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My bookshelf

This is a collection of books I’ve read and enjoyed. Some of the books have notes or highlights that stood out to me.

Bookshelf

Creative Process

Big Magic
Elizabeth Gilbert (2015)
Making Music
Dennis DeSantis (2015)

Design

Badass: Making Users Awesome
Kathy Sierra (2015)
Notes
Conceptual Models: Core to Good Design
Jeff Johnson (2011)
Demand-Side Sales 101
Bob Moesta (2020)
Notes
The Elements of Typographic Style
Robert Bringhurst (1992)
The Nature of Order, Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life
Christopher Alexander (2002)
The Nature of Order, Book 2: The Process of Creating Life
Christopher Alexander (2002)
Notes
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
Christopher Alexander (1964)
Notes
A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander (1977)
The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher Alexander (1979)
Notes

Fiction

Augustus
John Williams (1972)
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro (2021)
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry (1985)
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
Stoner
John Williams (1965)

History

A. Lincoln: A Biography
Ronald C. White (2009)
And There Was Light
Jon Meacham (2022)
Lincoln at Cooper Union
Harold Holzer (2006)
Notes
Lincoln President Elect
Harold Holzer (2008)
Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural
Ronald C. White (2002)
The Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
Robert Caro (1994)
The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
Robert Caro (1982)
Notes
Team of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin (2009)
Notes

Language

Garner's Modern English Usage
Bryan Garner (1998)
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens (2017)
Language in Thought and Action
S.I. Hayakawa (1949)
Notes
Metaphor: A Practical Introduction
Zoltan Kovecses (2010)
Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff (1980)
Orality and Literacy
Walter J. Ong (1982)
Notes

Life

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
William B. Irvine (2008)
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl (1946)
Peace is Every Step
Thich Nhat Hanh (1990)
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle (1997)
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Ralph Leighton (1985)
The Wisdom of Anxiety
Sheryl Paul (2019)

Management

High Output Management
Andy Grove (1983)
The Making of a Manager
Julie Zhuo (2019)
The Manager's Path
Camille Fournier (2017)
Managing Oneself
Peter Drucker (2008)
Radical Candor
Kim Scott (2017)

Systems

Design Cybernetics
Thomas Fischer (2019)
Notes
Systemantics: The Systems Bible
John Gall (1975)
Notes
Systems Generating Systems
Christopher Alexander (1968)
Notes
Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows (2008)
Notes

Writing

Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
John McPhee (2017)
On Writing Well
William Zinsser (1976)
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King (2000)
Scene & Structure
Jack M. Bickham (1999)
Several Short Sentences About Writing
Verlyn Klinkenborg (2012)
Steering the Craft
Ursula K. Le Guin (1998)
Notes
Stein on Writing
Sol Stein (1995)
Working
Robert Caro (2019)

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