- learn you a haskell
- Every Man for Himself and God Against All - werner herzog
- Essential TypeScript 4: From Beginner to Pro - Adam Freeman
- Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine
- https://hypermedia.systems/
- lords of chaos book: https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C3661439
- https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/unabom-manifesto-1.html
- xchg rax,rax book xorpd
- Why We Sleep (caveats)
- "Kind of Blue: The Making of a Miles Davis Masterpiece" by Ashley Cole
- 3 shades of blue book
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/904538.The_Book_of_Tea
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42189.Arranging_Things
- Gardens of Gravel and Sand: https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C2022880
- https://thelittletyper.com/ book
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25490360-the-burnout-society
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1049635.The_Second_Sin
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12617.Manufacturing_Consent?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_26
- JG Ballard fav books: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39304650
- On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
- war is a racket
- re/search books at sfpl: https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=re/search
- Throbbing Gristle: An Endless Discontent
- choosing death: https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C1918210
- bruno schulz at richmond: https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=bruno%20schulz or re-get the newer one
- Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
- blood in the machine: 10 best tech books of 2023 https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-10-best-tech-books-of-2023
- pushkin - mozart and salieri
- Gilded Age
- Tons of recommendations in Industrial Culture Handbook
- less is more by jason hickel
- What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? Wolfram
- Jacques Ellul - The Technological Society (see others from Unabomber Manifesto) (Main 3rd floor page desk 301.24 EL59t)
- The Anthropocene Reviewed john green (west add 814.6 G8235a)
- master of reality john darnielle
- sam harris: lying
- Piranesi
- 4000 weeks
- Modern Vim Craft your Development Environment With Vim 8 and Neovim (Main 005.13 V72n)
- Practical Vim Edit Text at the Speed of Thought (Main 005.52 V72n 2015)
- The Dawn of Everything David Graeber (presidio, 901 G756d) left off at page 114
- A Short History of Decay by Cioran, E. M. (main 128 C494s 2012, 3rd floor)
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer - Meadows (003 M4619t)
- Der Klang der Familie: Berlin, Techno and the Fall of the Wall
- House of Leaves
- Efficient Linux at the Command Line by Daniel J. Barrett
- memento mori short story
- lynch: room to dream
- Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground
- joyce - portrait of the artist as a young man, etc
- How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil
- John Ousterhout: A Philosophy of Software Design (recommended by grugbrained dev)
- Tape Delay by Charles Neal https://archive.org/details/tapedelay00neal/
- https://wiki.earlyretirementextreme.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading
- computer history books recommended by fabien sanglaard
- little learner
- Short History of Nearly Everything bibliography
- Robert Musil (mostly at main)
- The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles by Noam Nisan
- stanislaw lem - The Invincible
- Tetris Effect
- https://www.wallpaper.com/tech/the-computer-taschen-book
- https://burningshed.com/robert-fripp_the-guitar-circle_book
- A Guided Journey Into the World of Abstract Mathematics and the Writing of Proofs
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/22/carmageddon-daniel-knowles-book-review-paved-paradise-henry-grabar
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22253782-the-meaning-of-anxiety
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todos_los_fuegos_el_fuego
- 50 Years of Text Games
- shirley jackson - the lottery
- flannery o'connor - a good man is hard to find
- A climate vocabulary of the future
- john cage - silence
- The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman (main 620.8 N782d 4th fl)
- eno book list: https://www.openculture.com/2015/08/brian-eno-book-lists.html
- Open Circuits (no starch)
- Artist's Guide to Programming (Presidio branch owns a copy)
- Berlekamp dots and boxes
- Morton Feldman Says (main 4th fl 780.2 F3335a)
- Systemantics: How systems work and especially how they fail
- dick ubik (sunset branch)
- robinson crusoe
- War is a Racket
- my effin life geddy lee
- Hackers & Painters Paul Graham (303.4833 G7607h)
- We - Yevgeny Zamyatin (Richmond and Sunset, SF Zam)
- old masters by bernhard in graphic novel format (GN BERNHARD main branch 1st floor)
- e.o. wilson the diversity of life
- Essentials of Compilation - An Incremental Approach in Python by Jeremy G. Siek
- Victorian Internet
- brave new world revisited
- Learn Physics With Functional Programming: a Hands-on Guide to Exploring Physics With Haskell
- The Listening Book
- ursula k leguin
- Edward Teach - Sadly, Porn
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Ideas That Created the Future by Lewis
- A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Murder Capital of the World (Emerson Murray, richmond branch)
- Feldman - Give My Regards to Eighth St
- Wendell Berry
- Soft Machine: Out-Bloody-Rageous by Graham Bennett
- Baby Git Guidebook
- derek bailey: improvisation: its nature and practice (main 4th 781.65 B1517i)
- Parker, Matt. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension (main 4th)
- Conversationgs with Xenakis
- Nouritza Matossian Xenakis
- wealth of networks
- w.g. sebald
- winning ways (berlekamp, conway, guy)
- l.a. lewis tales of the grotesque
- thomas m disch - descending
- curbing traffic
- a book on early music
- singh - code and fermat's last theorem
- Mechanical Failure (Epic Failure, #1) by Joe Zieja (recommended by dad)
- Gardiner, John Eliot: Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven (780.2 B12gar main)
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism / How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism by Cory Doctorow
- Roughgarden, Tim algorithms DP
- made in china by amelia pang
- Sand: The Never-Ending Story by Michael Welland
- happy city - charles montgomery
- KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money by John Higgs
- shallows by nicolas carr
- Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
- nyman Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond
- Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving
- Mark Arax - The Dreamt Land
- cadillac desert
- Death: The Scientific Facts to Help us Understand it better by Richard Béliveau, Denis Gingras
- Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse goulson
- brian eno - year with swollen appendices
- Perfect Lives: An Opera by Robert Ashley
- Finite and Infinite Games – James Carse
- Algorithmic Game Theory tardos roughgarden etc
- derek parfit - reasons and persons
- christopher alexander - a pattern language
- lewis mumford - The Myth of the Machine
- Marshall McLuhan - understanding media
- Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by John von Neumann
- ascent of money
- Math for Programmers by Orland
- polya: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning
- toop - ocean of sound (Main 780.904 T619o)
- nietzsche - ecce homo
- sid meier's memoir (Main 794.8 M4758a)
- tracy kidder - soul of a new machine
- alchemy of air
- friendly orange glow
- kafka: the castle and the trial
- naomi klein
- steven levy: crypto and facebook
- walden
- richard dawkins: selfish gene
- matthew derby: super flat times (recommended by Emily)
- evolution of cooperation
- thinking, fast and slow
- cormac mccarthy no country for old men
- peter singer animal liberation
- full catastrophe living
- kornfield: meditation for beginners
- I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories by William Gay
- sot-weed factor
- Mircea Eliade
- Julien Gracq
- gilbert sorrentino
- bolano 2666
- vessaas - the ice palace
- bohumil hrabal - too loud a solitude
- herman hesse - the glass bead game
- meg elizabeth atkins - shadows of the house
- schreber - memoirs of my nervous illness
- eliade - two strange tales
- flanagan - gould's book of fish
- anna kavan - who are you?
- cortazar - historias de cronopios
- beckett - endgame
- hawkes - lime twig
- flannery o'connor - wiseblood
- anais nin
- pynchon - gravity's rainbow
- elizabeth smart - by grand central
- rosendorfer - architect of ruins
- william gaddis
- william gass
- thomas ades
- elias canetti
- alasdair gray - lanark
- david foster wallace
- count of monte cristo
- The Complete Book of Connect 4: History, Strategy, Puzzles by James D. Allen
- vernor vinge - fire on the deep
- horacio quiroga
- beckett
- Hofstader - Godel, Escher, Bach
- Wolfram - a new kind of science
- tarka the otter
- burton - anatomy of melancholy
- in praise of blandness
- In Praise of Shadows
- curtis roads - microsound (first part read)
- Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond
- The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism: Kyle Chayka
- erich fromm
- john barth
- exact change press
- The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
- Raymond Roussel
- 2024
- everything keeps dissolving: conversations with coil
- the far side collections 1 and 5
- russell edson - little mr. prose poem
- tidy first? - kent beck
- italo calvino - mr. palomar
- stefan zweig - chess story
- Robert Sapolsky - Determined: The Science of Life Without Free Will
- Thomas Bernhard - Concrete (reread)
- 2023
- aldous huxley - brave new world
- george packer - last best hope
- thomas bernhard - the cheap eaters (reread)
- charles petzold - code
- Robert Louis Stevenson - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- hitchhiker's guide to the universe
- Chris Miller - Chip War
- john romero - doomguy
- philip k. dick - a scanner darkly
- robert musil - intimite ties
- yukio mishima - star
- charles simic - master of disguises
- cesar aira - fulgentius
- kobo abe - secret rendezvous (reread)
- Industrial Culture Handbook: Re # 6/7
- 2022
- Scott, James C. - Seeing Like a State- How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
- little schemer
- werner herzog - twilight world
- The One-straw Revolution by Fukuoka, Masanobu
- polya - how to solve it
- leonard koren - what artists do
- philip k. dick - three stigmata of palmer eldritch
- cal newport - digital minimalism
- orwell - 1984
- steven wilson - limited edition of one
- how to do nothing by odell
- flowers for algernon (short story version)
- kolbert - under a white sky
- bill bryson - a short history of nearly everything
- jared diamond - guns, germs and steel
- Early Retirement Extreme - Jacob Lund Fisker
- the epic struggle of the internet of things - bruce sterling
- 2021
- philip k dick - we can remember it for you wholesale
- England's hidden reverse - keenan
- Lysaker - Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports
- neil degrasse tyson - letters from an astrophysicist
- sam harris - end of faith
- edward burger, michael starbird - the five elements of effective thinking
- edward snowden - permanent record
- cesar aira - the dinner
- kolbert - sixth extinction
- robert sapolsky - behave
- Neil Postman - Amusing Ourselves to Death, Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
- sam harris: free will
- hackers by steven levy
- game engine black book: wolfenstein 3d
- ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now by jaron lanier
- pre-2021 assorted dump
- leonard koren: almost all of the books
- masters of doom
- mathematics: a new golden age by devlin
- orwell: animal farm
- nets, puzzles and postmen
- Ted Kaczynski - Industrial Society and Its Future
- miles autobiography (quincy troupe)
- Selected Ambient Works Vol II - Marc Weidenbaum
- emil cioran
- michael brodsky - circuits (partial)
- Daily Rituals: How artists work
- Frankl: Man's Search for Meaning
- Algorithms to Live By
- Borges Selected Fictions
- david markson
- yukio mishima - confessions of a mask
- yukio mishima - the sound of waves
- wreckers of civilisation (throbbing gristle book)
- Faust - Stretch Out Time 1970-1975 by Andy Wilson
- The Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music
- alvin lucier: music 109
- jacqueline caux: luc ferrari: almost nothing
- cesar aira - varamo
- cesar aira - ghosts
- cesar aira - An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
- cesar aira - shantytown
- iain banks - wasp factory
- the book of tea
- horacio castellanos moya
- michel leiris - aurora
- georges perec
- julio cortazar
- daniil kharms
- gertrude stein
- gary snyder - look out
- nabokov - lolita
- nabokov - pale fire
- thomas ligotti
- anton chekhov stories
- bruno schulz
- robert walser
- philip k dick
- italo calvino
- thomas bernhard
- gargoyles
- frost
- extinction
- gathering evidence
- my prizes
- yes
- correction
- old masters
- the loser
- russell edson
- epictetus
- alan weisman - the world without us
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - flow
- Witold Gombrowicz - Cosmos
- flann o'brien - third policeman
- raymond queneau
- Boris Vian - the foam of the days
- jean-paul sartre - nausea
- djuna barnes - nightwood
- fernando pessoa
- stuxnet: countdown to zero day
- roger zelazny - chronicles of amber
- anna kavan
- 10 print
- john berger - ways of seeing
- Wave (Deraniyagala book)
- giorgio chirico hebdomeros
- bataille - story of the eye
- jarry Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician
- maldoror
- poe
- lynch: catching the big fish
- lovecraft
- bradbury: fahrenheit 451
- Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms Paperback by Eugenia Bone
- neal stephenson: cryptonomicon
- neal stephenson: snow crash
- algernon blackwood
- knut hamsun - hunger
- ohle: motorman
- patchen
- andre gide
- julien gracq
- clarice lispector - agua viva
- aurelia de nerval
- julio cortazar - hopscotch
- wolfgang bauer - the feverhead
- unica zurn - dark spring
- virginia woolf - orlando
- hesse - demian
- jose saramago - death with interruptions
- inconspicuous consumption
- ayn rand - the fountainhead
- why does the world exist?
- frank herbert - dune
- vonnegut: cat's cradle
- the prince - machiavelli
- Moravagine - blaise cendrars
- Là-Bas - Joris-Karl Huysmans
- power of habit
- eat that frog
- alfred jarry
- brion gysin - the process
- mammal's notebook satie
- day of the locust nathaniel west
- voltaire candide
- Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
- tom robbins - still life with woodpecker
- haruki murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (I think? Pretty sure I read a story collection in 2008 or so)
- Ninjalicious: access all areas
- Gérard de Nerval - Aurélia
- breton - nadja
- lord of the flies
- angela's ashes
- Rilke
- james clavell
- 2023
- doctor desoto
- blueberries for sal
- Tiffky Doofky
- Old Mother Hubbard and Her Wonderful Dog by James Marshall
- Shrek
- Zeke Pippin
- The Amazing Bone
- 2021
- uncle elephant
- frog and toad
- owl at home
- little pig
- george and martha
- pre-2021
- mud book by john cage
- tintin
- The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
- Corduroy Don Freeman
- redwall
- wind in the willows
- mrs frisby and the rats of nimh
- cricket in times square
- Stuart Little
- Little Gorilla
- Phantom Tollbooth
- little matchstick girl
- boxcar children
- goodnight moon
- mike mulligan
- the little fur family
- pippi longstocking
- ruby mae has something to say by david small
- Imogene's Antlers
- the little house
- the velveteen rabbit
- bread and jam for frances
- caps for sale
- michael rosen the sad book