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 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