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The ‘Unofficial’ Hypebot Reading List

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor As anyone could’ve guessed by perusing through my essays, I read quite a bit.  It wasn’t always this way, but, if you’re looking for a way through the clutter, here’s. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/10/the-unoffical-hypebot-reading-list.html]

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Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor

As anyone could’ve guessed by perusing through my essays, I read quite a bit.  It wasn’t always this way, but, if you’re looking for a way through the clutter, here’s a look at both books I’ve read and would recommend.  Or, am simply interested in.  By all means, if you have a book and would like me to read it, feel free to send it my way.

Also, recommend some books you've liked lately in the comments.

Books I've Read:

  • Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
  • Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
  • Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
  • Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
  • The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
  • YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture
  • Curious?: Discover the Missing Ingredient to a Fulfilling Life
  • Everything Bad is Good for You
  • Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music
  • Elsewhere, U.S.A.
  • Herd: How to Change Mass Behavior by Harnessing Our True Nature
  • The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
  • Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
  • Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
  • The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
  • Outliers: The Story of Success
  • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
  • Stumbling on Happiness
  • Primalbranding
  • All Marketers Are Liars
  • Appetite for Self-Destruction
  • Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync?
  • Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash
  • Five Minds For The Future
  • Bumping Into Geniuses
  • How The Mighty Fall
  • Freakonomics
  • How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
  • Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
  • Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior

Books I'm Thinking About Reading:

  • The Meme Machine
  • Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
  • Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
  • OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder
  • Now Is Gone: A Primer on New Media for Executives and Entrepreneurs
  • This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
  • The Starfish and the Spider
  • Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
  • Talent Is Overrated
  • The Wisdom of Crowds
  • The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
  • A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
  • The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
  • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
  • Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovations
  • Genius Explained
  • Content
  • The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
  • Copyright's Paradox
  • Against Intellectual Monopoly
  • The Gridlock Economy
  • Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars
  • Blown to Bits
  • Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't
  • Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
  • Socialnomics
  • Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
  • Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture
  • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
  • Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion
  • The Chaos Scenario
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death
  • Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are
  • Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping
  • Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others
  • The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
  • Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
  • Six Pixels of Separation
  • How We Decide
  • Say Everything: How Blogging Began