JP Morgan — the global bank, not the dead man — just released its summer reading list (see below). Apparently not satisfied with ruling the economic roost, JP Morgan is getting into the content curation business, too–if modestly. If any bank has the proper legacy to do this, it’s probably Morgan, whose founder was a bibliophile with one of the world’s great private libraries.
It’s interesting to note that not one of JP Morgan’s 10 recommendations matches any of the ten books Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg selected for his A Year of Books book club (see below). Techies and bankers really are different breeds.
JP Morgan Reading List (2015)
- Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution Thats Transforming Education
by Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica
- Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
by Héctor Tobar
- Every Gift Matters: How Your Passion Can Change the World
by Carrie Morgridge and John Perry
- How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
by Kevin Ashton
- Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
by Cynthia Barnett
- The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong
by Judith Rodin
- Saturday Night Live: The Book
by Alison Castle
- Where Chefs Eat: A Guide to Chefs’ Favorite Restaurants (2015)
by Joe Warwick
- World Order
by Henry Kissinger
- The Wright Brothers
by David McCullough
Mark Zuckerberg’s A Year of Books book club list:
- The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be by Moisés Naím
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity by Stephen Pinker
- Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh
- On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
- Creativity Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
- Rational Ritual by Michael Chwe
- Dealing with China by Hank Paulson
- Orwell’s Revenge by Peter Huber
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
