This antilibrary could just as easily have been called my reading backlog, or things I’ll likely never get around to. It consists of books that I want to read, but haven’t yet. Some of them I already own, but the vast majority I don’t.
Fiction
- Sandworms of Dune (Dune, 8) by Herbert, Frank
- Hunters of Dune (Dune, 7) by Herbert, Frank
- Chapterhouse Dune (Dune, 6)] by Herbert, Frank
- Heretics of Dune (Dune, 5) by Herbert, Frank
- God Emperor of Dune (Dune, 4) by Herbert, Frank
- Children of Dune (Dune, 3) by Herbert, Frank
- Dune Messiah (Dune, 2) by Herbert, Frank
- Dune (Dune, 1) by Herbert, Frank
- The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid’s Tale, 1) by Atwood, Margaret
- The Testaments (The Handmaid’s Tale, 2) by Atwood, Margaret
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Kesey, Ken
- A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles
- A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, 1) by Martin, George R.R.
- Kurs i självutplåning by Bromander, Henrik
- Uppgång & fall by Strömquist, Liv
- Dracula by Stoker, Bram
- Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Melville, Herman
- Twilight (The Twilight Saga, 1) by Meyer, Stephenie
- On the Road by Kerouac, Jack
- War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo
- A Christmas Carol by Dickens, Charles
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Les Misérables by Hugo, Victor
- Gone with the Wind by Mitchell, Margaret
- Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
- Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury, Ray
- The Book Thief by Zusak, Markus
- Daemon Time by Viita, Kristoffer
- Eragon by Paolini, Christopher
- Divergent by Roth, Veronica
- The Golden Compass by Pullman, Philip
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Golden, Arthur
- The Princess Bride by Goldman, William
- Wyrd Sisters: The Play by Briggs, Stephen
- Guards! Guards!: The Play by Briggs, Stephen
- Cryptonomicon by Stephenson, Neal
- American Gods by Gaiman, Neil
- Peace Talks by Butcher, Jim
- Mina drömmars stad by Fogelström, Per Anders
- Foundation and Chaos (Second Foundation Trilogy, 2) by Bear, Greg
- Neverwhere by Gaiman, Neil
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Dick, Philip K.
- Animal Farm by Orwell, George
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Chbosky, Stephen
- Horrorstör by Hendrix, Grady
- JPod by Coupland, Douglas
- Microserfs by Coupland, Douglas
- The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, 1) by Collins, Suzanne
- 1984 by Orwell, George
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee, Harper
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Riggs, Ransom
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Gaiman, Neil
- The Shining by King, Stephen
- It by King, Stephen
- Into the Wild by Krakauer, Jon
- American Psycho by Ellis, Bret Easton
- The War of the Worlds by Wells, H.G.
- The Time Machine by Wells, H.G.
- Beach Read by Henry, Emily
- The Godfather by Puzo, Mario
- Ender’s Game (Ender’s Saga, 1) by Card, Orson Scott
- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Clarke, Arthur C.
- The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Lord of the Flies by Golding, William
- Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Shelley, Mary
- Brave New World by Huxley, Aldous
- A Clockwork Orange by Burgess, Anthony
- The Summer Without Men by Hustvedt, Siri
- Choke by Palahniuk, Chuck
- The Rum Diary by Thompson, Hunter S.
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Thompson, Hunter S.
- The Martian by Weir, Andy
- The Emigrants (The Emigrants, 1) by Moberg, Vilhelm
- Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, 1) by Simmons, Dan
Comics
- Heartstopper: Volume One by Oseman, Alice
- Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel by Reynolds, Jason
- Snotgirl, Vol. 1: Green Hair Don’t Care by O’Malley, Bryan Lee
- The Complete Maus by Spiegelman, Art
- Lonesome Dove by McMurtry, Larry
- Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation by Folman, Ari
- French Milk by Knisley, Lucy
- Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Knisley, Lucy
- The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984 by Sattouf, Riad
- El Deafo by Bell, Cece
- Petty Theft by Girard, Pascal
- Batman vs. Predator by Gibbons, Dave
- The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1 by Gordon-Levitt, Joseph
- Stitches: A Memoir by Small, David
- Burma Chronicles by Delisle, Guy
- Before Watchmen: Moloch 1 by Straczynski, J. Michael
- Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre 1 by Cooke, Darwyn
- Before Watchmen: Rorschach 1 by Azzarello, Brian
- Before Watchmen: Minutemen 1 by Cooke, Darwyn
- Blankets by Thompson, Craig
- Bitch Planet 1 by DeConnick, Kelly Sue
- Anya’s Ghost by Brosgol, Vera
- Habibi by Thompson, Craig
- Välkommen till din psykos by Johansson, Nanna
- Hur man botar en feminist by Johansson, Nanna
- Life Zone by Hanselmann, Simon
- Hundra procent fett by Strömquist, Liv
- Ja till Liv!: Liv Strömquists ABC by Strömquist, Liv
- Einsteins fru by Strömquist, Liv
- Prins Charles känsla by Strömquist, Liv
- Kunskapens frukt by Strömquist, Liv
- Ghost World by Clowes, Daniel
- Footnotes in Gaza by Sacco, Joe
- The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger, J.D.
- Action Philosophers!: the lives and thoughts of history’s A-list brain trust by Van Lente, Fred
- Chroniques de Jérusalem by Delisle, Guy
- Batman: Harley and Ivy by Dini, Paul
- Sin City by Miller, Frank
- Batman & Dracula: Red Rain by Moench, Doug
- Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 1: Gifted by Whedon, Joss
- Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing by Moore, Alan
- Kick-Ass by Millar, Mark
- The Walking Dead: Compendium One by Kirkman, Robert
- The Walking Dead, Book One by Kirkman, Robert
- Embroideries by Satrapi, Marjane
- Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction by Mignola, Mike
- X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga by Claremont, Chris
- 300 by Miller, Frank
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home by Whedon, Joss
- Daytripper by Moon, Fábio
- Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon by Fraction, Matt
- Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye by Miller, Frank
- From Hell, Vol. 1 by Moore, Alan
- Planetary, Volume 2: The Fourth Man by Ellis, Warren
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 by Moore, Alan
- The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country by Gaiman, Neil
- Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life by O’Malley, Bryan Lee
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Miller, Frank
- The Sandman: Overture by Gaiman, Neil
Biographies, Memoirs & History
- Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary by Torvalds, Linus
- Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Levy, Steven
- Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers by Moore, Geoffrey A.
- Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Rich, Ben R.
- “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character by Feynman, Richard
- “What Do You Care What Other People Think?”: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Feynman, Richard
- In the Beginning…Was the Command Line by Stephenson, Neal
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet by Hafner, Katie
- UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Kernighan, Brian W.
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Sobel, Dava
- Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by Kushner, David
- The Green Book: With new introduction by Muammar Ghadaffi
- The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Schumer, Amy
- Shockaholic by Fisher, Carrie
- In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography, 1920-1954 by Asimov, Isaac
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Vance, Ashlee
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Frank, Anne
- Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words Rubin, Jay
- Haruki Murakami by Mussari, Mark
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by X, Malcolm
- Steve Jobs by Isaacson, Walter
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by King, Stephen
- Bound for Glory by Guthrie, Woody
- Miles: The Autobiography by Davis, Miles
- Just Kids by Smith, Patty
Business & Self-Improvement
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Heath, Chip
- Silos, Politics and Turf Wars by Lencioni, Patrick
- Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow by Degrandis, Dominica
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by Epstein, David
- Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction by Bailey, Chris
- Necessary But Not Sufficient by Goldratt, Eliyahu M.
- Isn’t It Obvious? by Goldratt, Eliyahu M.
- Critical Chain by Goldratt, Eliyahu M.
- It’s Not Luck by Goldratt, Eliyahu M.
- Scramble: How agile strategy can build epic brands in record time by Neumeier, Marty
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Newport, Cal
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Heath, Chip
- Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary Results by Glaser, Judith E.
- Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content by Handley, Ann
- Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered by Kleon, Austin
- Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Eghbal, Nadia
- Time Off: A Practical Guide to Building Your Rest Ethic and Finding Success Without the Stress by Fitch, John
- Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business by Duhigg, Charles
- The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Coyle, Daniel
- Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Scott, Kim Malone
- Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Bradberry, Travis
- The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Drucker, Peter F.
- Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment by Elberse, Anita
- I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works by Sethi, Ramit
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Walker, Matthew
- The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Parker, Priya
- Build Your Dream Network: Forging Powerful Relationships in a Hyper-Connected World by Hoey, J. Kelly
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Collins, James C.
- The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Zhuo, Julie
- Liar’s Poker by Lewis, Michael
- The Scrum Field Guide: Practical Advice for Your First Year by Lacey, Mitch
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Gladwell, Malcolm
- Thinking In Systems: A Primer by Meadows, Donella H.
- Agile Estimating and Planning by Cohn, Mike
- The Decision: Overcoming Today’s BS for Tomorrow’s Success by Hart, Kevin
- Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency by DeMarco, Tom
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Manson, Mark
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Carnegie, Dale
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Levitt, Steven D.
- Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Newport, Cal
- Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You by Burnett, Bill
- What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Goldsmith, Marshall
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Kiyosaki, Robert T.
- Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Skelton, Matthew
- The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Fournier, Camille
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Willink, Jocko
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Voss, Chris
- Scrum Mastery: From Good To Great Servant-Leadership by Watts, Geoff
- The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Brafman, Ori
- The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Burger, Edward B.
- Measure What Matters by Doerr, John
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Duhigg, Charles
- Beyond the Goal: Eliyahu Goldratt Speaks on the Theory of Constraints by Goldratt, Eliyahu M.
- Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager by Lopp, Michael
- Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Derby, Esther
- The Visible Ops Handbook: Starting ITIL in 4 Practical Steps Behr, Kevin
- What Machines Can’t Do: Politics and Technology in the Industrial Enterprise by Thomas, Robert J.
- How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching by Ambrose, Susan A.
- Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States by Hirschman, Albert O.
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by DeMarco, Tom
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman, Daniel
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Sinek, Simon
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Gladwell, Malcolm
Community
- Developer Evangelist Handbook by Heilmann, Chris
- The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation by Bacon, Jono
Gardening
Philosophy
- The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Camus, Albert
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope by Manson, Mark
- Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Graham, Paul
Psychology
- Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Greene, Joshua D.
Politics
- Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace by Bennett, Jessica
- Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by Wachter-Boettcher, Sara
- Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley by Chang, Emily
- Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work by Tannen, Deborah
- Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps — and What We Can Do About It by Eliot, Lise
- Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Fine, Cordelia
- Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Tatum, Beverly Daniel
- You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Hurston, Zora Neale
- Wahala by May, Nikki
- The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively by Kashdan, Todd
- Bad Feminist by Gay, Roxane
- All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep: Hope—And Hard Pills to Swallow—About Fighting for Black Lives by Henry, Andre
- Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration by Lewis-Giggetts, Tracey Michae’l
- You Truly Assumed by Sabreen, Laila
- Nobody’s Magic by Birdsong, Destiny O.
- The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey by Brown, Echo
- The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam by Hirsi Ali, Ayaan
- Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults by Penny, Laurie
- Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by O’Neil, Cathy
- Data Feminism by D’Ignazio, Catherine
- Beyond Common Sense: Psychological Science in the Courtroom by Borgida, Eugene
- Confronting Racism: The Problem and the Response by Eberhardt, Jennifer L.
- Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America by Adams, Scott
- Middlesex by Eugenides, Jeffrey
- The Crunk Feminist Collection by Cooper, Brittney
- Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Noble, Safiya Umoja
- Black on Black by Yancy, George
- How to Be Black by Thurston, Baratunde R.
- Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Parker, Geoffrey
- The Works of Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex and The Ethics Of Ambiguity by Beauvoir, Simone de
Science
- The Gene: An Intimate History by Mukherjee, Siddhartha
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Harari, Yuval Noah
Tech
- Kubernetes: Up & Running by Hightower, Kelsey
- Terraform: Up & Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code by Brikman, Yevgeniy
- Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale by Blank-Edelman, David N.
- Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time by Winters, Titus
- Rethinking Agile: Why Agile Teams Have Nothing To Do With Business Agility by Leopold, Klaus
- Agile Conversations: Transform Your Conversations, Transform Your Culture by Squirrel, Douglas
- Explore It!: Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing by Hendrickson, Elisabeth
- 99 Bottles of OOP by Metz, Sandi
- The Missing README: A Guide for the New Software Engineer by Ricoomini, Chris
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Hofstadter, Douglas R.
- Observability Engineering: Achieving Production Excellence by Majors, Charity
- Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Drasner, Sarah
- The Staff Engineer’s Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change by Reilly, Tanya
- Architecture Patterns with Python: Enabling Test-Driven Development, Domain-Driven Design, and Event-Driven Microservices by Percival, Harry
- Building Event-Driven Microservices: Leveraging Organizational Data at Scale by Bellemare, Adam
- The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Stoll, Clifford
- New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future by Bridle, James
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Kleppmann, Martin
- The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE by Beyer, Betsy
- Kubernetes Best Practices: Blueprints for Building Successful Applications on Kubernetes by Burns, Brendan
- Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach by Weinberg, Gerald M.
- The Soul of a New Machine by Kidder, Tracy
- 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know by Monson-Haefel, Richard
- 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts by Henney, Kevlin
- Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages by Tate, Bruce A.
- Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Evans, Eric
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Gamma, Erich
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Brooks Jr., Frederick P.
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Fowler, Martin
- Programming Pearls by Bentley, Jon L.
- Jävla skitsystem! Hur en usel digital arbetsmiljö stressar oss på jobbet – och hur vi kan ta tillbaka kontrollen by Söderström, Jonas
- The D Programming Language by Alexandrescu, Andrei
- Clean Agile: Back to Basics by Martin, Robert C.
- Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change by Beck, Kent
- The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development by Fowler, Chad
- Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual by Sonmez, John Z.
- Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices by Martin, Robert C.
- Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Feathers, Michael C.
- Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems by Newman, Sam
- The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact by Lau, Edmond
- The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms by Knuth, Donald Ervin
- Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Petzold, Charles
- Inclusive Design Patterns - Coding Accessibility Into Web Design by Pickering, Heydon
- Inclusive Components — Accessible web interfaces, piece by piece by Pickering, Heydon
- Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions by McDowell, Gayle Laakmann
- Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems by Beyer, Betsy
- Implementing Domain-Driven Design by Vernon, Vaughn
- Continuous API Management: Making the Right Decisions in an Evolving Landscape by Medjaoui, Mehdi
- The Design of Web APIs by Lauret, Arnaud
- The Architecture of Open Source Applications, Volume I by Brown, Amy
- The Architecture of Open Source Applications, Volume II by Brown, Amy
- Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the ‘Source’ of Open Source Code by Brown, Kenneth
Unsorted
- Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Sapolsky, Robert M.
- The Science of Sherlock Holmes by Wagner, E.J.
- This Is Your Brain on Birth Control by Hill, Sarah E.
- A Short History of Drunkenness by Forsyth, Mark
- Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine by Hirsch, Michele Lent
- Redshirts by Scalzi, John
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bryson, Bill
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Gladwell, Malcolm
- No Longer Human by Dazai, Osamu
- Great Short Books: A Year of Reading―Briefly by Davis, Kenneth C.
- Catch-22 by Heller, Joseph
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by Graeber, David
- The People in the Trees by Yanagihara, Hanya
- Practical Doomsday: A User’s Guide to the End of the World by Zalewski, Michal
- Vinyl Moon by Browne, Mahogany L.
- Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Reynolds, Jason
- The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Tolle, Eckhart
- Alas, Babylon by Frank, Pat
- The Elements of Style by Strunk Jr., William
- A Promised Land by Obama, Barack
- Drift into Failure by Dekker, Sidney
- Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
- Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Holland, Tom
- The Kingdom of God in Africa: A History of African Christianity by Shaw, Mark
- The Color Purple by Walker, Alice
- Jag tror på köttets lust och på själens obotliga ensamhet: De bästa citaten by Attorps, Kaj
- This One Summer by Tamaki, Mariko
- Vägmärken by Hammarskjöld, Dag