Recommended books

Fiction

  • The First Bad Man by Miranda July
  • Things to Make and Break by May-Lan Tan
  • Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
  • Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss by Rajeev Balasubramanyam
  • Open City by Teju Cole

Nonfiction

  • How to Be an Existentialist by Gary Cox
  • Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  • Watercolours by Lidia Ostałowska
  • Write to Sell by Andy Maslen
  • Mastery by George Leonard
  • The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
  • Deep Work by Cal Newport
  • Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
  • The Feeling Good Handbook by David, D. Burns, MD
  • Factfulness by Hans Rosling
  • Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark
  • Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker & Julia Scheele
  • 8 Steps to High Performance by Marc Effron
  • Difficult Conversations by Stone, Patton, Heen
  • The Long and the Short of it by John Kay
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Design & Technology

  • UX Strategy by Jaime Levy
  • The New CSS Layout by Rachel Andrew
  • Art Direction for the Web by Andy Clarke
  • Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
  • Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds
  • Design Anarchy by Kalle Lasn
  • Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
  • Getting Real by Basecamp
  • Lost and Founder by Randy Fishkin
  • The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan & Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Understanding ECMAScript 6 by Nicholas C. Zakas
  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann