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Currently Reading

  1. Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
  2. Keep Going by Austin Kleon
  3. Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Paused

  1. How Long ’til Black Future Month?: Stories by N.K. Jemisin
  2. Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners by Olly Richards
  3. How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg

To Read

Up Next

  1. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
  2. Radical Candor by Kim Scott

Unread, On My Bookshelf

  1. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
  2. Book One: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
  3. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oulo
  4. Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel
  5. Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn by David Hajdu
  6. American Indians and National Parks by Michael F. Turek, Robert H. Keller
  7. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankel
  8. In the House of Hip-Hop
  9. JavaScript on Things

In My “Shopping Cart”

  1. How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics by Eugenia Cheng
  2. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safia Noble
  3. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin
  4. Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter by Charlton D. McIlwain
  5. DSL Engineering
  6. Pragmatic Programmer Second Edition
  7. Mo Meta Blues (Questlove’s memoir)
  8. Dying of Whiteness

Completed

2021

Nothing yet!!

2020

  1. Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
  2. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer (audio)
  3. Deep Work by Cal Newport (on audio)
  4. Wow, No Thank You: Essays by Samantha Irby
  5. So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oulo
  6. Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  7. Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
  8. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
  9. The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
  10. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
  11. Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené Brown
  12. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (SO GOOOD!!!)

2019

  1. Go Ahead In The Rain: Notes To A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib
  2. Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Alan Fisher
  3. Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1) by Marlon James
  4. Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Penelope Bagieu
  5. How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram Kendi
  6. Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Ann Tatum
  7. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  8. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloh
  9. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
  10. Becoming by Michelle Obama
  11. All About Love by bell hooks
  12. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil De Grasse Tyson
  13. Show Your Work by Austin Kleon

2018

  1. Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
  2. Educated by Tara Westover
  3. Team Human by Douglas …
  4. Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon Brando
  5. Creative Quest by Questlove
  6. Where’d You Go Bernadette …
  7. A Gentleman in Moscow
  8. Killing Commentadore by Murakami

Memorable Books Pre-2018

  1. How the Gringos Stole Tequila by Chantal ….
  2. When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
  3. Technically Wrong by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
  4. Imbibe by David something
  5. Murakami books (Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood, Sputnik Sweetheart, Cuckoo’s, IQ89)