonke Ahrens]] Nonviolent Communication Companion Workbook — Lucy Leu [[Nonviolent Communication]]: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships — [[Marshall Rosenberg]] A People's History of Computing in the United States — Joy Lisi Rankin What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World — Sara Hendren The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups — Starhawk We the People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy: A Handbook for Understanding and Implementing Sociocratic Principles and Practices — John Buck and Sharon Villines Going Horizontal: Creating a Non-Hierarchical Organization, One Practice at a Time — Samantha Slade Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass — Lana Del Rey Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance — Arjun Appadurai [[public/s/public/page/public/Cultivating Communities of Practice]]: A Guide to Managing Knowledge — Etienne Wenger, Richard A. McDermott, and William Snyder Get Together: How to build a community with your people —  Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness — Frédéric Laloux and Ken Wilber Many Voices One Song: Shared Power With Sociocracy — Ted J Rau and Jerry Koch-Gonzalez Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds — adrienne maree brown Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times — Carla Bergman, Nick Montgomery, and Hari Alluri Building Alternatives — T.M. Thomas Issac and Michelle Williams [[public/s/public/page/public/The Revolution Will Not Be Funded]]: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex — INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor — Layla F. Saad and Robin J DiAngelo Platform Capitalism — Nick Srnicek Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India — Lilly Irani Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet — Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider [[The ADHD Effect on Marriage]] — [[Melissa Orlov]] ## 2019 ## 2018 ## 2017 These lists got TOO unwieldy! I'm now using [LibraryCat ](https://www.librarycat.org/lib/caseygollan "https://www.librarycat.org/lib/caseygollan") to catalog my books, and [LibraryThing ](http://www.librarything.com/profile/caseygollan "http://www.librarything.com/profile/caseygollan") if you wanna be friends. In rotation TODO: add books from 5yd, add new books, format headings, pages by year? Perfect Lives — Robert Ashley Talking Music: Conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers — William Duckworth Art & Energy: How Culture Changes — Barry Lord Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art — Lewis Hyde State of Exception — Giorgio Agamben The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time — Ervin Laszlo Tools for Conviviality — Ivan Illich A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction — Christopher Alexander Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age — Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre — Keith Johnstone Impro for Storytellers — Keith Johnstone The Rise of the Meritocracy — Michael Young I Read Where I Am: Exploring New Information Cultures — Andrew Blauvelt Worlds of Exile and Illusion — Ursula K. Le Guin Orality and Literacy — Walter J. Ong Computers as Theatre — Brenda Laurel The Real World of Technology — Ursula M. Franklin Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness — Simone Browne Time Travel: A History — James Gleick Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media — Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age — Douglas Rushkoff Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back — Douglas Rushkoff Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences — Geoffrey C. Bowker THOU — Aisha Sasha John The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma — Bessel van der Kolk M.D. The Craftsman — Richard Sennett The Death and Life of Great American Cities — Jane Jacobs The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction — Jonathan Sterne Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene — Donna J. Haraway Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution — Wendy Brown A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History — Manuel De Landa The Minor Gesture (Thought in the Act) — Erin Manning The Undercommons — Stefano Harney and Fred Moton (started 2015) Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System that Shapes their Lives — Jeff Schmidt Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well — Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting — Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity — R. Buckminster Fuller Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition — Yates McKee My Colombian War: A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind — Silvana Paternostro 9.5 Theses on Art and Class — Ben Davis ‛Pataphysics: A Useless Guide — Andrew Hugill Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds — Celia Pearce and Atermesia Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities — Alexandra Lange The Virtual Community — Howard Rheingold Manifestos for the internet age — greyscale press Post-Democracy — Colin Crouch Inventing the Future — Nick Srinicek and Alex Williams Magister Ludi/The Glass Bead Game — Hermann Hesse Black Transparency — Metahaven Extrastatecraft — Keller Easterling Akira — Katsuhiro Otomo Speculations — Edited by Triple Canopy Speculation, Now — Edited by Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao with Prem Krishnamurthy and Carin Kuoni The Action is the Form — Keller Easterling Re-thinking History — Keith Jenkins In Praise of Opacity — Edited by Daniel Frota To Our Friends — The Invisible Committee Reinventing Comics — Scott McCloud A Circular — Edited by Pedro Cid Proença with Fatima Hellberg Summerhill School — A.S. Neill Branding Terror — Edited by Artur Beifuss and Francesco Trivini Bellini Entry Points — Edited by Carin Kuoni and Chelsea Haines The Gift — Marcel Mauss [[≈ Extraordinary Relationships]] by [[Roberta Gilbert, M.D.]] ## 2016 The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network — Katherine Losse Brightsided — Barbara Ehrenreich The Epic Struggle for the Internet of Things — Bruce Sterling Silicon Valley Urbanism — Alexandra Lange ## 2015 Networks of New York — Ingrid Burrington The New Jim Crow — Michelle Alexander The Creative Habit — Twyla Tharp Zen in the Art of Archery Process and Reality — Alfred North Whitehead The Creative Habit — Twyla Tharp Currently Reading Zen in the Art of Archery finished The Struggle for Black Education (from Education and Capitalism) — Brian Jones finished The E-Myth Revisited — Michael E. Gerber finished Principles — Ray Dalio finished I Will Drown My Words finished Teaching to Transgress — Bell Hooks finished Work — Crimethinc. not finished The New Jim Crow — Michelle Alexander not finished Pedagogy of the Oppressed — Paulo Friere not finished The Queer Art of Failure — Judith Jack Halberstam not finished Difficult Conversations — Roger Fisher not finished The Systems Thinking Playbook — Dennis Meadows and Linda Booth Sweeney not finished Envisioning the Cooperative University not finished The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen R. Covey not finished Holacracy have but not started Debt — David Graeber have but not started How to Know Higher Worlds — Rudolph Steiner Looking For This is It — Alan Watts Looking For This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things Looking For Heroes — Franco Berardi Looking For The Coming Insurrection — The Invisible Committee Looking For ## 2014 Nicely Said — Nicole Fenton Be Slightly Evil — Venkatesh Rao The Art of Not Being Governed — James C. Scott ## 2013 Binding Chaos — Heather Marsh Systemantics — John Gall The Art of Power — Thich Nhat Hanh Two Cheers for Anarchism — James C. Scott Getting to Yes — Roger Fisher Tenth of December — George Saunders Understanding Power — Noam Chomsky Both Flesh and Not Flesh — David Foster Wallace Uncreative Writing — Kenneth Goldsmith ## 2012 Leverage Points — Donella Meadows The Psychopath Test — Jon Ronson Dumbing Us Down — John Taylor Gatto Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace The Twenty-four Hour Mind — Rosalind Cartwright Nick Harkaway Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other — Sherry Turkle Amusing Ourselves to Death — Neil Postman Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents — Ellen Ullman If on a winter's night a traveller — Italo Calvino The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work — Alain De Botton The Shape of Design — Frank Chimero Programmed Visions: Software and Memory — Wendy Hui-Kyong Chun The Handmaid's Tale — Margaret Atwood Networks Without a Cause — Geert Lovink My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts — N. Katherine Hayles Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free-Expression Literary Machines — Ted Nelson Peer Pressure — Brad Troemel Arcades Project — Walter Benjamin ## 2011 All Tomorrow’s Parties — William Gibson How to Count — Steven Frank Chaos: Making a New Science — James Gleick Newsgames: Journalism at Play — Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari, Bobby Schweizer Living with Complexity — Donald Norman You Are Not A Gadget — Jaron Lanier Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Things One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin — Lawrence Weschler Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages — Alex Wright World as Design — Otl Aicher Rethinking History — Keith Jenkins The Fall — Albert Camus Proust Was a Neuroscientist — Jonah Lehrer Grid Systems — Joseph Muller Brockman River of Shadows — Rebecca Solnit Uncorporate Identity — Metahaven Internet Art — Rachel Greene [Speaking Into the Air](/speaking-into-the-air.html "view"): A History of the Idea of Communication — John Durham Peters The Gift: Creativity and The Artist in the Modern World — Lewis Hyde The Information — James Gleick Outliers: The Story of Success — Malcom Gladwell Murphy — Samuel Beckett Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life — Alan Kaprow The Society of Mind — Marvin Minsky ## 2010 Confessions of Griseledes Royal I Wonder — Marian Bantjes Outside Inside — Bruce Davidson They Called Her Styrene, Etc. — Ed Ruscha Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer — Peter Turchi Oroonoko — ?? Of Walking on Ice — Werner Herzog Illuminations — Walter Benjamin Understanding Comics — Scott McCloud Gabriel Ororzco — Ann Temkin et al ## 2009 Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists — Casey Reas and Ben Fry ## 2008 Cat’s Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka Daniel Eatock Imprint: Works 1975-2007 — Daniel Eatock Peace is Every Step — Thich Nhat Hahn The Fountainhead — Ayn Rand (looool) The Road — Cormac McCarthy Waiting for Godot — Samuel Beckett The Stranger — Alfred Camus ## 2007 ## 2006 ## 2005 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — J.K. Rowling Me Talk Pretty One Day — David Sedaris The House on Mango Street — ?? ## 2004 ## 2003 ## 2002 ## 2001 ## 2000 ## 1999 ## 1998 ## 1997 ## 1996 ## 1995 ## 1994 ## 1993 ## 1992 ## 1991 ## unknown When You Are Engulfed in Flames — David Sedaris A Long Way Down — Nick Hornby Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs — Chuck Klosterman The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald Tellmewhy — Karlssonwilker