Reading List
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2026
Science, the Endless Frontier
NASA Systems Engineering Handbook
(completed)
2025
The Logic of Collective Action
This Cybernetic World of Men, Machines, and Earth Systems
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
Understanding Thermodynamics
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Abundance
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
The Evolution of Useful Things
The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern
2024
Beautiful Evidence
Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering
Bringing Design to Software
How to Make Things Faster
The Design of Books
NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (partial)
The Highly Sensitive Person
The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups
2023
Architecture: Formal Approach
Letters to a Young Contrarian
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
Only the Paranoid Survive
High Output Management
Who Gets What And Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
The Library of Babel
Common Sense
Universal Principles of Design
Adam Smith: A Very Short Introduction
2022
Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information
HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works That Have Influenced the HCI Community
The Grapes of Wrath
2021
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Exploratory Data Analysis
(partially)
Data Design: Visualising Quantities, Locations, Connections
How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information
Wayshowing > Wayfinding
Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of The Crowds
Phishing For Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
Narrative Economics
Irrational Exuberance
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Nudge
The Essential Tversky
Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs and the Creation of Apple
The Long Tail
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
System Safety Engineering: Back To The Future
The Apple II Human Interface Tools
2020
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
The Corporation That Changed The World: How The East India Company Shaped The Modern Multinational
The Ethical Algorithm
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind