Writing Worth Reading
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Writing Worth Reading
We believe there’s a lot to learn about people from what they read.
Henry recommends five books to read in Italy: The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi, The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa, Vendetta by Michael Dibdin, Northern Italy: From the Alps to Florence by L. Russell Muirhead and Love & War in The Apennines by Eric Newby.
Mark recommends five books on the Financial Crisis: Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay by John Lanchester, The Age of Instability: The Global Financial Crisis and What Comes Next by David Smith, Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World by William D. Cohan, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street by Andrew Ross Sorkin.
Bob recommends five books on the British Abroad: Loving Monsters by James Hamilton-Paterson, Italian Neighbours by Tim Parks, Lawrence Durrell: A Biography by Ian MacNiven, Mukiwa: A White Boy In Africa by Peter Godwin, Troubles by JG Farrell.
Sophie recommends five books on Climbing Mount Everest: High Adventure by Edmund Hillary, Into Thin Air by John Krakauer, The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev, The Summit of The Gods by Yumemakura Baku and The Lost Explorer by Conrad Anker.
Alec recommends five books on China: To Live by Yu Hua, Out of Mao's Shadow by Philip Pan, Virtual Tibet by Orville Schell, Factory Girls by Leslie Chang and Niubi! by Eveline Chao.
Eve recommends five books on Washington, DC: Democracy: An American Novel by Henry Adams, Lost in the City by Edward P Jones, Dream City, by Harry Jaffee and Tom Sherwood, Personal Story by Katharine Graham, and Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley
Chloe recommends five books on Art In Context: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt; The Painter of Modern Life by Charles Baudelaire; Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes; The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari; The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes.
Julia recommends five books on 19thth Century Russian Literature: Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev and Woe from Wit by Aleksander Griboyedov.
Dan recommends five books on Future, Cyber Realities and Finding Oneself: Neuromancer by William Gibson, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov, White Plague by Frank Herbert, Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer.
Gleb recommends five books on Simplicity, Design, and Making Information Accessible: Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham, Mandership by Artemy Lebedev, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman and Ralph Leighton, and Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen.
Igor recommends five books on Alien Invasion: Missing Time by Budd Hopkins, Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens by John E. Mack, The THREAT: Revealing the Secret Alien Agenda by David M. Jacobs PhD, Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3,000 by L. Ron Hubbard and Thanks for the Memories by Brice Taylor
Al recommends five books on Economic History: The Wealth & Poverty of Nations by David Landes, World Economic Primer by Charles Kindleberger, The Robber Barons by Matthew Josephson, Manias, Panics, & Crashes by Charles Kindleberger and Black Sea by Neal Ascherson
Robert recommends five Modern Fiction books: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas, The Privileges by Jonathan Dee, The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman and The Escape by Adam Thirlwell.
