Sam Breed

Product Developer, Investor

2017 Reading List

A non-exhaustive list of the books I'm reading in 2017

2017 Reading List

  1. Digital Gold – Nathaniel Popper
  2. Bed of Procrustes – Nassim Taleb
  3. Machine Learning – Ethem Alpaydin
  4. Mathematics and the Imagination – Edward Kasner and James Newman
  5. Snow Crash – Neil Stephenson
  6. Capitalist Realism – Mark Fisher
  7. Being a Beast : adventures across the species divide – Charles Foster
  8. On the Move – Oliver Sacks
  9. The Open Society & Its Enemies – Karl Popper
  10. Neuroplasticity – Moheb Costandi
  11. Universe of Consciousness – Gerald M Edelman & Giulio Tononi
  12. On Trails – Robert Moor
  13. Lawrence in Arabia – Scott Anderson
  14. Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  15. Time Travel – James Gleick
  16. Hallucinations – Oliver Sacks
  17. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
  18. The Origin of Wealth – Eric D. Beinhocker
  19. Real Estate Investing Loopholes – Diane Kennedy and Garret Sutton
  20. A Random Walk Down Wall Street – Burton G. Malkiel
  21. Antifragile – Nassim Taleb (re-read from 2016’s list)
  22. Debugging Teams – Brian W. Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman
  23. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn & TensorFlow – Aurélien Géron
  24. Tragic Design – Jonathan Shariat and Cynthia Savard Saucier
  25. Barbarians at the Gate – Bryan Burrough abd John Helyar
  26. Orientalism – Edward W Said
  27. How Money Got Free – Brian Patrick Eha
  28. Why Information Grows – César Hildago
  29. Hackers – Steven Levy
  30. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid – Douglas R. Hofstadter
  31. The Cathedral and the Bazaar – Eric S. Raymond
  32. Dune – Frank Herbert
  33. Decoding the Universe – Charles Seife
  34. Code – Charles Petzold
  35. The Soul of a New Machine – Tracy Kidder
  36. Payback – Margaret Atwood
  37. We Were 8 Years in Power – Ta-Nehisi Coates
  38. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Márquez
  39. I Contain Multitudes – Ed Young
  40. Mean Genes – Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan
  41. The Wisest One in the Room – Thomas Gilovich and Lee Ross
  42. The Timeless Way of Building – Christopher Alexander
  43. Creativity, Inc. – Ed Catmull
  44. Still Life With Woodpecker – Tom Robbins
  45. Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview – Philip K. Dick
  • Strikethrough Abandoned and back on the shelf 🙅‍
  • In Progress 🙇
  • Finished! 💁‍
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