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# Mind Expanding Books
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> Curated list of mind expanding books.
## Table of Contents
* [Startups and Business](#startups-and-business)
* [Philosophy and Psychology](#philosophy-and-psychology)
* [Autobiographies and Biographies](#autobiographies-and-biographies)
* [History](#history)
* [Evolution, Science and Medicine](#science-and-medicine)
* [Logic and Problem Solving](#logic-and-problem-solving)
* [Politics](#politics)
* [Economics](#economics)
* [Sexuality](#sexuality)
* [Education](#education)
* [Writing](#writing)
* [Theater and Film](#theater-and-film)
* [Fiction](#fiction)
* [Health](#health)
* [Design](#design)
# Books
## Startups and Business
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| The Compound Effect | Darren Hardy | [4.40](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9420697-the-compound-effect) | |
| High Output Management | Andy Grove | [4.38](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324750.High_Output_Management) | 1995 |
| How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25 Principles of Success | Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer | [4.26](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96593.The_Success_Principles) | |
| The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine | Michael Lewis | [4.26](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8032112-the-big-short) | 2015 |
| The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership | Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh | [4.21](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6342995-the-score-takes-care-of-itself) | 2009 |
| The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers | Ben Horowitz | [4.20](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176747-the-hard-thing-about-hard-things) | 2014 |
| Outliers: Story of Success | Malcolm Gladwell | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3364437-outliers-the-story-of-success) | 2008 |
| The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable | Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale | [4.09](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99919.The_Strategy_and_Tactics_of_Pricing) | 2005 |
| Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children | John Wood | [4.07](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95429.Leaving_Microsoft_to_Change_the_World) | |
| Hackers and Painters | Paul Graham | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41793.Hackers_Painters) | 2004 |
| Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't | Jim Collins | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76865.Good_to_Great) | 2001 |
| The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses | Eric Ries | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10127019-the-lean-startup) | 2011 |
| The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal | Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz | [4.03](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68985.The_Power_of_Full_Engagement) | 2005 |
| The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right | Atul Gawande | [4.03](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667514-the-checklist-manifesto) | 2009 |
| Where Good Ideas Come From | Steven Johnson | [4.03](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8034188-where-good-ideas-come-from) | |
| Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose | Tony Hsieh | [4.01](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6828896-delivering-happiness) | 2010 |
| The Innovator's Dilemma | clayton m. christensen | [4.00](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2615.The_Innovator_s_Dilemma) | |
| Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change | Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson | [3.98](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/914211.Influencer) | |
| The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It | Michael E. Gerber | [3.98](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81948.The_E_Myth_Revisited) | 1995 |
| Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity | David Allen | [3.98](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1633.Getting_Things_Done) | |
| Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way | Richard Branson | [3.97](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211099.Losing_My_Virginity) | |
| SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance | Steven D. Litt | [3.96](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6402364-superfreakonomics) | 2009 |
| The Ten Faces of Innovation | Tom Kelley | [3.96](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95656.The_Ten_Faces_of_Innovation) | 2005 |
| Rich Dad Poor Dad : What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That The Poor And Middle Class Don't | Robert T. Kiyosaki | [3.95](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69571.Rich_Dad_Poor_Dad) | |
| Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups Early Days | Jessica Livingston | [3.94](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98233.Founders_at_Work) | |
| The Paypal Wars | Eric M. Jackson | [3.94](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4052.The_PayPal_Wars) | 2010 |
| Lean In : Women, Work and the Will to Lead | Sheryl Sandberg | [3.94](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16071764-lean-in) | 2013 |
| ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever | David Heinemeier Hansson | [3.93](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6732019-rework) | 2010 |
| The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding | Laura Ries and Al Ries | [3.93](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1565533.The_22_Immutable_Laws_of_Branding) | 1998 |
| Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything | Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner | [3.93](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1202.Freakonomics) | 2006 |
| The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference | Malcolm Gladwell | [3.92](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2612.The_Tipping_Point) | 2002 |
| The Four Steps to the Epiphany | Steve Blank | [3.92](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/762542.The_Four_Steps_to_the_Epiphany) | 2005 |
| The Curse of the Mogul | Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7162410-the-curse-of-the-mogul) | 2009 |
| David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants | Malcolm Gladwell | [3.90](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15751404-david-and-goliath) | 2013 |
| Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto | Adam Werbach | [3.89](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6553353-strategy-for-sustainability) | 2009 |
| The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | [3.88](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242472.The_Black_Swan) | 2007 |
| Contagious: Why Things Catch On | Jonah Berger | [3.88](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15801967-contagious) | 2013 |
| Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change | Louis V Gerstner, Jr | [3.88](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/603985.Who_Says_Elephants_Can_t_Dance_) | 2003 |
| Linchpin: Are You Indispensable | Seth Godin | [3.87](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7155145-linchpin) | |
| The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future | Chris Guillebeau | [3.85](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12605157-the-100-startup) | 2012 |
| Too Big to Fail | Andrew Ross Sorkin | [3.85](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6687247-too-big-to-fail) | 2011 |
| The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less | Barry Shwartz | [3.84](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10639.The_Paradox_of_Choice) | 2005 |
| The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything | Guy Kawasaki | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37875.The_Art_of_the_Start) | 2004 |
| Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business | Jeff Howe | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2601510-crowdsourcing) | |
| Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age | Clay Shirky | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7614793-cognitive-surplus) | |
| Zero to One | Peter Thiel, Blake Masters | [3.75](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050143-zero-to-one) | |
| One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com | Richard Brandt | [3.75](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11223478-one-click) | |
| Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think | Kenneth Cukier | [3.70](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15815598-big-data) | 2013 |
| The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich | Thomas Ferriss | [3.61](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368593.The_4_Hour_Workweek) | 2012 |
| The Accidental Billionaires : The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal | Ben Mezrich | [3.50](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6326920-the-accidental-billionaires) | 2009 |
## Philosophy And Psychology
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion | Gregory Boyle | [4.41](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7090193-tattoos-on-the-heart) | 2010 |
| Education and the Significance of Life | Krishnamurti | [4.38](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/353435.Education_and_the_Significance_of_Life) | 2008 |
| Man's Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | [4.33](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning) | 2006 |
| The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size | Tor Norretranders | [4.30](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106732.The_User_Illusion) | 1999 |
| Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen | Christopher McDougall | [4.27](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6289283-born-to-run) | 2009 |
| The Concise 48 Laws of Power | Robert Greene | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18224060-the-concise-48-laws-of-power) | 2011 |
| The Hero with a Thousand Faces | * [The Hero with a Thousand Faces](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588138.The_Hero_With_a_Thousand_Faces) Joseph Campbell | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588138.The_Hero_With_a_Thousand_Faces) | 1972 |
| Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick | [4.23](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402843.Zen_Mind_Beginner_s_Mind) | |
| The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present | Eric Kandel | [4.22](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12263681-the-age-of-insight) | 2012 |
| Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion | Robert B. Cialdini | [4.18](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5752.The_Blank_Slate) | 2006 |
| Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern | Douglas Hofstadter | [4.16](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181239.Metamagical_Themas) | 1996 |
| The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations | Matthew Stewart | [4.15](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18528861-the-truth-about-everything) | 1997 |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | [4.14](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4865.How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People) | 1998 |
| Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life | Shakti Gawain | [4.13](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/582533.Creative_Visualization) | 2002 |
| Bulfinch's Mythology | Thomas Bulfinch | [4.13](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588147.Bulfinch_s_Mythology) | 1998 |
| Ego Is the Enemy | Ryan Holiday | [4.12](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27036528-ego-is-the-enemy) | 2016 |
| Predictably Irrational | Dan Ariely | [4.10](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1713426.Predictably_Irrational) | 2008 |
| Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | [4.10](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow) | 1990 |
| Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny! | Anthony Robbins | [4.10](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180116.Awaken_the_Giant_Within) | |
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | [4.09](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow) | 2011 |
| Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy | William Barrett | [4.09](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83321.Irrational_Man) | |
| The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World | David Deutsch | [4.08](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10483171-the-beginning-of-infinity) | |
| Metaphors We Live By | George Lakoff, Mark Johnson | [4.08](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34459.Metaphors_We_Live_By) | 2003 |
| Grit | Angela Duckworth | [4.08](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27213329-grit) | 2016 |
| In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto | Michael Pollan | [4.07](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315425.In_Defense_of_Food) | 2008 |
| The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature | Steven Pinker | [4.07](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5752.The_Blank_Slate) | 2003 |
| The History of Western Philosophy | Bertrand Russell | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243685.A_History_of_Western_Philosophy) | 2008 |
| Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them | Joshua Greene | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707599-moral-tribes) | 2013 |
| Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking | Susan Cain | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8520610-quiet) | 2012 |
| The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind | Michio Kaku | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17978489-the-future-of-the-mind) | 2014 |
| Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized | James Ladyman, Don Ross, et al | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/757403.Every_Thing_Must_Go) | 2007 |
| Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | [4.04](Incerto) | 2012 |
| The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business | Charles Duhigg | [4.03](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12609433-the-power-of-habit) | 2012 |
| The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic | Dan Ariely | [4.00](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7815744-the-upside-of-irrationality) | |
| Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence | David Perkins | [4.00](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1008488.Outsmarting_Iq) | 1995 |
| The Art of War | Sun Tzu | [3.95](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10534.The_Art_of_War) | 2005 |
| A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future | Daniel H. Pink | [3.95](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99315.A_Whole_New_Mind) | |
| Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel | Rolf Potts | [3.92](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100247.Vagabonding) | |
| Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities | Dean Radin | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694125-alone-together) | 2013 |
| Prisoner's Dilemma | William Poundstone | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29506.Prisoner_s_Dilemma) | 1993 |
| The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature | Steven Pinker | [3.90](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373969.The_Stuff_of_Thought) | 2007 |
| Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge | Edward O. Wilson | [3.90](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55981.Consilience) | 1999 |
| Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average | Joseph T. Hallinan | [3.87](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5040579-why-we-make-mistakes) | 2009 |
| Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy | Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone | [3.87](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12838972-just-the-arguments) | 2011 |
| You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation | Deborah Tannen | [3.86](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147222.You_Just_Don_t_Understand) | 2007 |
| What the Dog Saw: and other adventures | Malcolm Gladwell | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6516450-what-the-dog-saw-and-other-adventures) | 2009 |
| Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior | Geoffrey Miller | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6283340-spent) | |
| Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis | Eric Berne. | [3.81](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49176.Games_People_Play) | |
| This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking | John Brockman | [3.81](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13035774-this-will-make-you-smarter) | 2012 |
| Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking | Daniel C. Dennett | [3.80](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18378002-intuition-pumps-and-other-tools-for-thinking) | 2014 |
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Richard Bach | [3.80](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71728.Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull) | |
| Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story | Jim Holt | [3.77](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8854815-why-does-the-world-exist) | 2012 |
| The Social Contract | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston | [3.75](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12651.The_Social_Contract) | |
| The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas | Michael S. Gazzaniga | [3.70](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328734.The_Ethical_Brain) | 2006 |
| Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid | Robert J Sternberg | [3.67](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300300.Why_Smart_People_Can_Be_So_Stupid) | 2003 |
| Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Others | Sherry Turkle | [3.62](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694125-alone-together) | 2011 |
| How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic | Madsen Pirie | [3.55](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112731.How_to_Win_Every_Argument) | 2006 |
| Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher | Winifred Gallagher | [3.54](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6262510-rapt) | |
| The Fine Art of Small Talk: How To Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills -- and Leave a Positive Impression | Debra Fine | [3.36](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93409.The_Fine_Art_of_Small_Talk) | 2005 |
| Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You: Sam Gosling | Sam Gosling | [3.33](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1581330.Snoop) | |
| Gifs of Immperfection | Brene Brown | [](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7015403-the-gifts-of-imperfection) | |
## Autobiographies and Biographies
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | Laura Hillenbrand | [4.39](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8664353-unbroken) | 2010 |
| Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela | [4.31](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318431.Long_Walk_to_Freedom) | 1995 |
| My Life and My Work | Henry Ford | [4.29](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1122054.My_Life_And_Work) | |
| Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character | Richard Feynman | [4.29](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5544.Surely_You_re_Joking_Mr_Feynman_) | 1997 |
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Malcolm X, Alex Haley | [4.29](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92057.The_Autobiography_of_Malcolm_X) | |
| Elon Musk: Inventing the Future | Ashlee Vance | [4.25](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22543496-elon-musk) | 2015 |
| The Last Lecture | Randy Pausch | [4.25](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2318271.The_Last_Lecture) | 2008 |
| Freedom in Exile | Dalai Lama XIV | [4.24](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567720.Freedom_in_Exile) | 1991 |
| Madame Curie: A Biography | Marie Curie | [4.22](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341166.Madame_Curie) | 2001 |
| Wings of Fire | A.P.J. Abdul Kalam | [4.20](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/634583.Wings_of_Fire) | 2011 |
| An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth | Chris Hadfield | [4.14](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18170143-an-astronaut-s-guide-to-life-on-earth) | 2013 |
| The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | [4.10](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48855.The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl) | 1993 |
| Steve Jobs | Walter Issacson | [4.09](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11084145-steve-jobs) | 2011 |
| My Experiments with Truth | Mahatma Gandhi | [4.07](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112803.The_Story_of_My_Experiments_With_Truth) | 1993 |
| The Story of My Life | Helen Keller | [4.07](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821611.The_Story_of_My_Life) | 1990 |
| Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker | Kevin Mitnick | [3.95](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10256723-ghost-in-the-wires) | 2011 |
| An Autobiography: Toward Freedom | Jawaharlal Nehru | [3.85](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/322939.An_Autobiography) | 1989 |
| iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It | Steve Wozniak | [3.82](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/798635.iWoz) | 2007 |
| Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography | Richard Branson | [0.00](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9533705-losing-my-virginity) | |
## History
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah Harari | [4.42](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23692271-sapiens) | 2014 |
| The Discoverers | Daniel J. Boorstin | [4.34](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714380.The_Discoverers) | 2012 |
| One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War | Michael Dobbs | [4.20](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2606779-one-minute-to-midnight) | 2008 |
| The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet | David Kahn | [4.18](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29608.The_Codebreakers) | 1996 |
| From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present | Jacques Barzun | [4.12](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58233.From_Dawn_to_Decadence) | 2001 |
| Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future | Ian Morrisage | [4.09](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9491855-why-the-west-rules-for-now) | 2010 |
| The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide | Robert Jay Lifton | [4.07](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/173187.The_Nazi_Doctors) | 1986 |
| God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History | Stephen Hawking | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2096.God_Created_The_Integers) | |
| Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II | Madhusree Mukerjee | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8890989-churchill-s-secret-war) | 2010 |
| Guns, Germs, And Steel : The Fates Of Human Societies | Jared M. Diamond | [4.00](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1842.Guns_Germs_and_Steel) | 2005 |
| Discovery of India | Jawaharlal Nehru | [3.98](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154126.The_Discovery_of_India) | |
| The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.) | Matt Ridley | [3.98](P.S.) | 2010 |
| Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground | Kevin Poulson | [3.96](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9319468-kingpin) | 2011 |
| The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World | Steven Johnson | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map) | |
| The Rise and Fall of the British Empire | Lawrence James | [3.89](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143980.The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_British_Empire) | 1997 |
| The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires | Tim Wu | [3.89](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8201080-the-master-switch) | 2010 |
| Spycraft | * [Spycraft](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/971936.Spycraft) Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, Henry R. Schlesinger | [3.81](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/971936.Spycraft) | |
| Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson | Niall Ferguson | [3.78](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10475421-civilization) | 2011 |
| The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate | Robert D. Kaplan | [3.68](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330422-the-revenge-of-geography) | 2012 |
| The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century | Thomas L. Friedman | [3.66](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1911.The_World_Is_Flat) | 2006 |
| El Tiempo Entre Costuras (The Time Between Seams / The Time In Between) | María Dueñas | [](The Time Between Seams / The Time In Between) | |
## Science and Medicine
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| Asimov's New Guide to Science | Isaac Asimov | [4.36](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/977262.Asimov_s_New_Guide_To_Science) | 1985 |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas R. Hofstadter | [4.30](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24113.G_del_Escher_Bach) | 1999 |
| The Little Schemer | Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman | [4.27](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/548914.The_Little_Schemer) | 1995 |
| Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science | * [Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1752295.Scientific_Genius) Dean Keith Simonton | [4.25](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1752295.Scientific_Genius) | 1988 |
| Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World | Kevin Kelly | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16080353-out-of-control) | 1995 |
| A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | [4.19](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21.A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything) | |
| The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain | Terrence W. Deacon | [4.17](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/733691.The_Symbolic_Species) | 1998 |
| A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | [4.12](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3869.A_Brief_History_of_Time) | 1998 |
| The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins | [4.11](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61535.The_Selfish_Gene) | |
| Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind | Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164560.Figments_of_Reality) | 2009 |
| The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World | Elkhonon Goldberg | [4.07](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6745893-the-new-executive-brain) | |
| The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene | * [The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61538.The_Extended_Phenotype) Richard Dawkins | [4.07](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61538.The_Extended_Phenotype) | 1999 |
| Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe | * [Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88552.Rare_Earth) Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88552.Rare_Earth) | 2003 |
| Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers | Mary Roach | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32145.Stiff) | 2004 |
| Darwin's Dangerous Idea | * [Darwin's Dangerous Idea](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2068.Darwin_s_Dangerous_Idea) Daniel C. Dennett | [4.03](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2068.Darwin_s_Dangerous_Idea) | |
| The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future | * [The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27209431-the-inevitable)by Kevin Kelly | [4.02](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27209431-the-inevitable) | 2016 |
| The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us | Noson S. Yanofsky | [4.00](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841838-the-outer-limits-of-reason) | 2013 |
| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition | Thomas S. Kuhn | [3.99](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61539.The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions) | 1996 |
| At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity | Stuart Kauffman | [3.97](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/319006.At_Home_in_the_Universe) | 1996 |
| The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom | Yochai Benkler | [3.95](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14721.The_Wealth_of_Networks) | 2006 |
| How to Find a Habitable Planet | James kasting | [3.93](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7551498-how-to-find-a-habitable-planet) | 2010 |
| Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence | Hans Moravec. | [3.93](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/648195.Mind_Children) | 1990 |
| The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution | Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6033964-the-10-000-year-explosion) | |
| Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives | David Sloan Wilson | [3.90](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159062.Evolution_for_Everyone) | 2007 |
| The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains | Nicholas Carr | [3.85](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9778945-the-shallows) | 2011 |
| Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human | Richard Wrangham | [3.83](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11148989-catching-fire) | 2009 |
| Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age | Bart Kosko | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172645.Heaven_in_a_Chip) | 2000 |
| The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex | Murray Gell-Mann | [3.81](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270881.The_Quark_and_the_Jaguar) | |
| Tomorrowland: Our Staggering Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact | Steven Kotler | [3.79](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25060233-tomorrowland) | 2015 |
| Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity | Dean Keith | [3.74](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254489.Origins_of_Genius) | 1999 |
| Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense | Jonathan D. Moreno | [3.45](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/599321.Mind_Wars) | 2007 |
## Logic and Problem Solving
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles | Raymond M. Smullyan | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493576.What_Is_the_Name_of_This_Book_) | 2011 |
| A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) | Barbara Oakley | [4.22](Even If You Flunked Algebra) | 2014 |
| How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method | George Polya | [4.16](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192221.How_to_Solve_It) | 2015 |
| Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge | William Poundstone | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55436.Labyrinths_of_Reason) | 1989 |
## Politics
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? | Michael J. Sandel | [4.25](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452731-justice) | |
| The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion | Jonathan Haidt | [4.16](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind) | 2012 |
| Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime | John Heilemann, Mark Halperin | [4.10](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6694937-game-change) | 2010 |
| The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies | Bryan Caplan | [3.95](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698866.The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter) | 2007 |
| Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict | Michael Klare | [3.73](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149206.Resource_Wars) | |
| The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream | Barack Obama | [3.70](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9742.The_Audacity_of_Hope) | 2006 |
## Economics
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| Origin of Wealth | Eric D. Beinhocker | [4.23](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22456.The_Origin_of_Wealth) | 2006 |
| Every Shot Counts: Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy | Mark Broadie | [4.23](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17674971-every-shot-counts) | 2014 |
| Economic Facts and Fallacies | Thomas Sowell | [4.18](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2064279.Economic_Facts_and_Fallacies) | 2008 |
| Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years | David Graeber | [4.17](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6617037-debt) | 2011 |
| Capital in the Twenty-First Century | Thomas Piketty | [4.01](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18736925-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century) | 2014 |
| 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism | Ha-Joon Chang | [3.97](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8913542-23-things-they-don-t-tell-you-about-capitalism) | |
| The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't | Nate Silver | [3.96](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13588394-the-signal-and-the-noise) | |
| Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis | James Rickards | [3.96](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11515298-currency-wars) | 2011 |
| The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World | Niall Ferguson | [3.88](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2714607-the-ascent-of-money) | |
| The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It | Paul Collier | [3.85](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493371.The_Bottom_Billion) | 2007 |
| The Thank You Economy | Gary Vaynerchuk | [3.83](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9203287-the-thank-you-economy) | 2011 |
| Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart | Ian Ayres | [3.70](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1081413.Super_Crunchers) | |
| A Farewell to Alms : A Brief Economic History of the World | Gregory Clark | [3.67](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150437.A_Farewell_to_Alms) | 2007 |
## Sexuality
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern | Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha | [4.02](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7640261-sex-at-dawn) | 2010 |
| The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities | Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt. | [3.83](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54944.The_Ethical_Slut?from_search=true) | 2004 |
| The Sex Myth | Brooke Magnanti | [3.50](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13569582-the-sex-myth) | 2015 |
## Education
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas | Seymour A. Papert | [4.32](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703532.Mindstorms) | 1993 |
| How Children Fail | John Holt | [4.22](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/573009.How_Children_Fail) | 1995 |
| Teaching as a Subversive Activity | Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner | [4.19](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79681.Teaching_as_a_Subversive_Activity) | 1971 |
| Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood | A. S. Neill, Albert Lamb | [4.09](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178734.Summerhill) | 1995 |
| Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture | Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Parker J. Palmer | [3.92](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6425208-wounded-by-school) | 2009 |
| Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist | John Brockman | [3.72](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/409588.Curious_Minds) | 2005 |
| The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance | Josh Waitzkin | [0.00](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/857333.The_Art_of_Learning) | 2016 |
## Writing
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim | Stephen Sondheim | [4.77](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12909101-hat-box) | |
| On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | Stephen King | [4.31](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10569.On_Writing) | 2002 |
| Clear and Simple as the Truth | Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/120549.Clear_and_Simple_as_the_Truth) | 1996 |
| The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century | Steven Pinker | [4.03](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821371-the-sense-of-style) | 2014 |
## Theater and Film
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh | Mike Alfreds | [4.69](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3493241-different-every-night) | 2008 |
| Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre | Keith Johnstone | [4.27](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/306940.Impro) | |
| The Actor and the Target | Declan Donnellan | [4.25](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/611466.The_Actor_and_the_Target) | 2006 |
| In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing | Walter Murch | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2141.In_the_Blink_of_an_Eye) | 1995 |
| Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair | Frank Hauser, Russell Reich | [4.21](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254808.Notes_on_Directing) | |
| How to Stop Acting | Harold Guskin | [4.17](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/808735.How_to_Stop_Acting) | 2003 |
| A Practical Handbook for the Actor | Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler, David Mamet | [3.87](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166207.A_Practical_Handbook_for_the_Actor) | 1986 |
## Shakespeare
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard | Barry Edelstein. | [4.62](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1334872.Thinking_Shakespeare) | |
| Hamlet and Revenge | Eleanor Prosser | [4.50](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/625956.Hamlet_Revenge_) | 1971 |
| Shakespeare's Metrical Art | * [Shakespeare's Metrical Art](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428615.Shakespeare_s_Metrical_Art) George T. Wright | [4.39](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428615.Shakespeare_s_Metrical_Art) | 1991 |
| Hamlet in Purgatory | Stephen Greenblatt | [3.98](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33179.Hamlet_in_Purgatory) | 2002 |
## Fiction
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
### Classics
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | [4.32](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117833.The_Master_and_Margarita) | 1996 |
| The Brothers Karamazov | * [The Brothers Karamazov](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4934.The_Brothers_Karamazov) Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky | [4.30](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4934.The_Brothers_Karamazov) | 2002 |
| Pride And Prejudice | Jane Austen | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1885.Pride_and_Prejudice) | 2000 |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | [4.22](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4473.A_Prayer_for_Owen_Meany) | 1990 |
| Letters From The Earth | Mark Twain | [4.22](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37813.Letters_from_the_Earth) | 2004 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | [4.18](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/332613.One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo_s_Nest) | 1963 |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | [4.18](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7144.Crime_and_Punishment) | 2002 |
| Steppenwolf: A Novel | Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16631.Steppenwolf) | 1999 |
| The Glass Bead Game | Hermann Hesse, Richard and Clara Winston | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16634.The_Glass_Bead_Game) | 2002 |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/656.War_and_Peace) | 1998 |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | [4.10](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10210.Jane_Eyre) | |
| Germinal | Emile Zola | [4.10](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28407.Germinal) | 2004 |
| If on a Winter's Night a Traveler | Italo Calvino and William Weaver | [4.08](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374233.If_on_a_Winter_s_Night_a_Traveler) | 1982 |
| The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories | Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander | [4.07](Intimacy) | 2010 |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14935.Sense_and_Sensibility) | 2003 |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray) | 1998 |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320.One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude) | 2003 |
| The Death of Ivan Ilych | Leo Tolstoy | [4.04](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18386.The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilych) | |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | [4.02](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15823480-anna-karenina) | 2012 |
| Bleak House | Charles Dickens | [4.00](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31242.Bleak_House) | 2006 |
| J'accuse | Emile Zola | [3.99](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816964.J_accuse) | 1998 |
| Catch 22 | Joseph Heller | [3.98](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4610.Catch_22) | 2004 |
| The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton | [3.94](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17728.The_House_of_Mirth) | 2006 |
| Confessions of a Mask | Yukio Mishima | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62794.Confessions_of_a_Mask) | 1998 |
| De L'esprit Des Lois | Montesquieu | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29854007-de-l-esprit-des-lois-nouvelle-edition) | 1995 |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | [3.85](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3836.Don_Quixote) | 2003 |
| Mansfield Park | Jane Austen | [3.84](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45032) | 2003 |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6185.Wuthering_Heights) | 2002 |
| Père Goriot | Honoré de Balzac | [3.82](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59145.P_re_Goriot) | 1997 |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | [3.80](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2956.The_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn) | 2002 |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | [3.79](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5107.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye) | 2001 |
| Eugénie Grandet | Honoré de Balzac | [3.79](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eug_nie_Grandet) | 2003 |
| Candide | Voltaire | [3.76](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19380.Candide) | |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | [3.65](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2175.Madame_Bovary) | 2004 |
| Confessions | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | [3.61](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12649.Confessions) | 2003 |
| Lettres persanes | Montesquieu | [3.54](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509686.Persian_Letters) | |
| The Director | David Ignatius | [3.43](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23316525-the-director) | 2015 |
| Watership Down: A Novel | Richard Adams | [0.00](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76620.Watership_Down) | |
### Fantasy
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| The Kingkiller Chronicle | Patrick Rothfuss | [4.55](https://www.goodreads.com/series/45262-the-kingkiller-chronicle) | 2007 |
| The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | [4.47](https://www.goodreads.com/series/66175-the-lord-of-the-rings) | 2005 |
| A Song of Ice and Fire | George R.R. Martin | [4.45](https://www.goodreads.com/series/43790-a-song-of-ice-and-fire) | 2005 |
| Harry Potter | J.K. Rowling | [4.44](https://www.goodreads.com/series/45175-harry-potter) | 1997 |
| Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality | Eliezer Yudkowsky | [4.38](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10016013-harry-potter-and-the-methods-of-rationality) | 2015 |
| Discworld | Terry Pratchett | [4.32](https://www.goodreads.com/series/40650-discworld) | 2001 |
| The Dark Tower | Stephen King | [4.27](https://www.goodreads.com/series/40750-the-dark-tower) | |
| His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman | [4.25](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18116.His_Dark_Materials) | |
| The Chronicles of Narnia | Clive Staples Lewis | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11127.The_Chronicles_of_Narnia) | 2002 |
| The City & The City | China Mieville | [3.91](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4703581-the-city-the-city) | 2009 |
| The Broken Empire | Mark Lawrence | [3.87](https://www.goodreads.com/series/64473-the-broken-empire) | 2011 |
### Historical Fiction
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry | [4.47](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256008.Lonesome_Dove) | 1999 |
| The Help | Kathryn Stockett | [4.45](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4667024-the-help) | |
| The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | [4.36](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19063.The_Book_Thief) | |
| All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | [4.31](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143977-all-the-light-we-cannot-see) | 2014 |
| The Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett | [4.29](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5043.The_Pillars_of_the_Earth?from_search=true) | 2002 |
| Kane and Abel | Jeffrey Archer | [4.27](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78983.Kane_and_Abel) | 2004 |
| Emma | Jane Austen | [3.99](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6969.Emma) | 2003 |
| Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy | Jostein Gaarder and Paulette Moller | [3.88](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10959.Sophie_s_World) | 1996 |
### Humor
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell | Tucker Max | [3.51](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9010.I_Hope_They_Serve_Beer_in_Hell) | 2006 |
### Mystery
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | [4.30](https://www.goodreads.com/series/49996-sherlock-holmes) | 1998 |
| The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Agatha Christie | [4.20](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16328.The_Murder_of_Roger_Ackroyd) | 2006 |
| The Eight | Katherine Neville | [4.17](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113310.The_Eight) | |
| Memory Man | David Baldacci | [4.05](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23153154-memory-man) | 2015 |
| The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins | [3.88](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22557272-the-girl-on-the-train) | 2015 |
| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | [3.79](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968.The_Da_Vinci_Code) | 2006 |
### Science Fiction
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | [4.38](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11.The_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy) | |
| Ender's Game - Saga | Orson Scott Card | [4.30](https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ender%27s+saga&search_type=books&search%5Bfield%5D=on) | 1994 |
| The Player of Games | Iain M. Banks | [4.26](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18630.The_Player_of_Games) | 1997 |
| The Fifth Sacred Thing | Starhawk | [4.25](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80689.The_Fifth_Sacred_Thing) | 1994 |
| The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson | [4.19](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age) | 2000 |
| Dune Chronicles | Frank Herbert | [4.19](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=dune) | 2006 |
| Foundation | Isaac Asimov | [4.13](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29579.Foundation) | 2004 |
| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | [4.02](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830.Snow_Crash) | 2000 |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | [3.97](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17470674-fahrenheit-451) | 2006 |
### Horror
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski | [4.13](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24800.House_of_Leaves) | 2000 |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker | [3.98](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17245.Dracula) | 1986 |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley, Maurice Hindle | [3.75](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490.Frankenstein) | 2003 |
### Miscellaneous
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| The Queen's Gambit | Walter Tevis | [4.11](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62022.The_Queen_s_Gambit) | |
| The Bone People | Keri Hulme | [4.06](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/460635.The_Bone_People) | 1986 |
| Cat's Eye | Margaret Atwood | [3.92](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51019.Cat_s_Eye) | 1998 |
| Xeelee Sequence | Stephen Baxter | [3.69](http://www.goodreads.com/series/49784-xeelee-sequence) | 1992 |
| Ghost Fleet | P.W. Singer and August Cole | [3.62](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22749719-ghost-fleet?from_search=true) | 2015 |
| Future Crimes | Marc Goodman | [3.42](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22318398-future-crimes?from_search=true) | 1990 |
## Health
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| Convict Conditioning | Paul Wade | [4.13](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7305111-convict-conditioning) | 2012 |
| Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness | Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman | [3.95](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13202092-eat-and-run) | |
| 8 Weeks to Optimum Health | Andrew Weil | [3.86](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37124.8_Weeks_to_Optimum_Health) | |
## Design
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|------|--------|------------------|----------------|
| Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction | Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel | [4.38](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79766.A_Pattern_Language) | 1977 |
| Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability | Steve Krug | [4.24](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18197267-don-t-make-me-think-revisited) | 2014 |
| The Design of Everyday Things | Donald Norman | [4.18](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/840.The_Design_of_Everyday_Things) | 2002 |
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# Mind Expanding Books
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> Curated list of mind expanding books.
## Table of Contents
* [Startups and Business](#startups-and-business)
* [Philosophy and Psychology](#philosophy-and-psychology)
* [Autobiographies and Biographies](#autobiographies-and-biographies)
* [History](#history)
* [Evolution, Science and Medicine](#science-and-medicine)
* [Logic and Problem Solving](#logic-and-problem-solving)
* [Politics](#politics)
* [Economics](#economics)
* [Sexuality](#sexuality)
* [Education](#education)
* [Writing](#writing)
* [Theater and Film](#theater-and-film)
* [Fiction](#fiction)
* [Health](#health)
* [Design](#design)
# Books
## Startups and Business
* [Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6553353-strategy-for-sustainability) by Adam Werbach.
* [Too Big to Fail](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6687247-too-big-to-fail) by Andrew Ross Sorkin.
* [High Output Management](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324750.High_Output_Management) by Andy Grove.
* [The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667514-the-checklist-manifesto) by Atul Gawande.
* [The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10639.The_Paradox_of_Choice) by Barry Shwartz.
* [The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176747-the-hard-thing-about-hard-things) by Ben Horowitz.
* [The Accidental Billionaires : The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6326920-the-accidental-billionaires) by Ben Mezrich.
* [The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6342995-the-score-takes-care-of-itself) by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh.
* [The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12605157-the-100-startup) by Chris Guillebeau.
* [Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7614793-cognitive-surplus) by Clay Shirky.
* [The Compound Effect](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9420697-the-compound-effect) by Darren Hardy.
* [Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1633.Getting_Things_Done) by David Allen.
* [ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6732019-rework) by David Heinemeier Hansson.
* [The Paypal Wars](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4052.The_PayPal_Wars) by Eric M. Jackson.
* [The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10127019-the-lean-startup) by Eric Ries.
* [The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37875.The_Art_of_the_Start) by Guy Kawasaki.
* [How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25 Principles of Success](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96593.The_Success_Principles) by Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer.
* [Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2601510-crowdsourcing) by Jeff Howe.
* [Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups Early Days](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98233.Founders_at_Work) by Jessica Livingston.
* [Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76865.Good_to_Great) by Jim Collins.
* [The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68985.The_Power_of_Full_Engagement) by Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz.
* [Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95429.Leaving_Microsoft_to_Change_the_World) by John Wood.
* [Contagious: Why Things Catch On](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15801967-contagious) by Jonah Berger.
* [The Curse of the Mogul](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7162410-the-curse-of-the-mogul) by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave.
* [Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/914211.Influencer) by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson.
* [Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15815598-big-data) by Kenneth Cukier.
* [The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1565533.The_22_Immutable_Laws_of_Branding) by Laura Ries and Al Ries.
* [Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/603985.Who_Says_Elephants_Can_t_Dance_) by Louis V Gerstner, Jr.
* [The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2612.The_Tipping_Point) by Malcolm Gladwell.
* [David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15751404-david-and-goliath) by Malcolm Gladwell.
* [Outliers: Story of Success](https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3364437-outliers-the-story-of-success) by Malcolm Gladwell.
* [The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81948.The_E_Myth_Revisited) by Michael E. Gerber.
* [The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8032112-the-big-short) by Michael Lewis.
* [The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242472.The_Black_Swan) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
* [Hackers and Painters](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41793.Hackers_Painters) by Paul Graham.
* [Zero to One](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050143-zero-to-one) by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters.
* [One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11223478-one-click) by Richard Brandt.
* [Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211099.Losing_My_Virginity) by Richard Branson.
* [Rich Dad Poor Dad : What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That The Poor And Middle Class Don't](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69571.Rich_Dad_Poor_Dad) by Robert T. Kiyosaki.
* [Linchpin: Are You Indispensable](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7155145-linchpin) by Seth Godin.
* [Lean In : Women, Work and the Will to Lead](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16071764-lean-in) by Sheryl Sandberg.
* [The Four Steps to the Epiphany](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/762542.The_Four_Steps_to_the_Epiphany) by Steve Blank.
* [Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1202.Freakonomics) by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner.
* [SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6402364-superfreakonomics) by Steven D. Litt.
* [Where Good Ideas Come From](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8034188-where-good-ideas-come-from) by Steven Johnson.
* [The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368593.The_4_Hour_Workweek) by Thomas Ferriss.
* [The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99919.The_Strategy_and_Tactics_of_Pricing) by Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale.
* [The Ten Faces of Innovation](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95656.The_Ten_Faces_of_Innovation) by Tom Kelley.
* [Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6828896-delivering-happiness) by Tony Hsieh.
* [The Innovator's Dilemma](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2615.The_Innovator_s_Dilemma) by clayton m. christensen.
## Philosophy And Psychology
* [The Hero with a Thousand Faces](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588138.The_Hero_With_a_Thousand_Faces) by * [The Hero with a Thousand Faces](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588138.The_Hero_With_a_Thousand_Faces) Joseph Campbell.
* [Grit](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27213329-grit) by Angela Duckworth.
* [Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180116.Awaken_the_Giant_Within) by Anthony Robbins.
* [The History of Western Philosophy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243685.A_History_of_Western_Philosophy) by Bertrand Russell.
* [Gifs of Immperfection](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7015403-the-gifts-of-imperfection) by Brene Brown.
* [The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12609433-the-power-of-habit) by Charles Duhigg.
* [Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6289283-born-to-run) by Christopher McDougall.
* [How to Win Friends and Influence People](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4865.How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People) by Dale Carnegie.
* [Predictably Irrational](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1713426.Predictably_Irrational) by Dan Ariely.
* [The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7815744-the-upside-of-irrationality) by Dan Ariely.
* [Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18378002-intuition-pumps-and-other-tools-for-thinking) by Daniel C. Dennett.
* [A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99315.A_Whole_New_Mind) by Daniel H. Pink.
* [Thinking, Fast and Slow](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow) by Daniel Kahneman.
* [The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10483171-the-beginning-of-infinity) by David Deutsch.
* [Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1008488.Outsmarting_Iq) by David Perkins.
* [Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694125-alone-together) by Dean Radin.
* [You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147222.You_Just_Don_t_Understand) by Deborah Tannen.
* [The Fine Art of Small Talk: How To Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills -- and Leave a Positive Impression](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93409.The_Fine_Art_of_Small_Talk) by Debra Fine.
* [Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181239.Metamagical_Themas) by Douglas Hofstadter.
* [Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55981.Consilience) by Edward O. Wilson.
* [Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49176.Games_People_Play) by Eric Berne..
* [The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12263681-the-age-of-insight) by Eric Kandel.
* [Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6283340-spent) by Geoffrey Miller.
* [Metaphors We Live By](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34459.Metaphors_We_Live_By) by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson.
* [Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7090193-tattoos-on-the-heart) by Gregory Boyle.
* [Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/757403.Every_Thing_Must_Go) by James Ladyman, Don Ross, et al.
* [The Social Contract](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12651.The_Social_Contract) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston.
* [Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8854815-why-does-the-world-exist) by Jim Holt.
* [This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13035774-this-will-make-you-smarter) by John Brockman.
* [Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5040579-why-we-make-mistakes) by Joseph T. Hallinan.
* [Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707599-moral-tribes) by Joshua Greene.
* [Education and the Significance of Life](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/353435.Education_and_the_Significance_of_Life) by Krishnamurti.
* [How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112731.How_to_Win_Every_Argument) by Madsen Pirie.
* [What the Dog Saw: and other adventures](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6516450-what-the-dog-saw-and-other-adventures) by Malcolm Gladwell.
* [The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18528861-the-truth-about-everything) by Matthew Stewart.
* [Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12838972-just-the-arguments) by Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone.
* [In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315425.In_Defense_of_Food) by Michael Pollan.
* [The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328734.The_Ethical_Brain) by Michael S. Gazzaniga.
* [The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17978489-the-future-of-the-mind) by Michio Kaku.
* [Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow) by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
* [Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)](Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
* [Jonathan Livingston Seagull](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71728.Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull) by Richard Bach.
* [Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5752.The_Blank_Slate) by Robert B. Cialdini.
* [The Concise 48 Laws of Power](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18224060-the-concise-48-laws-of-power) by Robert Greene.
* [Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300300.Why_Smart_People_Can_Be_So_Stupid) by Robert J Sternberg.
* [Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100247.Vagabonding) by Rolf Potts.
* [Ego Is the Enemy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27036528-ego-is-the-enemy) by Ryan Holiday.
* [Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You: Sam Gosling](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1581330.Snoop) by Sam Gosling.
* [Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/582533.Creative_Visualization) by Shakti Gawain.
* [Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Others](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694125-alone-together) by Sherry Turkle.
* [Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402843.Zen_Mind_Beginner_s_Mind) by Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick.
* [The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373969.The_Stuff_of_Thought) by Steven Pinker.
* [The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5752.The_Blank_Slate) by Steven Pinker.
* [The Art of War](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10534.The_Art_of_War) by Sun Tzu.
* [Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8520610-quiet) by Susan Cain.
* [Bulfinch's Mythology](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588147.Bulfinch_s_Mythology) by Thomas Bulfinch.
* [The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106732.The_User_Illusion) by Tor Norretranders.
* [Man's Search for Meaning](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning) by Viktor E. Frankl.
* [Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83321.Irrational_Man) by William Barrett.
* [Prisoner's Dilemma](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29506.Prisoner_s_Dilemma) by William Poundstone.
* [Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6262510-rapt) by Winifred Gallagher.
## Autobiographies and Biographies
* [Wings of Fire](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/634583.Wings_of_Fire) by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
* [The Diary of a Young Girl](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48855.The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl) by Anne Frank.
* [Elon Musk: Inventing the Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22543496-elon-musk) by Ashlee Vance.
* [An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18170143-an-astronaut-s-guide-to-life-on-earth) by Chris Hadfield.
* [Freedom in Exile](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567720.Freedom_in_Exile) by Dalai Lama XIV.
* [The Story of My Life](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821611.The_Story_of_My_Life) by Helen Keller.
* [My Life and My Work](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1122054.My_Life_And_Work) by Henry Ford.
* [An Autobiography: Toward Freedom](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/322939.An_Autobiography) by Jawaharlal Nehru.
* [Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10256723-ghost-in-the-wires) by Kevin Mitnick.
* [Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8664353-unbroken) by Laura Hillenbrand.
* [My Experiments with Truth](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112803.The_Story_of_My_Experiments_With_Truth) by Mahatma Gandhi.
* [The Autobiography of Malcolm X](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92057.The_Autobiography_of_Malcolm_X) by Malcolm X, Alex Haley.
* [Madame Curie: A Biography](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341166.Madame_Curie) by Marie Curie.
* [Long Walk to Freedom](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318431.Long_Walk_to_Freedom) by Nelson Mandela.
* [The Last Lecture](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2318271.The_Last_Lecture) by Randy Pausch.
* [Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9533705-losing-my-virginity) by Richard Branson.
* [Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5544.Surely_You_re_Joking_Mr_Feynman_) by Richard Feynman.
* [iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/798635.iWoz) by Steve Wozniak.
* [Steve Jobs](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11084145-steve-jobs) by Walter Issacson.
## History
* [Spycraft](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/971936.Spycraft) by * [Spycraft](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/971936.Spycraft) Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, Henry R. Schlesinger.
* [The Discoverers](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714380.The_Discoverers) by Daniel J. Boorstin.
* [The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29608.The_Codebreakers) by David Kahn.
* [Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9491855-why-the-west-rules-for-now) by Ian Morrisage.
* [From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58233.From_Dawn_to_Decadence) by Jacques Barzun.
* [Guns, Germs, And Steel : The Fates Of Human Societies](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1842.Guns_Germs_and_Steel) by Jared M. Diamond.
* [Discovery of India](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154126.The_Discovery_of_India) by Jawaharlal Nehru.
* [Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9319468-kingpin) by Kevin Poulson.
* [The Rise and Fall of the British Empire](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143980.The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_British_Empire) by Lawrence James.
* [Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8890989-churchill-s-secret-war) by Madhusree Mukerjee.
* [El Tiempo Entre Costuras (The Time Between Seams / The Time In Between)](The Time Between Seams / The Time In Between) by María Dueñas.
* [The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)](P.S.) by Matt Ridley.
* [One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2606779-one-minute-to-midnight) by Michael Dobbs.
* [Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10475421-civilization) by Niall Ferguson.
* [The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330422-the-revenge-of-geography) by Robert D. Kaplan.
* [The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/173187.The_Nazi_Doctors) by Robert Jay Lifton.
* [God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2096.God_Created_The_Integers) by Stephen Hawking.
* [The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map) by Steven Johnson.
* [The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1911.The_World_Is_Flat) by Thomas L. Friedman.
* [The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8201080-the-master-switch) by Tim Wu.
* [Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23692271-sapiens) by Yuval Noah Harari.
## Science and Medicine
* [Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/648195.Mind_Children) by Hans Moravec..
* [Darwin's Dangerous Idea](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2068.Darwin_s_Dangerous_Idea) by * [Darwin's Dangerous Idea](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2068.Darwin_s_Dangerous_Idea) Daniel C. Dennett.
* [Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88552.Rare_Earth) by * [Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88552.Rare_Earth) Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee.
* [Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1752295.Scientific_Genius) by * [Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1752295.Scientific_Genius) Dean Keith Simonton.
* [The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61538.The_Extended_Phenotype) by * [The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61538.The_Extended_Phenotype) Richard Dawkins.
* [The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27209431-the-inevitable) by * [The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27209431-the-inevitable)by Kevin Kelly.
* [Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172645.Heaven_in_a_Chip) by Bart Kosko.
* [A Short History of Nearly Everything](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21.A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything) by Bill Bryson.
* [The Little Schemer](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/548914.The_Little_Schemer) by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman.
* [Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159062.Evolution_for_Everyone) by David Sloan Wilson.
* [Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254489.Origins_of_Genius) by Dean Keith.
* [Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24113.G_del_Escher_Bach) by Douglas R. Hofstadter.
* [The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6745893-the-new-executive-brain) by Elkhonon Goldberg.
* [The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6033964-the-10-000-year-explosion) by Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending.
* [Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164560.Figments_of_Reality) by Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen.
* [Asimov's New Guide to Science](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/977262.Asimov_s_New_Guide_To_Science) by Isaac Asimov.
* [How to Find a Habitable Planet](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7551498-how-to-find-a-habitable-planet) by James kasting.
* [Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/599321.Mind_Wars) by Jonathan D. Moreno.
* [Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16080353-out-of-control) by Kevin Kelly.
* [Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32145.Stiff) by Mary Roach.
* [The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270881.The_Quark_and_the_Jaguar) by Murray Gell-Mann.
* [The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9778945-the-shallows) by Nicholas Carr.
* [The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841838-the-outer-limits-of-reason) by Noson S. Yanofsky.
* [The Selfish Gene](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61535.The_Selfish_Gene) by Richard Dawkins.
* [Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11148989-catching-fire) by Richard Wrangham.
* [A Brief History of Time](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3869.A_Brief_History_of_Time) by Stephen Hawking.
* [Tomorrowland: Our Staggering Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25060233-tomorrowland) by Steven Kotler.
* [At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/319006.At_Home_in_the_Universe) by Stuart Kauffman.
* [The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/733691.The_Symbolic_Species) by Terrence W. Deacon.
* [The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61539.The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions) by Thomas S. Kuhn.
* [The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14721.The_Wealth_of_Networks) by Yochai Benkler.
## Logic and Problem Solving
* [A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)](Even If You Flunked Algebra) by Barbara Oakley.
* [How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192221.How_to_Solve_It) by George Polya.
* [What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493576.What_Is_the_Name_of_This_Book_) by Raymond M. Smullyan.
* [Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55436.Labyrinths_of_Reason) by William Poundstone.
## Politics
* [The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind) by Jonathan Haidt.
* [The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9742.The_Audacity_of_Hope) by Barack Obama.
* [The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698866.The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter) by Bryan Caplan.
* [Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6694937-game-change) by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin.
* [Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452731-justice) by Michael J. Sandel.
* [Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149206.Resource_Wars) by Michael Klare.
## Economics
* [Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6617037-debt) by David Graeber.
* [Origin of Wealth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22456.The_Origin_of_Wealth) by Eric D. Beinhocker.
* [The Thank You Economy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9203287-the-thank-you-economy) by Gary Vaynerchuk.
* [A Farewell to Alms : A Brief Economic History of the World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150437.A_Farewell_to_Alms) by Gregory Clark.
* [23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8913542-23-things-they-don-t-tell-you-about-capitalism) by Ha-Joon Chang.
* [Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1081413.Super_Crunchers) by Ian Ayres.
* [Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11515298-currency-wars) by James Rickards.
* [Every Shot Counts: Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17674971-every-shot-counts) by Mark Broadie.
* [The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13588394-the-signal-and-the-noise) by Nate Silver.
* [The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2714607-the-ascent-of-money) by Niall Ferguson.
* [The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493371.The_Bottom_Billion) by Paul Collier.
* [Capital in the Twenty-First Century](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18736925-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century) by Thomas Piketty.
* [Economic Facts and Fallacies](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2064279.Economic_Facts_and_Fallacies) by Thomas Sowell.
## Sexuality
* [The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54944.The_Ethical_Slut?from_search=true) by Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt..
* [The Sex Myth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13569582-the-sex-myth) by Brooke Magnanti.
* [Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7640261-sex-at-dawn) by Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha.
## Education
* [Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178734.Summerhill) by A. S. Neill, Albert Lamb.
* [Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/409588.Curious_Minds) by John Brockman.
* [How Children Fail](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/573009.How_Children_Fail) by John Holt.
* [The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/857333.The_Art_of_Learning) by Josh Waitzkin.
* [Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6425208-wounded-by-school) by Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Parker J. Palmer.
* [Teaching as a Subversive Activity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79681.Teaching_as_a_Subversive_Activity) by Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner.
* [Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703532.Mindstorms) by Seymour A. Papert.
## Writing
* [Clear and Simple as the Truth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/120549.Clear_and_Simple_as_the_Truth) by Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner.
* [On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10569.On_Writing) by Stephen King.
* [Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12909101-hat-box) by Stephen Sondheim.
* [The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821371-the-sense-of-style) by Steven Pinker.
## Theater and Film
* [The Actor and the Target](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/611466.The_Actor_and_the_Target) by Declan Donnellan.
* [Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254808.Notes_on_Directing) by Frank Hauser, Russell Reich.
* [How to Stop Acting](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/808735.How_to_Stop_Acting) by Harold Guskin.
* [Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/306940.Impro) by Keith Johnstone.
* [A Practical Handbook for the Actor](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166207.A_Practical_Handbook_for_the_Actor) by Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler, David Mamet.
* [Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3493241-different-every-night) by Mike Alfreds.
* [In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2141.In_the_Blink_of_an_Eye) by Walter Murch.
## Shakespeare
* [Shakespeare's Metrical Art](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428615.Shakespeare_s_Metrical_Art) by * [Shakespeare's Metrical Art](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428615.Shakespeare_s_Metrical_Art) George T. Wright.
* [Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1334872.Thinking_Shakespeare) by Barry Edelstein..
* [Hamlet and Revenge](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/625956.Hamlet_Revenge_) by Eleanor Prosser.
* [Hamlet in Purgatory](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33179.Hamlet_in_Purgatory) by Stephen Greenblatt.
## Fiction
### Classics
* [The Brothers Karamazov](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4934.The_Brothers_Karamazov) by * [The Brothers Karamazov](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4934.The_Brothers_Karamazov) Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky.
* [Bleak House](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31242.Bleak_House) by Charles Dickens.
* [Jane Eyre](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10210.Jane_Eyre) by Charlotte Brontë.
* [The Director](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23316525-the-director) by David Ignatius.
* [The House of Mirth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17728.The_House_of_Mirth) by Edith Wharton.
* [Germinal](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28407.Germinal) by Emile Zola.
* [J'accuse](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816964.J_accuse) by Emile Zola.
* [Wuthering Heights](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6185.Wuthering_Heights) by Emily Bronte.
* [Crime and Punishment](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7144.Crime_and_Punishment) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
* [One Hundred Years of Solitude](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320.One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa.
* [Madame Bovary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2175.Madame_Bovary) by Gustave Flaubert.
* [Steppenwolf: A Novel](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16631.Steppenwolf) by Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton.
* [The Glass Bead Game](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16634.The_Glass_Bead_Game) by Hermann Hesse, Richard and Clara Winston.
* [Père Goriot](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59145.P_re_Goriot) by Honoré de Balzac.
* [Eugénie Grandet](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eug_nie_Grandet) by Honoré de Balzac.
* [If on a Winter's Night a Traveler](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374233.If_on_a_Winter_s_Night_a_Traveler) by Italo Calvino and William Weaver.
* [The Catcher in the Rye](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5107.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye) by J.D. Salinger.
* [Sense and Sensibility](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14935.Sense_and_Sensibility) by Jane Austen.
* [Pride And Prejudice](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1885.Pride_and_Prejudice) by Jane Austen.
* [Mansfield Park](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45032) by Jane Austen.
* [Confessions](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12649.Confessions) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
* [The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories](Intimacy) by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander.
* [A Prayer for Owen Meany](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4473.A_Prayer_for_Owen_Meany) by John Irving.
* [Catch 22](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4610.Catch_22) by Joseph Heller.
* [One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/332613.One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo_s_Nest) by Ken Kesey.
* [War and Peace](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/656.War_and_Peace) by Leo Tolstoy.
* [The Death of Ivan Ilych](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18386.The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilych) by Leo Tolstoy.
* [Anna Karenina](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15823480-anna-karenina) by Leo Tolstoy.
* [Letters From The Earth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37813.Letters_from_the_Earth) by Mark Twain.
* [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2956.The_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn) by Mark Twain.
* [Don Quixote](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3836.Don_Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes.
* [The Master and Margarita](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117833.The_Master_and_Margarita) by Mikhail Bulgakov.
* [De L'esprit Des Lois](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29854007-de-l-esprit-des-lois-nouvelle-edition) by Montesquieu.
* [Lettres persanes](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509686.Persian_Letters) by Montesquieu.
* [The Picture of Dorian Gray](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray) by Oscar Wilde.
* [Watership Down: A Novel](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76620.Watership_Down) by Richard Adams.
* [Candide](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19380.Candide) by Voltaire.
* [Confessions of a Mask](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62794.Confessions_of_a_Mask) by Yukio Mishima.
### Fantasy
* [The City & The City](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4703581-the-city-the-city) by China Mieville.
* [The Chronicles of Narnia](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11127.The_Chronicles_of_Narnia) by Clive Staples Lewis.
* [Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10016013-harry-potter-and-the-methods-of-rationality) by Eliezer Yudkowsky.
* [A Song of Ice and Fire](https://www.goodreads.com/series/43790-a-song-of-ice-and-fire) by George R.R. Martin.
* [Harry Potter](https://www.goodreads.com/series/45175-harry-potter) by J.K. Rowling.
* [The Lord of the Rings](https://www.goodreads.com/series/66175-the-lord-of-the-rings) by J.R.R. Tolkien.
* [The Broken Empire](https://www.goodreads.com/series/64473-the-broken-empire) by Mark Lawrence.
* [The Kingkiller Chronicle](https://www.goodreads.com/series/45262-the-kingkiller-chronicle) by Patrick Rothfuss.
* [His Dark Materials](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18116.His_Dark_Materials) by Philip Pullman.
* [The Dark Tower](https://www.goodreads.com/series/40750-the-dark-tower) by Stephen King.
* [Discworld](https://www.goodreads.com/series/40650-discworld) by Terry Pratchett.
### Historical Fiction
* [All the Light We Cannot See](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143977-all-the-light-we-cannot-see) by Anthony Doerr.
* [Emma](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6969.Emma) by Jane Austen.
* [Kane and Abel](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78983.Kane_and_Abel) by Jeffrey Archer.
* [Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10959.Sophie_s_World) by Jostein Gaarder and Paulette Moller.
* [The Help](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4667024-the-help) by Kathryn Stockett.
* [The Pillars of the Earth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5043.The_Pillars_of_the_Earth?from_search=true) by Ken Follett.
* [Lonesome Dove](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256008.Lonesome_Dove) by Larry McMurtry.
* [The Book Thief](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19063.The_Book_Thief) by Markus Zusak.
### Humor
* [I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9010.I_Hope_They_Serve_Beer_in_Hell) by Tucker Max.
### Mystery
* [The Murder of Roger Ackroyd](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16328.The_Murder_of_Roger_Ackroyd) by Agatha Christie.
* [Sherlock Holmes](https://www.goodreads.com/series/49996-sherlock-holmes) by Arthur Conan Doyle.
* [The Da Vinci Code](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968.The_Da_Vinci_Code) by Dan Brown.
* [Memory Man](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23153154-memory-man) by David Baldacci.
* [The Eight](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113310.The_Eight) by Katherine Neville.
* [The Girl on the Train](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22557272-the-girl-on-the-train) by Paula Hawkins.
### Science Fiction
* [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11.The_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy) by Douglas Adams.
* [Dune Chronicles](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=dune) by Frank Herbert.
* [The Player of Games](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18630.The_Player_of_Games) by Iain M. Banks.
* [Foundation](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29579.Foundation) by Isaac Asimov.
* [The Diamond Age](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age) by Neal Stephenson.
* [Snow Crash](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830.Snow_Crash) by Neal Stephenson.
* [Ender's Game - Saga](https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ender%27s+saga&search_type=books&search%5Bfield%5D=on) by Orson Scott Card.
* [Fahrenheit 451](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17470674-fahrenheit-451) by Ray Bradbury.
* [The Fifth Sacred Thing](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80689.The_Fifth_Sacred_Thing) by Starhawk.
### Horror
* [Dracula](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17245.Dracula) by Bram Stoker.
* [House of Leaves](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24800.House_of_Leaves) by Mark Z. Danielewski.
* [Frankenstein](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490.Frankenstein) by Mary Shelley, Maurice Hindle.
### Miscellaneous
* [The Bone People](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/460635.The_Bone_People) by Keri Hulme.
* [Future Crimes](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22318398-future-crimes?from_search=true) by Marc Goodman.
* [Cat's Eye](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51019.Cat_s_Eye) by Margaret Atwood.
* [Ghost Fleet](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22749719-ghost-fleet?from_search=true) by P.W. Singer and August Cole.
* [Xeelee Sequence](http://www.goodreads.com/series/49784-xeelee-sequence) by Stephen Baxter.
* [The Queen's Gambit](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62022.The_Queen_s_Gambit) by Walter Tevis.
## Health
* [Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13202092-eat-and-run) by Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman.
* [8 Weeks to Optimum Health](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37124.8_Weeks_to_Optimum_Health) by Andrew Weil.
* [Convict Conditioning](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7305111-convict-conditioning) by Paul Wade.
## Design
* [Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79766.A_Pattern_Language) by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel.
* [The Design of Everyday Things](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/840.The_Design_of_Everyday_Things) by Donald Norman.
* [Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18197267-don-t-make-me-think-revisited) by Steve Krug.
## License
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# Mind Expanding Books
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> Curated list of mind expanding books.
## Table of Contents
* [Startups and Business](#startups-and-business)
* [Philosophy and Psychology](#philosophy-and-psychology)
* [Autobiographies and Biographies](#autobiographies-and-biographies)
* [History](#history)
* [Evolution, Science and Medicine](#science-and-medicine)
* [Logic and Problem Solving](#logic-and-problem-solving)
* [Politics](#politics)
* [Economics](#economics)
* [Sexuality](#sexuality)
* [Education](#education)
* [Writing](#writing)
* [Theater and Film](#theater-and-film)
* [Fiction](#fiction)
* [Health](#health)
* [Design](#design)
# Books
## Startups and Business
* [Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15815598-big-data) by Kenneth Cukier.
* [Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7614793-cognitive-surplus) by Clay Shirky.
* [Contagious: Why Things Catch On](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15801967-contagious) by Jonah Berger.
* [Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2601510-crowdsourcing) by Jeff Howe.
* [David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15751404-david-and-goliath) by Malcolm Gladwell.
* [Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6828896-delivering-happiness) by Tony Hsieh.
* [Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups Early Days](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98233.Founders_at_Work) by Jessica Livingston.
* [Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1202.Freakonomics) by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner.
* [Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1633.Getting_Things_Done) by David Allen.
* [Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76865.Good_to_Great) by Jim Collins.
* [Hackers and Painters](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41793.Hackers_Painters) by Paul Graham.
* [High Output Management](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324750.High_Output_Management) by Andy Grove.
* [How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25 Principles of Success](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96593.The_Success_Principles) by Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer.
* [Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/914211.Influencer) by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson.
* [Lean In : Women, Work and the Will to Lead](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16071764-lean-in) by Sheryl Sandberg.
* [Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95429.Leaving_Microsoft_to_Change_the_World) by John Wood.
* [Linchpin: Are You Indispensable](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7155145-linchpin) by Seth Godin.
* [Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211099.Losing_My_Virginity) by Richard Branson.
* [One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11223478-one-click) by Richard Brandt.
* [Outliers: Story of Success](https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3364437-outliers-the-story-of-success) by Malcolm Gladwell.
* [ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6732019-rework) by David Heinemeier Hansson.
* [Rich Dad Poor Dad : What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That The Poor And Middle Class Don't](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69571.Rich_Dad_Poor_Dad) by Robert T. Kiyosaki.
* [Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6553353-strategy-for-sustainability) by Adam Werbach.
* [SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6402364-superfreakonomics) by Steven D. Litt.
* [The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12605157-the-100-startup) by Chris Guillebeau.
* [The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1565533.The_22_Immutable_Laws_of_Branding) by Laura Ries and Al Ries.
* [The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368593.The_4_Hour_Workweek) by Thomas Ferriss.
* [The Accidental Billionaires : The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6326920-the-accidental-billionaires) by Ben Mezrich.
* [The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37875.The_Art_of_the_Start) by Guy Kawasaki.
* [The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8032112-the-big-short) by Michael Lewis.
* [The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242472.The_Black_Swan) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
* [The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667514-the-checklist-manifesto) by Atul Gawande.
* [The Compound Effect](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9420697-the-compound-effect) by Darren Hardy.
* [The Curse of the Mogul](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7162410-the-curse-of-the-mogul) by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave.
* [The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81948.The_E_Myth_Revisited) by Michael E. Gerber.
* [The Four Steps to the Epiphany](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/762542.The_Four_Steps_to_the_Epiphany) by Steve Blank.
* [The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176747-the-hard-thing-about-hard-things) by Ben Horowitz.
* [The Innovator's Dilemma](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2615.The_Innovator_s_Dilemma) by clayton m. christensen.
* [The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10127019-the-lean-startup) by Eric Ries.
* [The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10639.The_Paradox_of_Choice) by Barry Shwartz.
* [The Paypal Wars](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4052.The_PayPal_Wars) by Eric M. Jackson.
* [The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68985.The_Power_of_Full_Engagement) by Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz.
* [The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6342995-the-score-takes-care-of-itself) by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh.
* [The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99919.The_Strategy_and_Tactics_of_Pricing) by Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale.
* [The Ten Faces of Innovation](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95656.The_Ten_Faces_of_Innovation) by Tom Kelley.
* [The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2612.The_Tipping_Point) by Malcolm Gladwell.
* [Too Big to Fail](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6687247-too-big-to-fail) by Andrew Ross Sorkin.
* [Where Good Ideas Come From](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8034188-where-good-ideas-come-from) by Steven Johnson.
* [Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/603985.Who_Says_Elephants_Can_t_Dance_) by Louis V Gerstner, Jr.
* [Zero to One](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050143-zero-to-one) by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters.
## Philosophy And Psychology
* [A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99315.A_Whole_New_Mind) by Daniel H. Pink.
* [Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Others](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694125-alone-together) by Sherry Turkle.
* [Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)](Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
* [Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180116.Awaken_the_Giant_Within) by Anthony Robbins.
* [Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6289283-born-to-run) by Christopher McDougall.
* [Bulfinch's Mythology](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588147.Bulfinch_s_Mythology) by Thomas Bulfinch.
* [Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55981.Consilience) by Edward O. Wilson.
* [Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/582533.Creative_Visualization) by Shakti Gawain.
* [Education and the Significance of Life](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/353435.Education_and_the_Significance_of_Life) by Krishnamurti.
* [Ego Is the Enemy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27036528-ego-is-the-enemy) by Ryan Holiday.
* [Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/757403.Every_Thing_Must_Go) by James Ladyman, Don Ross, et al.
* [Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow) by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
* [Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49176.Games_People_Play) by Eric Berne..
* [Gifs of Immperfection](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7015403-the-gifts-of-imperfection) by Brene Brown.
* [Grit](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27213329-grit) by Angela Duckworth.
* [How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112731.How_to_Win_Every_Argument) by Madsen Pirie.
* [How to Win Friends and Influence People](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4865.How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People) by Dale Carnegie.
* [In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315425.In_Defense_of_Food) by Michael Pollan.
* [Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5752.The_Blank_Slate) by Robert B. Cialdini.
* [Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18378002-intuition-pumps-and-other-tools-for-thinking) by Daniel C. Dennett.
* [Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83321.Irrational_Man) by William Barrett.
* [Jonathan Livingston Seagull](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71728.Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull) by Richard Bach.
* [Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12838972-just-the-arguments) by Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone.
* [Man's Search for Meaning](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning) by Viktor E. Frankl.
* [Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181239.Metamagical_Themas) by Douglas Hofstadter.
* [Metaphors We Live By](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34459.Metaphors_We_Live_By) by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson.
* [Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707599-moral-tribes) by Joshua Greene.
* [Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1008488.Outsmarting_Iq) by David Perkins.
* [Predictably Irrational](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1713426.Predictably_Irrational) by Dan Ariely.
* [Prisoner's Dilemma](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29506.Prisoner_s_Dilemma) by William Poundstone.
* [Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8520610-quiet) by Susan Cain.
* [Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6262510-rapt) by Winifred Gallagher.
* [Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You: Sam Gosling](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1581330.Snoop) by Sam Gosling.
* [Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6283340-spent) by Geoffrey Miller.
* [Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694125-alone-together) by Dean Radin.
* [Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7090193-tattoos-on-the-heart) by Gregory Boyle.
* [The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12263681-the-age-of-insight) by Eric Kandel.
* [The Art of War](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10534.The_Art_of_War) by Sun Tzu.
* [The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10483171-the-beginning-of-infinity) by David Deutsch.
* [The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5752.The_Blank_Slate) by Steven Pinker.
* [The Concise 48 Laws of Power](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18224060-the-concise-48-laws-of-power) by Robert Greene.
* [The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328734.The_Ethical_Brain) by Michael S. Gazzaniga.
* [The Fine Art of Small Talk: How To Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills -- and Leave a Positive Impression](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93409.The_Fine_Art_of_Small_Talk) by Debra Fine.
* [The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17978489-the-future-of-the-mind) by Michio Kaku.
* [The Hero with a Thousand Faces](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588138.The_Hero_With_a_Thousand_Faces) by * [The Hero with a Thousand Faces](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588138.The_Hero_With_a_Thousand_Faces) Joseph Campbell.
* [The History of Western Philosophy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243685.A_History_of_Western_Philosophy) by Bertrand Russell.
* [The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12609433-the-power-of-habit) by Charles Duhigg.
* [The Social Contract](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12651.The_Social_Contract) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston.
* [The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373969.The_Stuff_of_Thought) by Steven Pinker.
* [The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18528861-the-truth-about-everything) by Matthew Stewart.
* [The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7815744-the-upside-of-irrationality) by Dan Ariely.
* [The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106732.The_User_Illusion) by Tor Norretranders.
* [Thinking, Fast and Slow](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow) by Daniel Kahneman.
* [This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13035774-this-will-make-you-smarter) by John Brockman.
* [Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100247.Vagabonding) by Rolf Potts.
* [What the Dog Saw: and other adventures](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6516450-what-the-dog-saw-and-other-adventures) by Malcolm Gladwell.
* [Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8854815-why-does-the-world-exist) by Jim Holt.
* [Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300300.Why_Smart_People_Can_Be_So_Stupid) by Robert J Sternberg.
* [Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5040579-why-we-make-mistakes) by Joseph T. Hallinan.
* [You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147222.You_Just_Don_t_Understand) by Deborah Tannen.
* [Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402843.Zen_Mind_Beginner_s_Mind) by Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick.
## Autobiographies and Biographies
* [An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18170143-an-astronaut-s-guide-to-life-on-earth) by Chris Hadfield.
* [An Autobiography: Toward Freedom](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/322939.An_Autobiography) by Jawaharlal Nehru.
* [Elon Musk: Inventing the Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22543496-elon-musk) by Ashlee Vance.
* [Freedom in Exile](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567720.Freedom_in_Exile) by Dalai Lama XIV.
* [Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10256723-ghost-in-the-wires) by Kevin Mitnick.
* [Long Walk to Freedom](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318431.Long_Walk_to_Freedom) by Nelson Mandela.
* [Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9533705-losing-my-virginity) by Richard Branson.
* [Madame Curie: A Biography](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341166.Madame_Curie) by Marie Curie.
* [My Experiments with Truth](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112803.The_Story_of_My_Experiments_With_Truth) by Mahatma Gandhi.
* [My Life and My Work](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1122054.My_Life_And_Work) by Henry Ford.
* [Steve Jobs](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11084145-steve-jobs) by Walter Issacson.
* [Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5544.Surely_You_re_Joking_Mr_Feynman_) by Richard Feynman.
* [The Autobiography of Malcolm X](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92057.The_Autobiography_of_Malcolm_X) by Malcolm X, Alex Haley.
* [The Diary of a Young Girl](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48855.The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl) by Anne Frank.
* [The Last Lecture](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2318271.The_Last_Lecture) by Randy Pausch.
* [The Story of My Life](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821611.The_Story_of_My_Life) by Helen Keller.
* [Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8664353-unbroken) by Laura Hillenbrand.
* [Wings of Fire](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/634583.Wings_of_Fire) by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
* [iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/798635.iWoz) by Steve Wozniak.
## History
* [Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8890989-churchill-s-secret-war) by Madhusree Mukerjee.
* [Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10475421-civilization) by Niall Ferguson.
* [Discovery of India](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154126.The_Discovery_of_India) by Jawaharlal Nehru.
* [El Tiempo Entre Costuras (The Time Between Seams / The Time In Between)](The Time Between Seams / The Time In Between) by María Dueñas.
* [From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58233.From_Dawn_to_Decadence) by Jacques Barzun.
* [God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2096.God_Created_The_Integers) by Stephen Hawking.
* [Guns, Germs, And Steel : The Fates Of Human Societies](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1842.Guns_Germs_and_Steel) by Jared M. Diamond.
* [Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9319468-kingpin) by Kevin Poulson.
* [One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2606779-one-minute-to-midnight) by Michael Dobbs.
* [Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23692271-sapiens) by Yuval Noah Harari.
* [Spycraft](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/971936.Spycraft) by * [Spycraft](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/971936.Spycraft) Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, Henry R. Schlesinger.
* [The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29608.The_Codebreakers) by David Kahn.
* [The Discoverers](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714380.The_Discoverers) by Daniel J. Boorstin.
* [The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map) by Steven Johnson.
* [The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8201080-the-master-switch) by Tim Wu.
* [The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/173187.The_Nazi_Doctors) by Robert Jay Lifton.
* [The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)](P.S.) by Matt Ridley.
* [The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330422-the-revenge-of-geography) by Robert D. Kaplan.
* [The Rise and Fall of the British Empire](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143980.The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_British_Empire) by Lawrence James.
* [The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1911.The_World_Is_Flat) by Thomas L. Friedman.
* [Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9491855-why-the-west-rules-for-now) by Ian Morrisage.
## Science and Medicine
* [A Brief History of Time](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3869.A_Brief_History_of_Time) by Stephen Hawking.
* [A Short History of Nearly Everything](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21.A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything) by Bill Bryson.
* [Asimov's New Guide to Science](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/977262.Asimov_s_New_Guide_To_Science) by Isaac Asimov.
* [At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/319006.At_Home_in_the_Universe) by Stuart Kauffman.
* [Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11148989-catching-fire) by Richard Wrangham.
* [Darwin's Dangerous Idea](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2068.Darwin_s_Dangerous_Idea) by * [Darwin's Dangerous Idea](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2068.Darwin_s_Dangerous_Idea) Daniel C. Dennett.
* [Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159062.Evolution_for_Everyone) by David Sloan Wilson.
* [Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164560.Figments_of_Reality) by Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen.
* [Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24113.G_del_Escher_Bach) by Douglas R. Hofstadter.
* [Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172645.Heaven_in_a_Chip) by Bart Kosko.
* [How to Find a Habitable Planet](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7551498-how-to-find-a-habitable-planet) by James kasting.
* [Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/648195.Mind_Children) by Hans Moravec..
* [Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/599321.Mind_Wars) by Jonathan D. Moreno.
* [Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254489.Origins_of_Genius) by Dean Keith.
* [Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16080353-out-of-control) by Kevin Kelly.
* [Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88552.Rare_Earth) by * [Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88552.Rare_Earth) Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee.
* [Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1752295.Scientific_Genius) by * [Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1752295.Scientific_Genius) Dean Keith Simonton.
* [Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32145.Stiff) by Mary Roach.
* [The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6033964-the-10-000-year-explosion) by Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending.
* [The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61538.The_Extended_Phenotype) by * [The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61538.The_Extended_Phenotype) Richard Dawkins.
* [The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27209431-the-inevitable) by * [The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27209431-the-inevitable)by Kevin Kelly.
* [The Little Schemer](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/548914.The_Little_Schemer) by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman.
* [The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6745893-the-new-executive-brain) by Elkhonon Goldberg.
* [The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841838-the-outer-limits-of-reason) by Noson S. Yanofsky.
* [The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270881.The_Quark_and_the_Jaguar) by Murray Gell-Mann.
* [The Selfish Gene](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61535.The_Selfish_Gene) by Richard Dawkins.
* [The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9778945-the-shallows) by Nicholas Carr.
* [The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61539.The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions) by Thomas S. Kuhn.
* [The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/733691.The_Symbolic_Species) by Terrence W. Deacon.
* [The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14721.The_Wealth_of_Networks) by Yochai Benkler.
* [Tomorrowland: Our Staggering Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25060233-tomorrowland) by Steven Kotler.
## Logic and Problem Solving
* [A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)](Even If You Flunked Algebra) by Barbara Oakley.
* [How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192221.How_to_Solve_It) by George Polya.
* [Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55436.Labyrinths_of_Reason) by William Poundstone.
* [What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493576.What_Is_the_Name_of_This_Book_) by Raymond M. Smullyan.
## Politics
* [Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6694937-game-change) by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin.
* [Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452731-justice) by Michael J. Sandel.
* [Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149206.Resource_Wars) by Michael Klare.
* [The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9742.The_Audacity_of_Hope) by Barack Obama.
* [The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698866.The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter) by Bryan Caplan.
* [The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind) by Jonathan Haidt.
## Economics
* [23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8913542-23-things-they-don-t-tell-you-about-capitalism) by Ha-Joon Chang.
* [A Farewell to Alms : A Brief Economic History of the World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150437.A_Farewell_to_Alms) by Gregory Clark.
* [Capital in the Twenty-First Century](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18736925-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century) by Thomas Piketty.
* [Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11515298-currency-wars) by James Rickards.
* [Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6617037-debt) by David Graeber.
* [Economic Facts and Fallacies](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2064279.Economic_Facts_and_Fallacies) by Thomas Sowell.
* [Every Shot Counts: Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17674971-every-shot-counts) by Mark Broadie.
* [Origin of Wealth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22456.The_Origin_of_Wealth) by Eric D. Beinhocker.
* [Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1081413.Super_Crunchers) by Ian Ayres.
* [The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2714607-the-ascent-of-money) by Niall Ferguson.
* [The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493371.The_Bottom_Billion) by Paul Collier.
* [The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13588394-the-signal-and-the-noise) by Nate Silver.
* [The Thank You Economy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9203287-the-thank-you-economy) by Gary Vaynerchuk.
## Sexuality
* [Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7640261-sex-at-dawn) by Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha.
* [The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54944.The_Ethical_Slut?from_search=true) by Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt..
* [The Sex Myth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13569582-the-sex-myth) by Brooke Magnanti.
## Education
* [Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/409588.Curious_Minds) by John Brockman.
* [How Children Fail](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/573009.How_Children_Fail) by John Holt.
* [Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703532.Mindstorms) by Seymour A. Papert.
* [Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178734.Summerhill) by A. S. Neill, Albert Lamb.
* [Teaching as a Subversive Activity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79681.Teaching_as_a_Subversive_Activity) by Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner.
* [The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/857333.The_Art_of_Learning) by Josh Waitzkin.
* [Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6425208-wounded-by-school) by Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Parker J. Palmer.
## Writing
* [Clear and Simple as the Truth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/120549.Clear_and_Simple_as_the_Truth) by Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner.
* [Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12909101-hat-box) by Stephen Sondheim.
* [On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10569.On_Writing) by Stephen King.
* [The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821371-the-sense-of-style) by Steven Pinker.
## Theater and Film
* [A Practical Handbook for the Actor](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166207.A_Practical_Handbook_for_the_Actor) by Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler, David Mamet.
* [Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3493241-different-every-night) by Mike Alfreds.
* [How to Stop Acting](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/808735.How_to_Stop_Acting) by Harold Guskin.
* [Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/306940.Impro) by Keith Johnstone.
* [In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2141.In_the_Blink_of_an_Eye) by Walter Murch.
* [Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254808.Notes_on_Directing) by Frank Hauser, Russell Reich.
* [The Actor and the Target](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/611466.The_Actor_and_the_Target) by Declan Donnellan.
## Shakespeare
* [Hamlet and Revenge](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/625956.Hamlet_Revenge_) by Eleanor Prosser.
* [Hamlet in Purgatory](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33179.Hamlet_in_Purgatory) by Stephen Greenblatt.
* [Shakespeare's Metrical Art](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428615.Shakespeare_s_Metrical_Art) by * [Shakespeare's Metrical Art](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428615.Shakespeare_s_Metrical_Art) George T. Wright.
* [Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1334872.Thinking_Shakespeare) by Barry Edelstein..
## Fiction
### Classics
* [A Prayer for Owen Meany](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4473.A_Prayer_for_Owen_Meany) by John Irving.
* [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2956.The_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn) by Mark Twain.
* [Anna Karenina](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15823480-anna-karenina) by Leo Tolstoy.
* [Bleak House](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31242.Bleak_House) by Charles Dickens.
* [Candide](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19380.Candide) by Voltaire.
* [Catch 22](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4610.Catch_22) by Joseph Heller.
* [Confessions](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12649.Confessions) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
* [Confessions of a Mask](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62794.Confessions_of_a_Mask) by Yukio Mishima.
* [Crime and Punishment](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7144.Crime_and_Punishment) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
* [De L'esprit Des Lois](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29854007-de-l-esprit-des-lois-nouvelle-edition) by Montesquieu.
* [Don Quixote](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3836.Don_Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes.
* [Eugénie Grandet](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eug_nie_Grandet) by Honoré de Balzac.
* [Germinal](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28407.Germinal) by Emile Zola.
* [If on a Winter's Night a Traveler](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374233.If_on_a_Winter_s_Night_a_Traveler) by Italo Calvino and William Weaver.
* [J'accuse](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816964.J_accuse) by Emile Zola.
* [Jane Eyre](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10210.Jane_Eyre) by Charlotte Brontë.
* [Letters From The Earth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37813.Letters_from_the_Earth) by Mark Twain.
* [Lettres persanes](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509686.Persian_Letters) by Montesquieu.
* [Madame Bovary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2175.Madame_Bovary) by Gustave Flaubert.
* [Mansfield Park](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45032) by Jane Austen.
* [One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/332613.One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo_s_Nest) by Ken Kesey.
* [One Hundred Years of Solitude](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320.One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa.
* [Pride And Prejudice](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1885.Pride_and_Prejudice) by Jane Austen.
* [Père Goriot](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59145.P_re_Goriot) by Honoré de Balzac.
* [Sense and Sensibility](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14935.Sense_and_Sensibility) by Jane Austen.
* [Steppenwolf: A Novel](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16631.Steppenwolf) by Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton.
* [The Brothers Karamazov](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4934.The_Brothers_Karamazov) by * [The Brothers Karamazov](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4934.The_Brothers_Karamazov) Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky.
* [The Catcher in the Rye](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5107.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye) by J.D. Salinger.
* [The Death of Ivan Ilych](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18386.The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilych) by Leo Tolstoy.
* [The Director](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23316525-the-director) by David Ignatius.
* [The Glass Bead Game](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16634.The_Glass_Bead_Game) by Hermann Hesse, Richard and Clara Winston.
* [The House of Mirth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17728.The_House_of_Mirth) by Edith Wharton.
* [The Master and Margarita](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117833.The_Master_and_Margarita) by Mikhail Bulgakov.
* [The Picture of Dorian Gray](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray) by Oscar Wilde.
* [The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories](Intimacy) by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander.
* [War and Peace](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/656.War_and_Peace) by Leo Tolstoy.
* [Watership Down: A Novel](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76620.Watership_Down) by Richard Adams.
* [Wuthering Heights](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6185.Wuthering_Heights) by Emily Bronte.
### Fantasy
* [A Song of Ice and Fire](https://www.goodreads.com/series/43790-a-song-of-ice-and-fire) by George R.R. Martin.
* [Discworld](https://www.goodreads.com/series/40650-discworld) by Terry Pratchett.
* [Harry Potter](https://www.goodreads.com/series/45175-harry-potter) by J.K. Rowling.
* [Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10016013-harry-potter-and-the-methods-of-rationality) by Eliezer Yudkowsky.
* [His Dark Materials](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18116.His_Dark_Materials) by Philip Pullman.
* [The Broken Empire](https://www.goodreads.com/series/64473-the-broken-empire) by Mark Lawrence.
* [The Chronicles of Narnia](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11127.The_Chronicles_of_Narnia) by Clive Staples Lewis.
* [The City & The City](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4703581-the-city-the-city) by China Mieville.
* [The Dark Tower](https://www.goodreads.com/series/40750-the-dark-tower) by Stephen King.
* [The Kingkiller Chronicle](https://www.goodreads.com/series/45262-the-kingkiller-chronicle) by Patrick Rothfuss.
* [The Lord of the Rings](https://www.goodreads.com/series/66175-the-lord-of-the-rings) by J.R.R. Tolkien.
### Historical Fiction
* [All the Light We Cannot See](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143977-all-the-light-we-cannot-see) by Anthony Doerr.
* [Emma](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6969.Emma) by Jane Austen.
* [Kane and Abel](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78983.Kane_and_Abel) by Jeffrey Archer.
* [Lonesome Dove](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256008.Lonesome_Dove) by Larry McMurtry.
* [Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10959.Sophie_s_World) by Jostein Gaarder and Paulette Moller.
* [The Book Thief](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19063.The_Book_Thief) by Markus Zusak.
* [The Help](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4667024-the-help) by Kathryn Stockett.
* [The Pillars of the Earth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5043.The_Pillars_of_the_Earth?from_search=true) by Ken Follett.
### Humor
* [I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9010.I_Hope_They_Serve_Beer_in_Hell) by Tucker Max.
### Mystery
* [Memory Man](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23153154-memory-man) by David Baldacci.
* [Sherlock Holmes](https://www.goodreads.com/series/49996-sherlock-holmes) by Arthur Conan Doyle.
* [The Da Vinci Code](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968.The_Da_Vinci_Code) by Dan Brown.
* [The Eight](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113310.The_Eight) by Katherine Neville.
* [The Girl on the Train](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22557272-the-girl-on-the-train) by Paula Hawkins.
* [The Murder of Roger Ackroyd](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16328.The_Murder_of_Roger_Ackroyd) by Agatha Christie.
### Science Fiction
* [Dune Chronicles](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=dune) by Frank Herbert.
* [Ender's Game - Saga](https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ender%27s+saga&search_type=books&search%5Bfield%5D=on) by Orson Scott Card.
* [Fahrenheit 451](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17470674-fahrenheit-451) by Ray Bradbury.
* [Foundation](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29579.Foundation) by Isaac Asimov.
* [Snow Crash](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830.Snow_Crash) by Neal Stephenson.
* [The Diamond Age](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age) by Neal Stephenson.
* [The Fifth Sacred Thing](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80689.The_Fifth_Sacred_Thing) by Starhawk.
* [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11.The_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy) by Douglas Adams.
* [The Player of Games](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18630.The_Player_of_Games) by Iain M. Banks.
### Horror
* [Dracula](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17245.Dracula) by Bram Stoker.
* [Frankenstein](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490.Frankenstein) by Mary Shelley, Maurice Hindle.
* [House of Leaves](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24800.House_of_Leaves) by Mark Z. Danielewski.
### Miscellaneous
* [Cat's Eye](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51019.Cat_s_Eye) by Margaret Atwood.
* [Future Crimes](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22318398-future-crimes?from_search=true) by Marc Goodman.
* [Ghost Fleet](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22749719-ghost-fleet?from_search=true) by P.W. Singer and August Cole.
* [The Bone People](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/460635.The_Bone_People) by Keri Hulme.
* [The Queen's Gambit](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62022.The_Queen_s_Gambit) by Walter Tevis.
* [Xeelee Sequence](http://www.goodreads.com/series/49784-xeelee-sequence) by Stephen Baxter.
## Health
* [8 Weeks to Optimum Health](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37124.8_Weeks_to_Optimum_Health) by Andrew Weil.
* [Convict Conditioning](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7305111-convict-conditioning) by Paul Wade.
* [Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13202092-eat-and-run) by Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman.
## Design
* [Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18197267-don-t-make-me-think-revisited) by Steve Krug.
* [Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79766.A_Pattern_Language) by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel.
* [The Design of Everyday Things](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/840.The_Design_of_Everyday_Things) by Donald Norman.
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