Sérgio Santos

Founder and developer at Bloco.
Member of Coimbr'a Pedal.

Books read in 2022

All the books I read in 2022, with a ⭐️ next to my favourites. You can also check my lists for 2020 and 2021.

Fiction

We - Yevgeny Zamyatin ⭐
The Last of the Masters - Philip K. Dick
The Carpet Makers - Andreas Eschbach ⭐
Death’s End - Liu Cixin
The Ark Sakura - Kobo Abe
His Master’s Voice - Stanislaw Lem
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - José Saramago
Seeing - José Saramago
La Diagonale Alekhine - Arthur Larrue
The Man Who Planted Trees - Jean Giono
The Castle - Franz Kafka
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin ⭐️
The Cyberiad - Stanislaw Lem

Non-fiction

Blockchain Chicken Farm - Xiaowei Wang ⭐
On Anarchism - Noam Chomsky
A Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide - Cyd Harrell
The Anarchist Handbook - Michael Malice
Nea Kavala, Nea Kavala - Frederico Martinho
The DisCO Elements
Selected Writings - Mikhail Bakunin
Bobby Fischer goes to War - David Edmonds & John Eidinow
Play Winning Chess - Yasser Seirawan
Kraftwerk - Uwe Schütte
On Tennis - David Foster Wallace
Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher
Judgment of Paris - George M. Taber
Voices from the Valley - Moira Weigel & Ben Tarnoff
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? - Linda Nochlin
Soft City - David Sim
The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto Che Guevara
Rebel Ideas - Matthew Syed
Wine and War - Don Kladstrup
Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman ⭐
The One-Straw Revolution - Masanobu Fukuoka
Movement - Thalia Verkade ⭐
The Permaculture City - Toby Hemenway
The Race Against the Stasi - Herbie Sykes
The 99% Invisible City - Kurt Kohlstedt & Roman Mars
The Captive Mind - Czesław Miłosz
Consider the Oyster - M. F. K. Fisher
The Kronstadt Uprising - Ida Mett
Post-scarcity Anarchism - Murray Bookchin

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🔗 Cabinet

New app made by us at Bloco.

Curated by a team of independent app creators, Cabinet gives you a selection of great Android apps.

🔗 Sérgio Santos (@sdsantos@mastodon.xyz)

Books read in 2021

Keeping up with 2020, here are all the books I read in 2021, with a ⭐️ next to my favourites.

Fiction

Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
Seven Japanese Tales - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Futurological Congress - Stanislaw Lem ⭐️
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
The Plague - Albert Camus
Ghosts - César Aira ⭐️
Night on the Milky Way Train - Miyazawa Kenji
Dubliners - James Joyce
Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott ⭐️
Ice - Anna Kavan
Definitely Maybe - Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky

Non-fiction

Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell ⭐️
Playing to the Gallery - Grayson Perry
On the Map - Simon Garfield
33 Artists in 3 Acts - Sarah Thornton
Arte - Alexandre Melo
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing - John C. Bogle
A Mind at Play - Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman
If You Can - William J. Bernstein
Disability Visibility - Alice Wong

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Books read in 2020

Here’s the full list of books I’ve read in 2020, with a small note of which were my favourites.

Fiction

The Snows of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin ⭐️
The Book of Disquiet (pocket) - Fernando Pessoa
Neuromancer - William Gibson
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
How Much Land Does a Man Need? - Leo Tolstoy
The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells ⭐️
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
The Rest of the Robots - Isaac Asimov
The Three Electroknights - Stanisław Lem
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
Não Pai - Daniel Blaufuks ⭐️
White Nights - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Hornblower and the Hotspur - C. S. Forester
As Intermitências da Morte - José Saramago
Anathem - Neal Stephenson ⭐️
Viagens na Minha Terra - Almeida Garrett
The Penultimate Truth - Philip K. Dick
The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu
Limonov - Emmanuel Carrère
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin

Non-Fiction

It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work - Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
A Poor Collector’s Guide to Buying Great Art - Erling Kagge
Pricing Design - Dan Mall
Fame - Andy Warhol
Notes on Nationalism - George Orwell
24-Hour Wine Expert - Jancis Robinson
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference - Greta Thunberg
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Portugal - Miguel Torga
As Though I Had Wings - Chet Baker
Let My People Go Surfing - Yvon Chouinard

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