Books

A curation of my favorite books sorted by topic.

Stories, History, and Theory of Invention

• The Most Powerful Idea in the World
• The Wright Brothers
• The Electric Life of Michael Faraday
• Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
• The Art Spirit
• Autobiography of Charles Darwin
• Feynman's WDYCWOPT and SYJMF
• In Defence of Serendipity
• Doing the Impossible
• Loonshots

Stories, History, and Theory of Corporations

• Images of Organization
• The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
• Creativity, Inc.
• The House of Morgan
• Zero to One
• Shoe Dog
• My Life and Work (Henry Ford)
• Changing How the World Does Business (FedEx)

Progress, Growth, and Economics

• Collapse of Complex Societies
• Rise and Fall of American Growth
• The Great Stagnation
• Stubborn Attachments
• Growth Econ Blog
• Unenumerated Blog
• The Scientific Outlook
• Meaning in History
• Communist Manifesto
• Small is Beautiful
• Price of Inequality**
• After Capitalism**
• Affluent Society**
• Development as Freedom**
• Justice as Fairness

Conciousness, Behavior, and the Mind

• The Righteous Mind
• From Bacteria to Bach and Back
• Wittgenstein's Mistress
• Computer Power and Human Reason
• The River of Conciousness
• The Power of Habit
• The Social Animal
• Thinking
• Quiet
• Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
• Altered Traits
• GEB
• Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Contemporary Dystopias

• Psychopolitics
• Superintelligence
• The Machine Stops
• Infinite Jest
• Consider the Lobster
• Brave New World
• 1984
• The Circle
• Post-Truth

Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Other Visionaries

• Wheel of Time
• Foundation 1-3
• Last and First Men
• Nexus Series
• Culture Series
• The Power Broker
• Death and Life of Great American Cities
• Federalist Papers

** Read as part of QBCD. QBCD is a quarterly book club with an annual theme, organized by a group of long-term friends.