Favorite books

This is continues to be a work in progress. I want to get the various lists to about 50. I have more books to enter here, but it’s taking me longer than I thought.

Here are the lists so far…

Economics & non-fiction

  1. Free to Choose, Milton Friedman

  2. Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek

  3. Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell

  4. Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell

  5. A Conflict of Visions, Thomas Sowell

  6. Common Sense, Thomas Paine

  7. Rights of Man, Thomas Paine

  8. The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

  9. Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu

  10. How To Read a Book, Nortimer J. Adler & Charles van Doren

  11. The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton

  12. The History of the Decline of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon

  13. The Republic, Plato

  14. Chernobyl Notebook, Grigoriy Medvedev

  15. Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden

  16. George Washington’s Rules of Civility, George Washington

  17. 12 Rules for Life, Jordan Peterson

  18. Robert’s Rules of Order, Henry Robert

  19. The Quest for Cosmic Justice, Thomas Sowell

  20. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

  21. The Hot Zone, Richard Preston

  22. The Notes, Ronald Reagan

  23. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, James D. Hornfischer

  24. Myths of Light, Joseph Campbell

  25. Pathways to Bliss, Joseph Campbell

Fiction

  1. The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien

  2. The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien

  3. Dune, Frank Herbert

  4. Ready Player One, Ernest Cline

  5. The Fall of Gondolin, J. R. R. Tolkien

  6. Metamorphoses, Ovid

  7. The Three Musketeers, Alexander Dumas

  8. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

  9. Animal Farm, George Orwell

  10. 1984, George Orwell

  11. Empires of EVE, Andrew Groen

  12. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown

  13. World War Z, Max Brooks

  14. The Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling

  15. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

  16. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke

  17. The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy

Organizational sciences

  1. The Culture Code, Daniel Coyle

  2. Intertwingled, Peter Morville

  3. How to Measure Anything, Douglas W. Hubbard

  4. Game Thinking, Amy J. Kim

  5. The Art of Thinking in Systems, Steven Schuster

  6. Interviewing as Qualitative Research, Irving Seidman

  7. How Games Move Us, Katherine Isbister

  8. Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method, Tom Boellstorff et al.

  9. How to Make Sense of Any Mess, Abby Covert

  10. The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers, Johnny Saldana

  11. The Laws of Simplicity, John Maeda

  12. Redesigning Leadership, John Maeda

  13. Reality is Broken, Jane McGonigal

  14. Competitive Advantage, Michael E. Porter

  15. The Mythical Man-Month, Frederick P. Brooks

  16. Case Study Research: Design and Methods, Robert K. Yin

  17. The Warcraft Civilization, William S. Bainbridge

  18. Cracking Complexity, David Komlos & David Benjamin