Library
An Individual Note of Music, Sound, and Electronics
Daphne Oram
Bird By Bird 
Anne Lamott
The Code Book
Simon Singh
‘For example, consider this short sentence. It contains just 35 letters, and yet there are more than 5 quintillion (that's 5 followed by 31 zeroes) distinct arrangements of them. If one person could check one arrangement per second, and if all the people in the world worked night and day, it would still take more than a thousand times the lifetime of the universe to check all the arrangements.’
Dataclysm
Christian Rudder
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
‘“IMF Warns Second Bailout Would ‘Threaten Democracy,’ ” reads one headline. (Of course by “democracy” they mean “capitalism.”)’
Design as Art
Bruno Munari
Designing Design
Kenya Hara
Designing News
Francesco Franchi
Drunk Tank Pink
Adam Alter
The End of Policing
Alex S. Vitale
‘A kinder, gentler, and more diverse war on the poor is still a war on the poor.’
Object-Oriented Ontology
Graham Harman
The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
‘…for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth’s mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so.’
The Signal and The Noise
Nate Silver
‘One economist sees a $100 bill sitting on the street and reaches to grab it. “Don’t bother,” the other economist says. “If it were a real $100 bill, someone would already have picked it up.”’
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Typographie
Emil Ruder
Word By Word
Kory Stamper
Your Brain Is a Time Machine
Dean Buonomano
‘Whether of color, sound, or the passage of time, our conscious experiences are in essence illusions, convenient running narratives of what the unconscious brain determines are the most relevant events happening in the extracranial world.’