Shelf

Creativity, Inc.

Ed Catmull

A look inside the creative culture at Pixar

The Bookseller at the End of the World

Ruth Shaw

Leonardo Da Vinci

Walter Isaacson

A study of the life of one of the greatest thinkers

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

We Are What We Eat

Alice Waters

A slow-food manifesto that reads as a critique of convenience culture generally.

Chip Wars

Chris Miller

The race to design and manufacture semiconductor microchips

The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman

Material World

Ed Conway

Six materials that make the modern world; the copper chapter is the best thing I've read on the subject.