Books to Read in Our Family's Bookshelf

Mark Verber

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• Why New Systems Fail - Phil Simon
• Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
• Community: The Structure of Belonging
• No Little People - Francis Schaeffer
• Simple Prosperity - David Wann
• Presidential Courage - Michael Beschioss
• The Brain that Changes Itself - Norman Doige
• Leaving Microsoft to Change the World - John Wood
• Personal Knowledge - Michael Polanyi (Finish)
• Deep Simplicity - John Gribbin
• Centered Living - M. Basil Pennington
• Habits of a Child's Heart - Valerie Hess
• Deep Survival - Laurence Gonzales
• The Holiness of God - R.C. Sproul (reread)
• Swarm Intelligence - James Kennedy & Russell Eberhart
• Persuasive Technology - B.J. Fong
• The Sacred Romance - Brent Curtis & John Eldredge (reread)
• The 8th Habit - Covey
• After the Darkest Hour -  Kathleen Brehony
• The Snowball: Warren Buffet
• Collapse - Diamond
• Economic Parables: The Monetary Teachings of Jesus Christ by David Cowan
• Free - Chris Anderson
• The Art of Forgiving - Lewis Smedes

Change, Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, Etc

• Forces for Good - Leslie Crutchfield & Heather Grant (reread)
• Investing in People - Theodore Schultz (reread)
• Tribes - Seth Godin (Reread)
• The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid - CK Prahalad (read fully)
• Consuming Passion - Clapp
• The Soul of Politics - Wallis
• The Altruistic Personality
• Managing the Nonprofit Organization - Peter Drucker
• How to Change the World - David Bornstein

Systems

• The Complexity of Cooperation - Robert Axelrod
• Systems Thinking - Jamshid Gharajedaghi
• An Introduction to General Systems Thinking - Weinberg (reread)

Thinking, Psychology, Mind

• How to Read a Book - Adler & Doren (reread)
• Six Thinking Hats - Edward De Bono (reread)
• Steps to an Ecology of Mind - Gregory Bateson (reread)
• Nudge - Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein
• Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions - Gary Klein
• I am Right, You are Wrong - Edward de Bono
• The Mechanism of Mind - Edward De Bono
• Mind Hacks - Tom Stafford
• Frames of Mind - Howard Gardner
• Disciplined Mind - Howard Gardner
• Teach Your Child to Think - De Bono
• The Owner's Manual for the Brain - Pierce Howard
• Choice Theory - William Glasser
• Destructive Emotions - Daniel Goleman
• Clear Thinking - Hy Ruchlis
• Healing the Hardware of the Soul - Daniel Amen
• Never Be Lied To Again - David Lieberman
• The Nurture Assumption - Judith Rich Harris

Soft Sciences

• God's Politics - Jim Wallis (Finish)
• The Road to Peace - Nouwen
• The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship - Marsden
• A Skeptics Notebook - Niebuhr
• A Short History of Medieval Philosophy - Julius Weinberg
• Jihad -vs- McWorld - Benjamin Barber
• The Structure of the Objective World - Nozick
• The Law of Peoples - Rawls
• Wittgenstein's Poker
• The Logic of Failure - Dietrich Dorner
• The Order of Things - Barbara Ann Kipfer
• The Art of Pilgrimage - Phil Cousineau
• The Bug - Ullman
• Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryston
• The Map that Changed the World - Winchester
• The Great Bridge - David McCullough
• Nobel Book of Answers - Editor: Bettina Stiekel
• Why the Rest Hates the West - Meic Pearse

Business, Economics, Management

• Leadership is an Art - Max De Pree (reread)
• Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Covey (reread)
• Working with Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman (reread)
• Microsoft Secrets - Michael Cusumano / Richard Selby (reread)
• Knowledge for Action - Chris Argyris (reread)
• Strategic Decision Making - Craig Kirkwood (reread)
• Getting Things Done - David Allen (reread)
• The Goal - Eliyahu Goldratt (fully read))
• Servant Leadership - Greenleaf (fully read)
• Readings on Managerial Psychology - ed: Leavitt, Pondy, Boje (fully read)
• Dealers of Lightning - Michael Hiltzik
• Behavior Interviewing: New, Accurate, Cost Effective - Janz, Hellervik, Gilmore
• The Leadership Engine - Noel Tichy
• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership - John Maxwell
• The Sigma Six Way - Peter Pande
• From Alchemy to IPO - Cynthia Robbins-Roth
• The Art of the Long View - Schwartz
• HBR on Developing Leaders
• Leading Quietly - Joseph Badaracco
• Teach Your Team to Fish - Laurie Beth Jones
• Ready for Anything - David Allen
• Your Soul at Work - Bruce Hiebert
• Thinking Visually - Malcolm Craig
• Introduction to Simulation and Risk Analysis - Evans & Olson
• Swarm Creativity - Peter Gloor
• The No Asshole Rule - Robert Sutton
• Stocks for the Long Run - Jeremy Siegel
• Managing & Using Information Systems - Keri Pearlson & Carol Saunders
• AlignIT - Richard Wyatt-Haines

Family, Relationships & Education

• Parenting with Love and Logic - Cline & Fay (reread)
• Parenting with Purpose - Lynda Madison
• Teaching Your Children Joy - Eyre
• Traits of a Healthy Family - Dolores Curran
• The Gentle Art of Communicating with Kids - Elgin
• Raising Kids Who Hunger for God - Benny & Sheree Phillips
• Nurturing a Child's Soul - Timothy Jones
• Relational Parenting - Ross Campbell
• Raising Resilient MKs - Joyce Bowers (editor)
• How to Pray for Your Children - Quin Sherrer
• The Educated Child - William Bennett
• And Thou Shall Honor: The Caregiver's Companion - McLeon
• Empathy and Moral Development - Hoffman
• The Moral Child - Damon
• Your Anxious Child - John Dacey, Lisa Fiore
• Teaching Your Children Values - Linda & Richard Eyre

Theology

• The Courage to Teach - Parker Palmer (reread)
• To Know as We Are Known - Parker Palmer (reread)
• The Peacemaker - Ken Sande (reread)
• Stages of Faith - James Fowler (reread)
• The Change Factor - Gary Kuhne (reread)
• Future Grace - John Piper (reread)
• Daily Experience with God - Andrew Murray (reread)
• Finding the Lost, Cultural Keys to Luke 15 - Kenneth Bailey (reread)
• How People Grow - Cloud & Townsend (reread)
• Practicing God's Presence - Brother Lawrence (reread)
• Natural Church Development - Christian Schwarz (reread)
• The Universe Next Door - Sire (reread)
• The Divine Conspiracy - Dallas Willard (reread)
• The Purpose Driven Life - Rick Warren (reread)
• Renovation of the Heart - Dallas Willard (reread)
• The Importance of Being Foolish - Brennan Manning (Finish)
• The Art of the Biblical Narrative - Robert Alter
• Common Made Holy - Anderson & Saucy
• Spiritual Mentoring - Anderson & Reece
• God's Call - Brother Andrew
• A Renewed Spirituality - Lynne Baab
• Jacob and the Prodigal - Kenneth Bailey
• Reviewing Leadership - Robert Banks
• Sacred Thirst - M Craig Barnes
• Invitation to Solitude and Silence - Ruth Haley Barton
• Darwin's Black Box - Behe
• Wide as the Waters - Benson Bobrick
• The Gospel to the Nations - Bolt & Thompson
• The New Testament and Hellenistic Judaism - Borgen
• Falling in Love with Jesus - Brestin & Troccoli
• The Joy of Fearing God - Jerry Bridges
• Rose From Brier - Amy Carmichael
• A Call To Spritual Reformation - D. A. Carson
• Telling Truth - D. A. Carson (editor)
• Covenant Marriage - Chapman
• How to Read T.F. Torrance - Elmer Colyer
• Soultalk - Larry Crabb
• Who You Are - Larry Crabb
• The Language of Babylon - Terry Crist
• Letters from Saints to Sinners - John Cumming
• The New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism - Daube
• Intercession, Thrilling and Fulfilling - Joy Dawson
• He Restores My Soul - Dean
• Surprised by the Power of the Spirit - Jack Deere
• Torches of Joy - Dekker
• Revolution Within: A Fresh Look at Supernatural Living - Dwight Edwards
• Spiritual Director, Spiritual Companion - Tilden Edwards
• Wild at Heart - John Eldredge
• The Journey of Desire - John Eldredge
• The New Global Mission - Samuel Escobar
• Disciplemaker's Handbook - Alice Fryling
• Simple Acts of Kindness - Terri Green
• The Testimony of the Evangelists - Greenleaf
• My Soul in Silence Waits - Margaret Guenther
• Holy Listening - Margaret Guenther
• Toward Holy Ground - Margaret Guenther
• Unspeakable - Os Guinness
• Steering Through Chaos - Os Guiness
• When No One Sees - Os Guiness
• The Call - Os Guiness
• The Journey - Os Guiness
• Experiencing the Depths of Jesus Christ - Jeanne Guyon
• Bad Girls of the Bible - Liz Higgs
• In the Face of God - Michael Horton
• The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius
• Live to Tell - Brad Kallenberg
• A Testament of Devotion - Thomas R. Kelly
• Communication Theory for Christian Witness - Charles Kraft
• The Pursuit of God in the Company of Friends - Richard Lamb
• Penguins & Goldern Caves - L'Engle
• Bright Evening Star - L'Engle
• Integrative Theology - Gordon Lewis & Bruce Demarest
• Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning
• Healing the Broken Family of Abraham - Don McCurry
• The Unknown God - Alister McGrath
• A New Kind of Christian - McLaren
• Love Walked Among Us - Paul Miller
• Love Your God with all Your Mind - Moreland
• Life and Holiness - Thomas Merton
• Honor & Shame - Roland Muller
• Humility - Andrew Murray
• Reason for the Hope Within - Michael Murray
• Practical Issues of This Life -Nee
• Encountering Religious Pluralism -Arnold Netland
• The Power of a Praying Husband - Stormie Omartian
• The Hermeneutical Spiral - Bruce Osborn
• Never Beyond Hope - J.I. Packer
• Spiritual Journaling - Richard Peace
• The Attributes of God - Arthur Pink
• God's Passion for His Glory - John Piper
• Don't Waste Your Life - John Piper
• Seeing and Savoring Christ - John Piper
• Not the Way it Should Be - Alvin Plantinga
• Embodied Holiness - Powell & Lodahl
• Growing Faith - Bruce Powers
• Evangelism Outside the Box - Richardson
• Stewards in the Kingdom - R. Scott Rodin
• The Kingdom Within - John Sanford
• Naming the Elephant - Sire
• Why Should Anyone Believe Anything at All? - Sire
• Renewing Your Mind - R.C. Sproul
• Basic Christian Leadership - John Stott
• Missions in the 21st Century - Tom Telford
• Worship, Community & The Triune God of Grace - James Torrance
• A Seven Day Journey with Thomas Merton - Ester de Wall
• The Godly Man's Picture - Thomas Watson
• Ancient-Future Faith - Robert Weber
• Soulcraft - Douglas Webster
• God's Pursuing Love - John White
• Character Matters! - Yates
• Jesus Among Other Gods - Ravi Zacharias
• God is the Gospel - John Piper
• Interior Castle - Terra of Avila
• Call Me the Seeker - Michael Gilmour
• A Generous Orthodoxy - Brian McLaren
• Finding Our Way Home - Mark McMinn
• The Language of God - Francis Collins
• Walking Away from Faith - Ruth Tucker
• 2020 Vision - Bill & Amy Stearns
• Chosen but Free - Norman Geisler
• The Relational Word - Josh McDowell & Thomas Williams
• Divine Nobodies - Jim Palmer
• Christian Living Beyond Belief - Cliff McManis
• The New Rebellion Handbook
• Soul Feast - Marjorie Thompson
• Why Sin Matters - Mark McMinn
• When I Don't Desire God - Piper
• Practicing Your Path - Holly Whitcomb
• The Great Omission - Dallas Willard
• The Promise of Paradox - Parker Palmer
• The Servant Leader - Ken Blanchard & Phil Hodges
• When God Prays - Skip Heitzig
• The Prophetic Imagination - Walter Bruggemann
• Engaging Unbelief: A Captivating Strategy from Augustine and Aquinas - Curtis Chang'
• Total Forgiveness - RT Kendall

Math, Science, Technology, Health

• Design of Everyday Things - Donald Norman (reread)
• Turtle Geometry - Abelson & diSessa (reread)
• Law of Forms - G. Spencer-Brown (reread)
• How to Solve It - George Polya (reread)
• To Engineer is Human - Henry Petroski (reread)
• Envisioning Information - Tufte (Reread)
• Language Proof and Logic - Barwise
• Introduction to Probability - John Freund
• A Natural History of California - Allan Schoenherr
• Roadside Geography of Northern California - Dave Alt, Donald Hyndman
• Synergetics - R. Buckminster Fuller
• Thinking Physics - Lewis Epstein
• The Fire in the Equations - Ferguson
• The Sigma Way - Peter Pande
• The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene
• Building Security - Barbara Nadel
• Handbook of Nature Study - Anna Comstock

Architecture, Software, CS

• Reliable Distributed Systems - Kenneth Birman (reread)
• Transaction Processing - Gray & Reuter (reread)
• Systems Engineering and Analysis - Blanchard & Fabrycky (reread)
• Computer Organization and Design - Patterson & Hennessy (read updated)
• The Mythical Man Month, 2nd Edition - Fred Brooks (reread)
• The Rational Unified Process made Easy - Kroll, Kruchten (reread)
• UML Distilled - Martin Fowler (reread)
• Code Complete - Steve McConnell (finish)
• Ontological Engineering - Gomez-Perez
• Patterns of Enterprise Architecture - Martin Fowler
• How Buildings Learn - Stewart Brand
• Design Rules: The Power of Modularity - Baldwin & Clark
• A New Kind of Science - Wolfram
• Concurrent Programming - Gregory R. Andrews
• Concurrent Systems Operating Systems - Jean Bacon
• Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About - Knuth
• A Course in Number Theory and Crypto - Koblitz
• The Invisible Computer - Norman
• Artificial Immune Systems - Leandro de Castro & Jonathan Timmis
• Spinning the Semantic Web - Dieter Fensel, Henry Lieberman
• Ambient Findability - Peter Morville
• Project Management for Business and Engineering - John Nicholas
• Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design - Donald Gause & Gerald Weiberg
• Software Requirements - Wiegers
• J2EE Big Picture - Haugland
• Software Runaways - Glass
• Design Patterns - Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides
• Deathmarch - Yourdon
• Software Design - Cognitive Aspects - Francoise Detienne
• Beyond Chaos - Larry Constantine
• Agile Software Development Ecosystems - Highsmith
• Security Engineering - Ross Anderson
• Software Ecosystems - Messerschmitt & Szyperski
• Secure Code - Graff & van Wyke
• Capacity Planning for Web Services - Daniel Menasce & Virgilio Almeidah
• Service Oriented Computing -  Singh & Huhns

Essays, History, Biographies and Letters

• Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov (reread)
• Wounded Prophet - Michael Ford
• Sacred Journey - Buechner
• Telling Secrets - Buechner
• Peripheral Visions - Bateson
• Put Your Heart on Paper - Henriette Klauser
• High Tide in Tucson - Barbara Kingsolver
• The Kindness of Strangers - Mike McIntyre
• Notes for Myself - Anne Hazard Aldrich
• If You Want to Write - Brenda Ueland
• Growing Up Poor - Robert Coles
• Pilgrim Souls - Amy Mandeker & Elizabeth Powers
• Madeleine L'Engle, Suncatcher - Carole Chase
• Islam and the West - Lewis
• Founding Brothers - Ellis
• Lords of the Horizons - Goodwin
• Wind, Sand and Stars - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Founding Mothers - Cokie Roberts
• Killing Fields, Living Fields - Don Cormack
• The Heavenly Man - Paul Hattaway
• Grace Matters - Chris Rice
• Popol Vuh - Dennis Tedlock
• History of Cambodia - David Chandler
• The Places in Between - Roy Stewart
• Touching the Void
• Traveling Mercies - Lamott
• Alaska Days With John Muir - Samuel Hall Young
• Tolkien Man and Myth - Joseph Pearce
• Team of Rivals - Doris Goodwin

Fiction, Lit, Poetry

• Hamlet - William Shakespeare (reread)
• For the Time Being - Annie Dillard
• Getting Used to Dying - Zhang Xianliang
• Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
• Nectar in a Sieve - Kamala Markandaya
• Bone - Fae Ng
• Selected Poems - Shelley
• Selected Poems - Donne
• Everyman Selections - Keats
• Everyman Selections - Woodsworth
• The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
• Morality for Beautiful Girls - Alexander Smith
• Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander Smith
• The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander Smith
• A Light in the Window - Jan Karon
• The Highm Green Hills - Jan Karon

Art, Photography, Hobbies

• The Negative - Ansel Adams (reread)
• Basic Photographic Materials and Processes - Stroebel, Compton, Current & Zakia (reread)
• Art & Soul - Brand & Chaplin
• Chi Running - Danny Dreyer
• Photoshop Visual Quickstart Guide
• Chi Walking - Danny Dreyer