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        • 50 Years of Books to Remember by The New York Public Library
        • Waterstones 100 Books of the Century
        • Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time
        • The Celebrity Reading List
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        • The Everyman's Library 100 Essentials
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Personal Development
  1. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson​ ✔
  2. 12 Rules for Life : An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson ✔
  3. Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins
  4. The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
  5. The Courage to Be Happy: Discover the Power of Positive Psychology and Choose Happiness Every Day by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
  6. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl ⬖
  7. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (CLASSIC)
  8. Gifs of Immperfection by Brene Brown ✔
    1. Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
    2. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
  9. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  10. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
  11. The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
  12. Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss
  13. The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
    1. Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
  14. The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins
  15. Originals:How Non-conformists Change the World by Adam Grant
  16. Nudge by Richard H. Thaler
  17. You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
  18. The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
  19. Feeling Good by David D. Burns
  20. Wherever You Go There You are by Jon Kabat-Zinn (mindfulness)
  21. Option B by Sheryl Sandberg
  22. Switch by Chip Heath
  23. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (Fiction)
  24. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
    1. ​​​​The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron
 
Computer Science
  1. Introduction to Algorithms Thomas H. Cormen
  2. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master Andy Hunt
  3. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software Erich Gamma
  4. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship Robert C. Martin
  5. Code Charles Petzold
  6. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
  7. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code Martin Fowler
  8. The Algorithm Design Manual Steven S. Skiena
  9. Purely Functional Data Structures Chris Okasaki

Startups and Business
  1. The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
  2. The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company by Steven Gary Blank ✔
  3. High Output Management by Andy Grove ✔
  4. Business Model Generation : A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder ✔
  5. How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25 Principles of Success by Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer
  6. The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
  7. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
  8. Outliers: Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
  9. Sprint : How To Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp
  10. The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable by Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale
  11. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek ✔
  12. Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by John Wood
  13. Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
  14. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't by Jim Collins
  15. The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
  16. The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
  17. Abundance by Peter H. Diamandis
  18. Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
  19. Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
  20. The Innovator's Dilemma by clayton m. christensen
  21. Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson
  22. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber
  23. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
  24. Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson
  25. SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Litt
    1. ​Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
  26. The Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley
  27. Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups Early Days by Jessica Livingston
  28. The Paypal Wars by Eric M. Jackson
  29. Lean In : Women, Work and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
  30. ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever by David Heinemeier Hansson
  31. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
  32. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
  33. The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
  34. The Curse of the Mogul by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave
  35. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
  36. Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto by Adam Werbach
  37. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ✔
  38. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change by Louis V Gerstner, Jr
  39. Linchpin: Are You Indispensable by Seth Godin
  40. The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau
  41. Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
  42. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Shwartz
  43. The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
  44. Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe
  45. Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky
  46. Zero to One by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters ✔
  47. One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com by Richard Brandt
  48. Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Kenneth Cukier
  49. The Accidental Billionaires : The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich

Investing
  1. A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel ✔
  2. Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings by Philip A. Fisher
  3. Security Analysis: Sixth Edition, Foreword by Warren Buffett by Benjamin Graham
  4. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle
  5. The Interpretation of Financial Statements by Benjamin Graham
  6. Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  7. Value Investing by Bruce C. N. Greenwald
  8. Rich Dad's Guide to Investing by Robert T. Kiyosaki
  9. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
  10. Against the Gods by Peter L. Bernstein
  11. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
  12. How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff


Marketing
  1. Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers by Seth Godin - 3.94 - 27 875 Ratings (goodreads) - Published 2014
  2. Purple Cow by Seth Godin
  3. Tribes: We need you to lead us by Seth Godin
  4. Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A Moore
  5. All Marketers are Liars by Seth Godin
  6. Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger
  7. Value Proposition Design by Alexander Osterwalder
  8. Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition by W.Chan Kim
  9. Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuk
  10. Hooked by Nir Eyal
  11. Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday
  12. Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy and the New Science of Desire by Martin Lindstrom - 3.75 - 18 451 Ratings (goodreads) - Published 2008
  13. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath - 3.96 - 137 726 Ratings (goodreads) - Published 2006
  14. The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk by Al Ries - 4.03 - 23 350 Ratings (goodreads) - Published 1993
    1. The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding by Laura Ries and Al Ries  - Published 1998
Philosophy And Psychology
  1. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle
  2. Education and the Significance of Life by Krishnamurti
  3. The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size by Tor Norretranders
  4. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
  5. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
  6. The Concise 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
  7. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
  8. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick
  9. Maps of Meaning : The Architecture of Belief by Jordan B. Peterson | 564 pages | 4.42 / 326 ratings
  10. The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present by Eric Kandel
  11. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
  12. Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern by Douglas Hofstadter
  13. The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations by Matthew Stewart
  14. Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life by Shakti Gawain
  15. Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
  16. The Discovery Of The Unconscious : The History And Evolution Of Dynamic Psychiatry by Henri F. Ellenberger
  17. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
  18. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman ✔
  19. Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy by William Barrett
  20. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
  21. Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
  22. Grit by Angela Duckworth
  23. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
  24. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
  25. The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
  26. Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua Greene
  27. The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku
  28. Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized by James Ladyman, Don Ross, et al
  29. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  30. Mindset: The new psychology of success by Carol S. Dweck,Ph.D.
  31. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business by Charles Duhigg
  32. The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic by Dan Ariely
  33. Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence by David Perkins
  34. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
  35. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Ron P. Baumeister, John Tierney
  36. A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink
  37. Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts
  38. Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities by Dean Radin
  39. Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone
  40. The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
  41. Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
  42. Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average by Joseph T. Hallinan
  43. You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen
  44. Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy by Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone
  45. What the Dog Saw: and other adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
  46. Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior by Geoffrey Miller
  47. Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis by Eric Berne.
  48. This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking by John Brockman
  49. Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett
  50. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
  51. Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt
  52. The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston
  53. The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas by Michael S. Gazzaniga
  54. Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid by Robert J Sternberg
  55. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Others by Sherry Turkle
  56. How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic by Madsen Pirie
  57. Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher by Winifred Gallagher
  58. The Fine Art of Small Talk: How To Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills -- and Leave a Positive Impression by Debra Fine
  59. Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You: Sam Gosling by Sam Gosling

Autobiographies and Biographies 
  1. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
  2. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
  3. My Life and My Work by Henry Ford
  4. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
  5. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X, Alex Haley
  6. Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by W. Bernard Carlson
  7. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
  8. Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness by Donald Barlett
  9. Elon Musk: Inventing the Future by Ashlee Vance
  10. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
  11. Freedom in Exile by Dalai Lama XIV
  12. Madame Curie: A Biography by Marie Curie
  13. Wings of Fire by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
  14. An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
  15. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  16. Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson
    1. Einstein by Walter Isaacson
    2. Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson
  17. My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
  18. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
  19. Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography by Richard Branson
  20. Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick
  21. An Autobiography: Toward Freedom by Jawaharlal Nehru
  22. iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It by Steve Wozniak

History
  1. Conquests and Cultures: An International History by Thomas Sowell ✔
  2. Migrations And Cultures : A World View by Thomas Sowell ✔
  3. Stalin : The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore ✔
  4. Modern Times: World from the Twenties to the Nineties by Paul Johnson
  5. The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
  6. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  7. 1776 by David McCullough
  8. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  9. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
  10. The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin
  11. Stasiland by Anna Funder ✔
  12. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor ✔
  13. Ordinary Men : Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
  14. One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs
  15. The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet by David Kahn
  16. From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun
  17. Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morrisage
  18. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay Lifton
  19. God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History by Stephen Hawking
  20. Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee
  21. King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
  22. The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chan
  23. Guns, Germs, And Steel : The Fates Of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond
  24. Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru
  25. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.) by Matt Ridley
  26. Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground by Kevin Poulson
  27. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
  28. Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick (North Korea)
  29. The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James
  30. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu
  31. Spycraft by Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, Henry R. Schlesinger
  32. A History of Religious Ideas Vol. 1, Vol. 2 and Vol. 3 by Mircea Eliade (1978)
  33. Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson by Niall Ferguson
  34. The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan
  35. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman

Science and Medicine
  1. Asimov's New Guide to Science by Isaac Asimov
  2. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
  3. The Little Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman
  4. Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science by Dean Keith Simonton
  5. Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World by Kevin Kelly
  6. The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman
  7. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  8. The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon
  9. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
  10. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  11. Structures by J. Gordon
  12. ​Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe
  13. Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind by Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
  14. The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World by Elkhonon Goldberg
  15. The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene by Richard Dawkins
  16. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe by Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee
  17. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
  18. Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett
  19. The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly
  20. The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us by Noson S. Yanofsky
  21. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
  22. At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity by Stuart Kauffman
  23. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler
  24. Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence by Hans Moravec.
  25. How to Find a Habitable Planet by James kasting
  26. The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution by Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending
  27. Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives by David Sloan Wilson
  28. The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
  29. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham
  30. Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age by Bart Kosko
  31. The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex by Murray Gell-Mann
  32. Tomorrowland: Our Staggering Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact by Steven Kotler
  33. Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity by Dean Keith
  34. Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense by Jonathan D. Moreno
  35. Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky ✔

Logic and Problem Solving 
  1. What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles by Raymond M. Smullyan
  2. A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science even If You Flunked Algebra by Barbara Oakley
  3. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method by George Polya
  4. Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge by William Poundstone

Politics
  1. Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell ✔
  2. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Right)
    Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (Left)
  3. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
  4. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel
  5. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
  6. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
  7. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
  8. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
  9. The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies by Bryan Caplan
  10. Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict by Michael Klare
  11. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama

Geopolitic
  1. ​Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu
  2. The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan - 3.68 - 7 336 Ratings (goodreads) - Published 2012
  3. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall - 4.22 - 24 756 Ratings(goodreads) - Published 2015
  4. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando De Soto
  5. World Order by Henry Kissinger - 4.04 - 15 412 Ratings (goodreads) - Published 2014
  6. Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger - 4.18 - 15 137 Ratings (goodreads) - Published 1994
  7. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John J. Mearsheimer - 4.08 - 3 321 Ratings (goodreads) - Published 2001
  8. Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—and Why They Fall by Amy Chua - 3.80 - 1 406 Ratings(goodreads) - Published 2007
  9. The Arab Mind by Author Raphael Patai

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Economics
  1. Origin of Wealth by Eric D. Beinhocker
  2. Every Shot Counts: Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy by Mark Broadie
  3. Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell ✔
  4. Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
  5. Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
  6. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
  7. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't by Nate Silver
  8. Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis by James Rickards
  9. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
  10. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier
  11. The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
  12. Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart by Ian Ayres
  13. A Farewell to Alms : A Brief Economic History of the World by Gregory Clark


Education 
  1. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas by Seymour A. Papert
  2. How Children Fail by John Holt
  3. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel
  4. Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner
  5. Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood by A. S. Neill, Albert Lamb
  6. The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin
  7. Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture by Kirsten Olson
  8. Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist by John Brockman

Writing
  1. Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim by Stephen Sondheim
  2. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
  3. Clear and Simple as the Truth by Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner
  4. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker

Theater and Film
  1. Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh by Mike Alfreds
  2. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone
  3. The Actor and the Target by Declan Donnellan
  4. In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing by Walter Murch
  5. Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair by Frank Hauser, Russell Reich
  6. How to Stop Acting by Harold Guskin
  7. A Practical Handbook for the Actor by Melissa Bruder

Shakespeare
  1. Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard by Barry Edelstein.
  2. Hamlet and Revenge by Eleanor Prosser
  3. Shakespeare's Metrical Art by George T. Wright
  4. Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt

Fiction 

Classics 
  1. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  2. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
  3. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  4. Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell ✔
  5. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ✔
  6. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
  7. Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
  8. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
  9. Letters From The Earth by Mark Twain
  10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
  11. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ✔
  12. Steppenwolf: A Novel by Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton
  13. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse, Richard and Clara Winston
  14. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  15. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  16. Germinal by Emile Zola
  17. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino and William Weaver
  18. The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander
  19. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  20. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  21. Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams
  22. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa
  23. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
  24. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  25. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
  26. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  27. J'accuse by Emile Zola
  28. Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
  29. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
  30. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
  31. Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
  32. De L'esprit Des Lois by Montesquieu
  33. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Marquéz
  34. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  35. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
  36. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  37. Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
  38. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  39. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  40. Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
  41. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
  42. Candide by Voltaire
  43. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  44. Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  45. Lettres persanes by Montesquieu
  46. The Director by David Ignatius

Fantasy
  1. The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
  2. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  3. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
  4. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
  5. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
  6. Discworld by Terry Pratchett
  7. The Dark Tower by Stephen King
  8. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
  9. The Last Wish - Saga by Andrzej Sapkowski
  10. The Chronicles of Narnia by Clive Staples Lewis
  11. The City & The City by China Mieville
  12. The Broken Empire by Mark Lawrence

Historical Fiction
  1. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
  2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  3. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  4. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
  5. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  6. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
  7. Emma by Jane Austen
  8. Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder and Paulette Moller

Humor
  1. I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max

Mystery
  1. Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  2. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
  3. The Eight by Katherine Neville
  4. Memory Man by David Baldacci
  5. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
  6. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Science Fiction
  1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  2. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  3. Ender's Game - Saga by Orson Scott Card
  4. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
  5. The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
  6. The Martian by Andy Weir (2012)
  7. Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984) ✔
  8. Artemis by Andy Weir (2017)
  9. 2001 : A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (first published June 1968)
  10. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (1968)
  11. Hyperion by Dan Simmons
  12. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
  13. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
  14. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (1950)
  15. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller (first published October 1959)
  16. Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert
  17. Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1951)
  18. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
  19. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
  20. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
  21. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson 

Horror 
  1. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  2. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  3. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Maurice Hindle

Miscellaneous 
  1. The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
  2. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
  3. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
  4. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategie by Nick Bostrom
  5. Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat
  6. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
  7. Xeelee Sequence by Stephen Baxter
  8. Ghost Fleet by P.W. Singer and August Cole
  9. Future Crimes by Marc Goodman

Health
  1. Convict Conditioning by Paul Wade
  2. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
    1. ​The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
  3. Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness by Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman
  4. 8 Weeks to Optimum Health by Andrew Weil
  5. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Design
  1. Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander 
  2. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug ✔
  3. The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman ✔
  4. The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher

Travel
  1. Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders by Joshua Foer
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