The 64 books I read in 2015

Rick Webb
3 min readJan 1, 2016

Re-reads are marked with an asterisk

  • Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
  • Emma by Jane Austin*
  • Stellar Cartography: The Star Fleet Reference Library by Larry Nemecek
  • Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  • Persuasion by Jane Austen*
  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo
  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  • God’s Debris: A Thought Experiment by Scott Adams
  • Candide by Voltaire*
  • Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
  • Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Dow Schüll
  • True Things About Me by Deborah Kay Davies
  • Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
  • Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
  • In The Beginning… Was The Command Line by Neil Stephenson
  • Just Kids by Patti Smith
  • Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Relentless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetz
  • The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave
  • Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division by Peter Hook
  • The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour De France by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle
  • The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club by Peter Hook
  • In Gold We Trust? The Future of Money in an Age of Uncertainty by Michael Green and Matthew Bishop
  • Keynes and Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics — Nicholas Wapshott
  • Arcadia by Lauren Groff
  • No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission the Killed Osama Bin Laden by Mark Owen
  • Manhunt: The Ten Year Search for Bin Laden — From 9/11 to Abbatobad by Peter Bergen & Mark Deakins
  • The Center Holds: Obama and his Enemies by Jonathan Alter
  • The Social Limits to Growth by Fred Hirsch
  • The Joyless Economy by Tibor Scitovsky
  • Some Problems in Market Distribution by A.W. Shaw
  • Untitled Partial Novel by a Friend
  • The Original of Laura by Vladamir Nabokov*
  • Obergefell et al. vs Hodges, Director, Ohio Department of Health, et Al. Supreme Court Syllabus, Majority and Dissents
  • Supreme Court of the United States Elonis v United States Decision
  • King Et Al. v. Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Et Al. Supreme Court Syllabus, Majority and Dissents
  • Bernard Sumner Confusion: Jog Division, Electronic and New Order Versus the World by David Nolan
  • The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Man Versus Himself by Erik Benson aka Buster Benson
  • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
  • Dirk Gentley’s Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams*
  • Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
  • Old English Patent Medicines in America by George B Griffenhagen and James Harvey Young
  • The Harried Leisure Class by Steffan Linder
  • The Anatomy of Humbug: How to Think Differently About Advertising by Paul Feldwick
  • Targeted: How Technology is Revolutionizing Advertising by Mike Smith
  • The Challenge of Waste by Stuart Chase
  • My Life in Advertising by Claude Hopkins
  • Islands in the Sky by Arthur C Clarke*
  • Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C Clarke*
  • Essays After Eighty by Donald Hall
  • The Economics of Advertising (Contributions to Economic Analysis) by Richard Schmalensee
  • Successful Advertising, 21st Edition — Thomas Smith Agency
  • How Brands Grow: What Marketers Don’t Know by Byron Sharp, ed.
  • When Ads Work by John Philip Jones
  • The Influence of Advertising’s Affective Qualities On Consumer Response by Alvin Silk & Terry Vavra
  • The Making of Modern Advertising by Daniel Pope
  • Emperors of Adland by Nancy Millman
  • The Brothers: The Saatchi and Saatchi Story by Ivan Fallon
  • A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America by Lizbeth Cohen
  • Aftermath: Star Wars: Journey to The Force Awakens by Chuck Wendig,

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Rick Webb
Rick Webb

Written by Rick Webb

author, @agencythebook, @mannupbook. writing an ad economics book. reformed angel investor, record label owner, native alaskan. co-founded @barbariangroup.

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