Book List.
some books I've read, some books I hope to read
Books Read in 2020:
(updated to 1/12/2020)
Politics
| Noam Chomsky – Understanding Power |
| Scott Horton – Lords of Secrecy |
| Nancy MacLean – Democracy in Chains |
| Marx and Engels – The Communist Manifesto |
| James McCartney – America’s War Machine |
| Noam Chomsky – On Anarchism |
| Noam Chomsky – On Palestine |
| Naomi Klein – On Fire |
| Edward Bernays – Propaganda |
| Noam Chomsky – Propaganda and the Public Mind |
| Michael E. Mann – Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars |
| Michael Parenti – Inventing Reality |
| Vincent Levins – The Jakarta Method |
| Frantz Fanon – Wretched of the Earth |
| Edward S. Herman and David Peterson – The Politics of Genocide |
self-help
| Brian Tracy – Science of Motivation |
| Steven Covey – 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Neil Strauss – The Game |
| Robert Greene – 48 Laws of Power |
| Tony Robbins – Unlimited Power |
| Neil Strauss – The Truth |
| Robert Greene – The Art of Seduction |
| Helen Fisher – Why Him? Why Her? |
| James Clear – Atomic Habits |
| Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Flow |
| Eckhart Tolle – Power of Now |
| Brian Tracy – Maximum Achievement |
| Richard Koch – The 80/20 Principle |
| Gary Chapman – The 5 Love Languages |
| Mark Manson – Models |
economics
| Joseph Stiglitz – Price of Inequality |
| Richard D. Wolff – Democracy at Work |
| Yanis Varoufakis – And the Weak Suffer What They Must? |
| Yanis Varoufakis – Adults in the Room |
| Richard Denniss – Dead Right |
| Richard Denniss – Econobabble |
| Stephanie Kelton – The Deficit Myth |
| Yanis Varoufakis – Talking to My Daughter |
| Richard Dennis – Curing Affluenza |
other
| Jamie Metzl – Hacking Darwin |
| Isaac Asimov – Foundation |
| Irwin Stelzer – The Murdoch Method |
| Ross Garnaut – Superpower |
| Yuval Noah Harari – Sapiens |
| Yuval Noah Harari – Homo Deus |
| Yuval Noah Harari – 21 Lessons for the 21st Century |
| Jared Diamond – Guns, Germs and Steel |
| Charles Massy – Call of the Reed Warbler |
| Gabe Brown – Dirt to Soil |
Books Read in 2019:
Self-help
| Paul Kalanithi – When Breath Becomes Air |
| Tim Spector – The Diet Myth |
| Gary Vaynerchuk – Crushing it |
| Tim Ferriss – 4 Hour Workweek |
| Jordan Peterson – 12 Rules For Life |
| Tony Robbins – Unlimited Power |
| Tony Robbins – Awaken The Giant Within |
| Dale Carnegie – How to Win Friends and Influence People |
| Rolf Potts – Vagabonding |
| Mark Manson – Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck |
| Mike George – The 7 AHA’s of Highly Enlightened Souls |
| Simon Sinek – Start With Why |
| Tony Robbins – Unshakeable |
Other
| Jared Diamond – Collapse |
| Yuval Noah Harari – Sapiens |
| Yuval Noah Harari – Homo Deus |
| George Orwell – 1984 |
| Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman – Manufacturing Consent |
| George Orwell – Animal Farm |
| Neil DeGrasse Tyson – Astrophysics for People in a Hurry |
| Max Tegmark – Life 3.0 |
| Yanis Varoufakis – Talking to my Daughter |
| Aldous Huxley – Brave New World |
| Jane Mayer – Dark Money |
| Sam Harris – The End of Faith |
| Noam Chomsky – How the World Works |
Books Read in 2018:
| Martin Ford – Rise of the Robots |
| Johann Hari – Chasing the Scream |
| Johann Hari – Lost Connections |
| James Barrat – Our Final Invention |
| Mark Manson – Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck |
Books To Read:
self-help
| Art of War |
| Jonathan Haidt – Coddling of the American Mind |
| Brian Tracy – Eat That Frog |
| Greg McKeown – Essentialism |
| Robert Firestone – Fantasy Bond |
| Michael Pollan – How to Change Your Mind |
| Benjamin Graham – Intelligent Investor |
| Jordan Peterson – Maps of Meaning |
| John Gray – Men are from Mars |
| Tony Robbins – Money |
| Joshua Foer – Moonwalking with Einstein |
| Julie Morgenstern – Never Check Email in the Morning |
| Charles Duhigg – Power of Habit |
| Susan Cain – Quiet |
| Kenneth Adams – Silently Seduced |
| Donald Robertson – Stoicism and the Art of Happiness |
| Seneca – Tao of Seneca |
| Lao Tzu – Tao Te Ching |
| Daniel Kahneman – Thinking Fast and Slow |
| Sam Harris – Waking Up |
| Steven Pressfield – War of Art |
| Matthew Walker – Why We Sleep |
| Jed McKenna – Spiritual Enlightenment |
| Eckhart Tolle – A New Earth |
| Dalai Lama and Daniel Goleman – Destructive Emotions |
| Jeff Olson – The Slight Edge |
| Albert J. Bernstein – Emotional Vampires |
agriculture/environment
| Paul Hawken – Drawdown |
| Eric Toensmeier – The Carbon Farming Solution |
| Bill Gammage – The Biggest Estate on Earth |
| Bruce Pascoe – Dark Emu |
| Joel Salatin – Folks, This Ain’t Normal |
| Alan Savory – Holistic Management Handbook |
| David Holmgren – Retrosuburbia |
Politics
| Noam Chomsky – Necessary Illusions |
| Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway – Merchants of Doubt |
| Richard Wolff et al – Contending Economic Theories |
| Anatol Lieven – Climate Change and the Nation State |
| Samuel P. Huntington – Who Are We? |
| Naomi Klein – The Shock Doctrine |
| Yanis Varoufakis – Another Now |
| Walter Lippman – Public Opinion |
| Donald Horne – The Lucky Country |
Political (auto)biography
| Jack Lang – The Turbulent Years |
| Jack Lang – I Remember |
| Jack Lang – The Great Bust |
| Jenny Hocking – Gough Whitlam |
| Blanche D’Alpuget – Bob Hawke |
| Kerry O’Brien – Keating |
| John Howard – Lazarus Rising |
| Kevin Rudd – Not for the Faint-hearted |
| Kevin Rudd – The PM Years |
| Julia Gillard – My Story |
| Malcolm Turnbull – A Bigger Picture |
other
| Jared Diamond – Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee |
| Isaac Asimov – Second Foundation |
| Isaac Asimov – Foundation and Empire |
| Sigmund Freud – Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious |