Reading

Antilibrary

28 books that I intend to read eventually.

Taleb introduces the Hayekian and almost taoistic metaphor of the anti-library: A library of the books you haven't read, of the things you don't know. A massive collection of unknowledge, the anti-library contains all the books that may still change your life.
— Bjørn Stærk | lessons from the antilibrary
  • Neil Postman: Amusing Ourselves to Death (2005, Penguin (Non-Classics))

    Amusing Ourselves to Death

    Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

  • Jaron Lanier: You are not a gadget (2010, Alfred A. Knopf)

    You are not a gadget

    a manifesto

  • David McRaney: How Minds Change (Hardcover, 2022, Portfolio)

    How Minds Change

    The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion

  • Richard L. Hasen: Cheap Speech (2023, Yale University Press)

    Cheap Speech

    How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics--And How to Cure It

  • Dannagal Goldthwaite Young: Wrong (AudiobookFormat, Highbridge Company)

    Wrong

    How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation

  • Amanda Ripley: High Conflict (2021, Simon & Schuster)

    High Conflict

    Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out

  • Natalia Roudakova: Losing Pravda (2017, Cambridge University Press)

    Losing Pravda

    Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Russia

  • Katharine Jarmul: Practical Data Privacy (2023, O'Reilly Media, Incorporated)

    Practical Data Privacy

    Enhancing Privacy and Security in Data

  • Nick Couldry, Ulises A. Mejias: Data Grab (Hardcover, 2024, University of Chicago Press)

    Data Grab

    The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back

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  • Anne Applebaum: Autocracy Inc (2024, Diversified Publishing)

    Autocracy Inc

    The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

  • Wendy Liu: Abolish Silicon Valley (2020, Repeater)

    Abolish Silicon Valley

    How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism

  • Yanis Varoufakis: Technofeudalism (2023, Random House Children's Books)

    Technofeudalism

    What Killed Capitalism

  • Vilém Flusser: Into the universe of technical images (2011, University of Minnesota Press)

    Into the universe of technical images

  • Renee DiResta: Invisible Rulers (2024, PublicAffairs)

    Invisible Rulers

    The People Who Turn Lies into Reality

  • Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman: Underground Empire (2023, Holt & Company, Henry)

    Underground Empire

    How America Weaponized the World Economy

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  • Timothy Messer-Kruse: Patriots' Dilemma (2024, Pluto Press)

    Patriots' Dilemma

    White Abolitionism and Black Banishment in the Founding of the United States of America

  • Will Larson, Tanya Reilly: Staff Engineer (Paperback, 2021, Will Larson)

    Staff Engineer

    Leadership beyond the management track

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  • Tanya Reilly: Staff Engineer's Path (2022, O'Reilly Media, Incorporated)

    Staff Engineer's Path

    A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

  • Jeff Goodell: The The Heat Will Kill You First (2023, Little Brown & Company)

    The The Heat Will Kill You First

    Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • Robert A. Caro: The power broker (1975, Vintage Books)

    The power broker

    Robert Moses and the fall of New York

  • Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Paperback, 1963, Vintage, Brand: Vintage)

    The Death and Life of Great American Cities

  • Paul Jepson, Cain Blythe: Rewilding : The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery (2022, MIT Press)

    Rewilding : The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery

    the Illustrated Edition

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  • David D. Clark: Designing an Internet (Hardcover, 2018, The MIT Press)

    Designing an Internet

  • Tricia Romano: The Freaks Came Out to Write (Hardcover, 2024, PublicAffairs)

    The Freaks Came Out to Write

    The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture

  • Hamilton Nolan: The Hammer (2024, Hachette Books)

    The Hammer

    Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor

  • Octavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy, John Jennings, María Barbado Mujica: Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (Hardcover, 2017, Harry N. Abrams (Abrams Comicarts))

    Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

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  • Natasha Dow Schüll: Addiction by Design (Paperback, 2014, Princeton University Press)

    Addiction by Design

    Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

  • Fonda Lee: Jade Legacy (Paperback, 2021, Orbit Books)

    Jade Legacy


This books page layout was replicated from the work of Simon Dann. That page was inspired by the books pages of Dave Rupert, Mark Llobrera, Søren Birkemeyer and Derek Shirk. They originally got the idea for a books page from Maggie Appleton and her Antilibrary. The first version of this page was inspired by Cox Chapman's Books page. I was further hooked on a homepage for my own book activity by the library.json proposal by Tom Critchlow.