Here's your summer reading list: 21 suggestions from the Brigadoon community
Shakespeare, Jesus, Gucci, Marco Polo, and Mao to name a few of the subjects suggested.
Happy reading.
1. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare - Stephen Greenblatt
2. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth - Reza Aslan
3. Clashing Over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy - Douglas Irwin
4. Talking to the Dead: A Novel Paperback – Harry Bingham
5. In the Name of Gucci: A Memoir Hardcover – Patricia Gucci
6. Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
7. Enlightenment Now - Steven Pinker
8. Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done Hardcover – Laura Vanderkam
9. The Ambition Decisions: What Women Know About Work, Family, and the Path to Building a Life - Hana Schank and Elizabeth Wallace
10. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli
11. Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries - Kory Stamper
12. Never Lose A Customer Again - Joey Coleman
13. The Richest Man in Babylon - George Samuel Clason
14. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life - Mark Manson
15. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk - Peter L. Bernstein
16. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
17. The Archipelago: Italy Since 1945 - John Foot
18. Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
19. The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century - Robert D. Kaplan
20. A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age – William Manchester
21. Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 – Frank Dikötter