Favorite Books

Some of My Favorite Books:

Creativity + Play

• Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently | Dawna Markova + Angie McArthur
• Creative Economy Entrepreneurs: From Startup to Success | Alice Loy + Tom Aageson
• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration | Ed Catmull
• Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination and Invigorates the Soul | Stuart Brown
• Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World | Jane McGonigal
• Show Your Work: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered and Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative | Austin Kleon
• The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity | Julia Cameron
• The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon
• The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles | Steven Pressfield
• Thought Revolution: How to Unlock Your Inner Genius | William A. Donius

Education and Youth Empowerment

• Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World | Tony Wagner
• Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education | Ken Robinson
• Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play
• Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era | Tony Wagner + Ted Dintersmith
• The Third Teacher: 79 Ways You Can Use Design to Transform Teaching and Learning |  O’Donnell Wicklund Pigozzi and Peterson, Bruce Mau 

Work, Life, Sociology, Economics, Social Justice

• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant | W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
• Brave New Work | Aaron Dignan
• Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs | Muhammad Yunus
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us | Daniel H. Pink
• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown
• Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas that Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
• Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World | Rand Fishkin
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die | Chip Heath + Dan Heath
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, How We Can Learn to Fulfill Our Potential | Carol S. Dweck
• Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace | Gordon MacKenzie
• Outliers: The Story of Success | Malcolm Gladwell
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions | Dan Ariely
• Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade | Robert Cialdini
• Principles | Ray Dalio
• Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable | Seth Godin
• Rework: Jason Fried + David Heinemeier Hansson
• Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard | Chip Heath and Dan Heath
• Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World | General Stanley McChrystal
• The E Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It | Michael E. Gerber
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich | Tim Ferriss
• The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything | Stephen M.R. Covey
• Thinking Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman
  
• Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers | Tim Ferriss
• Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life | Gary John Bishop

Data Privacy + Visualization

• Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World | Bruce Schneier
• Dear Data | Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec
• Understanding the World : The Atlas of Infographics | Sandra Rendgen (note this is the most ginormous book I’ve ever checked out from the library, so not one you can tuck away into a small bag on a bike ride. 🙂 )

Ethical AI

• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy | Cathy O’Neil
• Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism | Safiya Umoja Noble

Empowering Women

• How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job | Sally Helgesen + Marshall Goldsmith
• Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead | Tara Mohr
• The Art of Asking: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help | Amanda Palmer
• The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table | Minda Harts

Science

• Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization | Adrian Bejan and John Peder Zane

Fiction

• One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez
• The Alchemist | Paolo Coehlo
• Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype | Clarissa Pinkola Estés