Tom MacWright

tom@macwright.com
The Fund
Rob Copeland
The Affordable City
Shane Phillips
Swing Time
Zadie Smith
The Bogle Effect
Eric Balchunas
The Men
Sandra Newman
Less
Andrew Sean Greer
Gowanus
Joseph Alexiou
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible
Charles Eisenstein
Oranges
John McPhee
Feel Free
Zadie Smith
The Secret Life of Groceries
Benjamin Lorr
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
Fortress in Brooklyn
Michael Casper, Nathaniel Deutsch
Crabgrass Kingdom
Kenneth T. Jackson
Capital Without Borders
Brooke Harrington
Bloodchild
Octavia E. Butler
Outlive
Peter Attia, Bill Gifford
How I Invest My Money
Brian Portnoy and Joshua Brown
Achieving Our Country
Richard Rorty
Sourdough
Robin Sloan
The Salmon of Doubt
Douglas Adams
Free at Last
Daniel Greenberg
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
Fundraising
Ryan Breslow
Bicycle Diaries
David Byrne
Meet Us by the Roaring Sea
Akil Kumarasamy
The Right to Sex
Amia Srinivasan
Bad Sex
Nona Willis Aronowitz
Barbarian Days
William Finnegan
Will
Will Smith, Mark Manson
How Not To Be A Boy
Robert Webb
Ludicrous
Edward Niedermeyer
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
Against Creativity
Oli Mould
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
You're Paid What You're Worth
Jake Rosenfeld
A History of Brooklyn Bridge Park
Nancy Webster and David Shirley
Big Team Farms
Sarah K Mock
Just Keep Buying
Nick Magguilli
Lost and Founder
Rand Fishkin
Team Rodent
Carl Hiaasen
How to Get a Meeting with Anyone
Stu Heinecke
Subprime Attention Crisis
Tim Hwang
The Address Book
Deirdre Mask
Laziness Does Not Exist
Devon Price
Phantoms in the Brain
V. S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee
The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn
Suleiman Osman
Policing the Open Road
Sarah A. Seo
Triumph of Injustice
Emmanuel Saez & Gabriel Zucman
A City is Not a Computer
Shannon Mattern
Money
Jacob Goldstein
The World According to Garp
John Irving
Die With Zero
Bill Perkins
The Cult of Smart
Fredrik deBoer
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
Bigger than Bernie
Micah Uetricht and Meagan Day
I Will Teach You to Be Rich
Ramit Sethi
Ham on Rye
Charles Bukowski
Farm (and Other F Words)
Sarah K Mock
Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
MAKE
Pieter Levels
No One Is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood
On Writing
Stephen King
What Tech Calls Thinking
Adrian Daub
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan
The Idea Factory
John Gertner
One Billion Americans
Matthew Yglesias
Blockchain Chicken Farm
Xiaowei Wang
The Deficit Myth
Stephanie Kelton
Evicted
Matthew Desmond
BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System
Michael C Healy
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Still Life with Woodpecker
Tom Robbins
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
The Long Earth
Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton Malkiel
Whistleblower
Susan Fowler
Educated
Tara Westover
Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
Brotopia
Emily Chang
Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino
MBS
Ben Hubbard
Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer
Super Pumped
Mike Isaac
Cleanness
Garth Greenwell
Uncanny Valley
Anna Wiener
The Dreamt Land
Mark Arax
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh
Spunk and Bite
Arthur Plotnik
The New Me
Halle Butler
Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
The Phoenix Project
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford
Super Thinking
Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann
Conversations With Friends
Sally Rooney
Becoming
Michelle Obama
Priestdaddy
Patricia Lockwood
The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis
Look Alive Out There
Sloane Crosley
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
The Fall
Albert Camus
Chaos Monkeys
Antonio García Martínez
How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
Last Chance to See
Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell
The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell
Impact Science
Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan
The first three minutes
Steven Weinberg
Driving Detroit
George Galster
Bike Lanes Are White Lanes
Melody L Hoffmann
Generation Priced Out
Randy Shaw
Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Women, Race, & Class
Angela Y. Davis
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K Le Guin
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
REAMDE
Neal Stephenson
New Dark Age
James Bridle
Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
Hillbilly Elegy
JD Vance
Principles
Ray Dalio
Against Charity
Daniel Raventós & Julie Wark
Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
Nightflyers
George RR Martin
The Woman Who Smashed Codes
Jason Fagone
The Autobiography of Gucci Mane
Gucci Mane, Neil Martinez-Belkin, Guy Lockard
Decision Points
George W. Bush
What Happened
Hillary Clinton
Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco
Gary Kamiya
The Return
Hisham Matar
Human Transit
Jarrett Walker
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
Mark Manson
Logic: Scale
Various
Killing the Messenger
Thomas Peele
Inheritors of the Earth
Chris D Thomas
White Rage
Carol Anderson
The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein
Between the world and me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Street Fight
Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomon
Israel - a concise history of a nation reborn
Daniel Gordis
The politics of anti-semitism
Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St Clair & Contributors
Six Easy Pieces
Richard Feynman
Settlers
J. Sakai
The Responsibility of Intellectuals
Noam Chomsky
The Housing Monster
prole.info
The Three Pillar Model for Business Decisions: Strategy, Law and Ethics
George Siedel
Never Use Futura
Doug Thomas
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Rick Perlstein
The Banjo: America's African Instrument
Laurent Dubois
Time Travel: A History
James Gleick
The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
Tyler Cowen
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Blake J. Harris
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang
Hitler's Olympics: The Story of the 1936 Nazi Games
Anton Rippon
The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
Pamela Haag
Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Rework
Jason Fried
Atomic Awakening: A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power
James Mahaffey
Etiquette: A Guide to the Most Common Etiquette Rules and Social Situations where Etiquette Matters (The Modern Ladies & Gentleman Book 4)
Niel Schreiber
Math You Can't Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software
Ben Klemens
Parkinson's Law
C. Northcote Parkinson
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
Lawrence Weschler
CLOG: National Mall
Kyle May
The Pine Barrens
John McPhee
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion
The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better
Tyler Cowen
The Salamander Room
Anne Mazer
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
Jake Knapp
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
Seymour Papert
Homeland (Little Brother, #2)
Cory Doctorow
The Elements of Typographic Style
Robert Bringhurst
The Business of America is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate (Studies in Postwar American Political Development)
Lee Drutman
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Caitlin Doughty
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
Taylor Larimore
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
Marshall B. Rosenberg
The Smart Growth Manual
Andrés Duany
The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton
William E. Leuchtenburg
The Algorithm Design Manual
Steve S. Skiena
Remote: Office Not Required
Jason Fried
Playing to Win: Becoming the Champion
David Sirlin
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
William Zinsser
NaS Lost: A Tribute to the Little Homey
Byron Crawford
Life in Prison: Eight Hours at a Time
Robert Reilly
Levels of the Game
John McPhee
Free: The Future of a Radical Price
Chris Anderson
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Lynne Truss
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
William McDonough
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Kim Zetter
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C
Bruce Schneier
All the President's Men
Carl Bernstein
Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime — from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door
Brian Krebs
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Ahmir Questlove Thompson
Confessions of an Advertising Man
David Ogilvy
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Bill Bryson
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Tim Wu
The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath
Nicco Mele
No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment
David L. Lange
Infinite Crab Meats
Byron Crawford
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
Tom Bissell
A Spinoza Reader: The Ethics and Other Works
Baruch Spinoza
The First Bad Man
Miranda July
Kanye West Superstar
Byron Crawford
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991
Michael Azerrad
The Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Venture Deals
Brad Feld
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz
The Control of Nature
John McPhee
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Jonathan Crary
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
Cory Doctorow
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard Feynman
Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer
Stewart Brand
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg
This Is How You Lose Her
Junot Díaz
Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
Bruce Schneier
The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems
T.S. Eliot
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
Ellen Ullman
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
James Gleick
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
David Foster Wallace
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Raymond Carver
Indignation
Philip Roth
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace
Scroogled
Cory Doctorow
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
Clayton M. Christensen
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Dava Sobel
Leaving the Atocha Station
Ben Lerner
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
Everyman
Philip Roth
On Growth and Form
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the Nature of Nature
Lynn Margulis
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Afghanistan
Stephen Tanner
The Stranger
Albert Camus
The Immoralist
André Gide
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals/On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns
Immanuel Kant
To Mock a Mockingbird and Other Logic Puzzles
Raymond M. Smullyan
Foundation (Foundation #1)
Isaac Asimov
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip Heath
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Karen Armstrong
Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing Out of Sync?
Seth Godin
The Jazz Theory Book
Mark LeVine
The Southern Baptists: A Subculture in Transition
Ellen MacGilvra Rosenberg
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
The Kingdom of Zydeco
Michael Tisserand
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
Pro Drupal Development
John K. VanDyk
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel García Márquez
The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery
Janwillem van de Wetering
Shattered Faith: A Woman's Struggle to Stop the Catholic Church from Annuling Her Marriage
Sheila Rauch Kennedy
Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man
U.R. Ananthamurthy ಯು. ಆರ್. ಅನ೦ತಮೂರ್ತಿ
Noble Powell and the Episcopal Establishment in the Twentieth Century
David Hein
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Flannery O'Connor
A Season in Purgatory
Dominick Dunne
Phenomenology of Spirit
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Theological-Political Treatise
Baruch Spinoza
The Ethics
Baruch Spinoza
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Immanuel Kant
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Hinduism
Louis Renou
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Ethics
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1984
George Orwell
Sixty Stories
Donald Barthelme
White Noise
Don DeLillo
Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)
William Gibson
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
Linus Torvalds
Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
Lawrence Lessig
Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace
Lawrence Lessig
When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today
Harvey Cox
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Thomas L. Friedman
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Augustine: A New Biography
James J. O'Donnell
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
Dan Brown
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein
Timeline
Michael Crichton
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
Dan Brown
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
The Andromeda Strain
Michael Crichton
Survivor
Chuck Palahniuk
State of Fear
Michael Crichton
Pretty Good Magic
Cathy East Dubowski
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
On Bullshit
Harry G. Frankfurt
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
Charles Wheelan
King Lear
William Shakespeare
James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Galápagos
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris
Digital Fortress
Dan Brown
Diary
Chuck Palahniuk
Choke
Chuck Palahniuk
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Bluebeard
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
Airframe
Michael Crichton
A Light in the Attic
Shel Silverstein
Winning [Ganar]
Jack Welch
The Bhagavad Gita
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
Eric Schlosser
Moondust: In Search Of The Men Who Fell To Earth
Andrew Smith
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Lance Armstrong
Islam: A Concise Introduction
Huston Smith
Invisible Monsters
Chuck Palahniuk
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer
An Introduction to Hinduism
Gavin D. Flood
Evil: An Investigation
Lance Morrow