General book recommendations

When looking at book recommendations it's often as useful to know what was not included as what was. I've read 225 books since I started keeping track in 2016. These 11 books are the ones I can easily recommend, especially to professionals in tech.

Become a better writer

• Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
• West with the Night by Beryl Markham
• On Writing Well by William Zinsser

Understanding where we are today

• Master of the Senate by Robert Caro
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
• Stocks for the Long Run by Jeremy Siegel
• The Last Lion by William Manchester

Humor in science fiction and fantasy

• Mort by Terry Pratchett
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• The Sirens of Titan, and Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Conspicuous books not on the list

• The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

  Notes: The problem is that much of the research wasn't reproducable.