The Tyranny of Words
Stuart Chase
Bookshelf
Formative texts that have influenced and inspired me
Non-Fiction
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
The Image of the City
Kevin Lynch
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
Designing for People
Henry Dreyfuss
Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth
Buckminster Fuller
Future Shock
Alvin Toffler
Design as Art
Bruno Munari
Design For the Real World
Victor Papanek
Discipline and Punish
Michel Foucault
Design for Human Scale
Victor Papanek
Manwatching
Desmond Morris
The Breakdown of Nations
Leopold Kohr
The Design Of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Cyberia
Douglas Rushkoff
The Green Imperative
Victor Papanek
Close to the Machine
Ellen Ullman
No Logo
Naomi Klein
The Information Bomb
Paul Virilio
Information Design
Robert Jacobson et al.
Light at the Edge of the World
Wade Davis
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Emotional Design
Donald A. Norman
A Short History of Progress
Ronald Wright
Getting Real
37 Signals
Planet of Slums
Mike Davis
The Wealth of Networks
Yochai Benkler
Everyware
Adam Greenfield
Predictably Irrational
Dan Ariely
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
Traffic
Tom Vanderbilt
Rework
Jason Fried & David H. Hansson
The Administration of Fear
Paul Virilio
Designing for Emotion
Aarron Walter
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
Design Is a Job
Mike Monteiro
The Shape of Design
Frank Chimero
Liquid Surveillance
Zygmunt Bauman & David Lyon
Walkable City
Jeff Speck
Against the Smart City
Adam Greenfield
Intertwingled
Peter Morville
Sapiens
Yuval N. Harari
Cities by Design
Fran Tonkiss
Psychopolitics
Byung-Chul Han
The Best Interface Is No Interface
Golden Krishna
Homo Deus
Yuval N. Harari
Stealing Fire
Steven Kotler & Jamie Wheal
Fiction
The Trial
Franz Kafka
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
Roadside Picnic
Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky
The Cement Garden
Ian McEwan
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Into The Wild
Jon Krakauer
The Book of Illusions
Paul Auster
Doppler
Erlend Loe
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Winter Journal
Paul Auster
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman