Books I’ve read
Here’s a list of books that I’ve read, listed by finish date, with summaries of some.
- Empire of Pain, by Patrick Radden Keefe
- CND at 60, by Kate Hudson
- Washington Bullets, by Vijay Prashad
- Mort, by Terry Pratchett
- Hitler’s Army, by Omer Bartov
- Misogynation, by Laura Bates
- A Concise History of Germany, by Mary Fulbrook
- Surveillance Valley, by Yasha Levine
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late, by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon
- Making Silicon Valley, by Christophe Lécuyer
- Bad Blood, by John Carreyrou
- The Penguin History of Modern Russia, by Robert Service
- Breaking the South Slav Dream, by Kate Hudson
- Close to the Machine, by Ellen Ullman
- 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know, by Kevlin Henney (ed)
- The Secret State, by Peter Hennessy
- The Mindful Way through Anxiety, by Susan M. Orsillo and Lizabeth Roemer
- Lethal Allies, by Anne Cadwallader
- False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton, by Liza Featherstone (ed)
- Female Chauvinist Pigs, by Ariel Levy
- Marx, by David McLellan
- Willpower, by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney
- The Myths of Liberal Zionism, by Yitzhak Laor
- Manhood, by Terry Crews
- Anti-Porn, by Julia Long
- A Computer Called LEO, by Georgina Ferry
- Invisible Women, by Caroline Criado Perez
- The Origins of Scottish Nationhood, by Neil Davidson
- Programmed Inequality, by Marie Hicks
- Delusions of Gender, by Cordelia Fine
- Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain, by David Gerard
- The Nazi Census, by Götz Aly and Karl Heinz Roth
- Pimp State, by Kat Banyard
- Gender Hurts, by Sheila Jeffreys
- Transgender Body Politics, by Heather Brunskell-Evans
- Secure by Design, by Dan Berg Johnsson, Daniel Deogun and Daniel Sawano
- Web Security for Developers, by Malcolm McDonald
- Dependency Injection, by Steven van Deursen and Mark Seemann
- HTTP: Learn Your Browser’s Language, by Julia Evans
- Domain Modeling Made Functional, by Scott Wlaschin
- The Art of Unit Testing, by Roy Osherove
- Unit Testing: Principles, Practices, and Patterns, by Vladimir Khorikov
- Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests, by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce
- Test-Driven Development, by Kent Beck
- Advanced Web Application Architecture, by Matthias Noback
- Clean Architecture, by Robert Martin
- Django Crash Course, by Daniel and Audrey Feldroy
- Mastering Regular Expressions, by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
- Concretopia, by John Grindrod
- Toward Freedom, by Touré Reed
- The Brain, by David Eagleman
- The Age of Capital, by Eric Hobsbawm
- Untouchables, by Michael Gillard and Laurie Flynn
- Sacred, by Dennis Lehane
- Void Moon, by Michael Connelly
- A Darkness More Than Night, by Michael Connelly
- Darkness, Take My Hand, by Dennis Lehane
- Angels Flight, by Michael Connelly
- The Poet, by Michael Connelly
- Blood Work, by Michael Connelly
- A Drink Before The War, by Dennis Lehane
- Trunk Music, by Michael Connelly
- The Last Coyote, by Michael Connelly
- The Black Echo, by Michael Connelly
- The Black Ice, by Michael Connelly
- The Big Nowhere, by James Ellroy
- Wherever You Go, There You Are, by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Midnight in Chernobyl, by Adam Higginbotham
- The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg
- The Art of Breathing, by Danny Penman
- The Anatomy of Fascism, by Robert O Paxton
- Surveillance Valley, by Yasha Levine
- Turing’s Cathedral, by George Dyson
- Mindhunter, by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
- A History of Modern Computing, by Paul E Ceruzzi
- The Century of Revolution, by Christopher Hill
- Blackshirts and Reds, by Michael Parenti
- Code, by Charles Petzold
- Mindset, by Carol S Dweck
- Narcoland, by Anabel Hernández
- The EU: Winning a Progressive Settlement, by John Foster
- The Left Case Against the EU, by Costas Lapavitsas
- Irregular Army, by Matt Kennard
- Think Python, by Allen Downey
- Bloody Nasty People, by Daniel Trilling
- Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela, by George Ciccariello-Maher
- Nothing to Envy, by Barbara Demick
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, by John le Carré
- World War Z, by Max Brooks
- Getting Things Done, by David Allen
- Paperless, by David Sparks
- Command and Control, by Eric Schlosser
- The Age of Revolution, by Eric Hobsbawm
- The End of Patriarchy, by Robert Jensen
- Pornland, by Gail Dines
- Mastering PostreSQL in Application Development, by Dimitri Fontaine
- Value, Price and Profit, by Karl Marx
- Bike Nation, by Peter Walker
- Fuel on the Fire, by Greg Muttitt
- Full Catastrophe Living, by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- The Mindful Way through Depression, by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World, by Sheila Rowbotham
- Fahrenheight 451, by Ray Bradbury
- Head First SQL, by Lynn Beighley
- Raymond Chandler, by Fredric Jameson
- Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, by Norman Finkelstein
- Maus, by Art Spiegelman
- The Production of Money, by Ann Pettifor
- Secret Affairs, by Mark Curtis
- Burning Country, by Robbin Yassin-Kassab and Leila al-Shami
- Corbyn, by Richard Seymour
- The Candidate, by Alex Nunns
- Anarchism, by Daniel Guérin
- A Very British Coup, by Chris Mullin
- The Enemy Within, by Seumas Milne
- Map of a Nation, by Rachel Hewitt
- A Brief History of Neoliberalism, by David Harvey
- Channel Shore, by Tom Fort
- Anarcho-Syndicalism, by Rudolf Rocker
- The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein
- Hegemony or Survival, by Noam Chomsky
- Blair's Wars, by John Kampfner
- Interventions, by Noam Chomsky
- The Secret World of Oil, by Ken Silverstein
- Freedom Next Time, by John Pilger
- Hamas, by Azzam Tamimi
- Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y Davis
- How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog, by Chad Orzel
- Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism, by Alexander Berkman
- Empire's Workshop, by Greg Grandin
- The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control, by Maurice Brinton
- On Anarchism, by Noam Chomsky
- Perestroika and Germany, by Hans Modrow
- The Blood Never Dried (2nd ed), by John Newsinger
- Putin's Russia, by Anna Politkovskaya
- Israeli Rejectionism, by Zalman Amit and Daphna Levit
- The Mindful Way through Depression, by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Stasi State or Socialist Paradise? by Bruni de la Motte and John Green
- Fateful Triangle, by Noam Chomsky
- Introduction to Computation and Programming with Python, by John Guttag
- Unpeople, by Mark Curtis
- Injustice, by Danny Dorling
- Perilous Power, by Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar
- A Short History of Progress, by Ronald Wright
- Web of Deceit, by Mark Curtis
- The Triumph of the Political Class, by Peter Oborne
- Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy, by Eamon Javers
- Hamas: A Beginner's Guide, by Khaled Hroub
- The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr
- The Failed Experiment, by Andrew Fisher
- The Silent State, by Heather Brooke
- Failed States, by Noam Chomsky
- Red Harvest, by Dashiell Hammett
- Murder in Samarkand, by Craig Murray
- Israel and Palestine: Competing Histories, by Mike Berry and Greg Philo
- The Blood Never Dried, by John Newsinger
- The High Window, by Raymond Chandler
- Blackwater, by Jeremy Scahill
- Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler
- Power and Terror, by Noam Chomsky
- The London Underground, by Andrew Emmerson
- Extreme Rambling, by Mark Thomas
- People Wasn't Made to Burn, by Joe Allen
- No Logo, by Naomi Klein
- The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
- A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
- Your Brain on Porn, by Gary Wilson
- A Bitter Revolution, by Rana Mitter
- Count Zero, by William Gibson
- The Power Broker, by Robert Caro
- Your Brain on Porn, by Gary Wilson
- Mindfulness in Plain English, by Henepola Gunaratana
- The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K Dick
- Hiroshima, by John Hersey
- Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
- Cocoa Programming for OS X, by Aaron Hillegass & Adam Preble
- Orange is the New Black, by Piper Kerman
- What If? by Randall Munroe
- Code, by Charles Petzold
- Learning Web Design, by Jen Robbins
- Objective-C Programming, by Aaron Hillegass
- The Elements of Typographic Style, by Robert Bringhurst
- Learning Unix for OS X, by Dave Taylor
- Ordering Disorder, by Khoi Vihn
- Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
- The Player of Games, by Iain M Banks
- Common Sense, by Dan Hind
- The Great Crash, 1929, by John Kenneth Galbraith
- Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
- Saving Darfur, by Rob Crilly
- Crisis Economics, by Nouriel Roubini
- The Shadow Over Innsmouth, by HP Lovecraft
- A Brief History of Neoliberalism, by David Harvey
- Reasons to be Cheerful, by Mark Steel
- The War of the Worlds, by HG Wells
- Neuromancer, by William Gibson
- The Call of the Weird, by Louis Theroux
- A People's History of England, by AL Morton
- What We Say Goes, by Noam Chomsky
- The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx
- Treasure Islands, by Nick Shaxson
- The Black Dahlia, by James Ellroy
- The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
- The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, by Bertolt Brech
- 9-11, by Noam Chomsky
- Open Veins of Latin America, by Eduardo Galleano
- The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
- Who Runs This Place? by Anthony Sampson
- Newspeak in the 21st Century, by David Edwards & David Cromwell
- Media Control, by Noam Chomsky
- It's Only a Movie, by Mark Kermode
- Guardians of Power, by David Edwards & David Cromwell