Book List
I started tracking these books in 2021, inspired by Paul Dourish's book list.
Reading Now:
- Privacy is Power by Carissa Véliz
- Digital Disconnect by Robert W. McChesney
Finished in 2022:
- The New Media Monopoly by Ben Bagdikian
- The Upswing by Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett
- Chasing Innovation by Lilly Irani
- The Undercommons by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney
- Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks
- Misogynoir Transformed by Moya Bailey
- All the News That’s Fit to Click by Caitlin Petre
- Technopoly by Neil Postman
- The Engaged Scholar by Andrew Hoffman
Finished in 2021:
- Designs for the Pluriverse by Arturo Escobar
- Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
- The Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford
- If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
- Thinking in Systems: a Primer by Donella Meadows
- We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
- Your Computer is on Fire (Essay Collection)
- Black Software by Charlton McIlwain
- Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Subprime Attention Crisis by Tim Hwang
- Wintering by Katherine May
- Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek
- Pasteur's Quadrant by Donald E. Stokes
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
- Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
"Mentor Books" and Other Favorites:
This is not an endorsement of all the authors' opinions or ideas, just an acknowledgment that they have stuck with me:
- Thinking in Systems: a Primer by Donella Meadows
- Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek
- In a Different Voice by Carol Gilligan
- Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
- Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin
- Technology and the Virtues by Shannon Vallor
- Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Noble
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
- The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Books On My List to Read (No Particular Order):
- Why Privacy Matters by Neil Richards
- The World for Sale by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy
- Dying for an iPhone by Jenny Chan
- The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
- When You Wonder, You're Learning by Gregg Behr and Ryan Rydzewski
- Destination Dissertation by Sonja K. Foss
- Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
- Breaking the Social Media Prism by Chris Bail
- Machine Habitus by Massimo Airoldi
- Everyday Information Architecture by Lisa maria Martin
- The Damned Don't Cry by Frank Chapman
- No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey
- The Rise of Big Data Policing by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
- After Democracy: Imagining Our Political Future by Zizi Papacharissi
- Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott
- The Art of Not Being Governed by James C. Scott
- Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology by Tara Dawson McGuinness
- The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business by Duff McDonald
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
- Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City by Jane Jacobs
- The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
- Predict and Surveil by Sarah Brayne
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
- The High Price of Materialism by Tim Kasser
- Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
- Strangers to Ourselves by Timothy Wilson
- Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant
