1. Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener: When a book shakes your identity to its foundation, it deserves the best book of the year slot. Uncanny Valley is a memoir of Anna Wiener’s plunge from the NYC literary world into the Silicon Valley tech world. She manages to reveal the deep flaws of tech culture without … Continue reading Top 5 Books of 2020

1. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths: There are few books that I wish were longer when I got to the end of them, and this is one of them. Lighthearted and easy to read (disclaimer: I have a degree in computer science. I still … Continue reading Top 5 Books of 2019

Paying penance for procrastination. One unexpected upside to doing these top 5 book reviews years later is that I can see which ideas have really stuck with me. 1. Aphro-ism by Syl and Aph Ko: Explores the connections and interrelations between the structure of racial and species oppressions through a series of essays and letters … Continue reading Top 5 Books of 2018

Paying penance for procrastination…these are my favorite books from four years ago. I can’t say I entirely remember my reasoning, but I’ve done my best to reconstruct what I can.  1. Where is Your Body? by Mari Matsuda (reread 2018): A remarkably friendly critical race theory book (wikipedia def: a theoretical framework in the social … Continue reading Top 5 Books of 2017