Books
Fiction
The Magic Mountain · Thomas Mann
The Paper Menagerie · Ken Liu
Yellowface · R. F. Kuang
Yesteryear · Caro Claire Burke
Stoner · John Williams
White Noise · Don DeLillo
The Master and Margarita · Mikhail Bulgakov
The Left Hand of Darkness · Ursula K. Le Guin
Player Piano · Kurt Vonnegut
The Way of Kings · Brandon Sanderson
Watchmen · Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
From the north
Kristin Lavransdatter · Sigrid Undset
Hunger · Knut Hamsun
Ravneringene · Siri Pettersen
Når landet mørknar · Tore Kvæven
Doppler · Erlend Loe
Trekways of the Wind · Nils-Aslak Valkeapää
Ideas
Gödel, Escher, Bach · Douglas Hofstadter
I Am a Strange Loop · Douglas Hofstadter
The Collapse of Chaos · Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart
Logicomix · Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
The Philosophy of Design · Glenn Parsons
Callous Objects · Robert Rosenberger
Delayed Response · Jason Farman
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism · Shoshana Zuboff
Fire Weather · John Vaillant
Software and research
Refactoring · Martin Fowler
Working Effectively with Legacy Code · Michael Feathers
The Mythical Man-Month · Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
The Craft of Research · Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams
Lives
Sociopath · Patric Gagne
Educated · Tara Westover
i heard a crow before i was born · Jules Delorme
Persepolis · Marjane Satrapi
The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women · Valerie Young
When Things Fall Apart · Pema Chödrön