R.E. Bergquist | Lists of Lists

Lists of Lists

For no particular reason, it seems useful to include some lists of recommended readings and/or viewings. Their content will be obvious from the name of the list.

These may change as more is read, or as my mood changes.

what makes us | books | information | design | military | music | movies

What makes us who we are?

an idea noted in The Alcalde, the University of Texas alumni magazine, where the lists were entitled "the ten cultural works that have most influenced your life or opened up new windows on the world"

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (1979)
Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte (1983)
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick (2011)

Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Paul Kennedy (1987)
Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall (1999)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (2005)
The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N by Leo Rosten (1937)

None of Us are Free by Solomon Burke (2002)
Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, a movie by Stanley Kubrick (1963)