The Antilibrary
Taleb introduces the Hayekian and almost taoistic metaphor of the anti-library: A library of the books you haven't read, of the things you don't know. A massive collection of unknowledge, the anti-library contains all the books that may still change your life.
Inspired by Maggie Appleton's Antilibrary and my general magpie tendency to collect things I added this list of books that I like the idea of reading.
Whenever I am out and find a book that I like the idea of reading, instead of bringing it home to my full bookcases I instead add it to my bookwyrm.social profile where it automatically makes its way to this page.
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Starborn
Roberto Trotta
Life Time
Russell Foster
Breath
James Nestor
Great Deception
Guillaume Pitron
Our Moon
Rebecca Boyle
The Light Eaters
Zoë Schlanger
Underground: Tales of hacking, madness, and obsession on the electronic frontier
Suelette Dreyfus
The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder
Showstopper the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
Pascal G. Zachary
The box
Marc Levinson
Not the End of the World
Hannah Ritchie
Rudyard Kipling Something Of Myself And Other Autobiographical Writings
Rudyard Kipling
Impossible, Possible, and Improbable
John GRIBBIN
Three Ages of Water
Peter Gleick
Bitch
Lucy Cooke
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
Samantha Irby
The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3)
Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2)
Philip Pullman
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)
Philip Pullman
Copernicus Complex
Caleb A. Scharf
Computing with Quantum Cats
John Gribbin
Hyperspace
Michio Kaku
Nothing
Jeremy Webb
Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You A Guide To The Universe
Marcus Chown
Smashing Physics
Jon Butterworth
The Particle at the End of the Universe
S. Carroll
Human Universe
Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen, Professor Brian Cox
4th Rock from the Sun
Nicky Jenner
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Chris Hadfield
What's wrong with eating people
Peter Cave
And Another Thing...
Simon Jones, Eoin Colfer
The Bad Beekeepers Club How I Stumbled Into The Curious World Of Bees And Became Perhaps A Better Person
Bill Turnbull
Charlie Brooker's Dawn of the Dumb
Charlie Brooker
How to teach relativity to your dog
Chad Orzel
Broad Band
Claire L. Evans
½
It's not rocket science
Ben Miller
Persuasion
James Borg
Get Set for Communication Studies (Get Set for University)
Will Barton, Andrew Beck
Football Hackers
Christoph Biermann
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
Scott Shapiro
We Are Electric
Sally Adee
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets
Tom Fort
Scary Smart
Mo Gawdat
Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries
Jillian Scudder
Disobey!
Frederic Gros, David Fernbach
Shortest History of Democracy
John Keane
Essay on Typography
Eric Gill
Steeple Chasing
Peter Ross
London's Strangest Tales
Tom Quinn
Dungeness
Rachael Smith, Dominic Bradbury
Universe in a Box
Andrew Pontzen
Just Six Numbers
Martin Rees
15 Million Degrees
Lucie Green
Breakthrough
Marcus Chown
The Complete Psychotechnic League, Vol. 2 (The Psychotechnic League)
Poul Anderson
The Complete Psychotechnic League, Vol. 1
Poul Anderson
Satan's World
Poul Anderson
The Man Who Counts
Poul Anderson
The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer
Tracers in the Dark
Andy Greenberg
The Treeline
Ben Rawlence
A City on Mars
Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
Secrets of the MUDwizards
Andrew Busey
Write Your Own Adventure Programs
Jenny Tyler
Tim Hartnell's Second giant book of computer games
Tim Hartnell
Basic adventure and strategy game design for the TRS-80
Jim Menick
How to create adventure games
Christopher Lampton
Computer science
Alexandra I. Forsythe
The hitch-hiker's guide to artificial intelligence
Richard Forsyth, Richard Forsyth
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Satoshi Yagisawa, Satoshi Yagisawa
Tyranny of Merit
Michael J. Sandel
In Defence of Witches
Mona Chollet, Sophie R. Lewis
Brainwashed
Daniel Pick
Darkness Manifesto
Johan Eklöf, Elizabeth DeNoma
Invisible Women : Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Perez, Caroline Criado-Perez
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 1
Sean Carroll
Chip War
Chris Miller
Equal Partners
Kate Mangino
Apple II Age
Laine Nooney
Nine rivers from Jordan
Johnston, Denis
Basic computer games
David H. Ahl, Steve North
How To
Randall Munroe
Turing's Cathedral
George Dyson
New Dark Age
James Bridle
A People's History of Computing in the United States
Joy Lisi Rankin
Life in Code
Ellen Ullman
Game Engine Black Book : DOOM
fabien sanglard
½
The Pebbles on the Beach
Clarence Ellis
½
Computer spacegames
Daniel Isaaman
½
Social Warming
Charles Arthur
Anaximander
Carlo Rovelli
Simply Artificial Intelligence
DK
Racing the Beam
Ian Bogost, Nick Montfort
½
Cadillac Desert
Marc Reisner
Ten Things about Writing
Joanne Harris
On Editing
Helen Bryant
Write It All Down
Cathy Rentzenbrink
Light Ages
Seb Falk
Internet for the People
Ben Tarnoff
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
DimensionX
Damon Knight
Secret Lives of the Elements
Kathryn Harkup
Elementary
James M. Russell
The Dorito Effect
Mark Schatzker
½
Winnie-the-Pooh on Management
Roger E. Allen
The Filter Bubble
Eli Pariser
Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport
The Promise of Access
Daniel Greene
What Tech Calls Thinking
Adrian Daub
Blockchain Chicken Farm
Xiaowei Wang
Geometry, relativity, and the fourth dimension
Rudy Rucker
Pollution Is Colonialism
Max Liboiron
A Field Guide to Lies and statistics
Daniel J. Levitin
Reality Is Not What It Seems
Carlo Rovelli
Hyperspace
Michio Kaku
Games for your Atari.
Paul Bunn
The People Vs. Tech
J. Bartlett
Game playing with BASIC
Donald D. Spencer