Recommended Reading:
Popular, Career, Business
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One – Jenny Blake
Life After College – Jenny Blake
Entrepreneurial You – Dorie Clark
Choose Yourself – James Altucher
Jack: Straight from the Gut – Jack Welch w/ John A. Byrne
How to Read Novels Like a Professor – Thomas Foster
The Executioner’s Song – Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer: A Double Life – J. Michael Lennon
Selected Letters of Norman Mailer – Norman Mailer, J. Michael Lennon
Rust: The Longest War – Jonathan Waldman
Anthropology, Sociology
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life – Emile Durkheim
The Savage Mind – Claude Levi-Strauss
Guns, Germs, and Steel – Jared Diamond
The Trouble with Diversity – Walter Benn Michaels
History
Scars of Independence – Holger Hoock
The Many-Headed Hydra – Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Redeker
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man – John Perkins
New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man – John Perkins
The Coldest Winter – David Halberstam
Metamorphoses – Ovid – Frank Miller Translation
Inventing the Middle Ages – Norman Cantor
The Civilization of the Middle Ages – Norman Cantor
The Evolution of Medieval Thought – David Knowles
Twentieth-Century Culture – Norman Cantor
The Autumn of the Middle Ages – John Huizinga
A Distant Mirror – Barbara Tuchman
Essays in the Study of Writing History – Lord Acton
Lineages of the Absolutist State – Perry Anderson
Victorian Thinkers: Carlyle, Ruskin, Arnold, Morris – Ed. Keith Thomas
The Age of Jackson – Arthur Schlesinger
Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam – Stephen W. Sears
The Georgetown Set – Greg Herken
Empire of Cotton – Sven Beckert
The Barbarous Years – Bernard Bailyn
The American Slave Coast – Ned and Constance Sublette
The Erie Canal – Peter L. Bernstein
The Great Bridge (Brooklyn Bridge) – David McCullough
The Path Between the Seas (Panama Canal) – David McCullough
King Leopold’s Ghost (Congo Holocaust) – Adam Hochschild
Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s – Ann Douglas
The Beggar and the Professor – Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie
The First Moderns – William Everdell
The Concept of Modernism – Astradur Eysteinson
The Fatal Shore – Robert Hughes
Biography, Autobiography
Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend
John Marshall – Jean Edward Smith
Young Stalin – Simon Sebag Montefiore
George F. Kennan: An American Life – John Lewis Gaddis
Henry Clay: The Essential American – David and Jeanne Heidler
Louis Brandeis – Melvin Urofsky
Thomas Cranmer: A Life – Diarmaid MacCulloch
Ike: An American Hero – Michael Korda
Biology
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory – Stephen Jay Gould
The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
The Gene – Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Vital Question – Nick Lane
Power, Sex and Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life – Nick Lane
Biochemistry For Dummies – John Moore, Richard Langley
The Genius of Birds – Jennifer Ackerman
Bugged: The Insects That Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them – David MacNeal
Plant Intelligence – Stephen Buhner
Rock and Roll
The Wrecking Crew – Kent Hartman
Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns – Joel Selvin
One Train Later – Andy Summers
This Wheel’s On Fire – Levon Helm
Hotter Than a Match Head: Life on the Run with The Lovin’ Spoonful – Steve Boone
Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years – M. Lewisohn
Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band – Alan Paul
Chronicles: Volume One – Bob Dylan
Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs – Joe Goodden
Philosophy
Dialectic of Enlightenment – Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer
Against Method – Paul Feyerabend
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism – Fredric Jameson
The Origins of Postmodernity – Perry Anderson
The Cultural Turn – Fredric Jameson
The Prison-House of Language – Frederic Jameson
The Postmodern Condition – Jean-Francois Lyotard
A Brief History of Everything – Ken Wilber
Landscape And Memory – Simon Schama
What Technology Wants – Kevin Kelly
Aesthetics and Politics – Adorno, Benjamin, Bloch, Lukacs, Brecht
Bertolt Brecht: His Life, His Art and His Times – Frederic Ewen
The Wretched of the Earth – Frantz Fanon
Madness and Civilization – Michel Foucault
Society Of The Spectacle – Guy Debord
Postmodernism – Christopher Butler
Poststructuralism – Catherine Belsey
Landscape And Memory – Simon Schama
For an Architecture of Reality – Michael Benedikt
Deconstructing the Kimbell – Michael Benedikt
Introducing Postmodernism – Appignanesi, Garratt
The Postmodern Moment – Stanley Trachtenberg
The Postmodern Turn – Douglas Kellner, Steven Best
The Closing of the American Mind – Allan Bloom
The Measure of Reality – Alfred Crosby
Chora L Works – Jacques Derrida, Peter Eisenman
Literary Theory – Terry Eagleton
Love and Death in the American Novel – Leslie Fiedler
Theory and Practice – Jurgen Habermas
The Post-Modern Reader – Charles Jencks
The Birth of the Modern – Paul Johnson
The Continental Philosophy Reader – Ed. Richard Kearny, Mara Rainwater
Art & Physics – Leonard Shlain
Fashionable Nonsense – Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont
Picture Plane
The Wright Brothers – David McCullough
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan – Julia Meech
The Origin of Perspective – Hubert Damisch
The Picasso Papers – Rosalind Krauss
The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths – Rosalind Krauss
Picasso and the Invention of Cubism – Pepe Karmel
Notes from lectures at Harvard Graduate School of Design 1980 – Jim Blake
Station Point (Reflections on Cubism-Postmodernism) – Jim Blake
Zeit File: Outtakes – Jim Blake
The History of Postmodernism – Vimeo – 6 one-hour episodes – Jim Blake
Translation from Drawing to Building – Robin Evans
Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man – Norman Mailer
Rococo to Cubism in Art and Literature – Sypher Wylie
Fiction
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
Harlot’s Ghost – Norman Mailer
Bushwhacked Piano – Thomas McGuane
Ninety-two in the Shade – Thomas McGuane
Driving on the Rim – Thomas McGuane
All the rest of the Novels, non-fiction and short story collections – Thomas McGuane
A Rumor of War – Philip Caputo
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
An Absolute Scandal – Penny Vincenzi