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Computer Science
Startups and Business
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Marketing
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History
Science and Medicine
Logic and Problem Solving
Politics
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Economics
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Theater and Film
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- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson ✔
- 12 Rules for Life : An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson ✔
- Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins
- 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
- The Courage to Be Happy: Discover the Power of Positive Psychology and Choose Happiness Every Day by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl ⬖
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (CLASSIC)
- Gifs of Immperfection by Brene Brown ✔
- Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
- The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
- The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
- Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss
- The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
- Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
- The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins
- Originals:How Non-conformists Change the World by Adam Grant
- Nudge by Richard H. Thaler
- You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
- Feeling Good by David D. Burns
- Wherever You Go There You are by Jon Kabat-Zinn (mindfulness)
- Option B by Sheryl Sandberg
- Switch by Chip Heath
- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (Fiction)
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron
Computer Science
- Introduction to Algorithms Thomas H. Cormen
- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master Andy Hunt
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software Erich Gamma
- Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship Robert C. Martin
- Code Charles Petzold
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code Martin Fowler
- The Algorithm Design Manual Steven S. Skiena
- Purely Functional Data Structures Chris Okasaki
Startups and Business
- The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
- The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company by Steven Gary Blank ✔
- High Output Management by Andy Grove ✔
- Business Model Generation : A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder ✔
- How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25 Principles of Success by Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer
- The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
- Outliers: Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- Sprint : How To Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp
- The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable by Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek ✔
- Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by John Wood
- Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't by Jim Collins
- The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
- The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
- Abundance by Peter H. Diamandis
- Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
- Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
- The Innovator's Dilemma by clayton m. christensen
- Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
- Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson
- SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Litt
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- The Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley
- Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups Early Days by Jessica Livingston
- The Paypal Wars by Eric M. Jackson
- Lean In : Women, Work and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
- ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever by David Heinemeier Hansson
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
- The Curse of the Mogul by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave
- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
- Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto by Adam Werbach
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ✔
- Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change by Louis V Gerstner, Jr
- Linchpin: Are You Indispensable by Seth Godin
- The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau
- Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
- The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Shwartz
- The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
- Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe
- Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters ✔
- One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com by Richard Brandt
- Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Kenneth Cukier
- The Accidental Billionaires : The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich
Investing
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel ✔
- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings by Philip A. Fisher
- Security Analysis: Sixth Edition, Foreword by Warren Buffett by Benjamin Graham
- The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle
- The Interpretation of Financial Statements by Benjamin Graham
- Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Value Investing by Bruce C. N. Greenwald
- Rich Dad's Guide to Investing by Robert T. Kiyosaki
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
- Against the Gods by Peter L. Bernstein
- The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
- How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
Marketing
- Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers by Seth Godin - 3.94 - 27 875 Ratings (goodreads) - Published 2014
- Purple Cow by Seth Godin
- Tribes: We need you to lead us by Seth Godin
- Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A Moore
- All Marketers are Liars by Seth Godin
- Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger
- Value Proposition Design by Alexander Osterwalder
- Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition by W.Chan Kim
- Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuk
- Hooked by Nir Eyal
- Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday
- 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
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath - 3.96 - 137 726 Ratings (goodreads) - Published 2006
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk by Al Ries - 4.03 - 23 350 Ratings (goodreads) - Published 1993
- The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding by Laura Ries and Al Ries - Published 1998
- Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle
- Education and the Significance of Life by Krishnamurti
- The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size by Tor Norretranders
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
- Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
- The Concise 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick
- Maps of Meaning : The Architecture of Belief by Jordan B. Peterson | 564 pages | 4.42 / 326 ratings
- The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present by Eric Kandel
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
- Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern by Douglas Hofstadter
- The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations by Matthew Stewart
- Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life by Shakti Gawain
- Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
- The Discovery Of The Unconscious : The History And Evolution Of Dynamic Psychiatry by Henri F. Ellenberger
- Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman ✔
- Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy by William Barrett
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
- Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
- Grit by Angela Duckworth
- In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
- The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
- Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua Greene
- The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku
- Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized by James Ladyman, Don Ross, et al
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Mindset: The new psychology of success by Carol S. Dweck,Ph.D.
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business by Charles Duhigg
- The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic by Dan Ariely
- Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence by David Perkins
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Ron P. Baumeister, John Tierney
- A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink
- Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts
- Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities by Dean Radin
- Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone
- The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
- Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
- 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
- You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen
- Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy by Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone
- What the Dog Saw: and other adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
- Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior by Geoffrey Miller
- Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis by Eric Berne.
- This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking by John Brockman
- Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
- Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt
- The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston
- The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas by Michael S. Gazzaniga
- Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid by Robert J Sternberg
- Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Others by Sherry Turkle
- How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic by Madsen Pirie
- Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher by Winifred Gallagher
- 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
- Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You: Sam Gosling by Sam Gosling
Autobiographies and Biographies
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
- Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
- My Life and My Work by Henry Ford
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by W. Bernard Carlson
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
- Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness by Donald Barlett
- Elon Musk: Inventing the Future by Ashlee Vance
- The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
- Freedom in Exile by Dalai Lama XIV
- Madame Curie: A Biography by Marie Curie
- Wings of Fire by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
- An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson
- Einstein by Walter Isaacson
- Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson
- My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
- The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
- Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography by Richard Branson
- Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick
- An Autobiography: Toward Freedom by Jawaharlal Nehru
- iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It by Steve Wozniak
History
- Conquests and Cultures: An International History by Thomas Sowell ✔
- Migrations And Cultures : A World View by Thomas Sowell ✔
- Stalin : The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore ✔
- Modern Times: World from the Twenties to the Nineties by Paul Johnson
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
- Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- 1776 by David McCullough
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin
- Stasiland by Anna Funder ✔
- Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor ✔
- Ordinary Men : Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
- One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs
- The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet by David Kahn
- From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun
- Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morrisage
- The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay Lifton
- God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History by Stephen Hawking
- Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee
- King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
- The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chan
- Guns, Germs, And Steel : The Fates Of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond
- Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru
- The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.) by Matt Ridley
- Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground by Kevin Poulson
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
- Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick (North Korea)
- The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James
- The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu
- Spycraft by Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, Henry R. Schlesinger
- A History of Religious Ideas Vol. 1, Vol. 2 and Vol. 3 by Mircea Eliade (1978)
- Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson by Niall Ferguson
- The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan
- The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
Science and Medicine
- Asimov's New Guide to Science by Isaac Asimov
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- The Little Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman
- Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science by Dean Keith Simonton
- Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World by Kevin Kelly
- The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- Structures by J. Gordon
- Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe
- Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind by Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
- The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World by Elkhonon Goldberg
- The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene by Richard Dawkins
- Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe by Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
- Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett
- The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly
- The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us by Noson S. Yanofsky
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
- At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity by Stuart Kauffman
- The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler
- Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence by Hans Moravec.
- How to Find a Habitable Planet by James kasting
- The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution by Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending
- Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives by David Sloan Wilson
- The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
- Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham
- Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age by Bart Kosko
- The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex by Murray Gell-Mann
- Tomorrowland: Our Staggering Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact by Steven Kotler
- Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity by Dean Keith
- Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense by Jonathan D. Moreno
- Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky ✔
Logic and Problem Solving
- What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles by Raymond M. Smullyan
- A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science even If You Flunked Algebra by Barbara Oakley
- How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method by George Polya
- Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge by William Poundstone
Politics
- Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell ✔
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Right)
Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (Left) - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel
- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
- Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
- The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies by Bryan Caplan
- Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict by Michael Klare
- The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
Geopolitic
- Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu
- 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
- 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
- The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando De Soto
- World Order by Henry Kissinger - 4.04 - 15 412 Ratings (goodreads) - Published 2014
- Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger - 4.18 - 15 137 Ratings (goodreads) - Published 1994
- The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John J. Mearsheimer - 4.08 - 3 321 Ratings (goodreads) - Published 2001
- Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—and Why They Fall by Amy Chua - 3.80 - 1 406 Ratings(goodreads) - Published 2007
- The Arab Mind by Author Raphael Patai
Economics
- Origin of Wealth by Eric D. Beinhocker
- Every Shot Counts: Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy by Mark Broadie
- Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell ✔
- Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
- 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't by Nate Silver
- Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis by James Rickards
- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
- The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier
- The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
- Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart by Ian Ayres
- A Farewell to Alms : A Brief Economic History of the World by Gregory Clark
Education
- Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas by Seymour A. Papert
- How Children Fail by John Holt
- Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel
- Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner
- Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood by A. S. Neill, Albert Lamb
- The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin
- Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture by Kirsten Olson
- Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist by John Brockman
Writing
- Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim by Stephen Sondheim
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
- Clear and Simple as the Truth by Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner
- The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker
Theater and Film
- Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh by Mike Alfreds
- Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone
- The Actor and the Target by Declan Donnellan
- In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing by Walter Murch
- Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair by Frank Hauser, Russell Reich
- How to Stop Acting by Harold Guskin
- A Practical Handbook for the Actor by Melissa Bruder
Shakespeare
- 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.
- Hamlet and Revenge by Eleanor Prosser
- Shakespeare's Metrical Art by George T. Wright
- Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt
Fiction
Classics
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell ✔
- The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ✔
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
- Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- Letters From The Earth by Mark Twain
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ✔
- Steppenwolf: A Novel by Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton
- The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse, Richard and Clara Winston
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Germinal by Emile Zola
- If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino and William Weaver
- The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa
- The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- J'accuse by Emile Zola
- Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
- De L'esprit Des Lois by Montesquieu
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Marquéz
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
- Candide by Voltaire
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Lettres persanes by Montesquieu
- The Director by David Ignatius
Fantasy
- The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
- Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Discworld by Terry Pratchett
- The Dark Tower by Stephen King
- His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
- The Last Wish - Saga by Andrzej Sapkowski
- The Chronicles of Narnia by Clive Staples Lewis
- The City & The City by China Mieville
- The Broken Empire by Mark Lawrence
Historical Fiction
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder and Paulette Moller
Humor
- I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max
Mystery
- Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
- The Eight by Katherine Neville
- Memory Man by David Baldacci
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Science Fiction
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Ender's Game - Saga by Orson Scott Card
- The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
- The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
- The Martian by Andy Weir (2012)
- Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984) ✔
- Artemis by Andy Weir (2017)
- 2001 : A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (first published June 1968)
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (1968)
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
- The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (1950)
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller (first published October 1959)
- Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1951)
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Horror
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Maurice Hindle
Miscellaneous
- The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
- The Bone People by Keri Hulme
- Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategie by Nick Bostrom
- Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat
- Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
- Xeelee Sequence by Stephen Baxter
- Ghost Fleet by P.W. Singer and August Cole
- Future Crimes by Marc Goodman
Health
- Convict Conditioning by Paul Wade
- The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness by Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman
- 8 Weeks to Optimum Health by Andrew Weil
- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Design
- Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander
- Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug ✔
- The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman ✔
- The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher
Travel