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    • Mar 17, 2022
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best loved books

I love all books, But here's my "A" list of live changing influencers, in no particular order.




DESIGN

  • Designing the Obvious, Robert Hoekman Jr. Buy my extra copy here.

  • Designing the Moment: Interface Design Concepts in Action, Robert Hoekman, Jr.

  • Playful Design: Creating Game Experiences in Everyday Interfaces. Ferrara, John

  • POP! Create the Perfect Pitch for Anything, Sam Horn

  • Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice, Robert Lawler

  • About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Alan Cooper

  • Validating Product Ideas: Through Lean User Research, Tomer Sharon

  • UX for Lean Start-Ups, Lara Klein

  • The User's Journey: Storymapping Products That People Love, Donna Lichaw

  • The Cluetrain Manifesto, David Weinberger

  • Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights, Steve Portigal

  • The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide, by Leah Bule

  • Defensive Design, 37signals

  • The Designer's Guide to Color Combinations, Leslie Cabarga

  • This is Service Design Thinking: Basics, Tools, Cases, Wiley

  • White Space is Not Your Enemy, Kim Golombisky & Rebecca Hagen


FICTION

  • The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

  • The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas

  • Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier

  • The House on the Strand, Daphne Du Maurier

  • The Razor’s Edge, Somerset Maugham

  • The Moon and Sixpence, Somerset Maugham

  • The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton

  • Captains Courageous, Raynard Kipling

  • Night Has A Thousand Eyes, Cornell Woolrich

  • The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Cider House Rules, John Irving

DREAMERS & WANDERERS

  • The Wild Muir (Yosemite Conservatory)

  • Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, Wade Davis

  • The Call of the Wild, Jack London

  • Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry

  • Escape From Kathmandu, Kim Stanley Robinson

  • A Voyage for Mad Men, Peter Nichols

  • Into Thin Air, John Krakauer

  • Eiger Dreams, John Krakauer

  • The Road from Coorain, Jill Ker Conway

  • Circling the Sun, Paula McLain

  • Out of Africa, Karen Blixen

BIOGRAPHY

  • The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, by Vincent Van Gogh

  • Education of Wandering Man, Louis L'Amour

  • A Life of Jung, Ronald Hayman

  • Then Again, Diane Keaton

  • Me, by Katherine Hepburn

  • Advice to a Young Wife from an Old Mistress, Michael Drury

PSYCHOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY

  • Mastery, Robert Greene

  • The Laws of Human Nature, Robert Greene

  • The Dip, Seth Godin

  • Existentialism is a Humanism, Jean Paul Sartre

  • The Way of the Superior Man, David Dieda

  • Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy, William Barrett

  • The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus




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