Reading List

None of these lists are complete; I could spend a lifetime just making them, much less reading the texts listed. I’ll add more as I have time and occasion to.

Someday I’ll read…

Non-fiction
Chun, W. H. K., 2006: Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics.
Sen, A., 1982: Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlements and Deprivation.
Lessig, L., 2006: Code: Version 2.0.

Fiction
Kundera, M., 1984: The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Gibson, W., 2007: Spook Country.
Doctorow, C., 2007: Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present.


Someday I’ll finish…

Non-fiction
Flichy, P., 2007: The Internet Imaginaire.
Stone, A. R., 1996: The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age.
Benkler, Y., 2006: The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom.
Morville, P. and L. Rosenfeld, 2007: Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 3rd ed.
Weber, M. trans. Parsons, 1905: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
Gardner, H., 1993: The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach.

Fiction
O’Brien, F., 1967: The Third Policeman.


I recommend…

Non-fiction
Gray, C. H., 2001: Cyborg Citizen.
Gyatso, T., 1999: Ethics for the New Millennium.
Postman, N., 1995: The End of Education.
Sunstein, C., 2006: Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge.
Garrett, J. J., 2002: The Elements of User Experience.
Stiglitz, J., 2006: Making Globalization Work.
Steiglitz, K., 2007: Snipers, Shills, and Sharks: eBay and Human Behavior.
Wilson, E. O., 1979: On Human Nature.
Kohn, A., 2004: What Does It Mean to be Well-Educated? and More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies.

Fiction
Coupland, D., 1995: Microserfs.
Caidgan, P., 1989: Patterns (short fiction collection).
Varley, J., 1976: The Phantom of Kansas (short fiction). Collected in Varley, J., 1978: The Persistence of Vision.
Gibson, W., 1986: Burning Chrome (short fiction).
Miéville, C., 2003: The Scar.