Books are listed alphabetically by author.
A
Aaker, David A., Building Strong Brands
Aaker, David A., Managing Brand Equity
Abbey, Edward, The Monkey Wrench Gang
Adams, Ansel, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
Adams, Henry, The Education of Henry Adams
Ambrose, Stephen E., Undaunted Courage
Ambrose, Stephen E., D Day June 6, 1944
Aristotle, Ethics
B
Barrett, William, Irrational Man
Berendt, John, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Berlin, Isaiah, The Hedgehog and the Fox
Birch, David, Job Creation in America
Bissinger, H.G., Friday Night Lights
Boorstin, Daniel J., The Americans – The Colonial Experience
Boorstin, Daniel J., The Americans – The Democratic Experience
Boorstin, Daniel J., The Americans – The National Experience
Boorstin, Daniel J., Cleopatra’s Nose
Boorstin, Daniel J., The Discoverers
Bortz, Walter M., We Live too Short and Die too Long
Bowen, Catherine Drinker, John Adams and the American Revolution (Harry Truman’s favorite book)
Bowen, Catherine Drinker, Miracle at Philadelphia
Buffett, Warren E. and Lawrence A. Cunningham, The Essays of Warren Buffett
Burke, James, The Day the Universe Changed
Burrough, Bryan, Barbarians at the Gate
C
Camus, Albert, The Myth of Sisyphus
Camus, Albert, The Plague
Caro, Robert A., Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson)
Caro, Robert A., The Power Broker (5 stars)
Chernow, Ron, The House of Morgan
Churchill, Winston S., My Early Life
Churchill, Winston S., The Second World War – Closing the Ring
Churchill, Winston S., The Second World War – The Gathering Storm
Churchill, Winston S., The Second World War – The Grand Alliance
Churchill, Winston S., The Second World War – The Hinge of Fate
Churchill, Winston S., The Second World War – Their Finest Hour
Churchill, Winston S., The Second World War – Triumph and Tragedy
Christensen, Clayton, Innovator’s Dilemma
Cialdini, Robert B., Influence
Connell, Evan S., Son of the Morning Star
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness
Conrad, Joseph, Lord Jim
Conroy, Pat, Lords Of Discipline
Conroy, Pat, Prince of Tides
Covey, Stephen R., The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Cronkite, Walter, A Reporter’s Life
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, Flow
D
Darwin, Charles, The Origin of Species
Dawkins, Richard, The Blind Watchmaker (esp. chapter 3)
De Waal, Frans, Chimpanzee Politics
Deming, W. Edwards, Out of the Crisis
Depree, Max, Leadership is an Art
Detocqueville, Alexis, Democracy in America, Volume I (out of print)
Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations
Dillard, Anne, The Writing Life
Dixit, Avinash K., Thinking Strategically
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, Crime and Punishment
Douglas, John, Mind Hunter
Drucker, Peter Ferdinand, Managing for Results
Drucker, Peter Ferdinand, Managing in a Time of Great Change
Drucker, Peter F., The Effective Executive
Drucker, Peter F., The End of Economic Man
Drucker, Peter Ferdinand, The Practice of Management
Drury, Allen, Advise and Consent
Durant, Will, The Life of Greece
E
Ehrenfeld, Tom, The Startup Garden
Ellis, Joseph J., Founding Brothers
F
Faulkner, William, Go Down Moses (especially “The Bear”)
Faulkner, William, The Sound and the Fury
Forster, Edward Morgan, A Passage to India
Frank, Robert and Philip Cook, The Winner Take All Society
Frankel, Viktor E., Man’s Search for Meaning
Friedman, Thomas L., From Beirut to Jerusalem
G
Gardner, John W., On Leadership
Gardner, John W., Self-Renewal
Gladwell, Malcolm, The Tipping Point
Gleick, James, Chaos
Goldratt, Eliyahu M., The Goal
Gould, Stephen Jay, Bully for Brontosaurus
Gould, Stephen Jay, Dinosaur in a Haystack
Gould, Stephen Jay, Eight Little Piggies
Gould, Stephen Jay, Ever Since Darwin
Gould, Stephen Jay, Flamingo’s Smile
Gould, Stephen Jay, Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes
Gould, Stephen Jay, The Panda’s Thumb
Gould, Stephen Jay, Wonderful Life
Graham, Katherine, Personal History
Graves, Robert, I Claudius
Grove, Andrew S., Only the Paranoid Survive
H
Halberstam, David, The Amateurs
Hamilton, Alexander, et. al., The Federalist Papers
Hawkin, Paul, Growing a Business
Hebrew Bible, The Book of Job
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm (Editor) and Walter Kaufmann (Translator), Hegel: Texts and Commentary
Hemmingway, Ernest, For Whom The Bell Tolls
Hemingway, Ernest, The Old Man and the Sea
Hesse, Hermann, Siddhartha
Hoffman, Edward, The Right to Be Human
Hugo, Victor, Les Miserables
J
Junger, Sebestain, The Perfect Storm
K
Katzenbach, Jon R. and Douglas K. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams
Keneally, Thomas, Schindler’s List
Kennedy, John F., Profiles in Courage
Kennedy, Robert F., Thirteen Days
Kidder, Tracy, House
Kidder, Tracy, Old Friends
Kidder, Tracy, The Soul of a New Machine
Kierkegaard, Soren, Fear and Trembling
Kierkegaard, Soren, Sickness Unto Death
Kotter, John P., The General Managers
Krakauer, Jon, Into Thin Air
Kuhn, Thomas S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Kushner, Rabbi Harold S., When Bad Things Happen to Good People
L
Lamott, Anne, Bird by Bird
Lansing, Alfred, Endurance
Lavie, Peretz, The Enchanted World of Sleep
Lee, Harper, To Kill A Mockingbird
Levitt, Theodore, Thinking About Management
Lewis, Brad Alan, Assault on Lake Casitas
Lewis, Michael, The New New Thing
Lord, Walter, A Night to Remember
M
Machiavelli, Niccolo, et. al., The Prince
MacLean, Norman, Young Men and Fire
Manchester, William, A World Lit Only by Fire
Manchester, William, American Caesar
Manchester, William, Goodbye Darkness
Manchester, William, The Glory and the Dream
Manchester, William, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone (Preamble—“The Lion Caged”—presents the best 35 pages of biographical prose I’ve ever read)
Manchester, William, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory
Mandela, Nelson, Long Walk to Freedom
Maraniss, David, When Pride Still Mattered
McCullough, David, John Adams
McCullough, David, Truman
McFeely, Willam S., Grant: A Biography
McGregor, Douglas, The Human Side of Enterprise
McNamara, Robert S., In Retrospect
McPhee, John, A Sense of Where You Are
McPhee, John, Levels of the Game
McPhee, John, The Control of Nature
McPherson, James M., For Cause and Comrades
Melville, Herman, Moby Dick
Michener, James A., Centennial
Michener, James A., The Novel
Michener, James A., The Source
Michener, James A., The World is My Home
Miles, Jack, God: A Biography
Miller, Merle, Plain Speaking
Morita, Akio, Made in Japan
Morris, Edmund, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Moyers, Bill, A World of Ideas
Moyers, Bill, Genesis: A Living Conversation
N
Nayak, P. Ranganath and John M. Ketteringham, Breakthroughs!
Nietzche, Friedrich (Editor) and Walter Kaufmann (Translator), The Portable Nietzsche
Nocera, Joseph, A Piece of the Action
P
PBS, Video Series, Ken Burns, Director, The Civil War
Peck, M. Scott, The Road Less Traveled
Pendergrast, Mark, For God, Country and Coca Cola
Peters, Thomas, et. al., In Search of Excellence
Pfeffer, Jeffrey, Competitive Advantage Through People
Pfeffer, Jeffrey, Managing with Power
Pirsig, Robert M., Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Plato, The Socratic Dialogues
Plous, Scott, The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making
Porter, Michael E., Competitive Strategy
Prejean, Sister Helen, Dead Man Walking
R
Rand, Ayn, Atlas Shrugged
Ray, Michael L. and Rochelle Myers, Creativity in Business
Remarque, Erich Maria, All Quiet On the Western Front
Rhodes, Richard, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Ricardo-Campbell, Rita, Resisting Hostile Takeovers
Rich, Ben R. and Leo Janos, Skunk Works
Rogers, Everett M., Diffusion of Innovations
S
Sandburg, Carl, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years (January 1927)—Library Binding
Senge, Peter M., The Fifth Discipline
Shaara, Michael, The Killer Angels
Shirer, William L., Berlin Diary
Shirer, William L., Gandhi: A Memoir
Shirer, William L., The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Simonton, Dean Keith, Greatness: Who Makes History and Why
Simpson, Joe, Touching the Void
Stanley, Thomas and William Danko, The Millionaire Next Door
Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath
Stegnar, Wallace, Angle of Repose
Stockdale, James and Sybil Stockdale, In Love and War
Stone, Irving, Love is Eternal
Stone, Irving, Men to Match My Mountains
Stone, Irving, The Agony and the Ecstasy
Stone, Irving, The Origin
Superstar Teachers – A collection of Tapes of courses from great university professors, offered by the Teaching Company, 1-800-TEACH12, my favorites listed below:
Superstar Teachers – Abraham Lincoln In His Own Words
Superstar Teachers – American Civil War
Superstar Teachers – Bach and the High Baroque
Superstar Teachers – Comedy, Tragedy, History: William Shakespeare
Superstar Teachers – Energy & Climate: Science in the Age of Global Warming
Superstar Teachers – Freedom: The Philosophy of Liberation
Superstar Teachers – God and Mankind: Comparative Religions
Superstar Teachers – The Good King: The American Presidency Since the Depression
Superstar Teachers – Great American Presidents
Superstar Teachers – Great Ideas of Psychology
Superstar Teachers – The Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition
Superstar Teachers – The Great World Religions: Beliefs, Practices, and Histories
Superstar Teachers – The Greenberg Series on Western Concert Music
Superstar Teachers – Haydn, his life and music
Superstar Teachers – History of Ancient Rome
Superstar Teachers – The History of Hitler’s Empire
Superstar Teachers – Is Anyone Really Normal? Perspectives on Abnormal Psychology
Superstar Teachers – Love and Vengeance
Superstar teachers – Modern Physics
Superstar Teachers – Mozart, his life and music
Superstar Teachers – Nietzsche and the Postmodern Condition
Superstar Teachers – No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life
Superstar Teachers – The Old Testament: An Introduction
Superstar Teachers – The Origin of the Modern Mind
Superstar Teachers – Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire
Superstar Teachers – Stravinksy, his life and music
Superstar Teachers – Symphonies of Beethoven
Superstar Teachers – Tchaikovsky, his life and music
T
Taylor, John, Storming the Magic Kingdom
Toland, John, The Rising Sun
Tolstoy, Leo, War and Peace
Tuchman, Barbara, Stilwell and the American Experience in China
Tuchman, Barbara W., The Guns of August
Tuchman, Barbara W., The March of Folly
Tuchman, Barbara, The Zimmerman Telegram
Tufte, Edward R., Envisioning Information
Tufte, Edward R., A Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Tufte, Edward R., Visual Explanations
Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
U
United States Statistical Dept., Statistical Abstract of the United States
V
Vaillant, George E., Adaptation to Life
W
Wallerstein, Judith S., The Good Marriage
Walsh, Bill, Building a Champion
Walton, Sam, Made in America
Ward, Geoffrey C., A First-Class Temperament
Washington, Booker T., Up From Slavery
Watson, Jr., Thomas J., A Business and its Beliefs
Watson, Thomas J., Father, Son, & Co.
Weick, Karl E., The Social Psychology of Organizing
Wessels, Norm K. and Janet L. Hopson, Biology
White, Theodore Harold, Breach of Faith
White, Theodore Harold, In Search of History
Wills, Gary, Lincoln at Gettysburg
Wolfe, Tom, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Wolfe, Tom, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Wolfe, Tom, The Right Stuff
Wooden, John R., They Call Me Coach
Y
Yergin, Daniel, The Prize
Z
Zimbardo, Philip G., The Psychology of Attitude Change and Social Influence
Zinsser, William Knowlton, On Writing Well
Zukav, Gary, The Dancing Wu Li Masters