Books Read in Rough Chronological Order
Published 2016 September 11
❧ Edited 2024 March 29
A list of books, stories and essays I have read made from memory in rough chronological order. Also: books that have been particularly helpful.
- The Mysteries by Bill Watterson and John Kascht
- The Making of Prince of Persia by Jordan Mechner
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Drawing on the Dominant Eye by Betty Edwards
- Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Make Something Wonderful - Steve Jobs in his own words
- Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
- The First Protectors by Victor Godinez
- The Medium is the Massage - An Inventory of Effects
by Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore
- A Village Life by Louise Glück
- Art & Fear by David Bayles & Ted Orland
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- Cats, Cats, Cats from Andy Warhol
- To Fly and Fight by Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson
- Valparaiso by Sergio Larrain and Pablo Neruda
- Sergio Larrain by Sergio Larrain and Agnès Sire
- The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
- Pen and Ink Drawing: A Simple Guide by Alphonso Dunn
- Bill Peet: An Autobiography by Bill Peet
- The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas
- Figure Drawing: For All It’s Worth by Andrew Loomis
- Keep Your Airspeed Up by Harold H. Brown
- Jagged Alliance 2 by Darius Kazemi
- The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
- Diane Arbus: Revelations by Diane Arbus
- Going Solo by Roald Dahl
- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- In the Picture: Self-Portraits 1958-2011 by Lee Friedlander
- Bad Weather by Martin Parr
- Self Portrait by Lee Friedlander
- The Last Resort by Martin Parr
- Krishnamurti to Himself: His Last Journal by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
- Listen to the Trees by John Sexton
- La Comète - Le Voyage de Rosetta by Jean-Pierre Bibring and Hanns Zischler
- A Village Life by Louise Glück
- Voices From The Moon by Andrew Chaikin and Victoria Kohl
- Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
- Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
- I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
- Pulvis Et Umbra by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Life is Good & Good for You in New York: Trance Witness Revels by William Klein
- Lost and Found by Bruce Gilden
- Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu (translation by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English)
- Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
- Teenage Lust by Larry Clark
- Thank You by Robert Frank
- Wall by Josef Koudelka
- Exiles by Josef Koudelka
- William Eggleston’s Guide by William Eggleston
- Boyhood Photos of J.H. Lartigue by J.H. Lartigue
- Mode In & Out by William Klein
- The Animals by Garry Winogrand
- Public Relations by Garry Winogrand
- Women Are Beautiful by Garry Winogrand and Helen Gary Bishop
- Killing Floor by Lee Child
- Nicaragua by Susan Meiselas
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
- Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams by Mitchel Resnick
- The Hand by Frank R. Wilson
- What Is Code by Paul Ford
- Beautiful Evidence by Edward Tufte
- The Psychopath Code by Pieter Hintjens
- Hold Still by Sally Mann
- The Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Coney Island by Bruce Gilden
- Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It by Geoff Dyer
- Art is Work by Milton Glaser
- Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
- Drawing is Thinking by Milton Glaser
- The Solitude of Ravens by Masahisa Fukase
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- Wind, Sand, Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Search Inside Yourself by Chade-Meng Tan
- Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell
- Planet Google by Randall Stross
- Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
- Zona by Geoff Dyer
- Vivian Maier: Street Photographer by Vivian Maier and John Maloof
- The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
- Another Great Day At Sea by Geoff Dyer
- Helen Levitt by Helen Levitt
- A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Magnum Contact Sheets
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- A Hanging by George Orwell
- Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
- Such, Such Were the Joys by George Orwell
- Harry Gruyaert by Harry Gruyaert
- The Story of Art by Ernst Gombrich
- The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
- Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
- Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
- The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
- Cosmos by Carl Sagan
- American Photographs by Walker Evans
- The Americans by Robert Frank
- Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Earthlings by Richard Kalvar
- Pragmatic Thinking And Learning by Andy Hunt
- Lisette Model by Lisette Model
- The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel
- French Kiss by Anders Petersen
- Café Lehmitz by Anders Petersen
- A Beautiful Catastrophe by Bruce Gilden
- Gypsies by Josef Koudelka
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Workers by Sebastião Salgado
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Sorrow of War by Bảo Ninh
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
- The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Think On These Things by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Ansel Adams: An Autobiography by Ansel Adams and Mary Street Alinder
- The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- Black Spring by Henry Miller
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
- Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
- DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith
- Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm
- Designing With Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman
- The Lord of The Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King) by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Cluetrain Manifesto by Christopher Locke, David “Doc” Searls, David Weinberger & Rick Levine
- Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte
- The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
- Graphic Design by Milton Glaser
- 1984 by George Orwell
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- The Psychiatrist by Machado de Assis
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum
- The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
- Various Dirk Pitt adventure novels by Clive Cussler
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
- Yeager: An Autobiography by Charles Elwood “Chuck” Yeager
- Journals by Kurt Cobain
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson by Henri Cartier-Bresson
- The First Thousand Words by Heather Amery and Stephen Cartwright
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
- Gnomes by Wil Huygen and illustrated by Rien Poortvliet