I use this list to track books and lit that I’ve either read or would like to read for professional growth. It’s generally intended for long-read stuff, as opposed to articles, blog posts, or other resources that I consult on a daily basis (some of which I track, e.g., in my emulation-resources repository).

I put it here on this site as an indication of the work that I care about and strive towards, no matter where I’m currently employed.

Recently Read

• “What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley”, Adrian Daub (2020)

• “Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto”, Legacy Russell (2020)

• “Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet”, Tim Hwang (2020)

• “The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most”, Lee Vinsel, Andrew L. Russell (2020)

• “Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code”, Ruha Benjamin (2019)

• “Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter”, Charlton D. McIlwain (2019)

• “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy”, Jenny Odell (2019)

• “Animal Internet: Nature and the Digital Revolution”, Alexander Pschera (2016)

• “A People’s History of Computing in the United States”, Joy Lisi Rankin (2018)

• “Infinite Detail: A Novel”, Tim Maughan (2019)

• “The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation”, Trevor Owens (2018)

• “The Lifecycle of Software Objects (novella contained in Exhalation: Stories)", Ted Chiang (2019)

• “Tech For All: Moving Beyond the Digital Divide”, Lauren Comito, ed. (2019)

• “User Error: Resisting Computer Culture”, Ellen Rose (2003)

• “The Real World of Technology”, Ursula M. Franklin (1999)

• “Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software”, Charles Petzold (2000)

• “Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet”, Claire L. Evans (2018)

• “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism”, Safiya Noble (2018)

• “Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing”, Mar Hicks (2018)

To Read

• “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World”, Anand Giridharadas (2018)

• “Human Operators: A Critical Oral History of Technology in Libraries and Archives”, Melissa Morrone, ed. (2018)

• “Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin”, Sateeta Amrute (2016)

• “Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the World We Need”, Sasha Costanza-Chock (2020)

• “Temp: How American Work, American Business and the American Dream Became Temporary”, Louis Hyman (2018)

• “Data Feminism”, Catherine D’Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein (2020)

• “Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data”, Carissa Veliz (2021)

• “Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job”, Gavin Mueller (2021)

• “Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies”, Cait McKinney (2020)