###Start Ups/Business:
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't by Jim Collins
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
- Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger
- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't by Nate Silver
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
- The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Shwartz
- Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change, Revised and Updated Second Edition by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson
- The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
- Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups* Early Days by Jessica Livingston
- The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
- ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever by David Heinemeier Hansson
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
- Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson
- The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
- The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
- The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau
- Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Kenneth Cukier
- The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
- The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
- Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe
- Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
- The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable by Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale
- Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by John Wood
- 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 by Robert T. Kiyosaki
- Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
- Outliers: Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich by Thomas Ferriss
- How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25 Principles of Success by Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
- SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Litt
- Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto by Adam Werbach
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
- Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change by Louis V Gerstner, Jr
- The Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley
- Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
- The Innovator's Dilemma by clayton m. christensen
- The Paypal Wars by Eric M. Jackson
- Origin of Wealth by Eric D. Beinhocker
- One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com by Richard Brandt
- Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky
- Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart by Ian Ayres by Ian Ayres
- The Curse of the Mogul by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave
###Self Help
###Philosophy, Psychology and Spirituality
- 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
- Gifs of Immperfection by Brene Brown
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
- The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic by Dan Ariely
- 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 by Shakti Gawain
- In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
- Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher by Winifred Gallagher
- You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen
- Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them 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 by Joseph T. Hallinan
- Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower 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 by Dean Radin
- Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy by William Barrett
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business by Charles Duhigg
- The Concise 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
- Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone
- The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas by Michael S. Gazzaniga
- Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You: Sam Gosling by Sam Gosling
- The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion 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 by Eric Kandel
- A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by by Daniel H. Pink
- Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis by Eric Berne.
- How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic by Madsen Pirie
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
- This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking by John Brockman
- Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett
- Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy by Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone
- The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
- The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations by Matthew Stewart
- Bulfinch's Mythologyby Thomas Bulfinch
- Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
- Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized by James Ladyman, Don Ross, et al
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern by Douglas Hofstadter
- Education and the Significance of Life by Krishnamurti
- Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell
- The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size by Tor Norretranders
- Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence by David Perkins
- Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior by Geoffrey Miller
- The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston
- Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts
###History
- The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- 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 by Jacques Barzun
- The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by 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 by 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 by Ian Morrisage
- A Farewell to Alms : A Brief Economic History of the World: A Brief Economic History of the World by Gregory Clark
- 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
- God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History by Stephen Hawking
- [The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/<1911 class="The_World_Is_Flat"></1911>) by Thomas L. Friedman
###Design
- Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel
###Health
- 8 Weeks to Optimum Health 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