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Here's my "obligatory tech person website books section." This is an abbreviated list of my favorites; I review or log almost all of what I read on Goodreads.
Covers List
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas cover Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957 cover Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957
Helen Molesworth
Revolutionary Road cover Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates
From Counterculture to Cyberculture cover From Counterculture to Cyberculture
From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Fred Turner
The Crying of Lot 49 cover The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
Technocrats of the Imagination cover Technocrats of the Imagination
Technocrats of the Imagination
John Beck & Ryan Bishop
The Big Clock cover The Big Clock
The Big Clock
Kenneth Fearing
Who Is Michael Ovitz? cover Who Is Michael Ovitz?
Who Is Michael Ovitz?
Michael Ovitz
Barbarians at the Gate cover Barbarians at the Gate
Barbarians at the Gate
Bryan Burrough & John Helyar
Permanent Record cover Permanent Record
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca cover Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca
Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca
Alexander Star (ed.)
Commodify Your Dissent cover Commodify Your Dissent
Commodify Your Dissent
Thomas Frank & Matt Weiland (eds.)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions cover The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre cover Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
Keith Johnstone
The Organization Man cover The Organization Man
The Organization Man
William H. Whyte
The Romance of Commerce and Culture cover The Romance of Commerce and Culture
The Romance of Commerce and Culture
James Sloan Allen
The Soul of a New Machine cover The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder
Slouching Towards Bethlehem cover Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion
The Right Stuff cover The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
Oblivion: Stories cover Oblivion: Stories
Oblivion: Stories
David Foster Wallace
The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976 cover The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976
The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976
John Harwood
Breaking News cover Breaking News
Breaking News
Alan Rusbridger
Subprime Attention Crisis cover Subprime Attention Crisis
Subprime Attention Crisis
Tim Hwang
On the Road cover On the Road
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
The Organizational Complex cover The Organizational Complex
The Organizational Complex
Reinhold Martin
Pride and Prejudice cover Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Trout Fishing in America cover Trout Fishing in America
Trout Fishing in America
Richard Brautigan
Infinite Jest cover Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
The Fountainhead cover The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Poor Charlie's Almanack cover Poor Charlie's Almanack
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charles T. Munger
Inventing the Future cover Inventing the Future
Inventing the Future
Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams
What Tech Calls Thinking cover What Tech Calls Thinking
What Tech Calls Thinking
Adrian Daub
Creativity, Inc. cover Creativity, Inc.
Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull
The Ride of a Lifetime cover The Ride of a Lifetime
The Ride of a Lifetime
Robert Iger
Take Ivy cover Take Ivy
Take Ivy
Shōsuke Ishizu, Toshiyuki Kurosu, Hajime Hasegawa, Teruyoshi Hayashida
The White Album cover The White Album
The White Album
Joan Didion
The Mathematical Theory of Communication cover The Mathematical Theory of Communication
The Mathematical Theory of Communication
Claude E. Shannon & Warren Weaver
Making Movies cover Making Movies
Making Movies
Sidney Lumet
Meet Me in the Bathroom cover Meet Me in the Bathroom
Meet Me in the Bathroom
Lizzy Goodman
Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy cover Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy
Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy
Lindsay Caplan
Adventures in the Screen Trade cover Adventures in the Screen Trade
Adventures in the Screen Trade
William Goldman
The Official Preppy Handbook cover The Official Preppy Handbook
The Official Preppy Handbook
Lisa Birnbach
Deschooling Society cover Deschooling Society
Deschooling Society
Ivan Illich
Debt: The First 5,000 Years cover Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber