Readings
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Titles in black are those that I am currently reading.
Titles in gray are those that I have finished, with the most recent at the top.
Titles in green are those that I most highly recommend.
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Last Updated 17 December 2013
Emily Oster - Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know
Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson - Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract
Stephen A. Goldsmith & Lynne Elizabeth - What we see: advancing the observations of Jane Jacobs
Jack Kerouac - On the Road
Jared Diamond - The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow - A Briefer History of Time
Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (reread)
Max Brooks - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - Recommended by SK
Don Jordan & Michael Walsh - White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner - SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Christopher McDougall - Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen - Recommended by VC
Yukio Mishima - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Recommended by EL
Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities - Recommended by MS
Cormac McCarthy - The Road - Recommended by SF
Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Thomas E. Franks - The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today
Sherman Alexie - 10 Little Indians - Recommended by IR
2013 -'
Ken Greenberg - Walking Home: The Life and Lessons of a City Builder
Ian D. Clark, David Trick & Richard Van Loon - Academic Reform: Policy Options for Improving the Quality and Cost-effectiveness of Undergraduate Education in Ontario (unfinished)
Alice Sebold - Lucky
Amanda Ripley - The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
Ernest Shackleton - South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition
Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein - Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, And Happiness (unfinished)
Howard Coombs - The Insubordinate and the Noncompliant: Case Studies of Canadian Mutiny and Disobedience, 1920 to Present (unfinished)
David Allen - Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - Recommended by SK (unfinished...is this a sign?)
Joe Macinnis - Deep Leadership: Essential Insights from High-Risk Environments
Jeff Yeager - The Cheapskate Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americans Living Happily Below Their Means
David Rothkopf - Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government - and the Reckoning That Lies Ahead (unfinished)
Daniel Henry Lewis - We, The Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific (unfinished)
Colonel David H. Hackworth & Julie Sherman - About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior - Recommended by EL
Orson Scott Card - Children of the Mind (reread)
Orson Scott Card - Xenocide (reread)
Orson Scott Card - Speaker for the Dead (reread)
Orson Scott Card - Shadows in Flight
Frank Herbert - Chapterhouse: Dune (reread)
Frank Herbert - Heretics of Dune (reread)
Frank Herbert - God Emperor of Dune (reread)
Frank Herbert - Children of Dune (reread)
Frank Herbert - Dune Messiah (reread)
Frank Herbert - Dune (reread)
John Steakley - Armor
Joe Haldeman - Forever Peace
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War (reread)
Heinlein, Robert A. - Starship Troopers (reread)
George S. Classon - The Richest Man in Babylon: The Success Secrets of the Ancients
Robert T. Kiyosak - Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money; That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
Daniel Defoe - The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner (Vol. 1)
Michael Blastland & Andrew Dilnot - The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers
Ted Conover - The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today
2012 -'
Patrick O'Brian - Blue at the Mizzen
Patrick O'Brian - The Hundred Days
Patrick O'Brian - The Yellow Admiral
Patrick O'Brian - The Commodore
Patrick O'Brian - The Wine Dark Sea
Patrick O'Brian - The Nutmeg of Consolation
Patrick O'Brian - The Thirteen Gun Salute
Patrick O'Brian - The Letter of Marque
Patrick O'Brian - The Reverse of the Medal
Patrick O'Brian - The Far Side of the World
Patrick O'Brian - Treason's Harbour
Patrick O'Brian - The Ionian Mission
Patrick O'Brian - The Surgeon's Mate
Patrick O'Brian - Desolation Island
Patrick O'Brian - The Mauritius Command
Patrick O'Brian - HMS Surprise
Patrick O'Brian - Post Captain
Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander
Joshua Foer - Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Ray Moynihan & Alan Cassels - Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All into Patients
Jonathan Kaplan - The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine - Recommended by KB
Marjorie Kellogg - Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon - Recommended by SK
J.R.R. Tolkein - The Hobbit (reread)
Brett Easton Ellis - American Psycho - Recommended by MW
Brett Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero - Recommended by MW
G. Bruce Knecht - The Proving Ground
Misha Glenny - McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
Stephen R. Brown - Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
Steven Callahan - Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea
2011 -'
Ernest Hemingway - The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (unfinished... but check out The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber)
Dogulas Farah & Stephen Braun - Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes and the Man Who Makes War Possible
Ellen Ruppel Shell - Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
Winston S. Churchill - The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan
Craig Leslie Mantle - The Apathetic and the Defiant: Case Studies of Canadian Mutiny and Disobedience, 1812-1919
Craig Leslie Mantle - The Unwilling and the Reluctant: Theoretical Perspectives on Disobedience in the Military
Ted Conover - The Routes of Man: How Roads are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today (unfinished)
Roberto Saviano - Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
Edgar H. Schein - Organizational Culture and Leadership (unfinished)
Michael Rowbotham - The Grip of Death: A Study of Modern Debt Slavery and Destructive Economics (unfinished)
George Meegan - The Longest Walk: An Odyssey of the Human Spirit
Paul Chiasson - The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America
John Taylor Gatto - Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling - Recommended by AD
Jane Jacobs - Cities and the Wealth of Nations
Ken McGoogan - Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot
Joseph Heath - Filthy Lucre: Economics For People Who Hate Capitalism - Recommended by MW
Hunter S. Thompson - Hell's Angels
Sam Keen - Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man (unfinished)
John Steinbeck - The Red Pony
The World Bank - Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy - Recommended by JD (unfinished)
Bill Fawcett - How to Lose a War: More Foolish Plans and Military Blunders - Recommended by IC
Michael Pollan - The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers: The Story of Success - Recommended by SD
Captain Charles Farquhar Trower - Hints on Irregular Cavalry: Its Conformation, Management and Use in Both a Military and Political Point of View
Dexter Filkins - The Forever War
Captain Ray Wiss - FOB Doc: A War Diary / A Doctor on the Front Lines in Afghanistan
Jay Walljasper - The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Placemaking
Christine MacDonald - Green, Inc.: An Environmental Insider Reveals How a Good Cause Has Gone Bad
2010 -'
Malcolm Gladwell - What the Dog Saw
Susan Strasser - Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash (unfinished)
Jeswald W. Salacuse - Leading Leaders: How to Manage Smart, Talented, Rich and Powerful People (unfinished)
Anthony Dalton - Wayward Sailor: In Search of the Real Tristan Jones
General Rick Hillier - A Soldier First: Bullets, Bureaucrats and the Politics of War
Rory Stewart - The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
Colonel Thomas X. Hammes - The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century
Carmine Sarracino & Kevin M. Scott - The Porning of America: The Rise of Porn Culture, What It Means, and Where We Go from Here
Oliver James - Affluenza
Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe (unfinished)
Malcolm Potts & Thomas Hayden - Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World (unfinished)
Paul Roberts - The End of Food (unfinished)
Randolph Nesse & George Williams - Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
Orson Scott Card - The Gold Bug
Orson Scott Card - Cheater
Orson Scott Card - Pretty Boy
Orson Scott Card - Mazer in Prison
Orson Scott Card - A War of Gifts: An Ender Story
Orson Scott Card - First Meetings
Orson Scott Card - Ender in Exile
Stewart Brand - How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (watch the BBC TV series based on the book here)
Sarah Chayes - The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban
Paul Strathern - A Brief History of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Gene Therapy
Dave Grossman - On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and Peace
Sam Keen - Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man (unfinished)
Mark Anielski - The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth (unfinished)
Rory Stewart - The Places In Between (watch an extremely intersting GoogleTalk by the author here)
Dave Grossman - On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
Ernest Hemingway -
The Old Man and the Sea
Hanif Kureshi - The Buddha of Suburbia - Recommended by SK
Milan Kundera -
Immortality - Recommended by SK
2009 -'
Barbara Kellerman - Followership: How Followers are Creating Change and Changing Leaders (unfinished)
E.F. Schumacher - Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (unfinished)
Chris Turner - The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need (unfinished)
Leonard Sax - Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
Franz Kafka - The Metamorphisis
Patrick M. Lencioni - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
The Mountaineers - Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills, 7th Edition (unfinished)
Elinor Ostrom - Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (unfinished)
C.K. Prahalad - The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits (unfinished)
Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Jon Krakauer - Into the Wild
Neil Strauss - The Game
Joe Simpson - Touching the Void: The Harrowing First Person Account of One Man's Miraculous Survival
Daniel Quinn - Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Jon Krakauer - Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Khaled Hesseini - The Kite Runner (unfinished)
Graham Swift - Tomorrow
Alain de Botton - The architecture of happiness (unfinished)
Tim Harford - The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of and Irrational World
Ronald Wright - A Short History of Progress (unfinished)
2008 -'
Bill McKibben - Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (unfinished)
Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams - Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (unfinished)
Chip Heath & Dan Heath - Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Joseph Heath & Andrew Potter - The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't be Jammed
Rajaa Alsanea - Girls of Riyadh
Paul Hawken - Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming (unfinished)
Chris Anderson - The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling More of Less
Harriet Pappenheim & Ginny Graves - Bringing Home the Bacon
Isadora Tattlin - Cuba Diaries: An American Housewife in Havana
Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Jared Diamond - Collapse
Tristan Jones - ICE!
Michael Greenwald - Survivor
James Hall - The Bounty (trilogy)
Todd G. Buchholz - New Ideas from Dead Economists
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
William McDonough & Michael Braungart - Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
2007 -'
Thomas L. Friedman - The Lexus and the Olive Tree (unfinished)
Tony O'Donohue - A Tale of A City: Re-egineering the Urban Environment (unfinished)
Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities (unfinished)
Robert Neuwirth - Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
Tim Harford - The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!
Henry George - Progress and Poverty
Anthony Sampson - The Seven Sisters
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner - Innovation and Its Discontents
Gregory Bateson - Steps to an Ecology of Mind (unfinished)
Jane Jacobs - Dark Age Ahead
Milan Kundera - Identity
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed - Recommended by JV
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
2006 -'
Jane Jacobs - The Nature of Economies
Bjorn Lomborg - The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (unfinished)
Jane Jacobs - The Economy of Cities
Charles Wheelan - Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander - The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner - Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Scott Taylor & Brian Nolan - Tainted Brass
Steven Landsburg - Fair Play: What Your Children Can Teach You About Economics, Values, and the Meaning of Life
Orson Scott Card - Shadow of the Giant
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Peter Tompkins & Christopher Bird - The Secret Life of Plants (unfinished)
George Blackburn - Where the Hell are the Guns?: A Soldier's Eye View of the Anxious Years, 1939-44
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Recommended by LQ
Steven Pinker - The Language Instinct (unfinished)
Malcolm Gladwell - The Tipping Point
Paul Hawken - The Ecology of Commerce
2005 -'
Ackerman, Frank - Why Do We Recycle?: Markets, Value, and Public Policy
Adams, Douglas - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy ('A Trilogy of Five Books')
Brenneman, Richard & Fuller, R. Buckminster - Fuller's Earth: A Day With Bucky and the Kids
Bradbury, Ray - Farenheit 451
Camus, Albert - L'Étranger
Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Game (series)
Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Shadow (series)
Carnegie, Dale - How to Win Friends and Influence People
Clavell, James - King Rat
Russell, Bertrand - On God and Religion
Dallaire, Romeo - Shake Hands With The Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Darwin, Charles - The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
Darwin, Charles - On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Dawkins, Richard - The Selfish Gene (unfinished)
Diamond, Jared - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Fisher, Helen E. - The Sex Contract: The Evolution of Human Behavior
Goscinny, René - Astérix (series)
Golding, William - The Lord of the Flies
Haddon, Mark - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Recommended by MM
Heinlein, Robert A. - Starship Troopers
Herbert, Frank - Dune (series)
Hergé - Tintin (series)
Hubbard, L. Ron - Battlefield Earth
Lewis, C.S. - The Chronicles of Narnia (heptology)
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Orwell, George - 1984
Pauli, Gunter - No Waste Economy
Pinker, Steven - The Language Instinct (unfinished)
Ridley, Matt - The Origins of Virtue
Ridley, Matt - The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Robinson, Kim Stanley - Mars (trilogy)
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter (heptology)
Sapolsky, Robert M. - A Primate's Memoir
Schlosser, Eric - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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Smith, Adam - An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Steinbeck, John - The Pearl
Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Hobbit
Wright, Robert - Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
Wright, Robert - The Moral Animal
2004 and Prior -'
