When I was in college, one of my Marketing professors gave me a list of books to read sometime in my lifetime. I lost this list sometime after college, but after digging up my Professor’s email address I asked him for the list again. Here it is below. As of today I have read 0 of these books.

Uncle Patrick’s Official Expand-Your-Mind Reading List

1. Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”
2. Plato, “The Apology of Socrates”
3. Frederick Douglas, “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglas”
4. Albert Einstein, “Ideas and Opinions”
5. Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, “Why War?”
6. Confucius, “The Analects”
7. Booker T. Washington, “Up From Slavery”
8. Mohandas Gandhi, “The Story of My Experiment With Truth” (His
autobiography)
9. Mohandas Gandhi, “Gandhi on Non-Violence”
10. HG Wells, “The Outline of History” (read the interesting last
chapter)
11. R. Buckminster Fuller, “Critical Path”
12. The Dalai Lama, “The Art of Happiness”

Currently, the list contains the following, while other titles have come and gone.

15. James Lovelock, “Gaia: A new look at life on Earth”
16. Rachel Carson, “Silent Spring”

Keep safe,
Patrick Bishop