books i want to read 📚 lexie’s book tracker

Getting the Love You Want

by Harville and Helen Hendrix (2019)

https://twitter.com/operaqueenie/status/1343250451681067008:

ICYMI, a thread about ❤️ and lifelong partnership.

And I can’t believe I forgot to plug my favorite couples book of all time at the end of my thread.

“Getting the Love You Want” by Harville and Helen Hendrix: amazon.com/dp/1250310539/… https://twitter.com/operaqueenie/status/1342152821643173888

Pixar Storytelling

by Dean Movshovitz (2015)

@KirkWrites79:

“Pixar Storytelling” is one of my favorite screenwriting books. It’s not specific to animation. All screenwriters can benefit from reading it. It breaks down storytelling techniques and principles using Pixar films. So helpful. https://twitter.com/KirkWrites79/status/1343623619184758784/photo/1

Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey

by Madeleine Bunting (2016)

Recommended by Gemma Tracey over lunch.

Confessions of the Fox

by Jordy Rosenberg (2018)

Recommended by Gemma Tracey over lunch.

What White People Can Do Next

by Emma Dabiri (2021)

https://twitter.com/EmmaDabiri/status/1331250075205562371:

Ta-da! Delighted to share the cover for #WhatWhitePeopleCanDoNext. WWPCDN is full of surprises and I think this cover alludes to that so beautifully. I love it so much 💜

Preorder: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/what-white-people-can-do-next-from-allyship-to-coalition/9780141996738

What Can a Body Do?

by Sara Hendren (2020)

https://twitter.com/ablerism/status/1295729956886999040:

My book is out today! If you find yourself having a body—or rather, being a body—it might be for you. Can I tell you some stories and ideas in it? They start with the question packed into the cover design itself: + https://twitter.com/ablerism/status/1295729956886999040/photo/1

Brag Better

by Meredith Fineman (2020)

https://twitter.com/cindygallop/status/1282723258438168577

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water

by Zen Cho (2020)

Recommended by Jenny, who’s just read and enjoyed it.

How To Be Alone

by Lane Moore (2018)

@hellolanemoore:

this blew up so: 1. I wrote a book called How To Be Alone, I recommend buying it from indie bookstores, ideally Black owned indie bookstores. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501178832 2. KEEP WEARING UR MASKS AND STAYING INSIDE. Even if we feel like gaslit losers, at least we know we’re not alone.

Long Walk to Freedom

by Nelson Mandela (1995)

Think Black

by Clyde W. Ford (2019)

Mar Hicks:

“Think Black”—A memoir by the son of the first black software engineer at IBM. Big thanks to @professorkim for letting me know about this new book.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-20/ibm-nazi-germany-tech-racism-father

Black and British: A Forgotten History

by David Olusoga

CN Lester:

This is a very good day to buy a copy of the award-winning “Black and British: A Forgotten History” by David Olusoga. And if you’ve already read it, buy it for somebody else. First 5 people to reply here get a copy: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/david-olusoga/black-and-british/9781509837113

We

by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1924)

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1248980489735569410:

@alexwlchan I liked [On the Beach] but found it so uptight! It was an interesting portrait of 1950’s Australian mores. I recommend “We” by Yevgenii Zamyatin https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1248980489735569410/photo/1

Atomic Habits

by James Clear (2018)

https://twitter.com/hynek/status/1259536982411280386:

“Atomic Habits” is super good. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121378

Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences

by Matthew Christopher (2014)

One of a series of photo books by the author.

They’re @abandonedameric on Twitter.

Felix Ever After

by Kacen Callender (2020)

I’m not sure who retweeted this into my feed, but check out the amazing launch video:

https://twitter.com/kacencallender/status/1257707297389850624:

my kidlit trans and enby fam came together for a #DontRushChallenege to help me celebrate Felix Ever After’s release!!

Felix has: -a trans, queer, Black MC -a whole lot of self-love -summer art camp rivalry -a happy ending 💖

buy Felix Ever After here: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062820259/… (video)

Built

by Roma Agrawal (2018)

https://twitter.com/HanaAyoob/status/1248003867234775040:

@alexwlchan Have you read Built by @RomaTheEngineer? Seems like it might be a good time to!

How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live: Learning the Alexander Technique to Explore Your Mind-Body Connection and Achieve Self-Mastery

by Missy Vineyard (2007)

Recommended by David MacIver.

How to Take Smart Notes

by Sönke Ahrens (2017)

Chinese Characters: Their Origin, Etymology, history, classification and signification

by Dr. L. Wieger (1965)

The Other Greek

by Arthur Cooper (2108)

I found a preview in Google Books while looking for something else.

Seems more like an academic textbook; over $250! https://brill.com/view/title/35872

Remote Stations

by Peter Caton (2018)

I saw a review of this in an issue of Rail magazine (see photo from 25 Nov 2019).

The Origins of Unfairness

by Cailin O'Connor (2019)

https://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/1226481634263928832:

I’m currently reading “The Origins of Inequality” and honestly I can’t think of a more on brand book for me to be reading than “Here is how to use mathematics to understand gender”.

https://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/1227512225914552321:

Just had a massive “Oh shit that’s what’s going on” moment reading this book. About 60% through so thoughts still gathering, but I think this book is going to get rated “strongest recommend” when I’m done.

https://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/1228233781317734401:

OK, so I’ve just finished reading “The Origins of Unfairness” by Cailin O’Connor. Here’s a little thread about it.

First off: Strong recommend. Requires a little bit of maths, and it would help if you’ve some exposure to theorising about gender but it’s reasonably gentle on both

Unfamiliar Underground

by Victoria Louise Howard (2019)

Spotted in Blackwells in Oxford.

The Emotion Machine

by Marvin Minsky (2006)

Recommended by somebody in the support group.

Transgender Health

by Benjamin Vincent (2018)

Recommended by Kathy.

The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching

by Thich Nhat Hanh (1999)

Cited by Mike Schur as inspiration for Chidi’s speech in The Good Place:

Preparing for [the finale of The Good Place], I went back to that stuff, and I read more about Buddhism and Hinduism, which are wonderful.

I read this book that I’m holding now, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching, by Thich Nhat Hanh, who’s a Vietnamese guy. I think he might have won the Nobel Peace Prize? If not he should have – ah, he was nominated by Martin Luther King Jr. for the Nobel Peace Prize and apparently didn’t win.

How to Understand Your Gender

by Alex Iantaffi and Meg-John Barker (2018)

I’ve borrowed a copy from David MacIver, which he lent me a while back when I was figuring out more gender stuff.

The recommendation from him and Alex is to skim it for interesting, but I may not need to read it all in detail.

the princess saves herself in this one

by Amanda Lovelace, ladybookmad (2017)

I spotted this with Jenny in the Bookshop on the Water, by King’s Cross.

Not Forgetting The Whale

by John Ironmonger (2015)

All the Birds in the Sky

by Charlie Jane Anders (2016)

Recommended by Emily Meredith

Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl

by Andrea Lawlor (2019)

Recommended by somebody in the #genderfluid channel in the LGBTQ in Tech Slack. “Reading Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl and loving it. I will report back when finished as well, but I assume you will all have bought it by the end of reading this sentence. You are welcome.”

Going Postal

by Terry Pratchett (2014)

Recommended by Emily Meredith

Rewriting the Rules

by Meg Barker (2012)

Recommended by David MacIver

Gender Outlaw

by Kate Bornstein (2016)

Mentioned by somebody in the #genderfluid channel in the LGBTQ in Tech Slack.

From Ace to Ze

by Harriet Dyer (2018)

Spotted at Julia G’s house.

Building Git

by James Coglan (2019)

Seems like this could be a great bit of research for my Git plumbing workshop at ACCU.

How to Win Friends and Influence People

by Dale Carnegie, General Press (1936)

“an absolutely wonderful book I wished I’d read 10 or 15 years before I did” ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20504183

Masters of the Post

by Duncan Campbell-Smith (2011)

Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning

by Emily Dawson (2019)

Suggestion of Sarah Barnes:

Having a nice coffee and reading @emilyadawson’s excellent book. (Thanks @QMLibrary!)

Clouds Cannot Cover Us

by Jay Hulme (2019)

Of course I want to read Jay’s poetry!

British Rail Designed 1948-1997

by David Lawrence (2016)

Unicorn

by Amrou Al-Kadhi (2019)

Life Isn’t Binary

by Alex Iantaffi, Meg-John Barker (2019)

CN Lester:

@XTaffi and @megjohnbarker have written a book that explores all kinds of false divisions, including the increasing harmful ‘non-binary vs. binary’ binary (what a mouthful): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43818540-life-isn-t-binary They explain it better than I can - read!

Exhalation

by Ted Chiang (2019)

Recommended by a bookseller in Blackwells Oxford when I was buying the latest Becky Chambers novella (August 2019).

Speeches that Changed the World

by Simon Sebag Montefiore (2015)

The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan (1988)

A Poem for Every Night of the Year

by Allie Esiri (2016)

A Poem for Every Day of the Year

by Allie Esiri (2017)

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen (1813)

The Little Book of Lionel Blue

by Lionel Blue (2002)

High Performance Python: Practical Performant Programming for Humans

by Micha Gorelick (2014)

The Seabird’s Cry

by Adam Nicolson (2018)

Mathematics of Public Key Cryptography

by Steven D. Galbraith (2012)

The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality

by Julie Sondra Decker (2015)

Taking German Further

by John Martin (1998)

Do Not Alight Here: Walking London’s Lost Underground and Railway Stations

by Ben Pedroche (2011)

Colossus: Bletchley Park’s Greatest Secret

by Paul Gannon (2007)

Uncle Silas

by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (2001)

Becoming: Sex, Second Chances, and Figuring Out Who the Hell I am

by Laura Jane Williams (2017)

Introduction to Algebra

by Peter J. Cameron (1998)

200 Twenty-Minute Meals

by Hamlyn Publishing Group (2011)

Algebra and Geometry

by Alan F. Beardon (2005)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python: Best Practices for Development

by Kenneth Reitz & Tanya Schlusser (2016)

Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World

by J. Mark G. Williams (2011)

Codes: An Introduction to Information Communication and Cryptography

by Norman L. Biggs (2008)

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

by Rebecca Crane (2008)

The Pooh Cook Book

by Virginia H. Ellison (1971)

Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future

by Svetlana Alexievich (2016)

Calendrical Calculations

by Nachum Dershowitz (1997)

Mathematics and Politics: Strategy, Voting, Power, and Proof

by Alan D. Taylor (1995)

Focusing

by Eugene T. Gendlin (1982)

https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2019-03-09-10%3A13.html

David: “I promise I’m not inviting you to join my cult by recommending this”

Shady Characters: Ampersands, Interrobangs and other Typographical Curiosities

by Keith Houston (2013)

Berlitz Essential Russian

by Keith Rawson-Jones (2009)

The Mathematics of Logic

by Richard W. Kaye (2007)

London’s Lost Rivers

by Paul Talling (2011)

Make Games with Python

by Sean M. Tracey

500 Lines Or Less

by Michael DiBernardo (2016)

Seven Languages in Seven Weeks

by Bruce A. Tate (2010)

Human Resources Management

by Harold T. Graham (1986)

Protecting Information: From Classical Error Correction to Quantum Cryptography

by Susan Loepp (2006)

Burnout

by Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski (2020)

Danielle Leong:

“I’m reading “Burnout” by @emilynagoski and never have my twitter habits been so called out before

The Bridge

by Iain M. Banks (1997)

Jonathan Whiteland:

Great post! Are you familiar with Iain Banks’ “The Bridge”? I read it on one of my last visits to Edinburgh and the bridges. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_(novel)

The Organized Mind

by Daniel J. Levitin (2014)

Rob Smallshire:

Have you read The Organised Mind by Daniel Levitin? It’s pretty good on this stuff. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693669-the-organized-mind

[this stuff] = managing life-admin type tasks

Death’s End

by Cixin Liu (2016)

Schrodinger’s Kitten:

Have you read death’s end trilogy, cixin liu? Big ideas and Chinese (though obvs I read in translation)

i really loved reading something set in a culture I know little about. the history of the 60s with the translators notes was fascinating, and the author just introduced it like we all know about struggle sessions. (warning: first chapter is traumatic, it gets less so)

Set Theory and Logic

by Robert R. Stoll (2012)

I won’t lie, I’m unlikely to pick up a maths textbook again – but noting this as one in case I do. It’s “short, good enough, and […] very cheap rather than the best choice ever” ~ David MacIver

The House Plant Expert

by D. G. Hessayon (1993)

James Wong:

The Houseplant Expert by Dr DG Hessayon is hands down the best houseplant book out there.

Taught me all I know from age 8. Still never been beaten.

(He’s basically the Attenborough of gardening)