1. 1984 by George Orwell, Erich Fromm
  2. A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine
  3. A Mathematician's Apology by G H Hardy
  4. All Art Is Propaganda by George Orwell
  5. American Apartheid by Douglas S. Massey & Nancy A. Denton
  6. Animal farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
  7. Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is by Donald C. Gause, Gerald M. Weinberg
  8. Bad Samaritans by Ha-Joon Chang
  9. Becoming Attached by Robert Karen
  10. Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim
  11. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
  12. Capital in the Twenty First Century by Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer
  13. Changing Places by David Lodge
  14. Code by Charles Petzold
  15. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
  16. Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich
  17. Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
  18. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans
  19. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
  20. Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman
  21. False Profits by Dean Baker
  22. False Prophets by James Hoopes
  23. Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  24. Fortune's Formula by William Poundstone
  25. How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  26. If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? by G. A. Cohen
  27. In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
  28. Indefensible by David Feige
  29. Javascript Allongé by Reginald Braithwaite
  30. Love at Goon Park by Deborah Blum
  31. Making Comics by Scott McCloud
  32. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
  33. Managing to Change the World by Alison Green & Jerry Hauser
  34. Maverick by Ricardo Semler
  35. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  36. Microeconomics by Samuel Bowles
  37. Nixonland by Rick Perlstein
  38. On The Shortness Of Life by Seneca, John W. Basore
  39. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser
  40. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler
  41. Political Fictions by Joan Didion
  42. Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
  43. Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo
  44. Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn
  45. Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn
  46. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts
  47. Secrets by Daniel Ellsberg
  48. Short by John Schwartz
  49. Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck
  50. The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
  51. The Accidental Theorist by Paul Krugman
  52. The Age of Absurdity by Michael Foley
  53. The Big Con by David Maurer
  54. The Big Short by Michael Lewis
  55. The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker, Jim Collins
  56. The Elements of Style by William Strunk, E. B. White, Roger Angell
  57. The Exile by Mark Ames & Matt Taibbi
  58. The Halo Effect by Phil Rosenzweig
  59. The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin
  60. The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
  61. The intelligent investor by Benjamin Graham
  62. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
  63. The Liberal Defence of Murder by Richard Seymour
  64. The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM by Kevin Maney
  65. The Myth of the Spoiled Child by Alfie Kohn
  66. The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers
  67. The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
  68. The Persistence of Poverty by Charles H. Karelis
  69. The Possessed by Elif Batuman
  70. The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
  71. The Prince of the Marshes by Rory Stewart
  72. The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
  73. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces by William H. Whyte
  74. The Stranger by Albert Camus
  75. The Trial by Franz Kafka
  76. The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone
  77. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis
  78. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
  79. This Brave New World: India, China and the United States by Anja Manuel
  80. This Is Your Country on Drugs by Ryan Grim
  81. To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
  82. Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet
  83. Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson
  84. What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer
  85. Which Side Are You on? by Thomas Geoghegan
  86. Why Not Socialism? by G. A. Cohen

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