In 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 I published lists of books I enjoyed every year. Then I enumerated those I read from 2014 to 2019, and then the ones of 2021 and 2022.
Here’s the complete list of books I read and enjoyed in 2023. There’s a little bit of everything, but in particular there’s lot of reading about IBM and BASIC, as research for the corresponding issues of my magazine De Programmatica Ipsum.
You can check what I’m reading right now if you’re interested, too. Enjoy!
- 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 by Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Michael Mateas, Casey Reas, Mark Sample, and Noah Vawter
- Ada: A Life And A Legacy by Dorothy Stein
- Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
- Endless Loop: The History of the BASIC Programming Language by Mark Jones Lorenzo
- Get A Grip by Gino Wickman & Mike Paton
- IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon by James W. Cortada
- L’Être et l’Événement by Alain Badiou
- Making the World Work Better: The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a Company by Kevin Maney, Steve Hamm, and Jeffrey O’Brien
- Rayuela by Julio Cortázar
- Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters by Ryan Singer
- Technical Analysys of the Financial Markets by John Murphy
- The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm
- The Computer by Jens Müller and Julius Wiedemann
- Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
- Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Asparouhova
I also got myself a new eBook reader, a Kobo Libra 2 to replace my old trusty Kobo Aura H2O I bought in 2016.