Reading lists - suggestions always welcome!

READING and TO READ lists now on Goodreads.com - link on right.
Topics I want to read about:

• The East India Trading Company
• The history and development of the banking industry
• The failure of Bear Stearns and the impending burst of real estate bubbles (HA! BUSTED!)
• Living vegetarian
• Halliburton and BlackWater
• The Tuskegee Experiment
• China
• Sadam H.