I’m an idea junkie and a pretty high-level book hoarder. My tendency is to go on reading benders, tearing through a half-dozen books in a row and then slow down, going through phases where I grab a book, read a few chapters, get excited about an idea, and then get distracted from finishing the whole thing. This pattern has resulted in me having a to-read list that is pretty much impossible to complete.
The list below is not every book in my collection (I have pared it down to a combination of the ones I already started at some point and the ones I most urgently want to read). I’ve made the list to try and stop myself from accruing any more books. I need to take a dent out of this list before I start adding anything else to my collection.
- Lester B. Pearson by Andrew Cohen
- The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
- Smile at Fear Chogyam Trungpa
- The Mass Media in Canada by Mary Vipond
- Pilgrims by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Stiffed:The Betrayal of the American Man by Susan Faludi
- Little Bets: How Breaktrhough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries by Peter Sims
- Agile Selling by Jill Konrath
- Building Your Business the Right Brain Way by Jennifer Lee
- Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuk
- The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
- Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
- The Quarter Life Breakthrough by Smiley Poswolsky
- The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
- Digital Product Management by Kristofer Layon
- Joyous Health by Joy McCarthy
- Head First Rails by David Griffiths
- Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
- Sass for Web Designers by Dan Cederholm
- Lean UX by Jeff Golhelf
- The Elements of Content Strategy by Erin Kissane
- Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath
- Clientcentric Web Design by Paul Boag
- Just Enough Research by Erika Hall
- Digital Adaptation by Paul Boag
- Design is a Job by Mike Monteiro
- Designing for Emotion by Aaron Walter
- Essentialism by Greg McKeown
- The First 20 Hours by Josh Kaufman
- Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
- The Hard Things about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- 10 MInute Toughness by Jason Selk
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
- Finding Your Way in a Wild New World by Martha Beck
- A History of Graphic Design for Rainy Days
- CTV: The Network that Means Business by Michael Nolan
- The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
- The Myth of Freedom by Chogyam Trungpa
- Economics for Everyone by Jim Stanford
- Boom and Bust Again: Policy Challenges for a Commodoties based economy
- Adulting by Kelly Williams Brown
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- How We are Hungry by David Eggers
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
- Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
- The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
- Hark a Vagrant by Kate Beaton
- Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham-Clinton (added June 11)
