Book List

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

Reading Now:

Technopoly by Neil Postman (re-reading)

Finished in 2022:

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"

Some books really stick with me. I don't recognize it until after I've read them, but these books almost act as mentors – I frequently re-read excerpts, cite them in papers, paruse them for inspiration, etc.

Thinking in Systems: a Primer by Donella Meadows
Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek
Technopoly by Neil Postman

Other 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
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

Books On My List (No Particular Order):

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
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