Book List

I started tracking these books in 2021, inspired by Paul Dourish's book list.

Reading Now:

  • Thinking in Systems: a Primer by Donella Meadows
  • If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore

Finished in 2021:

  • We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
  • Your Computer is on Fire (Essay Colleciton)
  • 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

Past Favorites:

  • 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
  • Technopoly by Neil Postman
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

On My List (No Particular Order):

  • 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 Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford
  • The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
  • Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
  • Designs for the Pluriverse by Arturo Escobar
  • Predict and Surveil by Sarah Brayne
  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  • The Upswing by Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett
  • Privacy is Power by Carissa Véliz
  • 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
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