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We'd like to invite you to join our culture of learning through this kasina book club page. Browse our recommended list below to see what books we've been reading lately, and feel free to contact us to discuss them or recommend your own favorites and we'll highlight them here alongside our selections. Just email comments or your current favorite titles to books@kasina.com.








Lee Kowarski
How to Measure Anything by Douglas W. Hubbard
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Drive by Daniel H. Pink
Ad Hoc at Home by Thomas Keller
Born Round by Frank Bruni




Steven Miyao
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson


Jessica Morris
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son by Michael Chabon
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri


Deb Wetherbee
A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class by Joseph Nocera
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital by Roger Lowenstein
Blue Blood and Mutiny by Patricia Beard
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
Positive Discipline by Jane Nelsen


Drew Maniglia
Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus
Past Due: The End of Easy Money and The Renewal of The American Economy by Peter S. Goodman
What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis
Lost on Planet China by J. Maarten Troost
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki


Eric Daugherty
Common Sense on Mutual Funds by Jack Bogle
The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley, William Danko
The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy by Martin Gilbert
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson
Getting To Yes by William L. Ury, Roger Fisher, Bruce M. Patton
Encyclopedia Idiotica: History's Worst Decisions and the People Who Made Them by Stephen Weir
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Bachman Books : Four Early Novels by Richard Bachman by Stephen King
The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are by Kevin Leman
The Forgotten Man:   A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shales


Julia Binder
South of Broad by Pat Conroy
Somnia by Walter Kempowski
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous
Kinski Uncut by Klaus Kinski
The Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsum


Rubesh Jacobs
Once a Runner by John L Parker
The Next 100 Years by George Friedman
Does America Need a Foreign Policy? by Henry Kissinger
The Clash of Civilizations - The Remaking of World Order by Samuel Huntingdon
Inside Al Queda by Rohan Gunaratna



Andy Edwards


Andrea VanZile Georgoulis

Broke, USA by Gary Rivlin
Influence: How Women's Soaring Economic Power Will Transform our World for the Better by Maddy Dychtwald
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins



Sujatha Sivakumaran



Mariel Matero
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
























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