Reading List Queue

These are the books in my Reading List Queue (in no particular order). Feel free to suggest others!

Robert Reich, Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (first on Larry Lessig's Corruption Reading List)

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

vBenjamin Franklin, Autobiography

Tom Standage, The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers

Justin Martin, Greenspan: The Man Behind Money

Dan Simmons, Hyperion

Claude S. Fischer, America calling: a social history of the telephone to 1940

Thomas L. Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem: updated with a new chapter (1995)

Philip K. Dick, Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick (Volume 3) (especially story null-o)

Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization

Michael Economides, The color of oil: the history, the money and the politics of the world's biggest business

Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

John Chown, A History of Money : From AD 800

Helen Caldicott, The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex

Arianna Huffington, How to Overthrow the Government

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

Stephen Hart, Cultural dilemmas of progressive politics: styles of engagement among grassroots activists

Richard Feynman, Feynman lectures on computation

Charles A. Reich, The Greening of America

Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman, Winning through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal

Bill Emmott, 20:21 Vision: Twentieth Century Lessons for the Twenty First

Jeremy Rifkin, The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the World-Wide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth

Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

Thomas T. Nagle, et al, The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Profitable Decision Making (3rd Edition)

Paul Berman, Terror and Liberalism

Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras, Built to Last : Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

Barry J. Nalebuff and Ian Ayres, Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small

Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor, The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth

Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

Mark Stefik and Barbara Stefik, Breakthrough : Stories and Strategies of Radical Innovation

Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond

Malcolm Gladwell, BLINK : the power of thinking without thinking

Bruce Bawer, Stealing Jesus : How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity

Micael Barone, Hard America, Soft America : Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future

Gavin Menzies, 1421 - The year China discovered the world

Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. PBS had a three part series

Amory B. Lovins, Winning the Oil Endgame : Innovation for Profit, Jobs and Security

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything

Margot Morrell and Stephanie Capparell, Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer

Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It

Charles Murray, In Our Hands: A Plan To Replace The Welfare State

Lito Tejada-Flores, Breakthrough on the New Skis

Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

A Man for All Seasons

Leo Rosten, People I have loved, known, or admired

Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Benjamin Barber, Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

William Ury, The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes

Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, Blue ocean strategy : how to create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant

Andrew Bacevich, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism

Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World

Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics (also: The Broken Window Fallacy Reapplied)

Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Michael Hiltzik, Dealers of lightning : Xerox PARC and the dawn of the computer age

Robert G. Kaiser, So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government

Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

Tom Blees, Prescription for the Planet: The Painless Remedy for Our Energy & Environmental Crises

Brian Golter, Your Right Job, Right Now: Unconventional Wisdom, Unbelievable Results from My Boss June

Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, Breakthrough: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility

Annabelle Gawer and Michael Cusumano, Platform Leadership: How Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco Drive Industry Innovation

Bryan Caplan, The myth of the rational voter : why democracies choose bad policies

Eric Falkenstein, Finding Alpha: The Search for Alpha When Risk and Return Break Down

Seth Tobocman, Understanding the Crash starts with a simple question that still haunts us all: What has happened to the world economy? With the kind of striking precision that only graphic nonfiction can provide, Seth Tobocman and Eric Laursen explain just how we got into this mess--and how we can get out of it.

Burton G. Malkiel and Charles D. Ellis, The Elements of Investing

Ernst Gombrich, A little history of the world

Burton Malkiel, A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

David Allen, Getting things done : the art of stress-free productivity (online GTDIQ test)


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