Here is an archive of my reading list email recommendations. For ease of use, hit “ctrl+f” and type the hashtag+letter from the table of contents below to jump around.
#A July 25th, 2009
#B August 4th, 2009
#C August 24th, 2009
#D September 17th, 2009
#E October 10th, 2009
#F November 5th, 2009
#G December 31st, 2009
#H January 31st, 2010
#I July 5th, 2010
#J October 7th, 2010
#K November 8th, 2010
#L December 13th, 2010
#M January 17th, 2011
#N February 21st, 2011
#A July 25th, 2009
Asylum: An Alcoholic Takes the Cure by WIlliam Seabrook
The Crack Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
No Hiding Place: An Autobiography by WIlliam Seabrook
Jungle Ways by WIlliam Seabrook
Public Enemies: America‘s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough
And Then There‘s This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture by Bill Wasik
Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America by Julia Angwin
#B August 4th, 2009
On the Rock: Twenty–Five Years in Alcatraz : The Prison Story of Alvin Karpis as told to Robert Livesey
Addiction: A Disorder of Choice by Gene Heyman
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Ails and How It Can Succeed Again by Bent Fyvbjerg
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
The Man Who Lost Everything by Paul Kuttner
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September 17th, 2009
Hustling by Gail Sheehy
The 50th Law by Robert Greene and 50 Cent
The Wauchula Woods Accord by Charles Siebert
The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of his Life—His Own by David Carr
My Life and Battles by Jack Johnson
#E October 10th, 2009
Inside of a Dog: What Dog‘s See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz
Cesar’s Way by Cesar Milan
Murder Trials: In Defense of Sextus Roscius of Ameria and In Defense of Aulus Cluentius Habitus by Cicero
Animal Underworld: Inside America‘s Black Market for Rare and Exotic Species by Alan Green
Theory of War: A Novel by Joan Brady
Lives of the Later Caesars by Anonymous
#F November 5th, 2009
The Strategy Paradox by Michael E. Raynor
A World Lit Only By Fire by William Manchester
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by George Horace Lorimer
Ambition by Joseph Epstein
My Wicked, Wicked Ways by Errol Flynn
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#G December 31st, 2009
Chief Culture Officer: How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporationby Grant McCracken
Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us about Humanity by G. A. Bradshaw
Googled: The End of the World As We Know It by Ken Auletta
Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World by Roger Crowley
Samuel Bronfman: The Life and Times of Seagram‘s Mr. Sam by Michael R Marrus
#H January 31st, 2010
The Tacit Dimension by Michael Polanyi
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals: The Lost History of Europe‘s Animal Trials by E.P Evans
The Book of My Life: De Vita Propria Liber by Gerolamo Cardano
#I July 5th, 2010
The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave by Publius Syrus
The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream by Christina Lamb
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo–Events in America by Daniel Boorstin and Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road by Neil Peart
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
#J October 7th, 2010
The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith
Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization by John Robb
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell
Montaigne by Peter Burke
Within the Context of No Context by George WS Trow
Education of a Felon: A Memoir by Edward Bunker
#K November 8th, 2010
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by Giorgio Vasari
The Power Tactics of Jesus Christ and Other Essays by Jay Haley
Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives by Pia Mellody
The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism by Upton Sinclair
The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves by Andrew Potter
A Nation of Rebels by Andrew Potter
War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd
On Killing by Lt Dave Grossman
#L December 13th, 2010
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Political Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton by John McPhee
Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism by W. Joseph Campbell
Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Waters
#N February 21st, 2011
Memoirs of Heinrich Schliemann: A documentary portrait drawn from his autobiographical writings, letters, and excavation reports by Heinrich Schliemann
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by George H Devol
Four Reasonable Men: Marcus Aurelius, John Stuart Mill, Ernest Renan, Henry Sidgwick by Brand Blanshard
Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E–Personality by Elias Aboujaoude
Augustus: The Life of Rome‘s First Emperor by Anthony Everitt
Hadrian by Anthony Everitt
Cicero by Anthony Everitt