This post is from one of several previous incarnations of this site and probably doesn’t quite fit the current format. In a former life this was a group blog and a tumblelog before it became a static jekyll site. If anything looks broken or is worded oddly that could be why. Pardon the dust.
Books which (presumably loosely) influenced his work on the creation of Squeak. Looks like an interesting list irrespective of that though.