Strong Town's Essential Reading List

Looking for a good read? 

Perhaps some non-fiction that might help explain how the world got to the point we are at now?

Or maybe you want to get prepared for whatever crazy crap happens next. 

Like economic collapse, or all out WWIII, things that the West seems to want badly for some strange reason.

Or perhaps you are wondering what happened to all the corner grocery stores we enjoyed as kids.

Here are a few selections that might help. All 15 books come from the Strong Towns Essential Reading List. 

The Strong Towns organization is a non-profit group working toward making North American towns more liveable and successful for the citizens living in them.   

The list was compiled by Chuck Marohn, President and founder of Strong Towns, as examples of thinkers that had influenced and inspired him in his work. 

The List

The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Cities and the Wealth of Nations - Jane Jacobs

Collapse - Jared Diamond

The Economics of Good and Evil - Tom Sedlacek

Crisis Economics - Nouriel Roubini

The Long Emergency - James Howard Kunstler

 

Risk - John Adams

Suburban Nation - Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck

 

Walkable City - Jeff Speck

Tactical Urbanism - Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia

 

The Original Green - Steve Mouzon 

Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt

A Paradise Built in Hell - Rebecca Solnit

I have only read one of these books, Collapse, and enjoyed it. I will be giving my library card a work out as I go through some of the rest of these over the next few months.

Note: If you liked this list, you can find the Strong Towns Ultimate Reading List here - it contains the above 15 books, plus many more.

Reading such books can add to our understanding, which can lead to effective actions, which can result in significant changes, so good reading to you.