When it comes to books, my eyes are bigger than my stomach (so to speak). I tend to buy new books faster than I can read those I already own. One of my goals for the coming year is to read read read. Here’s a list of the books on my ‘To Read/Finish’ shelf:

• Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century by Alex Steffen, et al
• Tribal Knowledge: Business Wisdom Brewed from the Grounds of Starbucks Corporate Culture by John Moore
• The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman *
• Differentiate or Die: Survival in Our Era of Killer Competition by Jack Trout
• The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO’s Strategies for Defeating the Devil’s Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization by Thomas Kelley *
• Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing by Harry Beckwith
• Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin
• Borges: A Life by Edwin Williamson
• The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness by Virginia Postrel
• Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World by Bruce Schneier
• Design Writing Research by Ellen Lupton *
• This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience by Alan W. Watts
• Writing Machines (Mediaworks Pamphlets) by N. Katherine Hayles, Anne Burdick *
• Rhythm Science (Mediaworks Pamphlets) by Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid *
• Shaping Things (Mediaworks Pamphlets) by Bruce Sterling, Lorraine Wild
• Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series by John Berger *
• The Hidden Connections: Integrating The Biological, Cognitive, And Social Dimensions Of Life Into A Science Of Sustainability by Fritjof Capra
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet by Katie Hafner *
• Design Culture: An Anthology of Writing from the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design by Steven Heller, et al
• Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey by Roger Scruton
• Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model by Ray Anderson
• The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough, Michael Braungart
• Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus *
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
• Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life by Steven Johnson *
• The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki *
• Silent Stars by Jeanine Basinger
• The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander *
• All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World by Seth Godin *
• The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress by Virginia Postrell *
• The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room by Paul Auster *
• King Rat by China Mieville *
• Little, Big by John Crowley *
• Number9Dream by David Mitchell
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
• House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson *
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino *

*= Denotes items I have already started reading to some extent (e.g. I’ve been 2/3 done with Quicksilver for more than two years, while I’m just a few pages into others).