A Running List of Books I Recommend

Reads that have heavily informed me, my community, and my work.

Note that the following list is not in any particular order. This is a live document and will be updated multiple times a year.

Books that have deeply influenced me and are largely relevant to everything

These are the books that were, at periods of my time, relevant to everything. I recommend any of these books to nearly everyone.

• Art of Gathering by Priya Parker

• Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown

• Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

• Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows

• Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson

• Finite & Infinite Games by James Carse

Favorite Fiction

• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas McAdams

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Systems Thinking, Ecosystems Tending, and relevant

• Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows

• Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder

• The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Finite & Infinite Games by James Carse

• What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism by Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster

• Loonshots by Safi Bahcall

• Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson

Best Writing

An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris by Georges Perec, translated by Marc Lowenthal

Cold Pastoral by Marina Keegan, published in The New Yorker

String Theory by David Foster Wallace