Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969) American classic and one of the world’s great
antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy
Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured
lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.
I Can't Wait Until
Tomorrow ('Cause I Get Better-Looking Every Day), by Joe Namath and with Dick
Schaap (1969), published by Random House.
Leonardo da Vinci, by
Walter Isaacson
(2018) published by Simon & Schuster
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001) Winner of the
National Book Award for Fiction is a great work of art and a grandly
entertaining overture to our new century: a bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving
family drama that stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Street and
Eastern Europe in the age of greed and globalism.
Zen and the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig (1974) One
of the most important and influential books written in the past half-century. A
powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live . . . and a
breathtaking meditation on how to live better.
The Devil in the White
City: Murder, Magic, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson (2002) A
thrilling narrative recounts the spellbinding tale of the 1893 World's
Columbian Exposition. The fair marked the birth of a new epoch in American history. Dr.
Henry H. Holmes marked the emergence of a new American archetype, the serial
killer.
The Learners by Chip Kidd (2008) A
young graphic designer fresh out of college in the summer of 1961 just landed
his first job at a wacky advertising firm filled with eccentric creative
artists. Everything is going great until Happy is assigned to design a
newspaper ad recruiting participants for an experiment in the Yale Psychology
Department. Happy can't resist. responding to the ad himself. Little does he
know that the experience will devastate him, forcing a reexamination of his
past, his soul, and the nature of human cruelty - chiefly his own.
Dethroning
the King, by Julie MacIntosh (2010) published
by John Wiley & Sons - How the King of Beers
collapsed without a fight and what it means for America's place in the
post-Recession world. How did InBev, a Belgian company controlled by
Brazilians, take over one of America's most beloved brands with scarcely a
whimper of opposition? Chalk it up to perfect timing—and some unexpected help
from powerful members of the Busch dynasty, the very family that had run the
company for more than a century.
The New New
Thing by Michael Lewis (2014) - Michael Lewis set out on a
safari through Silicon Valley to find the world’s most important technology
entrepreneur. He found this in Jim Clark, a man whose achievements include the
founding of three separate billion-dollar companies. An ingeniously conceived
history of the Internet revolution.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1885) Among the Great American Novels. It is told in the first person by Huck Finn. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.
