28 August 2009

Reading List

Books

  • The Omnivore's Dilemma-Michael Pollan

  • An Incomplete Education

  • The Gastronomical Me-MFK Fisher

  • The Lazy Person's Guide to Investing

  • The Elegant Universe-Brian Greene

  • The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question?-Leon Lederman(5th time lol)

  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid-Douglas R. Hofstadter

  • Paradise Lost-John Milton

  • How to think like Leonardo da Vinci-Michael Gelb

  • The Lost Symbol-Dan Brown

  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog-Muriel Barbery

  • I, Lucifer-Glen Duncan

  • Microserfs-Douglas Coupland

  • The Gum Thief-Douglas Coupland

  • Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture-Douglas Coupland

  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being-Milan Kundera

  • The Infinite Book-John D. Barrow

  • Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit-Jeanette Winterson

  • An Abundance of Katherines-John Green

  • The Happiness Hypothesis-Jonathan Haidt

  • How We Decide-Jonan Lehrer

  • How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe-Charles Yu

  • The Denial Of Death-Ernest Becker

  • Then We Came To The End-Joshua Ferris

  • A Cook's Tour-Anthony Bourain

  • Fast Food Nation-Eric Schlosser

  • Heat-Bill Buford

  • I'm Just Here For The Food-Alton Brown

  • Commedia-Dante

  • The Selfish Gene-Richard Dawkins

  • The Emperor's New Mind-Roger Penrose

  • Infinite Jest-David Foster Wallace

  • Breakfast of Champions-Kurt Vonnegut




Leave a comment with any suggested materials below! A short description/genre would be very helpful :]

1 comment:

paper.mannequin said...

Movies:
A Beautiful Mind is amazing!
+ Amelie.
& let's watch A Single Man sometime together.

Books:
I haven't had time to read most of my books, but if you're slightly interested in business, you should read Get Smarter by Seymour Schulich.