Summer reading list
I know that this it is old-fashioned to read books. But I still do it; and I am not ashamed. For those of you who also still do it, here is my “summer reading list” of real estate books. I hope I haven’t missed your beach week!
If you want to understand the real estate buying process:
10 Steps to Home Ownership, by Ilyce R. Glink -- really anything by Ilyce Glink. She has a good outlook and her books are similar, but formatted differently for different learning styles.
House, by Tracy Kidder
Homes and Other Black Holes, by Dave Barry
If you like to look at the "how and why" of houses, marketing and the way we think:
The Walls Around Us by David Owen
Sex and Real Estate, by Marjorie Garber
A Scientist in the City, by James Trefil
Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
While I am at it, I enjoy books which turn what I learned in school on its head:
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 by Brian Fagan
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler if the 14th Century by Ross E. Dunn
Also, these don’t count as reading books; they are reference books everyone who owns a house should have:
Dare to Repair by Julie Sussman and Stephanie Glakas-Tenet
101 Cost Effective Ways to Increase the Value of Your Home by Steve Berges
Reader’s Digest Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual
Please share your favorite books in these categories, or give a new category and your favorite. I would especially like to know what you read in these categories:
Economics
Negotiation
Urban Planning/Future of American housing
Popular Science
Social Science
(this entry is dedicated to the memory of Edie Howe 1946-2008)
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