Reading list

I am borrowing the fiction titles from the suggested readings by the Acumen Fund.

Black Boy by Richard Wright (HarperPerennial)

A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Heinemann)

Independent People by Halldór Laxness (Vintage International)

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (Penguin Books)

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin (Creative Education)

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Anchor)

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (NYRB Classics)

Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh (Mariner Books)

Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell (Penguin Books)

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

The ones listed here are the ones I have not read as yet.

Adding some more:

* Biomimicry- Janine Benyus
* Common Wealth-Economics for a Crowded Planet- Jeffrey Sachs
* Cradle to Cradle- W. McDonough & M. Braungart
* Creating a World Without Poverty- Muhammad Yunus
* Forces for Good- L. Crutchfield & H. Grant
* Good to Great- Jim Collins
* How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas- Davide Bornstein
* In the Bubble- John Thackara
* Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail- Paul Polak
* Racism Without Racist: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the US – Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
* Silent Spring- Rachel Carson
* The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World – John Elkington & Pamela Hartigan
* World Changing: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century