├── 2018_books.md ├── 2019_books.md ├── 2020_books.md ├── 2021_books.md ├── README.md └── papers.md /2018_books.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Books 2 | 3 | ## Fiction 4 | * *Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy* by John Le Carré 5 | * *The Lathe of Heaven* by Ursula Le Guin 6 | * *The Three-Body Problem* by Cixin Liu 7 | * *The Dark Forest* by Cixin Liu 8 | * *Death's End* by Cixin Liu 9 | * *The Fifth Season* by N.K. Jemisin 10 | * *The Obelisk Gate* by N.K. Jemisin 11 | * *The Stone Sky* by N.K. Jemisin 12 | * *Ancillary Justice* by Ann Leckie 13 | * *Ancillary Sword* by Ann Leckie 14 | * *Ancillary Mercy* by Ann Leckie 15 | * *Behemoth: B-Max* by Peter Watts 16 | * *Behemoth: Seppuku* by Peter Watts 17 | * *Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore* by Robin Sloan 18 | 19 | ## Nonfiction 20 | * *War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence* by Ronan Farrow 21 | * *Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House* by Michael Wolff 22 | * *Kitchen Confidential* by Anthony Bourdain 23 | 24 | ## Academic 25 | * *The Structure of Scientific Revolutions* by Thomas Kuhn 26 | * *Down Girl* by Mate Manne 27 | * *The Book of Why* by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie 28 | 29 | ## Technical Textbook 30 | * *Machine Learning* by Tom Mitchell 31 | ...fractions of too many 32 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /2019_books.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Books 2 | 3 | ## Fiction 4 | * *Binti* by Nnedi Okorafor [complete] 5 | * *Binti: Home* by Nnedi Okorafor [complete] 6 | * *Binti: Night Masquerade* by Nnedi Okorafor [complete] 7 | * *The Freeze-Frame Revolution* by Peter Watts [complete] 8 | * *Permutation City* by Greg Egan [complete] *Finished 3/1* 9 | * *Axiomatic* by Greg Egan [complete] *Finished 3/26* 10 | * *The Colonel* by Peter Watts [complete] *Finished 3/30* 11 | * *Cryptonomicon* by Neal Stephenson [complete] *Finished 5/25* 12 | * *Exhalation: Stories* by Ted Chiang [complete] *Finished 5/26* 13 | * *Sonora* by Hannah Lillith Assadi [complete] *Finished 5/30* 14 | * *Ka* by Roberto Calasso [in progress] 15 | * *The Golden Compass* by Philip Pulman [complete] *Finished 9/?* 16 | * *The Subtle Knife* by Philip Pulman [complete] *Finished 9/?* 17 | * *The Amber Spyglass* by Philip Pulman [complete] *Finished 9/?* 18 | * *The Cuckoo's Calling* by Robert Galbraith/JK Rowling [complete] *Finished 12/1* 19 | * *A Wizard of Earthsea* by Ursula K Le Guin [complete] *Finished* 20 | * *CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella* by George Sanders [in Progress] 21 | 22 | 23 | ## Nonfiction 24 | * *Sapiens* by Yuval Harari [complete] 25 | * *Eating Animals* by Jonathan Safran Foer [complete] 26 | * *Being Mortal* by Atul Gawande [complete] 27 | * *Complications* by Atul Gawande [complete] *Finished 2/15* 28 | * *Better* by Atul Gawande [complete] *Finished 3/10* 29 | * *Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove* by Ben Greenman & Questlove [complete] *Finished 5/29* 30 | * *How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence* by Michael Pollan [complete] *Finished 11/28* 31 | * *Born a Crime* by Trevor Noah [complete] *Finished 12/16* 32 | 33 | 34 | ## Academic (loosely) 35 | * *Cybernetics* by Norbert Weiner [in progress] 36 | * *The Algebraic Mind* by Gary Marcus [complete] *Finished 3/16* 37 | * *Mostly Harmless Econometrics* [in progress] 38 | * *Race After Technology* by Ruha Benjamin [complete] *Finished 9/?* 39 | * *The Imperative of Integration* by Elizabeth Anderson [complete] *Finished 11/25* 40 | * *Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life* by Barbara J. Fields and Karen Fields [in progress] 41 | * *The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness* by Michelle Alexander [in progress] 42 | 43 | ## Technical Texts 44 | * *Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer* by Judea Pearl, Madelyn Glymour, and Nicholas Jewell [in progress] 45 | * *Causal Inference* by Miguel Hernan and Jamie Robins [in progress] 46 | * *Probability Theory: The Logic of Science* by ET Jaynes [in progress] 47 | * *Econometrics* by Bruce Hansen [in progress] 48 | 49 | # Queue 50 | 51 | * Fiction 52 | * *The Death of Ivan Ilyich* Leo Tolstoy 53 | * *The Trial* by Franz Kafka 54 | * *Beyond the Rift* by Peter Watts 55 | * *Solaris* by Stanslaw Lem 56 | 57 | * Nonfiction 58 | * *Animal Liberation* by Peter Singer 59 | * *Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow* by Yuval Harari 60 | * *The Checklist Manifesto* by Atul Gawande 61 | * *When Breath Becomes Air* by Paul Kalanithi 62 | * *Snowball in a Blizzard* by Steven Hatch 63 | * *Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest* by Zeynep Tufekci 64 | 65 | * Academic (loosely) 66 | * *The Logic of Scientific Discovery* by Karl Popper 67 | * *The Age of Surveillance Capitalism* by Shoshana Zuboff 68 | * *Thinking Fast and Slow* by Daniel Kahneman 69 | * *Crowdsourced Health: How What You Do on the Internet will Improve Medicine* Elad Yom-Tov 70 | * *The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World* by Pedro Domingos 71 | * *The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America* by Richard Rothstein 72 | * *Seeing like a State* by James C. Scott 73 | * *Against Method* by Paul Feyerabend 74 | * *Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life* by Karen Fields 75 | * *Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship* by Charles Epp 76 | * *Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics* by Aaron Panofsky 77 | * *Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code* by Ruha Benjamin 78 | * *Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor* by Patricia Williams 79 | * *Algorithms of Oppression* by Safiya Umoja Noble 80 | * *The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die* by Keith Payne 81 | 82 | * Technical Texts 83 | * *Causality* by Judea Pearl 84 | * *Bandit Algorithms* by Tor & Szepesvari 85 | * *Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Control* by Dimitri Bertsekas 86 | * *Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms* by David MacKay 87 | * *The Principia: The Authoritative Translation and Guide: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy* by Sir Isaac Newton 88 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /2020_books.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Books 2 | 3 | ## Fiction 4 | * *CivilWarLand in Bad Decline* by George Saunders [complete] [recommended] 5 | * *Ready Player One* by Ernest Cline [audiobook] [complete] [mindless/running] 6 | * *The Collapsing Empire* by John Scalzi [complete] [audiobook] [mindless/running] 7 | * *Consuming Fire* by John Scalzi [complete] [audiobook] [mindless/running] 8 | * *The Tombs of Atuan* by Ursula K. Le Guin [complete] [audiobook] [recommended/running] 9 | * *The Farthest Shore* by Ursula K. Le Guin [complete] [audiobook] [recommended/running] 10 | * *The Last Emperox* by John Scalzi [complete] [audiobook] [recommended/running] 11 | * *The Silkworm* by Robert Galbraith [complete] [audiobook] [recommended] 12 | * *Solaris* by Stanslaw Lem [complete] [recommended] 13 | * *Dragon's Egg* by Robert Forward [complete] [ok] 14 | * *The Atrocity Archives* by Charles Stross [complete] 15 | 16 | ## Nonfiction 17 | * *Becoming* by Michelle Obama [complete] [audiobook] [recommended] 18 | * *Prediction Machines* by Ajay Agrawal, Avi Goldfarb, and Joshua Gans [complete] 19 | * *Playing Changes* by Nate Chinen [complete] 20 | * *The Making of the Atomic Bomb* by Richard Rhodes [complete] [strongly recommended] 21 | * *Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans* by Melanie Mitchell [complete] [recommended] 22 | * *The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness* by Michelle Alexander [complete] [strongly recommended] 23 | * *Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life* by Barbara J. Fields and Karen Fields [complete] 24 | * *I am a Strange Loop* by Douglas Hofstadter [complete] [strongly recommended] 25 | * *Mechanics: Volume 1 (Course of Theoretical Physics)* by E.D. Landau and E.M. Lifshitz [in progress] 26 | * *The Logic of Scientific Discovery* by Karl Popper [in progress] 27 | * *The Social Construction of What?* by Ian Hacking [in progress] 28 | * *Local Justice* by Jon Elster [in progress] 29 | * *Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet* by Tim Hwang [complete] [recommended] 30 | * *The Black Swan* by Nicholas Nassim Taleb [complete] [recommended (but not for the gullible reader)] 31 | * *Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation* by Andrew Marantz [complete] [strongly recommended] 32 | 33 | ## Queue 34 | * *Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics* by Mary & Thomas Edsall 35 | * *The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life* by Émile Durkheim 36 | * *Philosophical Treatise on the Weaknesses of the Human Mind* by Pierre-Daniel Huet 37 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /2021_books.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Books 2 | 3 | ## Fiction 4 | * *The Thing Itself* by Adam Roberts [complete] 5 | * *The Jennifer Morgue* by Charles Stross [complete] 6 | * *The Ipcress File* by Len Deighton [complete] 7 | * *Career of Evil* by Robert Galbraith [in progress] [audiobook] 8 | 9 | ## Nonfiction 10 | * *The Logic of Scientific Discovery* by Karl Popper [in progress] 11 | * *The Social Construction of What?* by Ian Hacking [in progress] 12 | * *Local Justice* by Jon Elster [in progress] 13 | * *Creativity* by John Clease [complete] 14 | * *Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman* [complete] 15 | * *A Promised Land* by Barack Obama [complete] 16 | * *The Promise of Artificial Intelligence* by Brian Cantwell Smith [in progress] 17 | * *Custodians of the Internet* by Tarleton Gillespie* [complete] 18 | * *The Meritocracy Trap* by Daniel Markovits [complete] 19 | * *Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future* by Elizabeth Kolbert [complete] 20 | * *The Checklist Manifesto* by Atul Gawande [complete] 21 | 22 | ## Queue 23 | * *Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics* by Mary & Thomas Edsall 24 | * *The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life* by Émile Durkheim 25 | * *Philosophical Treatise on the Weaknesses of the Human Mind* by Pierre-Daniel Huet 26 | * *The Origins of Totalitarianism* by Hannah Arendt 27 | * *Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking* by Daniel Dennett 28 | * *Privacy in Context* by Helen Nissenbaum 29 | * *The Social Construction of What?* by Ian Hacking 30 | * *The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference* by Ian Hacking 31 | * *Patterns, Predictions, and Actions: A story about machine learning* by Moritz Hardt and Ben Recht 32 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # reading-list -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /papers.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | ## Paper Queue 2 | * [From Predictive to Prescriptive Analytics](https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2018.3253) --- Bertsimas & Kallus 3 | 4 | ## Read Papers 5 | 6 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------