Reading list for #BelshawBlackOps12

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As I’ve already mentioned, in just over a week I’ll be on Belshaw Black Ops for the whole of December. During that time I want to spend time with my family, slow down a little, and read. You know, long-form stuff.

Here’s three books I’ve got queued up:

  • Makers: the New Industrial Revolution (Chris Anderson)
  • Reality is Broken: why games make us better and how they can change the world  (Jane McGonigal)
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)

Altogether, I’ve set myself the challenge of reading 10 non-fiction books during December.

What else should I read? (and why?) It doesn’t have to be a new book, nor does it have to be about education or technology – but it does need to be interesting.

List your three must-read books in the comment section below. I’ll be writing a short review of the ten books I end up reading when I come back in January. 🙂

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Update

The following books have been recommended by the awesome people commenting below:

  • Empowering Public Wisdom: a Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics (Tom Atlee)
  • Society of the Spectacle (Guy Debord)
  • Cinema 1: the Movement-Image (Gilles Deleuze)
  • How to Get Rich(Felix Dennis)
  • Making is Connecting (David Gauntlet)
  • Tristes Topiques (Claude Levi-Strauss)
  • Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner)
  • Slow Reading (John Miedema)
  • The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude (Andrew Nikiforuk)
  • Tempo (Venkatesh Rao)
  • Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (Andrew Solomon)

Also, Audrey Watters recommended via Twitter:

  • The Signal and the Noise: the art and science of prediction (Nate Silver)

And on Google+ Timothy Scholze recommended:

  • Net Smart: How to Thrive Online(Howard Rhiengold)
  • Witness to Hope(George Weigel)
  • 21st Century Skills: rethinking how students learn(James Bellanca)

Then, again on Twitter Jon Parnham recommended:

  • 64 Things You Need to Know Now for Then: How to Face the Digital Future Without Fear (Ben Hammersley)
  • How to Find Fulfilling Work: The School of Life (Roman Krznaric)