Updated 2023-02-20
Nonfiction
Architecture
- Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life - David Sim
Business
- ALIEN Thinking: The Unconventional Path to Breakthrough Ideas - Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, Michael Wade
- Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You - Geoffrey G. Parker & - Marshall W. Van Alstyne & Sangeet Paul Choudary
- The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business - Erin Meyer
- Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator - Ryan Holiday
Cultural / History / Politics
- Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism - Benedict Anderson
- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media - Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
- Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World - Suzy Hansen
- Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics - Tim Marshall
- Sweden’s Dark Soul: The Unravelling of a Utopia - Kajsa Norman
- The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure - Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff
- The Death Of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters - Thomas M. Nichols
- The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life - Anu Partanen
- The Power of Geography : Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World - Tim Marshall
- The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior - Sarah Kendzior
History
- Buy Me the Sky: The remarkable truth of China’s one-child generations - Xinran
- Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future - Svetlana Alexievich
- Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities - Bettany Hughes
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
- Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets - Svetlana Alexievich
MENA
- City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran - Ramita Navai
- Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London - Mohsin Hamid
- Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran - Azadeh Moaveni
- Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World - Zahra Hankir
Data
- Data Science for Business - Foster Provost & Tom Fawcett
- Data Teams: A Unified Management Model for Successful Data-Focused Teams - Jesse Anderson
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems - Martin Kleppmann
- Designing Machine Learning Systems - Chip Huyen
- Fundamentals of Data Engineering - Joe Reis & Matt Housley
- Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms - Hannah Fry
- Machine Learning Design Patterns - Valliappa Lakshmanan & Sara Robinson & Michael Munn
- Machine Learning Engineering - Andriy Burkov
- Practical DataOps: Delivering Agile Data Science at Scale - Harvinder Atwal
- Something Doesn’t Add Up: Surviving Statistics in a Post-Truth World - Paul Goodwin
- The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling - Ralph Kimball & Margy Ross
- The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book - Andriy Burkov
- Zillow Talk: Rewriting the Rules of Real Estate - Spencer Rascoff & Stan Humphries
Food
- The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth about Healthy Eating - Anthony Warner
Linguistics
- A Billion Voices: China’s Search for a Common Language - David Moser
- Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages - Gaston Dorren
- Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language - Gretchen McCulloch
- Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages - Gaston Dorren
- Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language - Emma Byrne
- That’s Not What I Meant! - Deborah Tannen
- The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English - Lynne Murphy
- The Stories of English - David Crystal
Management
- HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself - Harvard Business Review
- Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility - Patty McCord
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable - Patrick Lencioni
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers - Ben Horowitz
- The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues - Patrick Lencioni
- What You Do is Who You Are - Ben Horowitz
Medicine
- How to Treat People: A Nurse’s Notes - Molly Case
- If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body - James Hamblin
- This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor - Adam Kay
Philosophy
- Ego is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday
- The Art of Logic in an Illogical World - Eugenia Cheng
- How Will You Measure Your Life? - Clayton M. Christensen
Psychology
- An Outsider’s Guide to Humans: What Science Taught Me about What We Do and Who We Are - Camilla Pang
- Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes - Margaret Heffernan
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think - Hans Rosling & Ola Rosling & Anna Rosling Rönnlund
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed - Lori Gottlieb
- Rethinking Narcissism: The Secret to Recognizing and Coping with Narcissists - Craig Malkin
- The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did) - Philippa Perry
- When Strangers Meet: How People You Don’t Know Can Transform You - Kio Stark
- The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts - Shane Parrish
Science
- A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes - Adam Rutherford
- Lab Girl - Hope Jahren
Technology
- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions - Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
- Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents - Ellen Ullman
- Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology - Ellen Ullman
- Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition - Frederick Brooks Jr.
- The Business Value of Developer Relations: How and Why Technical Communities Are Key To Your Success - Mary Thengvall
- The Missing Readme: A Guide for the New Software Engineer - Chris Riccomini
- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master - Andy Hunt
- The Programmer’s Brain: What Every Programmer Needs to Know About Cognition - Felienne Hermans
- The Psychology of Computer Programming - Gerald M. Weinberg
- The Software Architect Elevator - Gregor Hohpe
UX/UI
- Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability - Steve Krug
- The Best Interface Is No Interface: The simple path to brilliant technology - Golden Krishna
- The Design of Everyday Things - Donald A. Norman
- User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design are Changing the Way We Live, Work Play - Cliff Kuang & Robert Fabricant
DevOps / SRE
- Continuous Delivery Pipelines: How to Build Better Software Faster - Dave Farley
- Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing - Jared Bhatti & Zachary Sarah Corleissen & Jen Lambourne & David Nunez & Heidi Waterhouse
- Site Reliability Engineering - Betsy Beyer & Chris Jones & Jennifer Petoff & Niall Richard Murphy
- The Phoenix Project - Gene Kim
Management & Leadership
- An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management - Will Larson
- Engineering Management for the Rest of Us - Sarah Drasner
- Managing Humans: More Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager - Michael Lopp
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams - Tom Demarco & Tim Lister
- Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow - Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais
- The Art of Leadership - Michael Lopp
- The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change - Camille Fournier
Technical Leadership
- Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track - Will Larson
- Talking With Tech Leads - Patrick Kua
- The Staff Engineer’s Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change - Tanya Reilly
Fiction
Contemporary
- A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
- And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer - Fredrik Backman
- The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood
- The Red Notebook - Antoine Laurain
- Sweet Bean Paste - Durian Sukegawa
Classics
Crime
- Millennium Trilogy - Stieg Larsson
- Vik & Stubø - Anne Holt
Fantasy
- Exit West - Mohsin Hamid
- Joe Pitt - Charlie Huston
- The Witcher - Andrzej Sapkowski
Historical
- A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
- Cinnamon and Gunpowder - Eli Brown
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Süskind
- The Bastard of Istanbul - Elif Shafak
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Sci-Fi
- All You Need Is Kill - Hiroshi Sakurazaka
- Autonomous - Annalee Newitz
- Iraq + 100: stories from a century after the invasion - Hassan Blasim
- Repo Men - Eric Garcia
- Unauthorized Bread - Cory Doctorow
- Lock In - John Scalzi
- The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Thriller
- Little Brother - Cory Doctorow
- Darknet - Matthew Mather
Wuxia
- Condor Trilogy - Jin Yong
- The Smiling Proud Wanderer - Jin Yong