What's on my bookshelf. The better reads are located near the top.
- The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
- Stoner by John Williams
- Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott
- The Art of Doing Science And Engineering by Richard Hamming
- The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner (notes)
- Daemon by Daniel Suarez
- Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall (notes)
- The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- Utopia by Thomas More
- All About Love by bell hooks
- The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet by Jeff Kosseff
- On Democracy by Robert Dahl
- The Complacent Class by Tyler Cowen
- Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
- Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles T. Munger
- Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka
- Internet For The People by Ben Tarnoff
- Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo by Plato
- You Are Not Expected To Understand This edited by Torie Bosch
- The Waxman Report by Henry Waxman (former U.S. House Rep)
- Freedom by Daniel Suarez
- Democracy's Data by Dan Bouk (notes)
- Domain Modeling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin (notes)
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Accessible America by Bess Williamson
- Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal
- Refactoring by Martin Fowler
- Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang (notes)
- There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee
- A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide by Cyd Harrell
- Power to the Public by Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank