TL;DR:

• Books are grouped by topic (arbitrarily assigned my me). These topics typically represent subject areas I’m actively learning about.
• Books that I’ve read (indicated by a date read) are books I recommend.
• Books I have not yet read (indicated by the tag “to read”) are books that have been recommended to me.
• If, after reading a book, I do not recommend it, I’ll remove it from this list.
• I’d like to hear your recommendations, especially around my topic areas. Let me know what you’re reading: @williamsnichols

Reading list

The list. Sort/filter by topic and author. Expand to see the book cover. Use the link to find the book.

Reading list

Some context

The embedded reading list below contains my favorite (i.e. recommended) books dating back roughly two years (early 2016), when I began keeping a list.

It also contains my “to read” list, i.e. books I plan to read. I get these recommendations from a number of sources, but they come primarily from: friends and colleagues who are avid readers and from people on Twitter and elsewhere on the internet who share similar interests.

Why keep a public list?

I’ve tried keeping lists in the past in a number of ways, but each has had one or more acute pain points: Good Reads (too much noise from readers with dissimilar interests), Amazon wish lists (can’t share publicly), handwritten lists (pick a reason), and so on…

So, my intent in keeping a public list is to solve the above problems as well as achieve the following:

1. Keep a running list of my upcoming reads without the noise of recommendations I don’t care about
2. Enable quick sharing of my favorite books with others, especially along the lines “here are my favorite books about X”