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Open on my desk or in my bag. 22 books.
Review
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
Brian Christian
The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
Yi-Ling Liu
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Barbara Demick
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
Elizabeth Strout
Redefining Hacking: A Comprehensive Guide to Red Teaming and Bug Bounty Hunting in an AI-driven World
Omar Santos
Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass – An Urgent Investigation into the Invisible Human Labor Powering AI and the Digital Economy
Mary L. Gray
Turning the Tables: Participation and Power in Negotiations
Jane F. McAlevey
You Deserve a Tech Union
Ethan Marcotte
The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century
Erica Smiley
Blindness
José Saramago
LLMs in Production: Engineering AI Applications
Christopher Brousseau
LLM Engineer's Handbook: Master the art of engineering large language models from concept to production
Paul Iusztin
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
Joy Harjo
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
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By Danney Goble PhD - Tulsa!: Biography of the American City (2nd Edition) (1995-10-16) [Hardcover]
Danney Goble PhD
AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models
Chip Huyen
Testing AI-Powered Applications: Ensuring Quality in the Age of Intelligent Software
Evgeny Tkachenko
Community Data: Creative Approaches to Empowering People with Information
Rahul Bhargava
Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
Victor Luckerson
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications
Chip Huyen
Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don't Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It
Jay M. Feinman
Recently finished
The last two dozen books I closed, newest first. 24 books.
★★★★
Water Moon
Samantha Sotto Yambao
★★★★★
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green
★★★★★
Kin
Tayari Jones
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan
★★★
The Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables that Connect our World
Samanth Subramanian
★★★★★
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Cory Doctorow
★★★★
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History – and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin
★★★★★
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
Mohammed El-Kurd
★★★★
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Frans de Waal
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
Peter Attia
★★★
Build Your Own Beekeeping Equipment: How to Construct 8- & 10-Frame Hives; Top Bar, Nuc & Demo Hives; Feeders, Swarm Catchers & More
Tony Pisano
The Place of Tides
James Rebanks
★★★
Creating Rain Gardens
Cleo Woelfle-Erskine
The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden
Rick Darke
★★★★★
Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class
Noam Scheiber
★★★
Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control
Vili Lehdonvirta
★★★★★
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
Jane F. McAlevey
★★★★★
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Brian Merchant
★★★★
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Marc Reisner
★★★★
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
Rob Reich
★★
Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
★★★★★
Audition
Katie Kitamura
E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America's Greatest Unsung Heroes (Heroes Among Us Book 2)
James Patterson
★★★★★
We Computers: A Ghazal Novel (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
Hamid Ismailov
All-time favorites
The shelf I reach for when someone asks what to read. 44 books.
★★★★★
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
Jennifer Pahlka-
★★★★★
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Cory Doctorow
★★★★★
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
★★★★★
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The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters
★★★★★
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
★★★★★
Trust
Hernan Diaz
★★★★★
Homeseeking
Karissa Chen
★★★★★
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro
★★★★
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Sarah Wynn-Williams
★★★★★
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
★★★★★
Review
Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America
Brendan Ballou
★★★★★
A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs
Gulchehra Hoja
★★★★★
Review
A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging
Lauren Markham
★★★★★
The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
★★★★★
Review
Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
★★★★★
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
★★★★
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
Liu Cixin
★★★★★
The Displaced: Anthology of refugee writers describing loss, resilience, and unexpected new homes.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
★★★★★
Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre
Liao Yiwu
★★★★★
Review
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
Frank Dikötter
★★★★★
This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves
Madhur Anand
★★★★★
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Octavia E. Butler
★★★★★
Review
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert
★★★★★
Drawing Blood
Molly Crabapple
★★★★★
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
Vincent Bevins
★★★★★
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
★★★★★
Animal Dreams
Barbara Kingsolver
★★★★★
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
Barbara Ehrenreich
★★★★★
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Jessica Bruder
★★★★★
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang
★★★★★
Review
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Saidiya Hartman
★★★★★
Review
Asians in Colorado: A History of Persecution and Perseverance in the Centennial State (Samuel and Althea Stroum Books)
William Wei
★★★★★
Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World
Cheuk Kwan-
★★★★★
Review
Into the Zone: Essays on Opposites and Borders
Hari Kunzru
★★★★★
Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao's China
Xi Lian
★★★★★
China in One Village: The Story of One Town and the Changing World
Liang Hong
★★★★★
Review
Left Legalism/Left Critique
Wendy Brown
★★★★★
Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America
Weijian Shan
★★★★★
Review
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
Dan Georgakas
★★★★★
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Leslie T. Chang
★★★★★
Review
China in Ten Words
Yu Hua
★★★★★
The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History
Samuel Moyn
The Temperature of This Water
Ishle Yi Park
★★★★★
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Want to read
The most recently added of a much longer queue. 48 books.
Review
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Stuart Russell
Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology
Tara Dawson McGuinness
A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide
Cyd Harrell
Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)
Marianne Bellotti
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service
Michael Lewis
Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means
Pamela Herd
Theory for Moving Houses (The Bagley Wright Lecture Series)
Renee Gladman
The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Freedom Lost, Freedom Won: A Personal History of America
Eugene Robinson
The Rise and Fall of Rational Control: The History of Modern Political Philosophy
Harvey Claflin Mansfield
When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
Beronda L. Montgomery
The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World
Trevor Jackson
A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing
Alice Evelyn Yang
Good People
Patmeena Sabit
Review
Land
Maggie O'Farrell
When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
Suzanne Simard
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
Edda L. Fields-Black
Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
Molly Crabapple
Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920
Akhil Reed Amar
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Brian Goldstone
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
Pekka Hämäläinen
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
Barbara Demick
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
Kathleen DuVal
Contrapposto
Dave Eggers
Review
河边的错误
Yu Hua
Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China
Xiaolu Guo
Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires
Paris Marx
Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings
Myriam Gurba
Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives, 1971–2025
John Edgar Wideman
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Barbara W. Tuchman
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
Ferris Jabr
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
Cory Doctorow
The Oppermanns
Lion Feuchtwanger
88 Names
Matt Ruff
Reamde
Neal Stephenson
Nothing to See Here
Kevin Wilson
The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
Marietje Schaake
The Misheard World
Aliya Whiteley
Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems
Heather Adkins
Grokking AI Algorithms, Second Edition: How AI solves complex problems
Rishal Hurbans
The Secret Life of Circuits: An Illustrated Guide to Electronic Circuit Design
Michal Zalewski
Practical AI Security: A Hands-on Guide to Attacking, Defending, and Securing Modern AI Systems
Harriet Farlow
Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data
Micah Lee
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Eliezer Yudkowsky
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?
Emily M.Bender
The Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist
Timnit Gebru
Who Owns the Future?
Jaron Lanier
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