The following is a list of books I’ve read throughout my life and found insightful one way or another. Perhaps you, dear reader, can find something of value in them too.
Games & Play
- Ask Iwata
- A Theory of Fun for Game Design, by Raph Koster
- The Art of Game Design, by Jesse Schell
- Homo Ludens, by Johan Huizinga
- The Gamer’s Brain, by Celia Hodent
- Reality is Broken, by Jane McGonigal
- Spelunky, by Derek Yu
Design & Media
- The Medium is the Massage, by Marshall McLuhan
- Design for the Real World, by Victor Papanek
- The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald Norman
- Understanding Comics, by Scott McCloud
- The Green Imperative, by Victor Papanek
- The Politics of Design, by Ruben Pater
- Design is Storytelling, by Ellen Lupton
- CAPS LOCK, by Ruben Pater
- Ways of Seeing, by John Berger
- User Friendly, by Cliff Kuang with Robert Fabricant
- Design as Art, by Bruno Munari
- The Net Delusion, by Evgeny Morozov
Feminism
- Invisible Women, by Caroline Criado Perez
- We Should All be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Die Letzten Tage des Patriarchats, by Margarete Stokowski
- Untenrum Frei, by Margarete Stokowski
Science
- Why We Sleep, by Matthew Walker
- The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert
- Pattern-Seekers, by Simon Baron-Cohen
Mythology & Folklore
- Mythos, by Stephen Fry
- Heroes, by Stephen Fry
- Troy, by Stephen Fry
- Norse Gods, by Johan Egerkrans
- Vaesen, by Johan Egerkrans
- Beneath the Moon, by Yoshitani
History
- The Silk Roads, by Peter Frankopan
- SPQR, by Mary Beard
- The Library: A Fragile History, by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur de Weduwen
Philosophy
- Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, by R. Buckminster Fuller
- Other Minds, by Peter Godfrey-Smith
- The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
Memoirs & Biographies
- Educated, by Tara Westover
- Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah
- A Life on Planet Earth, by David Attenborough
- Uncomfortable Labels, by Laura Kate Dale
- Untypical, by Pete Wharmby
Others
- The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R Tolkien
- The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer
- The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
- 1984, by George Orwell
- Animal Farm, by George Orwell
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
- Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl
- What If?, by Randall Munroe
- Novacene, by James Lovelock
- Maus, by Art Spiegelman
- Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
- The Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le-Guin
- Im Westen nichts Neues, by Erich Maria Remarque
- Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
- The Invincible, by Stanislav Lem
- Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
- How to Loose the Time-War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- Humankind, by Rutger Bregman
- The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber and David Wengrow
- Sum, by David Eagleman
- Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino