My first book recommendation is The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time by David Vise and Mark Malseed. It follows the founders through the start-up phase through becoming a big business and tells all the amazing never-before-been-done things that Google did.
The second book is Looking Forward to It: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the American Electoral Process by Stephen Elliott. It tells of how he followed a campaign but it is told in a very entertaining and narrative way. I haven’t read all of it, but I went to a reading where he read part of it-- you can take a look at it on Google Book Search.
My third book is less academic… you’ve probably heard of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which is an anthology of true stories meant to be uplifting that are submitted by various people.
Fourth is thanks to my roommate, who is Tibetan. The book is The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama by Thomas Laird. Again, I haven’t read the entire book, but it follows Laird in a series of question-and-answer sessions with the Dalai Lama about the history of Tibet and the political implications that the historical view has on the present. Laird doesn’t just transcribe, he also re-tells and interprets the history himself.
Another serious book that I was exposed to by my roommate: The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices, by Xinran Xue. This book tells of Xinran’s travels and the women she meets, most of whom have had traumatizing experiences because of men.
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