Finds
- A Life of One's Own Seven years of keeping evidence on your own happiness
- Exactly A history of engineering told in orders of magnitude
- The Book of Human Emotions Words for feelings English never got around to naming
- Everyday Genius A memory champion's techniques, reduced to things you can do this afternoon
- On Location in New York City A24's guidebook to the city as a film set
- The Mind's I Twenty-seven essays and stories on the self, each one argued with by its editors
- Patterns in Nature Why a giraffe's spots look like cracked mud
- How to Make a Journal of Your Life Dan Price's hand-lettered chapbook guide to visual journaling
- The Pharos Gate The 7th Griffin & Sabine book, read by unfolding glued-in letters
- Inventing ELIZA The first chatbot's rediscovered 1966 source code, back in print
- The New World Champion Paper Airplane Book Aeronautically tested folds, including a 226-foot record design
- Tolstoy's Guide to Daily Wisdom Tolstoy's last project — a year of daily readings from world philosophy
- Guerilla Art Guide Keri Smith's how-to for putting art into the world without asking permission
- Infinite Jeffs Infinite Jest with every word replaced by 'Jeff'
- Peopleware DeMarco and Lister's classic on why software teams really succeed or fail
- Making Comics by Lynda Barry Drawing instruction aimed at people who think they can't draw
- Manga Kamishibai Eric Nash's book on the Japanese paper theater that preceded anime
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Shunryū Suzuki's 1970 Zen primer, still the recommended one
- Echoes of Genius: Enduring Wisdom from Great Minds A self-published quote book arranged as a perpetual calendar