###Start Ups/Business: * [Thinking, Fast and Slow](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374533555/) by Daniel Kahneman * [The Compound Effect](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159315724X) by Darren Hardy * [Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0066620996) by Jim Collins * [The Four Steps to the Epiphany](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0989200507) by Steve Blank * [Contagious: Why Things Catch On](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451686579) by Jonah Berger * [David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316204374) by Malcolm Gladwell * [The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143125087) by Nate Silver * [The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062273205) by Ben Horowitz * [The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060005696) by Barry Shwartz * [Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change, Revised and Updated Second Edition](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071808868) by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson * [The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591847842) by Guy Kawasaki * [Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups* Early Days](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430210788) by Jessica Livingston * [The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307887898) by Eric Ries * [ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307463745/) by David Heinemeier Hansson * [The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0887307280) by Michael E. Gerber * [The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242472.The_Black_Swan) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb * [Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6828896-delivering-happiness) by Tony Hsieh * [Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307720748) by Richard Branson * [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 Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667514-the-checklist-manifesto) by Atul Gawande * [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 * [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 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 Thank You Economy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9203287-the-thank-you-economy) by Gary Vaynerchuk * [Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2601510-crowdsourcing) by Jeff Howe * [Where Good Ideas Come From](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8034188-where-good-ideas-come-from) by Steven Johnson * [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 * [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 * [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 * [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 * [The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2612.The_Tipping_Point) by Malcolm Gladwell * [Outliers: Story of Success by](https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3364437-outliers-the-story-of-success) Malcolm Gladwell * [The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich by](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368593.The_4_Hour_Workweek) Thomas Ferriss * [How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25 Principles of Success by](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96593.The_Success_Principles) Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer * [Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1633.Getting_Things_Done) by David Allen * [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 * [Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6553353-strategy-for-sustainability) by Adam Werbach * [The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8032112-the-big-short) by Michael Lewis * [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 Ten Faces of Innovation](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95656.The_Ten_Faces_of_Innovation) by Tom Kelley * [Too Big to Fail](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6687247-too-big-to-fail) by Andrew Ross Sorkin * [The Innovator's Dilemma](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2615.The_Innovator_s_Dilemma) by clayton m. christensen * [The Paypal Wars](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4052.The_PayPal_Wars) by Eric M. Jackson * [Origin of Wealth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22456.The_Origin_of_Wealth) by Eric D. Beinhocker * [One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11223478-one-click) by Richard Brandt * [Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7614793-cognitive-surplus) by Clay Shirky * [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 by Ian Ayres * [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 ###Self Help * [How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4865.How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People) ###Philosophy, Psychology and Spirituality * [Predictably Irrational](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1713426.Predictably_Irrational) by Dan Ariely *What the Dog Saw: and other adventures by Malcolm Gladwell * [The Fine Art of Small Talk: How To Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills -- and Leave a Positive Impression by Debra Fine](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93409.The_Fine_Art_of_Small_Talk) * [Gifs of Immperfection](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7015403-the-gifts-of-imperfection) by Brene Brown * [Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8520610-quiet) by Susan Cain * [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 * [The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7815744-the-upside-of-irrationality) by Dan Ariely * [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 * [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 * [In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315425.In_Defense_of_Food) by Michael Pollan * [Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6262510-rapt) by Winifred Gallagher * [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 * [Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707599-moral-tribes) by Joshua Greene * [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 * [Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7090193-tattoos-on-the-heart) by Gregory Boyle * [Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow) by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi * [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 * [Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story]() by Jim Holt * [Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Others]() by Sherry Turkle * [Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities](www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694125-alone-together) by Dean Radin * [Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83321.Irrational_Man) by William Barrett * [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 Concise 48 Laws of Power](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18224060-the-concise-48-laws-of-power) by Robert Greene * [Prisoner's Dilemma](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29506.Prisoner_s_Dilemma) by William Poundstone * [The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328734.The_Ethical_Brain) by Michael S. Gazzaniga * [Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You: Sam Gosling](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1581330.Snoop) by Sam Gosling * [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 by]() Steven Pinker * [Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5752.The_Blank_Slate) by Robert B. Cialdini * [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 * [A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99315.A_Whole_New_Mind) by Daniel H. Pink * [Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49176.Games_People_Play) by Eric Berne. * [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 * [Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402843.Zen_Mind_Beginner_s_Mind) by Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick * [The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10483171-the-beginning-of-infinity) by David Deutsch * [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 * [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 * [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 * [The History of Western Philosophy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243685.A_History_of_Western_Philosophy) by Bertrand Russell * [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 * [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 * [Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/757403.Every_Thing_Must_Go) by James Ladyman, Don Ross, et al * [Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530973-antifragile) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb * [Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181239.Metamagical_Themas) by Douglas Hofstadter * [Education and the Significance of Life](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/353435.Education_and_the_Significance_of_Life) by Krishnamurti * [Metaphors We Live By](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34459.Metaphors_We_Live_By) by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson * [The Hero with a Thousand Faces](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588138.The_Hero_With_a_Thousand_Faces) Joseph Campbell * [The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106732.The_User_Illusion) by Tor Norretranders * [Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1008488.Outsmarting_Iq) by David Perkins * [Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6283340-spent) by Geoffrey Miller * [The Social Contract](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12651.The_Social_Contract) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston * [Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100247.Vagabonding) by Rolf Potts ###History * [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 Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet by David Kahn The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.) by Matt Ridley One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay Lifton Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson by Niall Ferguson The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present: Jacques Barzun The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Vintage): Tim Wu Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World: Steven Johnson Guns, Germs, And Steel : The Fates Of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future: Ian Morrisage A Farewell to Alms : A Brief Economic History of the World: A Brief Economic History of the World Gregory Clark The Art of War by Sun Tzu Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan Sexual Politics in Modern Iran by Janet Afary The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan's Lawless Frontier by Imtiaz Gul Inside the Crosshairs: Snipers in Vietnam by Col. Michael Lee Lanning God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History by Stephen Hawking The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman Design Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure): Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel Health 8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power by Andrew Weil Politics Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict by Michael Klare The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies by Bryan Caplan Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis by James Rickards The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt Economic Facts and Fallacies, 2nd edition by Thomas Sowell Evolution, Science, and Medicine The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition by Thomas S. Kuhn The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon The 10, 000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution by Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity by Dean Keith At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity by Stuart Kauffman The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Asimov's New Guide to Science by Isaac Asimov Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age by Bart Kosko Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us by Noson S. Yanofsky The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense by Jonathan D. Moreno Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives: David Sloan Wilson Darwin's Dangerous Idea : EVOLUTION AND THE MEANINGS OF LIFE: Daniel C. Dennett Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World by Elkhonon Goldberg Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex by Murray Gell-Mann Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind by Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen Sexuality The Sex Myth by Brooke Magnanti Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships: Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha. For balance: Sex at Dusk: Lifting the Shiny Wrapping from Sex at Dawn: Lynn Saxon Education The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance: Josh Waitzkin How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development): John Holt Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture: Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Parker J. Palmer Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood: A. S. Neill, Albert Lamb Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas: Seymour A. Papert Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist: John Brockman Teaching as a Subversive Activity: Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner Writing Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim: Stephen Sondheim Clear and Simple as the Truth: Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner Theater and Film In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing by Walter Murch A Practical Handbook for the Actor: Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler, David Mamet The Actor and the Target: Declan Donnellan How to Stop Acting: Harold Guskin Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh: Mike Alfreds Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair: Frank Hauser, Russell Reich Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre: Keith Johnstone Shakespeare Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard by Barry Edelstein. Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt Hamlet and Revenge by Eleanor Prosser. Shakespeare's Metrical Art: George T. Wright Fiction The Book Thief by Markus Zusak A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving The Help by Kathryn Stockett Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder, Paulette Moller All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, William Weaver The Eight by Katherine Neville Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Steppenwolf: A Novel by Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel by Hermann Hesse, Richard and Clara Winston The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories (New Directions Paperbook) by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander The Brothers Karamazov: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen Emma: Jane Austen Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk The Bone People: A Novel by Keri Hulme Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima The City & The City (Random House Reader's Circle) by China Mieville Letters From The Earth by Mark Twain One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.): Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Signet): Ken Kesey Watership Down: A Novel: Richard Adams Cat's Eye: Margaret Atwood Bleak House (Penguin Classics): Charles Dickens Lonesome Dove: A Novel: Larry McMurtry The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger The Queen's Gambit: A Novel: Walter Tevis 1Q84: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip ­Gabriel. War and Peace: Leo Tolstoy. The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald Deception Point: Dan Brown Technical How to Find a Habitable Planet (Science Essentials) Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science: Dean Keith Simonton The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science): Richard Dawkins Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe: Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence by Hans Moravec. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World by Kevin Kelly Logic and Problem Solving What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math): by Raymond M. Smullyan The Lady or the Tiger?: and Other Logic Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math) by Raymond M. Smullyan How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library) by George Polya Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge by William Poundstone Humor I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max