LISTS OF FAVORITES

 

Books

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

 

Video games

  1. World of Warcraft, by Blizzard Entertainment

  2. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, by Naughty Dog

  3. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, by Naughty Dog

  4. Mass Effect, by Bioware

  5. Mass Effect 2, by Bioware

  6. Mass Effect 3, by Bioware

  7. Gone Home, by Fullbright & Blitworks

  8. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, by Bioware

  9. Lord of the Rings Online, by Standing Stone Games & Turbine

  10. Gladius, by LucasArts & Activision

  11. Heavy Rain, by Quantic Dream

  12. Portal, by Valve Corporation

  13. Portal 2, by Valve Corporation

  14. Freedom Force, by Irrational Games

  15. Freedom Force vs the 3rd Reich, by Irrational Games

  16. XCOM: Enemy Unknown, by Firaxis

  17. XCOM 2, by Firaxis

  18. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, by Mimimi Games

  19. Batman: Arkham Asylum, by Rocksteady Studios

  20. Batman: Arkham Knight, by Rocksteady Studios

  21. Bioshock, by Irrational Games

  22. Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons, by Starbreeze Studios

  23. Dragon Age: Origins, by Bioware

  24. Dragon Age: Inquisition, by Bioware

  25. The Room, by Fireproof Studios

  26. Tomb Raider, by Ubisoft

  27. The Wolf Among Us, by Telltale Games

  28. The Walking Dead, by Telltale Games

  29. Her Story, by Sam Barlow