Book List

Below is a eclectic and incomplete list of books that I have read. Without a doubt, I have been influenced by many of them, some more than others, and I probably can’t express how they have subtly or subconsciously changed my thinking.

• Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
• The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power – Joel Bakan
• Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty – Roy F. Baumeister, Ph. D.
• Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II – Douglas A. Blackmon
• The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov (translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O’Connor)
• A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
• The Stranger – Albert Camus
• Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
• Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone – Rajiv Chandrasekaran
• Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid – Jimmy Carter
• Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy – Noam Chomsky
• I Am America (And So Can You!) – Stephen Colbert
• The Poet – Michael Connelly
• All Families are Psychotic – Douglas Coupland
• Girlfriend in a Coma – Douglas Coupland
• Microserfs – Douglas Coupland
• JPod – Douglas Coupland
• Life After God – Douglas Coupland
• Why Evolution is True – Jerry A. Coyne
• The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins
• The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing – Edited By Richard Dawkins
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies – Jared Diamond
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond
• The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations – Dietrich Dorner
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything – Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt
• Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can’t Stand Up to the Facts – Edited by David Dunbar and Brad Reagan
• Geek Love – Katherine Dunn
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America – Barbara Ehrenreich
• Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why – Bart D. Ehrman
• The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron -Peter Elkind and Bethany McLean
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character – Richard P. Feynman
• The Truth: With Jokes – Al Franken
• On Bullshit – Harry G. Frankfurt
• Capitalism and Freedom – Milton Friedman
• The Systems Bible: The Beginner’s Guide to Systems Large and Small being the Third Edition of Systemantics – John Gall
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking – Malcolm Gladwell
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference – Malcolm Gladwell
• Lord of the Flies – William Golding
• Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times – Amy Goodman and David Goodman
• Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back – Amy Goodman and David Goodman
• The Assault on Reason – Al Gore
• Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics – Glenn Greenwald
• Replay – Ken Grimwood
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
• The Road to Serfdom – Friedrich Hayek
• Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
• Demian – Hermann Hesse
• Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid – Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic – Chalmers Johnson
• The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic – Chalmers Johnson
• The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments – George Johnson
• Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq – Stephen Kinzer
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism – Naomi Klein
• The Conscience of a Liberal – Paul Krugman
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• The Way Things Ought to Be – Rush Limbaugh
• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong – James W. Loewen
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West – Gregory Maguire
• Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind – Gary Marcus
• Life of Pi – Yann Martel
• 1776 – Douglas McCullough
• Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation – Michael Moore
• Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
• The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
• American Nerd: The Story of My People – Benjamin Nugent
• The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream – Barack Obama
• 1984 – George Orwell
• Animal Farm – George Orwell
• The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine – Charles Petzold
• American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century – Kevin Phillips
• 90 Minutes in Heaven – Don Piper with Cecil Murphy
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals – Michael Pollan
• Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark – Carl Sagan
• Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal – Eric Schlosser
• Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body – Neil Shubin
• Hyperion – Dan Simmons
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (translated by H. T. Willetts)
• Maus – Art Spiegelman
• The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
• Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
• Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer – Patrick Suskind
• America (The Book) : A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction – The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
• Blankets – Craig Thompson
• Timecross’d: A Love Story Out of Time – Sean K. Thompson
• A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
• The Marx-Engels Reader – Edited By Robert C. Tucker
• The World Without Us – Alan Weisman
• Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
• A People’s History of the United States: 1492 – Present – Howard Zinn