Recommended Reading: 57 Books and Articles

Molly de Aguiar, Program Associate

A quick survey of the Dodge staff revealed we’re reading a wide variety of books and articles this summer – some hot off the presses, some oldies-but-goodies. Take a look at our list below. Are there any favorites on this list?

What else should we be reading? Leave us a comment and let us know!

1. Hot, Flat & Crowded by Thomas Friedman
2. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
3. The Living City: How America’s cities are being revitalized by Thinking Small in a Big Way by Roberta Brandes Gratz
4. 4th of July, Asbury Park: A History of the Promised Land by Daniel Wolff
5. Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto by Adam Werbach
6. The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook: When it All Comes Together (Edited by Jeana Wirtenberg, PhD with William G. Russell and David Lipsky PhD in collaboration with The EnterpriseSustainability Action Team)
7. A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
8. New Endowment Chairman Sees Arts as Economic Engine (New York Times)
9. Why the arts matter and deserve support — especially in bleak times (Miami Herald)
10. The Republic of Poetry: Poems by Martin Espada
11. Practical Water: Poems by Brenda Hillman
12. Blood Dazzler: Poems by Patricia Smith
13. The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
14. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
15. What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles
16. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
17. All-American Poem by Matthew Dickman
18. The End of the West by Michael Dickman
19. The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do About It by Joshua Cooper Ramo
20. Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming by Paul Hawken
21. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
22. The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr and E.B. White
23. Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney
24. Migrations – New & Selected Poems by W.S. Merwin
25. Collected Poems 1943 – 2004 by Richard Wilbur
26. A New Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell
27. Questions About Angels: Poems by Billy Collins
28. A Worldly Country by John Ashbury
29. Special Orders: Poems by Edward Hirsch
30. The Purgatorio by Dante, translated by W.S. Merwin
31. That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
32. The Help by Kathryn Stockelt
33. Hotel at the Intersection of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
34. Cutting for Stone: A Novel by Abraham Verghese
35. Arts Inc by Bill Ivey
36. Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World by Margaret J. Wheatley
37. How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
38. Tribes by Seth Godin
39. Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
40. Listening is an Act of Love Edited by Dave Isay
41. GraceLand by Chris Abani
42. The Foundtainhead by Ayn Rand
43. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
44. I Know this Much is True by Wally Lamb
45. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
46. Twilight by Stephanie Meyers
47. Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents by Deborah D. Gray
48. Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft by Mary Hopkins-Best
49. Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections by Jean MacLeod
50. Taming the Tiger While It’s Still a Kitten by Nancy Thomas
51. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
52. A New Page: Can the Kindle Really Improve on the Book? by Nicholson Baker (New Yorker)
53. Naïve: Modernism and Folklore in Contemporary Graphic Design by R. Klanten and H. Hellige
54. Crafting with Kids: Creative Fun for Children Ages 3 to 10 by Catherine Woram and Vanessa Davies
55. The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems by Marie Howe
56. Still to Mow: Poems by Maxine Kumin
57. Language of a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond. Edited by Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar

Stay tuned next Wednesday for Part 2 of our recommendations:  Great Places in New Jersey We’re Visiting This Summer.

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