Bubba’s Reading List

Books I have read

  • Still Just a Geek - Wil Wheaton

  • Disrupting the Game - Reggie Fils-Aime

  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick Lencioni

  • Death by Meeting - Patrick Lencioni

  • Getting Naked - Patrick Lencioni

  • The Four Obsessions of An Extraordinary Executive - Patrick Lencioni

  • The Three Signs of a Miserable Job - Patrick Lencioni

  • Rethinking Education - Adam Unwin and John Yandell

  • Very Short Introductions

    • Education - Gary Thomas

    • Artificial Intelligence - Margaret Boden

  • Masters of Doom - David Kushner

  • 8-Bit Apocalypse - Alex Rubens

  • Shaping the Future of Education - Nolan Bushnell

  • The History of Video Games - Charlie Fish

  • Digital Playgrounds - Rachel Kowert

  • Game On - Dustin Hansen

  • A Brief History Of The Video Game Industry - Michael Carpenter

  • Video Game of the Year - Jordan Minor

  • Esports Research and Its Integration in Education - Miles Harvey

  • A History of Video Games in 64 Objects - World Video Game Hall of Fame

  • Good Luck Have Fun: The Rise of Esports - Roland Li

  • Demystifying Esports: Baro Hyun

  • Parenting in a Tech World - Tatania Jordan

  • Parental Control - Tatania Jordan

  • Getting Gamers - Jamie Madigan

  • Extra Lives - Tom Bissel

  • Control Freak - Cliff Bleszinski

  • Dumbing Us Down - John Taylor Gatto

  • Weapons of Mass Instruction - John Taylor Gatto

  • Lost in a Good Game - Pete Etchells

  • Moral Combat - Patrick Markey & Chris Ferguson

  • Replay: The History of Video Games - Tristan Donovan

  • The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything - Matthew Ball

  • Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.? - Gina Pera

  • Play Nice - Jason Schreier

  • Prepare to Meet Thy Doom - David Kushner

  • Console Wars - Blake Harris

  • The Book of Esports - William Collis

  • Blood, Sweat, and Pixels - Jason Schreier

  • Super Better - Jane McGonigal

  • Caste - Isabel Wilkerson

  • Doom Guy - John Romero

  • Press Reset - Jason Schreier

  • Irresistible - Adam Alter

  • 100 Jobs in Esports - Connor Alne

  • Hard Carry - Connor Alne

  • The Essential Guide to the Business & Law of Esports & Professional Gaming - Justin Jacobson

  • Esports Unlocked - Sebastian Burton

  • The Comprehensive Guide to Esports Fundamentals - PJ Bannon

  • Parents Guide to Gaming and Esports - Ben Halpert

  • The Esports Education Playbook - Chris Aviles

  • Know Thy Gamer - Drew Dixon

  • Esports EDU - Paul William Richards

  • Mindful Gamer - PK Graff

  • Gaming Callouts 101 - Connor Alne

  • The Instructional Design and Development Process - Ray Pastore

  • Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer (read multiple times)

  • The Davinci Code - Dan Brown

  • Reality is Broken - Jame McGonigal

  • Good to Great - Jim Collins

  • The Third Door - Alex Banayan

  • Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card

  • The Metaverse: Fully Revised and Updated Edition: Building the Spatial Internet - Matthew Ball

  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

  • Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir (read multiple times)

  • Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling (read multiple times)

  • Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

  • The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

  • How to Win Friends & Influence People in the Digital Age - Dale Carnegie

Books I am reading as of September 2026

  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey

  • The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu

  • Supremacy - Parmy Olson

  • The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley

  • A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin

  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

  • How to Think about AI - Richard Susskind

  • Dune - Frank Herbert

  • I, Robot - Issac Asimov

  • Mean Streets - Dion Graham

Books I will read

  • The Eye of Minds - James Dashner

  • Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

  • Crucial Conversations - Kerry Patterson

  • Creativity, Inc. - Ed Catmull

  • The Culture Map - Erin Meyer

  • Originals - Adam Grant

  • Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

  • How to Raise a Healthy Gamer - Alok Kanojia

  • Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction - Robert Chapman

  • Raising Critical Thinkers - Julie Bogart

  • Drive - Daniel H. Pink

  • The Let Them Theory - Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins

  • Red Rising - Pierce Brown

  • All Systems Red - Martha Wells

  • What’s Your Dream? - Simon Squibb

  • How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Dale Carnegie

  • The Shortest History of AI - Toby Walsh

  • Teach Like Finland - Timothy D. Walker

  • A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence - Michael Woodbridge

  • ADHD 2.0 - Edward Hallowell

  • Trillion Dollar Coach - Eric Schmidt

  • Zero to One - Peter Thiel

  • Blue Ocean Strategy - W. Chan Kim

  • How to be a Leader - Plutarch

  • Starry Messenger - Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • Silos, Politics and Turf Wars - Patrick Lencioni

  • The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family - Patrick Lencioni

  • The Ideal Team Player - Patrick Lencioni

  • Power On - Ash Brandin

  • The Diary of a CEO - Steven Bartlett

  • The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to a Life After AI - Cory Doctorow

  • How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie

  • Empire of the Vampire - Jay Kristoff

  • Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi

  • Dopamine Kids - Michaeleen Doucleff

  • Unreasonable Hospitality - Will Guidara