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title: books
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## read

* Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
* David Beazley & Brian K. Jones, Python Cookbook
* Arnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah & Linda Lamb, Learning the vi and Vim Editors
* Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method
* James Clear, Atomic Habits
* Thomas M. Steiner, Fully Engaged
* Bruce Benamran, Prenez le temps d'e-penser 1 and 2
* Alain, Éléments de philosophie
* Roberta Allen, Écrire une histoire en 5 minutes
* Randall Munroe, What If?
* Randall Munroe, How To
* Sönke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes
* William Ottens, Librarian Tales
* Greg McKeown, Essentialism
* Michael Linenberger, The One Minute To-Do List
* Todd Henry, The Accidental Creative
* David Bayles, Ted Orland, Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
* BJ Fogg, Tiny Habits
* Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander, The Art of Possibility
* Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist
* Tiago Forte, Extend Your Mind: Praxis Volume 2
* Gerald M. Weinberg, Weinberg on Writing: the Fieldstone Method
* Ralph Fletcher, Breathing In, Breathing Out
* Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English
* Julia Cameron, The Right to Write
* Leonard Koren, [Wabi-sabi for artists, designers, poets and philosophers](https://archive.org/details/wabisabiforartis0000kore)
* Code Lyoko Chronicles, tome 1 : Le château souterrain

## reading

Aka books that are on my phone's ebook reader, and that I read at least one page from
in the last year…  I want to read more often!

## to read

* Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book
* Austin Kleon, Show Your Work
* Shane Parrish & Rhiannon Beaubien, The Great Mental Models
* MIT Press, [How to Design Programs](https://htdp.org/)
* Dan Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
* Kamal Ravikant, Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
* François Lurcat, Le Chaos
* Cyrille Michon, Qu'est-ce que le libre arbitre
* Peter Van Inwagen, Essai sur le libre arbitre
* Barry Loewer, 3 minutes pour comprendre les 50 plus grandes théories philosophiques
* Gérard Chazal, Logiques non standard
* Patrice Rosenberg, La philosophie
* Paul Mathevet, René Bouvier, Drames aériens dans le département de l'Isère
* Florence de Changy, Le vol MH370 n'a pas disparu
* Robert Galan, On a retrouvé les boîtes noires
* Ronan Hubert, Avions et sécurité
* Michel Polacco, Crash : pourquoi des avions s'écrasent-ils encore ?
* Stephen King, Dead Zone
* Stephen King, 22-11-63
* R.J. Ellory, Le jour où Kennedy n'est pas mort
* Robert J. Sawyer, Flash Forward
* Andy Weir, The Martian
* Anna Saccani, La ville en toutes lettres
* Peter Suber, [The Paradox of Self-Amendment](http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/psa/index.htm)
* G. Polya, How to Solve It
* Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer
* Kurt Jung, Beginning Lua Programming
* Richard A. Bartle, Designing Virtual Worlds
* Klaus North & Gita Kumta, Knowledge Management
* Code Lyoko Chronicles, tome 2 : L'armée du Néant
* Code Lyoko Chronicles, tome 3 : La ville sans nom
* Code Lyoko Chronicles, tome 4 : Le retour du Phoenix
* Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
* Ka Wai Cheung, The Developer's Code
* Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
* John Yates, Matthew Immergut, Jeremy Graves, The Mind Illuminated
* Celeste Headlee, Do Nothing
* Thich Nhat Hanh, Happiness
* Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
* Kazuhiro Fujitaki, The Manga Guide to Electricity
* Piers Steel, The Procrastination Equation
* Seth Godlin, The Dip (with a [summary](https://commoncog.com/blog/seth-godin-the-dip/) from Cedric Chin)
* Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
* Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow
* Judith Jack Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure
* Peter W. Merlin, [Breaking the Mishap Chain](https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/break_mishap_chain_detail.html)
* Peter W. Merlin, [Crash Course](https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/crash_course_detail.html)
* Michel Aguilar, Géocaching sanglant
* John Perry, The Art of Procrastination
* Chris Hadfield, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
* KC Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

### recommended by ~dozens

* Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep
* Michael Bungay Stanier, The Coaching Habit
* Fumio Sasaki, Goodbye, Things
* John Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design
* Susan Orlean, The Library Book
* T. Kingfisher, A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

### recommended by ~m455

* Thomas T. Barker, Writing Software Documentation
* Michelle Carey, Moira McFadden Lanyi, Deirdre Longo, Eric Radzinski, Shannon Rouiller, Elizabeth Wilde, Developing Quality Technical Information
* Rude Eaton, Technical Editing
* Ann Rockley, Charles Cooper, Managing Enterprise Content