Academic Books

Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman (1962)

Diffusion of Innovations - Everett Rogers (1962)

Emotional Design - Donald Norman (2003)

Language in Thought and Action - S. I. Hayakawa (1949)

McKeachie's Teaching Tips - Wilbert McKeachie (1951)

On Writing Well - William Zinsser (1976)

Out of the Crisis - W. Edwards Deming (1986)

Policy Paradox - Deborah Stone (1997)

The Design of Everyday Things - Donald Norman (1988)

The Invisible Computer - Donald Norman (1998)

The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education - W. Edwards Deming (1993)

Experience Books

Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life - Diane Tavenner (2019)

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - Eliyahu M. Goldratt (1984)

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo (2014)

Unreasonable Hospitality - Will Guidara (2022)

Papers

The Computer for the 21st Century - Mark Weiser (1991)

The Five Orders of Ignorance - Phillip G. Armour (2000)

A relational model of data for large shared data banks - Edgar F. Codd (1970)

Thriving in a crowded and changing world: C++ 2006–2020 - Bjarne Stroustrup (2020)

Reflections on Trusting Trust - Ken Thompson (1984)

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge - Abraham Flexner (1939)

What Goes Around Comes Around - Michael Stonebraker & Joey Hellerstein (2005)

What the Schools Teach and Might Teach - John Franklin Bobbitt (1916)

Essays

Ur-Fascism - Umberto Eco (1995)

Literature

American Gods - Neil Gaiman (2001)

Animal Farm - George Orwell (1945)

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1932)

Demon Princes - Jack Vance (1964)

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (1985)

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (1953)

Foundation - Isaac Asimov (1951)

Going Postal - Terry Pratchett (2004)

I, Robot - Isaac Asimov (1950)

Neuromancer - William Gibson (1984)

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell (1949)

Rainbows End - Vernor Vinge (2007)

Ringworld - Larry Niven (1970)

Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein (1959)

The Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny (1970)

The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson (1995)

Wicked - Gregory Maguire (1995)