Some books I’ve read

A potted history of books that I’ve read.

You can also check out my bookshelf: https://noodlemaps.net/calibre/

Currently reading

• [[Mute Compulsion]]

On the shelf…

I’ve likely read about 3 chapters, then got distracted.

• [[Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal]]
• [[Wasteland]]
• [[The Entropy of Capitalism]]
• [[Ours to Hack and To Own]]
• [[Ways of Being]]
• [[A People’s Guide to Capitalism]]
• [[The Next Revolution]]
• [[October (book)]] by China Mieville
• [[The Twittering Machine]] by Richard Seymour
• [[Small is Beautiful]] by E. F. Schumacher
• [[The Shallows]]
• [[The Society of the Spectacle]]

Interested to read

• The Word for World is Forest
• [[Twitter and Tear Gas]]
• [[The Garden of Forking Paths]]
• [[Goodbye iSlave]]
• Alone Together
• Pressed for Time
• [[The Sane Society]]
• The City, Not Long After
• [[The Year 200]]
• [[The Cybernetic Brain]]
• The Web of Life
• [[Woman on the Edge of Time]]
• Technology of the oppressed
• LaserWriter II
• Finding the Mother Tree
• Entangled Life
• [[Vagabonds]]
• [[First and Last Men]]
• How Not to Network a Nation
• [[Blood in the Machine]]
• [[The Systems View of Life]]

Read

2024

• [[Talking to My Daughter About the Economy]]
• [[The Shock Doctrine of the Left]]

2023

• [[Doughnut Economics]]
• [[The Internet Con]]
• [[Internet for the People]]
• [[The Care Manifesto]]
• A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
• The Annual Migration of Clouds
• [[Less is More]]

2022

• [[A Wizard of Earthsea]]
• [[Look to Windward]]
• [[Half-Earth Socialism]]
• [[Red Plenty]]
• [[The Quantum Thief]] (again)
• [[The Fractal Prince]] (again)
• [[Platform socialism]]
• [[Twenty-First Century Socialism]]
• [[Radical Technologies]]
• [[The Ministry for the Future]]
• [[Cybernetic Revolutionaries]]

2021

• [[Free, Fair and Alive]]
• [[Anarchist Cybernetics]]
• [[The Left Hand of Darkness]]
• [[Undoing Optimization: Civic Action in Smart Cities]]
• [[Parable of the Sower]]
• [[Infinite Detail]]
• [[A Psalm for the Wild-Built]]
• [[bolo’bolo]]

2020

• [[Future Histories]]
• [[Hello World]]
• [[A Closed and Common Orbit]]
• [[The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet]]
• [[84K]]
• [[Ctrl+S]]
• [[The Three Body Problem]]
• [[Dune]]
• [[A Memory of Empire]]

2019

• [[Autonomous]]
• [[Aurora Rising]]
• [[Elysium Fire]]
• [[Red Mars]]
• [[Use of Weapons]]
• [[The Player of Games]]
• [[Consider Phlebas]]
• [[Ancillary Justice]]

2018

• [[Jackson Rising]]: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi
• [[Perdido Street Station]]
• [[Walkaway]]
• [[Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals]]: Cooperative alternatives beyond markets and states

2017

• [[Inventing the Future]]
• [[The Dispossessed]]
• [[The Quantum Thief]]
• [[The Fractal Prince]]
• The Causal Angel

????

• [[The Cassini Division]]
• [[The City & the City]]
• [[Oryx and Crake]]
• [[Cryptonomicon]]
• [[Snow Crash]]
• [[Neuromancer]]
• [[Altered Carbon]]
• [[Naked Lunch]]
• [[Four Futures]]