+ = highly recommended − = do not read 2008 - 3 books The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell - Aldous Huxley - My Notes The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size - Tor Norretranders The Elementary Particles (fiction) - Michel Houellebecq 2007 - 19 books Brain Child - George Turner The Plague - Albert Camus Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond A Practical Handbook for the Actor - Melissa Bruder + Where the Wasteland Ends - Theodore Roszak - My Notes Children of God - Maria Doria Russell Shadows of the Mind - Roger Penrose Glenngary Glen Ross - David Mamet Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else - Albert-Laszlo Barabasi The Organization Man - William Whyte The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby Coordination Without Hierarchy: Informal Structures in Multiorganizational Systems - Donald Chisholm Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution - Michael Behe Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain - Antonio Damasio Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel + Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - My Notes The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs - My Notes Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge - Gerald Edelman 2006 - 22 books The Success of Open Source - Steven Weber Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887 - Edward Bellamy + Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins + The Greening of America - Charles A. Reich - My Notes Kinds of Minds - Daniel Dennett How the Mind Works - Steven Pinker Disobedience and Democracy - Howard Zinn + The Instinct to Heal - David Servan-Schreiber Fury - Salman Rushdie + The Skeptical Environmentalist - Bjorn Lomborg + Awake at Work - Michael Carroll - My Notes + Interaction of Color - Josef Albers Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson Before You Say "I Quit!" - Diane Holloway and Nancy Bishop The Emperor's New Mind - Roger Penrose The Mind and the Brain - Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley A Brief History of the Mind - William Calvin + My Inventions (free online) - Nikola Tesla - My Notes The People as Enemy: The Leaders' Hidden Agenda in World War II - John Spritzler Rebuilt - Michael Chorost + Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene 2005 - 18 books Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick Sam Walton: Made in America - Sam Walton with John Huey The Quest for Consciousness - Christof Koch The Hydrogen Economy - Jeremy Rifkin + The Power of Persuasion - Robert Levine - My Notes + On Intelligence - Jeff Hawkins - My Notes Globalization and its Discontents - Joseph Stiglitz + The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Butterfly Economics - Paul Ormerod + Smart Mobs - Howard Rheingold Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams - Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister The Progress Paradox - Gregg Easterbrook + The Corporation - Joel Bakan + The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki + Blink - Malcolm Gladwell How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Dale Carnegie + Don't Think of an Elephant - George Lakoff - My Notes Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 2004 - 19 books The Economics of Innocent Fraud - John Kenneth Galbraith + Banker for the Poor - Muhammad Yunus - My Notes + How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie - My Notes Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer + Bowling Alone - Robert Putnam Ghandi's Way - Mark Juergensmeyer - My Notes How to get control of your time and your life - Alan Lakein The Jungle - Upton Sinclair - My Notes Parecon - Michael Albert - My Letter to Albert The Best Democracy Money can Buy - Greg Palast + Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser + A Problem from Hell - Samantha Power The Alchemist - Paul Coelho + The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham - My Notes Essential Writings - Ralph Waldo Emerson In an Uncertain World - Robert Rubin Bubble of American Supremacy - George Soros - My notes Only the Paranoid Survive - Andy Grove - My Notes 2003 - 19 books + Naked economics - Charles Wheelan - My Notes + What should I do with my life? - Po Bronson - My Notes Fatal Harvest - Andrew Kimbrell Savage Nation - Michael Savage - My Notes Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis + Understanding Power - Noam Chomsky Envisioning Information - Edward Tufte Culture of Fear - Barry Glassner - My Notes 9-11 - Noam Chomsky Why We Buy - Paco Underhill The Lexus and the Olive Tree - Thomas Friedman + Guns, Germs, & Steel - Jacob Diamond Credit Card Nation - Robert Manning + Physics of Consciousness - Evan Harris Walker Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why - Rex Hudson Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich The Starship and the Canoe - Kenneth Brower 2002 - 5 books On the Road - Jack Kerouac + Into the Wild - John Krakauer + A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn What Color is Your Parachute? - Richard Nelson Bolles + Your Money or Your Life - Joe Dominguez & Vicki Robin Want to read - 14+ books Amazon Wish List Mathematics of classical and quantum physics Chatter The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences The Adapted Mind Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing Speech and Language Processing Perceptual Neuroscience Emergence (own) Thousands of Years of Non-Linear History Patterns in the Stone How Buildings Learn Nonzero The Real Thing - Hays Out of Control