Anyone who knows me can tell you that I am a voracious reader.  My interest is mostly in non-fiction, though I do have a soft spot for things like science fiction, detective stories, and classic literature.  I read about various subjects, and keep a list of books on my LinkedIn profile.  However, for those of you not interested in LinkedIn or heading there to find my reading list, I’ve decided to include it here.  These are books I’ve read for professional development, school and pleasure, and is broken down roughly by subject for non-fiction and by genre for fiction.

* = Very much enjoyed and would recommend

WHAT I’M CURRENTLY READING

• The End of Wall Street, Roger Lowenstein
• This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Steig Larsson

WHAT’S NEXT

• A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers, Lawrence C. McDonald with Patrick Robinson
• Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

PERIODICALS

• Foreign Affairs
• The Economist

NON-FICTION

Business

• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More (Revised & Updated), Chris Andersen *
• The Curse of the Mogul: What’s Wrong with the World’s Leading Media Companies, Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave*
• The Chaos Scenario, Bob Garfield
• House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, William D. Cohan

Economics

• Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development, Joseph E. Stiglitz & Andrew Charlton
• The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, Paul Krugman*
• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More, Chris Anderson
• Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Chris Andersen

History

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Erik Larson

Political Science

• The Post-American World, Fareed Zakariah *

Misc.

• Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism, Kevin Phillips
• Rescue Warriors: The U.S. Coast Guard, America’s Forgotten Heroes, David Helvarg

FICTION

Classic Literature

• The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe
• Ward 6 and Other Stories, Anton Chekov
• Dracula, Bram Stoker
• Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

Science Fiction

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
• 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke  (As well as sequels 2010, 2064, and 3001: The Final Odyssey)
• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Mystery/Detective

• The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  
• Tinker, Tailor Soldier, Spy, John Le Carré*