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Books recommended by Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly recommends 21 books, among them How Buildings Learn, The Innovator's Dilemma and Shantaram.

How Buildings Learn

Stewart Brand

Arts & entertainment

The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton M. Christensen

Nonfiction

Shantaram

Gregory David Roberts

Fiction

Childhood's End

Arthur C. Clarke

Fiction

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

Fiction

Finite and Infinite Games

James Carse

Economics & politics

Future Shock

Alvin Toffler

Philosophy

Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

Spirituality & religion

Gödel, Escher, Bach

Douglas R. Hofstadter

Philosophy

It's All Too Much

Peter Walsh

Self-improvement

Making Comics

Scott McCloud

Arts & entertainment

Open Borders

Bryan Caplan

Economics & politics

Regional Advantage

AnnaLee Saxenian

Business & management

So Good They Can't Ignore You

Cal Newport

Technology

The Adventures of Johnny Bunko

Daniel Pink

Arts & entertainment

The Essential Rumi

Jalal Al Din Rumi

Spirituality & religion

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand

Fiction

The Qur'an

Translated by M. A. Haleem

Spirituality & religion

The Sound of the One Hand

Yoel Hoffman

Spirituality & religion

The Ultimate Resource

Julian L. Simon

Economics & politics

What the Dormouse Said

John Markoff

Technology