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 |