Interesting and Useful Books
Books are listed here because they are--in my opinion--very well written, very useful, or present unusual or provocative information. Although I have reviewed many other books elsewhere, those shown below are highly recommended. Click the headings to visit the lists:
Modern Economy, Current Events
Applied Psychology
Internet
History
Science
Parenting
Spirituality
Women
Fiction, Recent
Fiction, Classic
Gardening
Environment
Modern Economy, Current Events
Freakonomics By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The World is Flat By Thomas Friedman
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling More of Less By Chris Anderson
Psychology and Applied Psychology
Our Iceberg Is Melting By John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber
Personality and the Fate of Organizations by Robert Hogan, Ph.D.
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss what Matters Most By Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen of the Harvard Negotiation Project
A Primer in Positive Psychology by Christopher Peterson
The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz
The Power of Story by Jim Loehr
Internet, E-Commerce
The Cathedral And The Bazaar By Eric S. Raymond
Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee
Google.pedia by Michael Miller
History
Truman by David McCullough
Churchill by Piers Brandon
John Adams by David McCullough
History of Warfare by John Keegan
Return to Sodom and Gomorrah by Charles Pellegrino
The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Science and Natural History
The Youngest Science by Lewis Thomas
Late Night Thoughts by Lewis Thomas
Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner
Splendid Solution by Jeffrey Kluger
Cod by Mark Kurlansky and Richard M Davidson
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
Five Plants that Changed the World
Parenting, Childrearing, Education
Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher
Raising Cain by Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson
Get Out of My Life by Anthony Wolf
All Kinds of Minds by Mel Levine
The Myth of Laziness by Mel Levine
Spirituality, Self-Help
Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough by Harold Kushner
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
The Soul's Code by James Hillman
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Women's Studies
The Heroine’s Journey Maureen Murdock
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Fiction, Recent
The Red Tent by Anita Diamante
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Last Report of Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Cane River by by Lalita Tademy
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Fiction, Classics
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Odyssey by Homer
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Patton
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Gardening & Preserving the Harvest
Dear Mr. Jefferson Laura Simon
The New Organic Grower Elliot Coleman
Putting Food By
Stocking Up III
Environment
The Homeowners Guide to Energy Independence by Christine Woodside
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