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2026
18 books-
Accessibility for Everyone
Many of these A Book Apart books have become free to read. I want to read this one so I can work on an accessiblity tool of my own.
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12 Principles for Raising a Child with ADHD
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Meeting Design
For Managers, Makers, and Everyone
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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Designing for Behavior Change
Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics
Practical methods for applying behavioral science to product and service design.
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Storyland
A New Mythology of Britain
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Parable of the Sower
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The World Atlas of Coffee 3rd Edition
From Beans to Brewing - Coffees Explored, Explained and Enjoyed
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Emotional Design
Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
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Engaged
Designing for Behavior Change
I wanted to read this because I met the dude who wrote the foreword, Jeff Kreister.
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Cryptonomicon
A Novel
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The Wayfinder
A Novel
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The Ministry for the Future
A Novel
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Infinite Jest
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The Color of Magic
In what order should the Discworld series be read? Lots of advice online… personally still deciding.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl
Book 1
Will be reading this whole series when I can get my hands on them from the library
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Kitchen Confidential
Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (25th Anniversary Edition)
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Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Book 2
I really love the illustrations that come with the updated book covers. In addition the fan art for this series is top notch.
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The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
Book 3
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The Gate of the Feral Gods
Book 4
Not my favorite of the series, but they just keep getting better as you get closer to the climax.
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The Butcher's Masquerade
Book 5
I've had more luck getting these from the library if I hold them far enough in advance.
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The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Book 6
This books grow in size and complexity, will we take a break, or finish before the tv show comes out!
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This Inevitable Ruin
Book 7
I will read them all!
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Building Applications with AI Agents
Designing and Implementing Multiagent Systems
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A Parade of Horribles
Book 8
I will read them all and you will not break me!
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Yield
a novel
This is my neighbor’s debut novel. He does not expect me to ready it but I really want to.
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Every Layout
Relearn CSS layout by example
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How to Think More Effectively
A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity
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Red Rising
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Recursion
A Novel
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Funny Money
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All Systems Red
The Murderbot Diaries
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Good Omens
The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
2025
19 books-
How to Do Nothing
Resisting the Attention Economy
Written by an artist who draws from history to understand how we can live a more purposeful life. The provocative title actually implies a balance we need to achieve and the necessity of missing out.
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Adding some books that I am reading to my child. This is one that I was very excited to share with her.
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Creativity
A Short and Cheerful Guide
Creativity is not a skill or a talent… it is simply an ability to play and get into a mindset where we trust our own ideas and instincts. Note to self: also read the audiobook because the author reads it.
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The Independence Issue
June 2024
Super excited to share something newsprint with my daughter. This fun gift also has a lot of helpful advise that parents are not supposed to read.
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Ready Player Two
A Novel
Accessible science fiction. Full of nostalgia for the 1980s. Don't listen to harsh reviews. This is a fun rewarding read like its predecessor.
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Strengths Finder 2.0
“You cannot be anything you want to be – but you can be a lot more of who you already are.” Are you the personality that enjoy’s personality tests? This one is a cool and positive perspective and great to complete as a team.
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Martyr
A Novel
I am reading this book because it has a very good looking cover and it was included in the recent NY Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Also, the book title has a bang!
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James
A Novel
A retelling of Huckleberry Finn. My partner, who just finished it for her book club, warned me that it's an intense read.
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Just Enough Research
Pulp trash special edition
I've found an opportunity to read new editions of old favorites. This is probably the best book about UX research for practitioners and curious about design and product research.
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Thinking with Type 3rd Edition
A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
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Why Fish Don't Exist
A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
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The Infinite Game
The joke is that I read the wrong book at book club. Turns out that this one is a good complement to his other novels. It also has my favorite diagram about performance and trust.
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Project Hail Mary
Best experience is reading the book and then finding out that the movie is going to come out!
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Leaders Eat Last
Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
A book club selection at work. I find that it is great to read along side watching the videos.
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Kindred
A great continuation of this year's reading themes of sci-fi and historical fiction.
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1Q84
A Novel
A Strand Books find from years ago. Glad to be reading it now though this hardcover is very heavy!
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Bonsai Pocket Guide
A Beginner's Journey
For our anniversary my partner got me a bonsai tree. I am super excited about the project to trim and shape it.
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Field Ethos
Volume 3, 2025
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Caps Lock
I’m interested in how those new to the field of design will make a creative career. This little bit of history and critique on the role of creative professionsals might have answers.
2024
21 books-
Surviving Change at Work
Find clarity as you drive toward the next step in your tech career.
Great because it also has some practical exercises to complete. I frequently recommmend this title.
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The Storytelling Hero
Speaking for Powerful Communication
Another title with practical exercises. Its also a very quick and quality read.
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Breath
The New Science of a Lost Art
One of those Malcom Gladwell style books. Probably the best parts is how the reader can't help but practice breathing exercises while reading. It's like it has its own built-in
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Science of Breath
A Practical Guide
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The Creative Act
A Way of Being
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Annabel Scheme
And the Adventure of the New Golden Gate
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Design for Cognitive Bias
Understand the logic powering human bias and learn to start designing more consciously
I highlighted this one so much. Will be worthy of it’s own culture moment or blog post.
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You Deserve a Tech Union
By standing together, we can build a better version of the tech industry
I enjoy this title because it really reinforces the themes of ethics and fairness that needs to be a part of all our work.
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Other Means
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Smart Brevity
The Power of Saying More with Less
I have mixed feelings. It’s important to communicate this way, but I very much miss good prose. So I plan to take what I need and leave the rest
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Multipage Version
Issue #1: We Fucked Up Headings
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Moonbound
A Novel
The best part of Sloan’s books is all the extras you get with them. A pre-order means you get printed matter and the author website contains all kinds of hidden gems. All of the deep story makes you want to be part of the world.
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The Prompt Issue 2
A Magazine by Figma
The physical copy is very difficult to read because of very small text and transparent pages. Totally read the online version of these articles.
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San Francisco
Wildsam Field Guides
This series is better than other guides. There are particular histories like cultural movements, timelines, and illustrated maps. Also fun, the cover is in International Orange, the same as the Golden Gate Bridge.
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
This was the ultimate beach read when visiting the main protagonist of this novel, the Dominican Republic. I could have sworn that I had read this before, and I can't remember what book it reminded me so much of. Perhaps that is why I liked it so much.
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Severance
The Lexington Letter
Like reading a mini episode of the popular show. Toteally excited for the second season because sometimes I feel like I need to be severed from my corporate job.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 🎧
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Shadow of the Wind
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Filterworld
How Algorithms Flattened Culture
I skipped the middle part of this book. I think the best take-aways were found in the conclusion which covered the importance of curation and taste.
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Hollow Kingdom
A Novel
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Supercommunicators
How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
A selection from bookclub and the summer reading list. This title gives advice on how to have better conversations and be that person that others want to connect with.
2023
20 books-
Design is a Job
How to Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul
This now has to be purchased in Zine form and that is a really fun format. I have both editions.
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The Upskilling Imperative
How to Build a Future-Ready Workforce
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Inclusive Design Communities
Build the Design Industry You Want to See
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An Almanac of New York City
For the Year 2023
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Radically Human
How New Technology Is Transofrming Business and Shaping our Future
I was not able to get much past the first chapter of this book. I do hear that Chapter 8 is worth reading. So I will likely go back and read that.
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Rituals for Work
50 Ways to Create Engagment, Shared Purpose and a Culture that Can Adapt to Change
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Sea of Tranquility
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Castle of the Cursed
The House is Always Haunted
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Creative Confidence 🎧
Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
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Org Design for Design Orgs
Building and Managing In-House Teams
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AI and UX
Why Artificial Intelligence Needs User Experience
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The Design of Everyday Things
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Inclusive Design for a Digital World
Designing with Accessibility in Mind
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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Design for Belonging
How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration in Your Communities
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The Power of Ritual
Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices
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Rituals for Virtual Meetings
Creative Ways to Engage People and Strengthen Relationships
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The Personal Librarian
A Novel
Don't visit the Morgan Libary and Museum without reading this book. You won't learn much about J.P. Morgan but you do get a great perspective on New York City, race, and feminism
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Ruined by Design
How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
I read the newsprint special edition.
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Don't Make Me Think, Revisited
A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
2022
9 books-
Cultivating a Creative Culture
Human-Centered Interaction, Design, & Inspirationl
This one talks about the new day one experience and how we can apply a human-centered design process to ourselves.
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Get Together
How to Build a Community With Your People
Packed with case studies about special communities and how they got their start.
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Articulating Design Decisions
Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience
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The Art of Gathering
How We Meet and Why It Matters
This book shows you how to intentionally design gatherings that will make your friends and loved ones feel special and taken care of.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
A Novel
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Standart Issue 26
Rivers, waves, and coffee
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The Fable of the User-centered Designer
The Small Book That Has Big Results
This is a quick and free title to read. The allegory style is not for everyone, but this one is alright by me.
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The Explorers Journal
Close Encounters
Please don't tell my hipster barber shop that I like to steal these issues, they have multiple copies.
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Emigre Type Library
Type Specimen
2019 to 2021
14 books-
Think Like a UX Researcher
How to Observe Users, Influence Design, and Shape Business Strategy
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What We See When We Read
This is in the style of an experimental paperback. The illustrations are very clever and its nice to have around.
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The Inevitable City
The Resurgence of New Orleans and the Future of Urban America
I went to school in New Orleans. The topic of designing a city and supporting its history is always a good read for me. In particular the generosity of New Orleans itself is shared in this read.
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A *New* Program for Graphic Design
A toolkit for visual literacy in the 21st century
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What We Think About When We Think About Soccer
A super nerdy take on the sport and its history
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The Gift of Failure
How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
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Everyday in Magic
A birthday present from my good friend Sophie.
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New and Recent Typefaces by Hoefler & Co.
Eleventh Edition
I am very fond of the Hoefler & Co. type capsule that I purchased to get Operator Mono.
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The LSP Method
How to Engage People and Spark Insights Using the LEGO® Serious Play® Method
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The Phoenix Project
A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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Inspired
How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
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Fair Play
A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live)
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Wolves of No World
Undocumented. Unprotected. Unbreakable
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Brooklyn Magazine
Late in the pandemic I was buying masks at a dry cleaning place. There was this whole stack of Brooklyn Magazines that she was just willing to give me. Its very cool that the relaunch issue had about 4 different covers and I got all of them.
2016 to 2018
14 books-
Working Dad's Survival Guide
How to Succeed at Work and at Home
This is a title that I received as a gift from a new parent networking group at work. I found this book and that group equally useful when navigating a big life change.
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Offscreen Magazine
The Human Side of Technology
I first found several issues of Offscreen left out on the sidewalk. What a find because it is an elegant mixture of print design and stories about building digital products – which are not available in digital form.
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How to Make Sense of Any Mess
Information Architecture for Everybody
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Sprint
How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
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How to Sharpen Pencils
A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants
I bought this as a gift and I had to get the kindle version for myself
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Vacationland
True Stories from Painful Beaches
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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
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Group Glue
The connective power of how simple questions lead to great conversations
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Sourdough
A Novel
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Nonstop Metropolis
A New York City Atlas
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Seinfeldia
How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything
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Just My Type
A Book About Fonts
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New York Ramen Map
A guide to happy noodle slurping in NYC
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The Shape of Design
Older Notable Reads
31 books-
Snow Crash
A Novel
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A Confederacy of Dunces
Picked this up on my University Bookstore shelf. Its a reward for all that academic reading. It was a good choice because I love new orleans and it is laugh-till-you-hurt funny.
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Adaptive Web Design
Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement
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Modern Romance
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Ready Player One
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The Electric Information Age Book
McLuhan/Agel/Fiore and the Experimental Paperback
Sometimes I want to put books on here because the cover looks cool. Interestingly I also have the record soundtrack that this one comes with. It's weird too.
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Commercial Specimen of Typefaces
I have used Dala Prisma in a previous design project for a wine label. I should use more of these typefaces.
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The Great Discontent
Issue 1
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We Are Anonymous
Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
This was on the top of my reading list when I started in the cybersecurity department. It really helped me undestand a lot of the lingo. So something that sounded silly, like script kiddie or DDoS, actually made scense. its also a really good narative – why isn't it a movie yet?
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100 New Yorkers
A guide to the Illustrious Lives & Locations
When I first moved to NYC I read a lot of local history. There is so many great titles in the genre. You should have seen the evening that our local pub trivia had a round on NYC History. My teammates lost their mind with what I knew. They did not know how many books a podcasts I had consumed.
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The Sinner's Grand Tour
A Journey Through The Historical Underbelly of Europe
I used to go to this travel writer meetup called Restless Legs. A friend of mine, Josh, and I would watch the website and meet up in the basement of a bar. These writers would read from their novel. The best ones wouldn't read but just tell us one of the stories of travel. I really miss that series and I'm going to google it now to see if it is ever coming back. This is another great example of how meeting the author
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The Official C.I.A. Manual of Trickery and Deception
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Born to Run
A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Ha Never Seen
I once did a meetup with the author and ran barefoot around prospect park. It wasn't that bad!
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How They Got There
Interviews with Digital Designers About Their Career Journeys
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The Situationist City
I was gifted this book, or more like long-term borrowed, when I was doing an art show called Caught Mapping. A lot of the elements of that show like navigation and mapping of urban landscapes.
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Zodiac Series
Beware the 13th Sign
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Atomic Design
I picked up my signed copy of this book at an event with the author. When I had him sign it I asked for him to mention that my copy would be for corporate libary use only and he got a really big kick out of that.
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You’re My Favorite Client
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Going Responsive
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Practical Design Discovery
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In the Blink of An Eye
A Perspective on Film Editing
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
A Novel
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City Cycling Barcelona
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Diamonds Are Forever
A James Bond Novel
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Waterfront
A walk around Manhattan
A reflective collection of essays exploring memory, place, and life along the urban shoreline.
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Rats
Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
A thoughtful, often surprising exploration of urban rats — their history, behavior, and the uneasy relationship between humans and these resilient city dwellers.
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Carte des meilleures Burger De Paris
Can you really get a great burger in Paris, yes. But yes I'm more in-love with the idea of this an the making of maps than french burgers.
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La Carte des Vins s'il vous plait Bordeaux
A one-page guide
A compact, one-page guide to Bordeaux wines and notable appellations.
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Dune
A novel
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Jurassic Park
A novel
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Sphere
A novel
Super fond memories of these embossed and shiny letters of the 90s. There is something very satisfying about the texture and the building mystery of stories like this.