Big Giant Reading List I Will Never Finish

Science Fiction

• The Book of Joan - Lidia Yuknavitch
• The Southern Reach Triology - Jeff Vandermeer
• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
• The Expanse
• The Passage
• Blindsight
• Binti trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor
• Craft Sequence - Max Gladstone
• Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy - Liu Cixin
• Accelerando - Charles Stross
• Revelation Space series - Alastair Reynolds
• Culture Series - Iain M Banks
• Artemis - Andy Weir
• Bobiverse series - Dennis E Taylor
• The Wrong Unit - Rob Dircks
• Provenance - Ann Leckie
• Ninefox Gambit - Yoon Ha Lee
• Paper Girls
• John Dies In The End
• Infomacracy
• The Chanur novels - CJ Cherryh
• Cyteen - CJ Cherryh
• Valor’s Choice - Tanya Huff
• A Talent For War - Jack McDevitt
• On Basilisk Station - David Weir

Regular-Ass Fiction

• Night Soldiers - Alan Furst
• Dark Star - Alan Furst
• Inspector Chin series - Qiu Xiaolong
• The Adventures of Erast Fandorin - Boris Akunin
• Alatriste novels - Arturo Perez-Reverte

Systems Thinking

• Godel, Escher, Bach
• Antifragile - Nassim Taleb
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer - Donella Meadows

Software Engineering

• The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• 7 Databases in 7 Weeks
• CODE
• Object Thinking - David West

Public Relations

• Public Opinion - Walter Lippman
• Don’t Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate - Lakoff

Human Organization, Development, and Communication

• Team of Teams
• Managing To Change The World
• Teach Like a Champion- Doug Lemov
• The Infinity Gauntlet
• Jesus, CEO
• The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change - Camille Fournier
• Gardner, J.W. (2007). The nature of leadership. Jossey-Bass Reader on Educational Leadership, Second Edition (pp. 17–26). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
• Managing The Unmanageable
• Radical Candor
• Certain To Win
• Work Rules
• Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
• The 5 Love Languages
• People Skills - Robert Bolton

Business

• The Machine That Changed the World - Womack, Jones, and Roos

America

• Martin Luther King

Government

• The Dictator’s Handbook

Not America

• From Third World To First: The Singapore Story - Lee Kuan Yew
• India After Gandhi