I tend to read in clusters; books with interrelated subjects which often reference or influence each other. Whenever I get stalled on one book, I’ll pick up another and keep going. Here are some recent groupings:

Everything’s Going Green

• Massive Change by Bruce Mau and Jennifer Leonard
• Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins
• Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Jane Benyus
• The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hawken
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough, Michael Braungart
• Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise by Ray Anderson

History 0b1100101

• ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World’s First Computer by Scott McCartney
• The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer by Doron Swade
• The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-Line Pioneers by Tom Standage
• Moths in the Machine: The Power and Perils of Programming by Daniel Kohanski
• The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
• What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer by John Markoff
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet by Katie Hafner