read and prosper

GREATEST HITS

Be Here Now Ram Dass

The Mastery of Love Don Miguel Ruiz

The Four Agreements Don Miguel Ruiz

The Win Without Pitching Manifesto Blair Enns

Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin

The Art of Possibility Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander

The Illusion of Money Kyle Cease

Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut

Assata Assata Shakur

Sex at Dawn Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha

The Alchemist Paulo Coelho

Greenlights Matthew McConnaughey

Art

Basquiat Leonhard Emmerling

Japan: A History of Art Bradley Smith

Business 

The Win Without Pitching Manifesto Blair Enns

Profit First Mike Michalowicz

Biography 

Assata Assata Shakur

Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson

Malcolm X Malcom X, Alex Haley

John Lennon Philip Norman

Frida Hayden Herrera

BRAND 

This is Not a T-Shirt Bobby Hundreds

Unlabel Marc Ecko

Shoe Dog Phil Knight

Culture 

Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin

Stamped from the Beginning Ibram X. Kendi

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now Jaron Lanier

Black Klansman Ron Stallworth

Syria’s Secret Library Mike Thomson

Design 

Iconology W. J. T. Mitchell

Entrepreneurship 

That Will Never Work Marc Randolph

Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson, Kenneth Blanchard

Mindset Carol Dweck

Anti-Fragile Nassim Taleb

Psycho-Cybernetics Maxwell Maltz

Expertise

Leadership and Self Deception The Arbinger Institute

Nonviolent Communication Marhsall B. Rosenberg

The Business of Expertise David C. Baker

The Coaching Habit Michael Bungay-Stanier

Fiction 

The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien

Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut

All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy

The Alchemist Paulo Coelho

Watchmen Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons

Futurism 

Future Design Rory Hyde, Kieran Long, et al.

Relativity Albert Einstein

Hyperspace Michio Kaku

Memoirs

Greenlights Matthew McConnaughey

Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey

Money

You Are a Badass at Making Money Jen Sincero

The Illusion of Money Kyle Cease

Rich Dad Poor Dad Robert Kiyosaki

Profit First Mike Michalowicz

Financial Freedom Grant Sabatier

Double Entry Jane Gleeson-White

Music

How Music Works David Byrne

Music by the Numbers Eli Maor

Fela: The Life And Times Of An African Musical Icon Michael Veal

Personal 

You Are a Badass Jen Sincero

The 4-Hour Work Week Tim Ferris

The Courage to be Disliked Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga

A Climb to the Top Chuck Garcia

The Art of Possibility Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander

Philosophy

The Four Agreements Don Miguel Ruiz

The Poetics of Space Gaston Bauchelard

The Book of Five Rings Miyamoto Musashi

Wabi Sabi Leonard Koren

Photo

Ansel Adams: The National Parks Service Photographs Ansel Adams, Alice Gray

Humans Brandon Stanton

Plays 

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea John Patrick Shanley

The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde

Red Light Winter Adam Rapp

Poetry

Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit Charles Bukowski

Still Can’t Do My Daughter’s Hair William Evans

Life Doesn’t Frighten Me Maya Angelou, Jean-Michel Basquiat

PRODUCTION

Producer to Producer Maureen Ryan

Filmmakers and Financing Louise Levison

The Complete Film Production Handbook Eve Light Honthaner

The Business of Film Paula Landry, Stephen Greenwald

SEX & LOVE 

The Mastery of Love Don Miguel Ruiz

The Ethical Slut Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy

Sex at Dawn Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha

Getting the Love You Want Harville Hendrix Ph.D. and Helen LaKelly Hunt PhD

The Heart of Tantric Sex Diana Richardson

Spirituality 

Be Here Now Ram Dass

Nature is Alive and Talking to Us Terrence McKenna

Story 

The Hero with an African Face Clyde W. Ford

The Power of Myth Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers

Poetics Aristotle

Yoga 

Light on Yoga B. K. S. Iyengar and Yehudi Menuhin

Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda

Previous
Previous

don’t solve problems