I’ve read 32 books, which is four short of my goal and also four less than the previous year. It’s still not a bad score though and quality wise the list below contains many gems.
I resolved to read mostly books by women and minority authors. This lead to quite a few surprising experiences which I am certainly grateful for. I think I’ll continue to push myself to seek out such books in the year to come.
There are only a few comics in the list. I sort of fell off the comics bandwagon this year mainly because I just can’t seem to find a good place to discover things to read.
Anyway, here’s the list, with links to my reviews on Goodreads. A * denotes a particular favourite.
- A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James *
- Wild Life, Molly Gloss *
- H Is for Hawk, Helen MacDonald *
- The Little Book on CoffeeScript, Alex MacCaw
- The Incal, Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Hawkeye, Volume 3: L.A. Woman, Matt Fraction
- Roche Limit, Volume 1, Michael Moreci
- Breaking Smart — Season 1, Venkatesh Rao *
- Speak, Louisa Hall
- Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, James C. Scott *
- Blood and Guts in High School, Kathy Acker
- The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space, Venkatesh Rao
- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, Mary Beard *
- Ice, Anna Kavan *
- Microinteractions: Designing with Details, Dan Saffer
- Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience, Jeff Gothelf
- The Shining Girls, Lauren Beukes
- Design Sprint: A Practical Guidebook for Building Great Digital Products, Richard Canfield
- Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann
- Encounters with the Archdruid, John McPhee *
- UX for Lean Startups: Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design, Laura Klein
- Finite and Infinite Games, James P. Carse
- Marx: A Very Short Introduction, Peter Singer
- Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1), Hilary Mantel *
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates *
- Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays, Rebecca Solnit *
- Platform, Michel Houellebecq
- Designing Conversational Interfaces, Alper Çuğun
- The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion *
- Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
- Machine Learning for Designers, Patrick Hebron
- Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, Kwame Anthony Appiah *