Johannes Holmberg
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2024
20 books
Co-Intelligence
Ethan Mollick
The House of Lincoln
Nancy Horan
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Prisoners of Geography
Tim Marshall
Childhood’s End
Arthur C. Clarke
Wherever You Go, There You Are
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Same as Ever
Morgan Housel
Citizen of the Galaxy
Robert Heinlein
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Einstein
Walter Isaacson
How to Calm Your Mind
Chris Bailey
The Inevitable
Kevin Kelly
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City of Thieves
David Benioff
The Simple Path to Wealth
JL Collins
Conversational Design
Erika Hall
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
Glaubst du, dass es Liebe war?
Alex Capus
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Your Money or Your Life
Vicki Robin
A Guide to the Good Life
William B. Irvine
Matter
Iain M. Banks
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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
Jason Fried
The Anthology of Balaji
Eric Jorgenson
2023
29 books
Creative Doing
Herbert Lui
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Selling the Invisible
Harry Beckwith
Wireframing for Everyone
Michael Angeles, Leon Barnard, & Billy Carlson
Siddharta
Hermann Hesse
Surviving Change at Work
Vanessa Gennarelli
Death’s End
Cixin Liu
In Defence of Food
Michael Pollan
Triggers
Marshall Goldsmith
Reality Is Not What It Seems
Carlo Rovelli
The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
Impromptu
Reid Hoffman
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull
Creative Selection
Ken Kocienda
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Light Bringer
Pierce Brown
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Outlive
Peter Attia
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
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The Untethered Soul
Michael Singer
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
Robert Heinlein
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Make Something Wonderful
Leslie Berlin
The Art of the Good Life
Rolf Dobelli
Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
Sarah Drasner
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
Fredrik Backman
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
2022
32 books
The Robots of Dawn
Isaac Asimov
The Culture Code
Daniel Coyle
Responsible JavaScript
Jeremy Wagner
Continuous Delivery Pipelines
David Farley
Utopia for Realists
Rutger Bregman
Upgrade
Blake Crouch
The Naked Sun
Isaac Asimov
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
I Didn't Do the Thing Today
Madeleine Dore
Simply Said
Jay Sullivan
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch
Confessions of a Public Speaker
Scott Berkun
The Art of the Good Life
Rolf Dobelli
Glory Road
Robert A. Heinlein
The Seasons of Life
Jim Rohn
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Ikigai
Héctor García
Lean UX
Jeff Gothelf
Start Where You Are
Pema Chödrön
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Personal Socrates
Marc Champagne
Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport
Leading Content Design
Rachel McConnell
Leonardo Da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
How to Train Your Mind
Chris Bailey
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The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi
Change by Design
Tim Brown
Keep Going
Austin Kleon
Your Music and People
Derek Sivers
User Story Mapping
Jeff Patton
Excession
Iain M. Banks
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The Untethered Soul
Michael Singer
Use of Weapons
Iain M. Banks
2021
43 books
Quiet
Susan Cain
Dark Age
Pierce Brown
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast
Laura Vanderkam
Yes to Life
Viktor E. Frankl
The Extended Mind
Annie Murphy Paul
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Iron Gold
Pierce Brown
The Continuum Concept
Jean Liedloff
Design Beyond Devices
Cheryl Platz
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Ikigai
Héctor García
One Life
Morten Albaek
Just Enough Research
Erika Hall
The User Experience Team of One
Leah Buley
Benjamin Franklin
Walter Isaacson
The Happiness Project
Gretchen Rubin
A Guide to the Good Life
William B. Irvine
How to Live
Derek Sivers
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The Untethered Soul
Michael Singer
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
How to Cook Your Life
Eihei Dogen
Mindset
Carol Dweck
The How Not to Die Cookbook
Michael Greger
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The Slight Edge
Jeff Olson
Difference
Bernadette Jiwa
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Stop Reading the News
Rolf Dobelli
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
Kings of Colorado
David E. Hilton
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The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson
Man’s Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Nicely Said
Nicole Fenton
City Of Illusions
Ursula K. Le Guin
Planet of Exile
Ursula K. Le Guin
Rocannon's World
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Social Singularity
Max Borders
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
1984
George Orwell
Getting Things Done
David Allen
Ultralearning
Scott Young
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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
Jason Fried
2020
42 books
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
Mathias Malzieu
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Your Money or Your Life
Vicki Robin
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Make Time
Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky
Scrum
Jeff Sutherland
Meeting Design
Kevin M. Hoffman
The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday
Hell Yeah or No
Derek Sivers
Presenting Design Work
Donna Spencer
Lincoln: The Unknown
Dale Carnegie
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
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Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss
Essentialism
Greg McKeown
Consider Phlebas
Iain M. Banks
The Continuum Concept
Jean Liedloff
Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport
No Time to Spare
Ursula Le Guin
One Life
Morten Albaek
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Unsubscribe
Jocelyn K. Glei
Factfulness
Hans Rosling
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Steal Like an Artist
Austin Kleon
The Artist's Journey
Steven Pressfield
The Seasons of Life
Jim Rohn
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Anything You Want
Derek Sivers
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Sprint
Jake Knapp
Totto-Chan
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Sum
David Eagleman
The Baltimore Boys
Joël Dicker
Just Enough Research
Erika Hall
The Elements of Content Strategy
Erin Kissane
Upstream
Mary Oliver
Everyday Information Architecture
Lisa Maria Martin
Foundation and Earth
Isaac Asimov
Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows
Modern Web Development on the JAMstack
Mathias Biilmann, Phil Hawksworth
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Morning Star
Pierce Brown
Stillness is the Key
Ryan Holiday
Principles
Ray Dalio
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Atomic Habits
James Clear
Going Offline
Jeremy Keith
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Golden Son
Pierce Brown
2019
37 books
Progressive Web Apps
Jason Grigsby
Lead Yourself First
Raymond M. Kethledge
Foundation’s Edge
Isaac Asimov
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
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Red Rising
Pierce Brown
The Continuum Concept
Jean Liedloff
Second Foundation
Isaac Asimov
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens
Foundation and Empire
Isaac Asimov
Hiking with Nietzsche
John Kaag
Ich bin dann mal weg
Hape Kerkeling
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Life 3.0
Max Tegmark
The Course of Love
Alain de Botton
Happy
Derren Brown
Swiss Watching
Diccon Bewes
The Wisdom of No Escape
Pema Chödrön
Scrum
Jeff Sutherland
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Don’t Make Me Think
Steve Krug
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
A Guide to the Good Life
William B. Irvine
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Deep Work
Cal Newport
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Make Time
Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky
River Out of Eden
Richard Dawkins
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
Cal Newport
Have Space Suit-Will Travel
Robert A. Heinlein
Principles
Ray Dalio
12 Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson
Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson
Nicely Said
Nicole Fenton
The Seasons of Life
Jim Rohn
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Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss
Everybody Writes
Ann Handley
Writing for Designers
Scott Kubie
Zen in the Art of Writing
Ray Bradbury
2018
32 books
The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday
Stoicism & Western Buddhism
Patrick Ussher
The Social Singularity
Max Borders
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The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Atomic Habits
James Clear
The Bullet Journal Method
Ryder Carroll
The Snowball System
Mo Bunnell
Flexible Typesetting
Tim Brown
Image Performance
Mat Marquis
The Elon Musk Blog Series
Tim Urban
Lying
Sam Harris
Four Ways to Forgiveness
Ursula K. Le Guin
Inner Engineering
Sadhguru
Peace Is In Every Step
Thich Nhat Hanh
Die Hochhausspringerin
Julia Von Lucadou
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
Radical Technologies
Adam Greenfield
The Long Earth
Terry Pratchett
Tribe of Mentors
Timothy Ferriss
Why We Get Fat
Gary Taubes
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City of Thieves
David Benioff
The Power of A Positive No
William Ury
Ein ganzes Leben
Robert Seethaler
Man’s Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
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Foundation
Isaac Asimov
The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
Artemis
Andy Weir
Die Fremde aus dem Eis
René Barjavel
You Don’t Know JS: Async & Performance
Kyle Simpson
You Don’t Know JS: Types & Grammar
Kyle Simpson
You Don’t Know JS: this & Object Prototypes
Kyle Simpson
2017
56 books
You Don’t Know JS: Scope and Closures
Kyle Simpson
You Don’t Know JS: Up & Going
Kyle Simpson
The Practicing Mind
Thomas M. Sterner
Digital Gold
Nathaniel Popper
Animation at Work
Rachel Nabors
The Seasons of Life
Jim Rohn
Webfont Handbook
Bram Stein
The Dip
Seth Godin
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11/22/63
Stephen King
The 10X Rule
Grant Cardone
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The Slight Edge
Jeff Olson
The New CSS Layout
Rachel Andrew
Show Your Work!
Austin Kleon
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
The One Thing
Gary Keller
Essentialism
Greg McKeown
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Overlap
Sean McCabe
Von Männern, die keine Frauen haben
Haruki Murakami
Demystifying Public Speaking
Lara Hogan
Color Accessibility Workflows
Geri Coady
Learning React
Alex Banks
New York 2140
Kim Stanley Robinson
Cultivating a Creative Culture
Justin Dauer
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Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
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Unsubscribe
Jocelyn K. Glei
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Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
The Organized Mind
Daniel J. Levitin
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West with the Night
Beryl Markham
Designing Interface Animation
Val Head
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
Algorithms to Live By
Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
Inclusive Design Patterns
Heydon Pickering
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Anything You Want
Derek Sivers
The Thing Around Your Neck
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Natasha Pulley
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
Cal Newport
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Time for the Stars
Robert Heinlein
Tunnel in the Sky
Robert Heinlein
Predictably Irrational
Dan Ariely
Rainforest Hero
Ruedi Suter
Front-End Style Guides
Anna Debenham
Hearts in Atlantis
Stephen King
How to Make Sense of Any Mess
Abby Covert
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
Tools of Titans
Timothy Ferriss
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
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Atomic Design
Brad Frost
The Star Beast
Robert Heinlein
The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande
The Paris Wife
Paula McLain
Look to Windward
Iain M. Banks
On Writing
Stephen King
2016
34 books
Getting Things Done
David Allen
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
To Pixar and Beyond
Lawrence Levy
The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Deep Work
Cal Newport
The Little Paris Bookshop
Nina George
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Farnham’s Freehold
Robert Heinlein
Four Seasons in Rome
Anthony Doerr
Night Train to Lisbon
Pascal Mercier
About Grace
Anthony Doerr
Practical SVG
Chris Coyier
Red Planet
Robert Heinlein
Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
Haruki Murakami
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Adaptive Web Design
Aaron Gustafson
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Responsive Design Workflow
Stephen Hay
Space Cadet
Robert Heinlein
Rocket Ship Galileo
Robert Heinlein
Starman Jones
Robert Heinlein
The Door Into Summer
Robert Heinlein
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Player of Games
Iain M. Banks
Designing for Touch
Josh Clark
1984
George Orwell
H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Git for Humans
David Demaree
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
The Lathe of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guin
Circling the Sun
Paula McLain
Dance Dance Dance
Haruki Murakami
Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit
Sten Nadolny
2015
33 books
The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell
Going Responsive
Karen McGrane
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Responsive Design: Patterns & Principles
Ethan Marcotte
The Songs Of Distant Earth
Arthur C. Clarke
Wovon ich rede, wenn ich vom Laufen rede
Haruki Murakami
Südlich der Grenze, westlich der Sonne
Haruki Murakami
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The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
How to Live
Sarah Bakewell
On Writing Well
William Zinsser
Under the Wide and Starry Sky
Nancy Horan
The Tin Drum
Günter Grass
The Richest Man in Babylon
George S. Clason
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The Martian
Andy Weir
The Rolling Stones
Robert Heinlein
Smashing Book #5
Smashing Magazine
Ideal
Ayn Rand
The Elephant Vanishes
Haruki Murakami
My Life in France
Julia Child
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Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
Between Planets
Robert Heinlein
The Art of Choosing
Sheena Iyengar
Farmer in the Sky
Robert Heinlein
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
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Becoming Steve Jobs
Brent Schlender
Der Magier der Erdsee
Ursula K. Le Guin
Lust for Life
Irving Stone
Verlorene Paradiese
Ursula K. Le Guin
Tomokos Träume
Finlay Weber
Methuselah’s Children
Robert Heinlein
The Money Book for Freelancers, Part-Timers, and the Self-Employed
Joseph D'Agnese, Denise Kiernan
Revolt in 2100
Robert Heinlein
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Haruki Murakami
2014
23 books
How We Got to Now
Steven Johnson
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Time Enough for Love
Robert Heinlein
You, Inc.
Harry Beckwith, Christine Clifford Beckwith
100 Things Every Presenter Needs to Know About People
Susan M. Weinschenk
You’re My Favorite Client
Mike Monteiro
The Mobile Web Handbook
Peter-Paul Koch
Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
The Road Less Traveled
M. Scott Peck
Responsible Responsive Design
Scott Jehl
Remote
Jason Fried
Sass for Web Designers
Dan Cederholm
On Web Typography
Jason Santa Maria
The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Kurt Vonnegut
The Art of Fiction
Ayn Rand
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Universal Principles of Design
William Lidwell, Jill Butler, Kritina Holden
Tigerman
Nick Harkaway
Teaching Johnny to Think
Leonard Peikoff
The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell
Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
Neal Bascomb
Loving Frank
Nancy Horan
2013
23 books
Daily Rituals
Mason Curry
Design Is a Job
Mike Monteiro
Content Strategy for Mobile
Karen McGrane
Emile or On Education
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
My Experiments with Truth
Mahatma Gandhi
Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami
We the Living
Ayn Rand
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Philosophy: Who Needs It
Ayn Rand
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The DIM Hypothesis
Leonard Peikoff
The Story of B
Daniel Quinn
The Romantic Manifesto
Ayn Rand
A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami
The Art of Nonfiction
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Candide
Voltaire
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Chronicles
Bob Dylan
After Dark
Haruki Murakami
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
Ishmael
Daniel Quinn
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The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
2012
23 books
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
Be Here Now
Ram Dass
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
Truth
Nina Yau
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Shunryu Suzuki
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Closing Time
Joseph Heller
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
VALIS
Philip K. Dick
Insanely Simple
Ken Segall
Island
Aldous Huxley
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
Watership Down
Richard Adams
1Q84
Haruki Murakami
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Mobile First
Luke Wroblewski
Designing for Emotion
Aarron Walter
2011
3 books
Responsive Web Design
Ethan Marcotte
CSS3 for Web Designers
Dan Cederholm
HTML5 For Web Designers
Jeremy Keith