Celebrating National Book Lovers Day: The Energy Central Community’s Book Recommendations

For various reading- and book-related celebrations in the past, I’ve enjoyed posting into the community to ask people for their book recommendations. 

This week in recognition of August 9 as National Book Lovers Day, I decided to pull all of those book recommendations in one place. Check out this reading list accumulated over the years from the Energy Central Community!

• “Cut the Cord: How to Achieve Energy Independence by JOining the Solar-Powered Microgrid Revolution” by Vincent Battaglia

• “The Great Texas Wind Rush” by Kate Galbraith

• “Termination Shock” by Neal Stephenson

• “Dynamos and Virgins” by David Roe

• “Reaping the Wind: How Mechanical Wizards, Visionaries, and Profiteers Helped Shape Our Energy Future” by Peter Asmus

• “Energy and Civilization” by Vaclav Smil

• “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters” by Steven Koonin

• “Climate Dragon” by Sandy Lawrence

• “Last Days of Night” by Graham Moore

• “Powerline: The First Battle of America’s Energy War” by Paul Wellston and Barry Casper

• “The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World” by Jeremy Rifkin
• “The 100% Renewable Energy Journey & The Outlaw Grid” by Ahmed Mousa
• .”TEAMWORK (Together Everyone Achieves More)” by Dr. Kimberly A. McKenzie-Klemm
• “Storms of My Grandchildren” by Dr. James Hansen
• “Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change” by Mark Diesendorf
• “The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation: Technological, Socioeconomic and Political Change” by Dr Mark Diesendorf and Rod Taylor
• “The Power of One More” by Ed Mylett
• “The Changing Energy Mix” by Paul Meier
• “Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of our Electric Grid” by Meredith Angwin
• “TRANSFORMERS” by Kenneth R. Edwards
• “The West Texas Power Plant That Saved the World: Energy, Capitalism, and Climate Change” by Andy Bowman
• “California Burning” by Katherine Blunt
• “Conspiracy of Fools” by Kurt Eichenwald
• “Power Struggle” by Ruldolph and Ridley
• “An Inconvenient Purpose: Linking Godly Stewardship and Alternative Energy” by Richard Gasaway
• “Grit and Granite” by Katherine Johnson
• “Empowering Electric and Gas Utilities with GIS” by Bill Meehan
• “The Power Brokers” by Jeremiah D. Lambert
• “Superpower, One Man’s Quest to Transform American Energy” by Russell Gold
• “The Energy Switch: How Companies and Customers are Transforming the Electrical Grid and the Future of Power” by Peter Kelly-Detwiler

And of course, we still want to add more to the list. So add in the comments below: what is this reading list missing?