The reading list anthology.
For a list of all time favourites, see directory.
Incoming
- The Days: Taha Hussein
- Adrift On The Nile: Naguib Mahfouz
- Les Enfants Terribles: Jean Cocteau
- Le Voyageur sur la terre: Julien Green
- The Wonderful Adventures of Nils: Selma Lagerlöf
- The The Tartar Steppe: Dino Buzzati
Reading list 2023
- Le Péril bleu: Maurice Renard
- Mathematics Made Difficult: Carl E. Linderholm
- The Journey Home: Edward Abbey
- Courier Sud: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The Machine Stops: E. M. Forster
- The Unknowable: G.J. Chaitin
- Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice: Glen Krasner
- Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines: Marvin Minsky
- Soul Of A New Machine: Tracy Kidder
- The Story Of B: Daniel Quinn
- Roadside Picnic: Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
- Lord Of The Flies: William Golding
- Sylvie and Bruno: Lewis Carroll
- Homage to Catalonia: George Orwell
- Robot: Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg
- Dealers Of Lightning: Michael Hiltzik
- Technophilia and Its Discontents: Ellen Ullman
- Walden Two: B. F. Skinner
Reading list 2022
- The Dawn of Everything: David Graeber and David Wengrow
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle: Shirley Jackson
- To Mock a Mockingbird: Raymond Smullyan
- Watership Down: Richard Adams
- The Magic Of Lewis Carroll: John Fisher
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: Oliver Sacks
- The Life Of Santoka Taneda: Sumita Oyama
- The Unsettling Of America: Wendell Berry
- What the Dormouse Said: John Markoff
- Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions: Martin Gardner
- A Pattern Language: Christopher Alexander
- Autobiographical Notes: Jorge Luis Borges
- La Technique: Jaques Ellul
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: Douglas Adams
- Life, the Universe and Everything: Douglas Adams
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: Douglas Adams
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Andreas Malm
- Gulliver's Travels: Jonathan Swift
- Le Petit Prince: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- À rebours: Joris-Karl Huysmans
- Muqaddimah: Ibn Khaldûn
Reading list 2021
- Starting Forth: Leo Brodie
- The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: Kevin A. Carson
- The Monkey Wrench Gang: Edward Abbey
- Thinking Forth: Leo Brodie
- Vol de Nuit: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Terre Des Hommes: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Pantagruel: Francois Rabelais
- Reset: Ronald J. Deibert
- Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury
- Notes on the Synthesis of Form: Christopher Alexander
- Mingming and the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing: Roger D. Taylor
- Comment tout peut s'effondrer: Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens
- The Swarm: Frank Schätzing
- Journal de l'année de la peste: Daniel Defoe
- Le Bateau ivre, et autres poemes: Arthur Rimbaud
- The Stories: Ray Bradbury
- L'Aveuglement: José Saramago
- The Summer Book: Tove Jansson
Reading list 2020
- Made to break: Giles Slade
- Wandering Island: Kenji Tsuruta
- 6502 Assembly Programming Language: Mike Smith
- Nouvelles pensées échevelées: Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
- Dracula: Bram Stoker
- Des choses cachées depuis la fondation du monde: René Girard
- Tamata et l'alliance: Bernard Moitessier
- Frankenstein: Mary Shelley
- Macintosh Pascal Programming Primer: Dave Mark & Cartwright Reed
- Elements of Computing Systems: Noam Nisan & Shimon Schocken
- The Invisible Computer: Donald A. Norman
- The Long Way: Bernard Moitessier
- The Dispossessed: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Solaris: Stanislaw Lem
- The Complete Cosmicomics: Italo Calvino
- One Human Minute: Stanislaw Lem
- The Mushroom at the End of the World: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
- The Incredible Tide: Alexander Key
- Don Quixote: Miguel De Cervantes Saaverda
- A Canticle for Leibowitz: Walter M. Miller
- Tactics for Single-Handed Sailing: Andrew Evans
- Finite and Infinite Games: James P. Carse
- The Golden Apples of the Sun: Ray Bradbury
- The Timeless Way of Building: Christopher Alexander
- Purgatorio: Dante Alighieri
- One Straw Revolution: Masanobu Fukuoka
- What Are People For: Wendell Berry
- How to Build a Working Digital Computer: Wolk, Alcosser & Phillips
Reading list 2019
- Cyclonopedia: Reza Negarestani
- Who Owns The Future: Jaron Lanier
- Practical Ethics: Peter Signer
- Embassytown: China Miéville
- The Art of UNIX Programming: Eric S. Raymond
- Xenofeminism: Helen Hester
- Land Of Lisp: Conrad Barski
- The Word for World is Forest: Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Accelerationist Reader: Robin Mackay
- Collected Shorts: H. P. Lovecraft
- Sailing The Farm: Ken Neumeyer
- Assemblage Theory: Manuel DeLanda
- Rasselas: Samuel Johnson
- Inventing the Future: Nick Srnicek
- Manuel De Résistance Contemporaine: Cyril Dion
- Girls Last Tour: Tsukumizu
- Persepolis: Marjane Satrapi
- How To Do Nothing: Jenny Odell
- La Société du spectacle: Guy Debord
Reading list 2018
- Hermeneutics: John D. Caputo
- Tao Te Ching: Lao Tzu
- Letters From A Stoic: Seneca
- Animal Farm: George Orwell & Russel Baker
- Last Chance to See: Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine
- The Arabian Nights: Anonymous
- The Stack: Benjamin H. Bratton
- The Futurological Congress: Stanislaw Lem
- The Cyberiad: Stanislaw Lem
- Ishmael: Daniel Quinn
- Godforsaken Sea: Derek Lundy
- The Tao Of Pooh: Benjamin Hoff
- The Te Of Piglet: Benjamin Hoff
- The Book Of Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi
- Hagakure: Tsunetomo Yamamoto
- Don't Sleep There Are Snakes: Daniel L. Everett
- On Trails: Robert Moor
- The Sixth Extinction: Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Empty Mirror: Janwillem Van De Wetering
- Industrial Society and Its Future: Theodore Kaczynski
- Animal Liberation: Peter Signer
- On Food and Cooking: Harold McGee
Reading list 2017
- Pictures From The Water Trade: John David Morley
- A Calendar Of Wisdom: Tolstoy
- The Art Of War: Sun Tzu
- Superintelligence: Nick Bostrom
- Kokoro: Natsume Soseki
- From AI To Zombies: Eliezer Yudkowsky
- In Praise Of Darkness: Jorge Luis Borges
- Self-Sufficient Sailor: Lin Pardey
- Travels in Hyperreality: Umberto Eco
- North To The Night: Alvah Simon
- Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: Caitlin Doughty
- The Fungi Of Yuggot: H. P. Lovecraft
- In The Dust Of This Planet: Eugene Thacker
- The Japanese Art of Decluttering: Marie Kondo
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Robert M. Pirsig
- Meditations: Marcus Aurelius
Reading list 2016
- Seraffyn's Oriental Adventure: Lin & Larry Pardey
- Guns, Germs & Steel: Jared M. Diamond
- Predictable Irrational: Dan Ariely
- How Not To Die: Michael Greger
- The China Study: T. Colin Campbell
- Letter To My Father: Franz Kafka
- Le Ton Beau De Marot: Douglas Hofstadter
- Beyond Good & Evil: Friedrich Nietzche
- The Circle: Dave Eggers
- The Book Of Tea: Okakura Kakuzō
- Journals: Henry David Thoreau
- Walden: Henry David Thoreau