---------------------------- | Books on my list to read | ---------------------------- The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven by James Wasserman The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son by Samuel Butler How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going by Vaclav Smil The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators, and Everyday Intellectual Property by Jessica Silbey Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant Letter Perfect: The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet From A to Z by David Sacks Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past by Jason Steinhauer Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Internet Age by Jessica Silbey Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction by Barry C. Lynn Context by Cory Doctorow Memory, Edited: Taking Liberties with History by Abby Smith Rumsey The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop Cutting the Cord: The Cell Phone Has Transformed Humanity by Martin Cooper The Book of Ti'ana (Myst, #2) by Rand Miller The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell Mastering the Art of Drawing by Ian Sidaway Common Errors in English Usage 2nd Edition by Paul Brians Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter Clark Washington's Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron von Steuben by Josh Trujillo Myst: The Book of Atrus by Rand Miller The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation by Cory Doctorow Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World's Most Infamous Prison by Sarah Mirk The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet by David Kahn The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory by Torkel Klingberg Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World by Bruce Schneier Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare Politics and the English Language by George Orwell Ohio by Stephen Markley Dolomiti by Alessandro De Giuli Giochiamo in italiano. Cruciverba, rebus e giochi vari per imparare l'italiano divertendosi by Antonella Tanzini What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe Across the Sand (The Sand Chronicles, #2) by Hugh Howey True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant by Brad Ricca Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions by Zachary Shore The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption by Clay A. Johnson The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin Discover Your True North by Bill George Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone by Mark Goulston Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations by Robert D. Austin The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal Newport Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America by Margaret O'Mara Brief Histories of Everyday Objects by Andy Warner The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice by Fredrik deBoer A Promised Land by Barack Obama The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal by Mary L. Trump American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump by Tim Alberta Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation by Andrew Marantz How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future by Steven Levitsky Women of Invention: Life-Changing Ideas by Remarkable Women (Volume 21) (Oxford People, 21) by Charlotte Montague Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline We Can Remember It for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick Simulacron 3 (IMAGINAIRE) by Daniel F. Galouye Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy by Katherine M. Gehl Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker They Called Us Enemy by George Takei The Pho Cookbook: Easy to Adventurous Recipes for Vietnam's Favorite Soup and Noodles by Andrea Nguyen Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez The Revelation of St. John the Divine: The Holy Bible, King James Version by Anonymous The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders The Institute by Stephen King The Little Sisters of Eluria by Stephen King How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline by Darrell Bricker 'What Do You Care What Other People Think?': Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman Head On (Lock In, #2) by John Scalzi Raising a Thinking Child: Help Your Young Child to Resolve Everyday Conflicts and Get Along With Others by Myrna B. Shure Borderless (Analog #2) by Eliot Peper That Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means: The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories by Ross Petras Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom) by Adam Fisher The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity by Byron Reese Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World by Melissa A. Schilling The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast Great Thinkers: Simple Tools from 60 Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today (The School of Life Library) by Alain de Botton The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up by William Poundstone Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt The Portable Curmudgeon by Jon Winokur The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know by Kevlin Henney The Art of War by Sun Tzu Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Essential Sci-Fi Aliens by Randall Garrett Mr. Spaceship by Philip K. Dick The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by James Knowles The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan Paradise Lost by John Milton Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë The Odyssey by Homer Ulysses by James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare Year 2000 in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference by Norman Shakespeare Welcome to Redwall by Brian Jacques The Wealthy Barber: Everyone's Commonsense Guide to Becoming Financially Independent by David H. Chilton Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 by Milton Sanford Mayer The TCP/IP Companion: A Guide for the Common User by Martin R. Arick A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1) by Neal Stephenson The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, #2) by Neal Stephenson The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, #3) by Neal Stephenson Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World by Bruce Schneier Saints And Sinners: A History of the Popes by Eamon Duffy Propaganda and the Public Mind by Noam Chomsky Pencil Drawing Techniques: Learn How to Master Pencil Working Techniques to Create Your Own Successful Drawings by David Lewis The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them by John E. Mueller Orwell: The Road to Airstrip One by Ian Slater Oedipus Rex (Theban Play, #2) by Sophocles The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan Keys to Drawing by Bert Dodson Illustrated Works of Mark Twain by Mark Twain It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It by Jonathan L. Zittrain The Globalization of Nothing by George Ritzer Sketching and Drawing by Cathy Johnson Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are by Henry Petroski The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Alien Hand Syndrome and Other Too-Weird-Not-To-Be-True Stories by Alan Bellows The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins The Last Ringbearer by Kirill Yeskov The Expert at the Card Table: The Classic Treatise on Card Manipulation by S.W. Erdnase Greatfall (Silo Saga) by Jason Gurley Deviants (Dust Chronicles #1) by Maureen McGowan Compliance (Dust Chronicles, #2) by Maureen McGowan Glory (Dust Chronicles, #3) by Maureen McGowan Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others by Brian W. Fitzpatrick But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past by Chuck Klosterman Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu Artemis by Andy Weir The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt by Robert I. Sutton Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World by Mitch Prinstein The Death Of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Thomas M. Nichols Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan by Gísli Pálsson Little Wizard Stories of Oz (Oz, 7.5) by L. Frank Baum The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success by Matthew Syed I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains (Real and Imagined) by Chuck Klosterman Seveneves by Neal Stephenson Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming by Peter Seibel Network Geeks: How They Built the Internet by Brian E. Carpenter Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely The Two Georges by Richard Dreyfuss Now I Know: The Revealing Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts by Dan Lewis Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix by Glenn Yeffeth More Matrix and Philosophy: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded by William Irwin The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real by William Irwin Now I Know More: The Revealing Stories Behind Even More of the World's Most Interesting Facts by Dan Lewis The Circle (The Circle, #1) by Dave Eggers Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years by Tom Standage The Disunited States of America (Crosstime Traffic, #4) by Harry Turtledove Like a Splinter in Your Mind by Matt Lawrence Neverwhere (London Below, #1) by Neil Gaiman The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier The Art of The Lord of the Rings by Gary Russell Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous by Gabriella Coleman The Glass Cage: Automation and Us by Nicholas Carr It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by Danah Boyd Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty by Vikram Chandra Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon by Kim Zetter We by Yevgeny Zamyatin Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation by Blake J. Harris Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit Ringworld (Ringworld, #1) by Larry Niven The Giver (The Giver, #1) by Lois Lowry The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells Foundation (Foundation, #1) by Isaac Asimov The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson The World Without Us by Alan Weisman Just Food: Where Locavores Get it Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly by James McWilliams Influx by Daniel Suarez Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez Freedom™ (Daemon, #2) by Daniel Suarez Daemon (Daemon, #1) by Daniel Suarez The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) by Margaret Atwood Year Zero by Rob Reid With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful by Glenn Greenwald Redshirts by John Scalzi The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy by Stanisław Lem The Crack in Space by Philip K. Dick Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist by Om Malik The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Trojan Horse by Mark E. Russinovich Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us by Maggie Koerth-Baker Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World by Jack L. Goldsmith Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers by Tom Standage Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet by Katie Hafner Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin The Art of Readable Code: Simple and Practical Techniques for Writing Better Code by Dustin Boswell Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam The Wind Through the Keyhole (The Dark Tower, #4.5) by Stephen King Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman Main Street by Sinclair Lewis Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation by Elaine Pagels Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain Watership Down by Richard Adams The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers--and the Coming Cashless Society by David Wolman Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made by Andy Hertzfeld Producing Open Source Software by Karl Franz Fogel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis Coraline by Neil Gaiman I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison Microserfs by Douglas Coupland The Devil Within by Allan H. Stein The Goniff by Allan Stein Damned by Chuck Palahniuk Reamde by Neal Stephenson The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, Revised Edition by Barry Schwartz Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks by Arthur T. Benjamin A Quarter Century of Unix by Peter H. Salus The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin by Peter H. Salus In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing by Matthew E. May Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy by Raj Patel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow The Story of Stuff: The Impact of Overconsumption on the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health--And How We Can Make It Better by Annie Leonard An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer 'What's Next?' by Mark Stevenson The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk Choke by Chuck Palahniuk Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk Diary by Chuck Palahniuk The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie In Cold Blood by Truman Capote A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Zazen by Vanessa Veselka Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground by Kevin Poulsen Zero Day by Mark E. Russinovich Curation Nation: How to Win in a World Where Consumers are Creators by Steven Rosenbaum Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth by J.R.R. Tolkien David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Eye in the Sky by Philip K. Dick Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes by Mark Bittman The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch The Republic by Plato The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster The Second Coming of Steve Jobs by Alan Deutschman Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software by David Rice The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do by Eduardo Porter The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread by Don Robertson Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies by Charles Perrow The Gunslinger Born (Stephen King's The Dark Tower: Beginnings, #1) by Peter David The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers The Age of Speed: Learning to Thrive in a More-Faster-Now World by Vince Poscente Parenting, Inc.: How the Billion-Dollar Baby Business Has Changed the Way We Raise Our Children by Pamela Paul Brave New Ballot: The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting by Aviel David Rubin In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan Anathem by Neal Stephenson God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World by Don Tapscott Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future by Robert Darnton Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas A. Christakis Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster by Paul Ingrassia Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility by David M. Walker Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street by Jim Wallis The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage by Eamon Javers The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back by Charles Pellegrino The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Our Children and What We Can Do About It by Sara Bennett In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA by James Schwartz Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine...And Fighting It by Mark Klein The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Trans by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want by James H. Gilmore Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Bad Students, Not Bad Schools by Robert Weissberg This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M. Reinhart How Risky Is It, Really?: Why Our Fears Don't Always Match the Facts by David Ropeik The Man Who Sold America: The Amazing (but True!) Story of Albert D. Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century by Jeffrey L. Cruikshank The Game-Players of Titan by Philip K. Dick Ubik by Philip K. Dick Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert by Roger Ebert Moby Dick by Herman Melville OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word by Allan Metcalf Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power by Mark Schapiro The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David A. Kessler The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov The Maze Runner by James Dashner True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society by Farhad Manjoo Spook Country by William Gibson Zero History by William Gibson Last Words by George Carlin The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30) by Mark Bauerlein American Nerd: The Story of My People by Benjamin Nugent Living With Complexity by Donald A. Norman One Minute to Midnight by Michael Dobbs Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick Idoru by William Gibson Burning Chrome by William Gibson The Difference Engine by William Gibson Virtual Light by William Gibson All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson Driving Technical Change: Why People On Your Team Don't Act On Good Ideas, and How to Convince Them They Should by Terrence Ryan The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth by The Onion I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S. Collins To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee