Below is a boiled-down reading list from The Boy Who Could Change the World.
- Raymond Smullyan, 5000 BC
- George Saunders, In Persuasion Nation: Stories
- Robert Karen, Becoming Attached
- Scott McCloud, Making Comics:
- Joan Didion, Political Fictions
- Poundstone, Fortune’s Formula
- Murer, The Big Con:
- The Power Broker by Robert Caro
- The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces by William H. Whyte
- The Liberal Defence of Murder by Richard Seymour
- False Profits: by Dean Baker
- Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman
- Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
- Managing to Change the World by Allison Green and Jerry Hauser
- Robert Jackall’s Moral Mazes
- This is your Country on Drugs by Ryan Grim
- The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
- The Halo Effect by Phil Rosenzweig
- Poor Economics by Abhijt Banerjee and Esther Duflo
- The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- CODE: The Hidden Language… by Charles Petzold