Favorite Reads

Books

Writing

• The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
• Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
• The Subversive Copy Editor, Carol Fisher Saller
• The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White

Business

• Rework, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hanson
• Orbiting the Giant Hairball, Gordon Mackenzie

Design

• The User Experience Team of One, Leah Buley
• Mapping Experiences: A Complete Guide to Customer Alignment Through Journeys, Blueprints, and Diagrams, Jim Kalbach

Faith

• Proper Confidence, Lesslie Newbigin
• Wounded Healer, Henri Nouwen
• Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
• A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis
• The Heart of a Servant Leader, Jack Miller

Media Theory

• The Medium is the Massage, Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore
• Simulacra and Simulation, Jean Baudrillard
• “As We May Think,” Vannevar Bush
• Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud
• Unflattening, Nick Sousanis

Nonfiction

• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
• “This is Water,” David Foster Wallace
• “Consider the Lobster,” David Foster Wallace
• “Civil Disobedience,” Henry David Thoreau
• “On Running After One’s Hat,” G.K. Chesterton

Fiction

• Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
• Mink River, Bryan Doyle
• You & Me, Padgett Powell
• The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
• Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis
• Lord of the Rings (complete series), J.R.R. Tolkien
• Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
• Here, Richard McGuire