17 books to read and think about together ⁂ Antilibraries Analects ⁂

Just for fun this evening I browsed through my shelves and pulled out a number of books that caught my eye, with basically one fuzzy criterion:

What books seem rich in potential for learning and reading with others?

There's some obvious overlap here with what we're working on at Hyperlink — book clubs, peer-driven learning, space for exploring things together…

To that end, you may be interested in some of our events coming up this week, particularly the one exploring book club possibilities:

Hyper Meta - Hyperlink event series

And now, here's a (sub)selection* of what, at least today, spoke to me as "books that might be particularly great to explore with a few friends":

• The Book of Disquiet - Pessoa
• Collected Fictions - Borges
• Uncommon Carriers - McPhee
• Nature Knowledge - Sanga & Ortalli
• Ecotopia - Callenbach
• Economic Science Fictions - ed. Davies
• The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics - Kramer
• 99 Variations on a Proof - Ording
• Maps of the Mind - Hampden-Turner
• The Single Best Idea, Ever - ed. Chesworth
• Physiography of the United States - Loomis & Doran
• Publishing Manifestos - ed. Pichler
• What a Book Can Do - Murphy
• Critical Play - Flanagan
• The Art of Game Design - Schell
• Puzzles About Art - Baltin, Fisher, Moore, Silvers
• Black Mountain - Duberman

Any of these stand out as ones I should write about, and/or that you'd be tentatively interested in reading together? Let me know!

Brendan

*as I'm reviewing all the books I pulled, I'm noting a few categories / clusters of books that I'm saving for later lists!