Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back
by John Kao

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman

The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture
by Andrew Keen
Boing Boing’s summary of the interview

Six Arguments for a Greener Diet
by Michael F. Jacobson

Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames
by Ian Bogost
“Videogames are both an expressive medium and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players to interact with those systems and form judgments about them. In this innovative analysis, Ian Bogost examines the way videogames mount arguments and influence players. [...]

Stumbling on Happiness
by Daniel Gilbert
“Harvard professor Gilbert aims to show us why [self-help] books don’t work, how we make choices that sabotage our own happiness, and why imagination so often fails us. A book full of complex ideas written in an utterly accessible style.”

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
by Philip G. Zimbardo

The Seventeen Traditions
by Ralph Nader