They say you can tell a lot about a person by taking a look at their bookshelf. Traditionally, this meant standing in their living room with a tilted head, but with nowadays ebooks our reading history can easily become more hidden. Our virtual bookshelves lie inside our personal devices and aren’t that easy for others to glance on. But it doesn’t have to be that way, as we can also choose to make them public.
Below is something that I used to generate automatically from my Kindle profile. It was last updated July 17th, 2017, and Amazon has since discontinued Kindle profiles. A more up-to-date view to the same information can be found from my Goodreads profile.
Data science
by Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Gareth James, Robert Tibshirani
by Harlan Harris, Sean Murphy, Marck Vaisman
by Max Kuhn, Kjell Johnson
by John K. Kruschke
by Hadley Wickham
by William M. Bolstad, James M. Curran
by Morris Kline
by Timothy Gowers
by Richard McElreath
Science, technology, history, economy, politics
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
by Jeremy Rifkin
by John C. Bogle
by David Bainbridge
by William H. McNeill, John Robert McNeill
by J. Craig Venter
by Glenn Greenwald
by Tim Jackson
by Lee M. Silver
by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
by Jared Diamond
Biographies
by Rick Tetzeli, Brent Schlender
by Theo Fleury
by Walter Isaacson
by Bernd Bruckler, Risto Pakarinen
by Bob Woodward
Communication, psychology, work
by Michael Lopp
by Patrick Rhone
by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon
by Dan Provost, Tom Gerhardt
by Viktor E. Frankl
by Marshall B. Rosenberg
by Susan Cain
by Al Pittampalli
by Daniel Kahneman
Urbanism
by David Levinson, Kevin Krizek
by Enrico Moretti
by Edward Glaeser
Sailing, exploration, mountaineering, survival
by Steven Callahan
by Piers Paul Read
by Beryl Bainbridge
by Stuart Woods
by Lin Pardey, Larry Pardey
by Tom Cunliffe
by Alfred Lansing
by John Rousmaniere
by Alison Muir Bennett
by Hal Roth
by Jon Krakauer
by John Franklin
by Nick Ward, Sinead O’Brien
by John Edward Huth
by Renee Petrillo
by Joshua Slocum
by Robert Falcon Scott
by Larry Pardey, Lin Pardey
by David Barrie
by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
by Don Casey
by David Roberts
by Alison Noice
Exercise and wellbeing
by Susan Adams, Esther Gokhale
by Kelly Starrett
by Paul Wade
by Paul Wade
by Kelly Starrett
by Paul Wade
by Al Kavadlo
Other
by George Orwell
by Michael Ondaatje
by J. D. Salinger
by John Grisham
by Neal Stephenson
by Dan Brown
by Björn Kurtén
by John Lloyd, Douglas Adams
by Douglas Adams
by William Golding
by Douglas Adams, John Lloyd
by Ernest Hemingway
by Jack Kerouac
by S. E. Hinton
by Charles Bukowski
by Sofi Oksanen
by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
by Karel Capek
by Michael Dorris