Parrot & Olivier in America

Peter Carey

★★★★☆

One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com

Richard L. Brandt

★★☆☆☆

Shipping Greatness: Practical lessons on building and launching outstanding software, learned on the job at Google and Amazon

Chris Vander Mey

★★★☆☆

Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks

Ken Jennings

★★★★☆

Content Strategy for Mobile

Karen McGrane

★★★★★

Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents

Ellen Ullman

★★★☆☆

The Confessions of Nat Turner

William Styron

★★★☆☆

What Is Reading For?

Robert Bringhurst

★★★★☆

What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World

Robert Hass

★★★★☆

Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

William James

★★★★★

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common-Sense Guide to Web Usability

Steve Krug

★★★★☆

Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer

Fred Kaplan

★★★☆☆

A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making

Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler

★★★☆☆

The Little Sister

Raymond Chandler

★★☆☆☆

The Third Man

Graham Greene

★★★☆☆

A Degree of Mastery: A Journey Through Book Arts Apprenticeship

Annie Tremmel Wilcox

★★★☆☆

Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age

David Levy

★★★★☆

Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev

★★★☆☆

The Invention of Air: A Story Of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America

Steven Johnson

★★★★☆

Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood

Michael Lewis

★★★☆☆

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

David Mitchell

★★★★★

J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets

Curt Gentry

★★★★★

Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing

Neal Stephenson

★★★☆☆

Cadence & Slang

Nick Disabato

★★★★★

I Remember Nothing, and Other Reflections

Nora Ephron

★☆☆☆☆

The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility, the Ideas Behind the World’s Slowest Computer

Stewart Brand

★★★★☆

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

★★★★★

Cities of the Plain

Cormac McCarthy

★★★★☆

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

Herman Melville

★☆☆☆☆

Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students

Ellen Lupton

★★★★☆

Fear of Music

Jonathan Lethem

★★★☆☆

The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World

Nick Harkaway

★★★★☆

Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life

Adam Gopnik

★★★★★

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-line Pioneers

Tom Standage

★★☆☆☆

The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes

★★★★★

A Game of Thrones

George R. R. Martin

★★★★☆

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

★★★★★

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

Frederick P. Brooks

★★★☆☆

Heyday

Kurt Andersen

★★★☆☆

Soul on Ice

Eldridge Cleaver

★☆☆☆☆

Night Swimming: Stories

Pete Fromm

★★★☆☆

The Shape of Design

Frank Chimero

★★★★☆

The High Window

Raymond Chandler

★★★☆☆

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Bill Bryson

★★★☆☆

Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut

James Marcus

★★☆☆☆

To Purge This Land With Blood: A Biography of John Brown

Stephen B. Oates

★★★★☆

This Wheel’s On Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of The Band

Levon Helm with Stephen Davis

★★★☆☆

I, Robot

Isaac Asimov

★★★☆☆

Design is a Job

Mike Monteiro

★★★★☆

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

★★★★☆

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Rebecca Solnit

★★★☆☆

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

★★★★☆

Designing Devices

Dan Saffer

★★★☆☆

Building Enterprise Taxonomies

Darin L. Stewart

★★★☆☆

Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

Bill Buxton

★★★★☆

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

★★★★★

Confessions of a Public Speaker

Scott Berkun

★★★★☆

The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition

Stephen King

★★★★☆

The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web

Jesse James Garrett

★★★☆☆

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

★★★★★

No Country For Old Men

Cormac McCarthy

★★★★☆

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. 3

Carl Sandburg

★★★★★

Rethinking Powerpoint: Designing & Delivering Presentations that Engage the Mind

Ron Galloway and Allyssa Rich

★★☆☆☆

The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better

Tyler Cowen

★★★★☆

Defensive Design for the Web

Matt Linderman and Jason Fried

★★☆☆☆

Music: What Happened?

Scott Miller

★★★☆☆