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<h1>Mind Expanding Books</h1>
<h2>Curated list of awesome mind expanding books</h2>
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<li><a href="#startups-and-business">Startups and Business</a></li>
<li><a href="#philosophy-and-psychology">Philosophy and Psychology</a></li>
<li><a href="#history">History</a></li>
<li><a href="#science-and-medicine">Evolution, Science and Medicine</a></li>
<li><a href="#logic-and-problem-solving">Logic and Problem Solving</a></li>
<li><a href="#politics">Politics</a></li>
<li><a href="#sexuality">Sexuality</a></li>
<li><a href="#education">Education</a></li>
<li><a href="#writing">Writing</a></li>
<li><a href="#theater-and-film">Theater and Film</a></li>
<li><a href="#humor">Humor</a></li>
<li><a href="#fiction">Fiction</a></li>
<li><a href="#health">Health</a></li>
<li><a href="#design">Design</a></li>
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<a id="books" class="anchor" href="#books" aria-hidden="true"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Books</h2>
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<a id="startups-and-business" class="anchor" href="#startups-and-business" aria-hidden="true"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Startups and Business</h3>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050143-zero-to-one">Zero to One</a> by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41793.Hackers_Painters">Hackers and Painters</a> by Paul Graham</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7155145-linchpin">Linchpin: Are You Indispensable</a> by Seth Godin</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242472.The_Black_Swan">The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable</a> by Nassim Nicholas Taleb</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2612.The_Tipping_Point">The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference</a> by Malcolm Gladwell</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9420697-the-compound-effect">The Compound Effect</a> by Darren Hardy</li>
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<a href="www.goodreads.com/book/show/76865.Good_to_Great">Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't</a> by Jim Collins</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/762542.The_Four_Steps_to_the_Epiphany">The Four Steps to the Epiphany</a> by Steve Blank</li>
<li>
<a href="www.goodreads.com/book/show/15801967-contagious">Contagious: Why Things Catch On</a> by Jonah Berger</li>
<li>
<a href="www.goodreads.com/book/show/15751404-david-and-goliath">David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants</a> by Malcolm Gladwell</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13588394-the-signal-and-the-noise">The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't</a> by Nate Silver</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176747-the-hard-thing-about-hard-things">The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers</a> by Ben Horowitz</li>
<li>
<a href="www.goodreads.com/book/show/10639.The_Paradox_of_Choice">The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less</a> by Barry Shwartz</li>
<li>
<a href="www.goodreads.com/book/show/914211.Influencer">Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change</a> by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37875.The_Art_of_the_Start">The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything</a> by Guy Kawasaki</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98233.Founders_at_Work">Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups Early Days</a> by Jessica Livingston</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10127019-the-lean-startup">The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses</a> by Eric Ries</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6732019-rework">ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever</a> by David Heinemeier Hansson</li>
<li>
<a href="www.goodreads.com/book/show/81948.The_E_Myth_Revisited">The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It</a> by Michael E. Gerber</li>
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6828896-delivering-happiness">Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose</a> by Tony Hsieh</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211099.Losing_My_Virginity">Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way</a> by Richard Branson</li>
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68985.The_Power_of_Full_Engagement">The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal</a> by Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz</li>
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667514-the-checklist-manifesto">The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right</a> by Atul Gawande</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12605157-the-100-startup">The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future</a> by Chris Guillebeau</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15815598-big-data">Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think</a> by Kenneth Cukier</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6342995-the-score-takes-care-of-itself">The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership</a> by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9203287-the-thank-you-economy">The Thank You Economy</a> by Gary Vaynerchuk</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2601510-crowdsourcing">Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business</a> by Jeff Howe</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8034188-where-good-ideas-come-from">Where Good Ideas Come From</a> by Steven Johnson</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99919.The_Strategy_and_Tactics_of_Pricing">The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable</a> by Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95429.Leaving_Microsoft_to_Change_the_World">Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children</a> by John Wood</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1565533.The_22_Immutable_Laws_of_Branding">The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding</a> by Laura Ries and Al Ries</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69571.Rich_Dad_Poor_Dad">Rich Dad Poor Dad : What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That The Poor And Middle Class Don't</a> by Robert T. Kiyosaki</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3364437-outliers-the-story-of-success">Outliers: Story of Success by</a> Malcolm Gladwell</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368593.The_4_Hour_Workweek">The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich by</a> Thomas Ferriss</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96593.The_Success_Principles">How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25 Principles of Success by</a> Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1633.Getting_Things_Done">Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity</a> by David Allen</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6402364-superfreakonomics">SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance</a> by Steven D. Litt</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6553353-strategy-for-sustainability">Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto</a> by Adam Werbach</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8032112-the-big-short">The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine</a> by Michael Lewis</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/603985.Who_Says_Elephants_Can_t_Dance_">Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change</a> by Louis V Gerstner, Jr</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95656.The_Ten_Faces_of_Innovation">The Ten Faces of Innovation</a> by Tom Kelley</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6687247-too-big-to-fail">Too Big to Fail</a> by Andrew Ross Sorkin</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2615.The_Innovator_s_Dilemma">The Innovator's Dilemma</a> by clayton m. christensen</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4052.The_PayPal_Wars">The Paypal Wars</a> by Eric M. Jackson</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22456.The_Origin_of_Wealth">Origin of Wealth</a> by Eric D. Beinhocker</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11223478-one-click">One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com</a> by Richard Brandt</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7614793-cognitive-surplus">Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age</a> by Clay Shirky</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1081413.Super_Crunchers">Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart</a> by Ian Ayres by Ian Ayres</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7162410-the-curse-of-the-mogul">The Curse of the Mogul</a> by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave</li>
</ul>
<h3>
<a id="philosophy-and-psychology" class="anchor" href="#philosophy-and-psychology" aria-hidden="true"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Philosophy And Psychology</h3>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10534.The_Art_of_War">The Art of War</a> by Sun Tzu</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1713426.Predictably_Irrational">Predictably Irrational</a> by Dan Ariely</li>
<li>
<a href="www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow">Thinking, Fast and Slow</a> by Daniel Kahneman</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6516450-what-the-dog-saw-and-other-adventures">What the Dog Saw: and other adventures</a> by Malcolm Gladwell</li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93409.The_Fine_Art_of_Small_Talk">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</a></li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7015403-the-gifts-of-imperfection">Gifs of Immperfection</a> by Brene Brown</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8520610-quiet">Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking</a> by Susan Cain</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6289283-born-to-run">Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen</a> by Christopher McDougall</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7815744-the-upside-of-irrationality">The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic</a> by Dan Ariely</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300300.Why_Smart_People_Can_Be_So_Stupid">Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid</a> by Robert J Sternberg</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/582533.Creative_Visualization">Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life</a> by Shakti Gawain</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315425.In_Defense_of_Food">In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto</a> by Michael Pollan</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6262510-rapt">Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher</a> by Winifred Gallagher</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147222.You_Just_Don_t_Understand">You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation</a> by Deborah Tannen</li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4865.How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People">How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie</a></li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707599-moral-tribes">Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them</a> by Joshua Greene</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5040579-why-we-make-mistakes">Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average</a> by Joseph T. Hallinan</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7090193-tattoos-on-the-heart">Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion</a> by Gregory Boyle</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow">Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience</a> by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17978489-the-future-of-the-mind">The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind</a> by Michio Kaku</li>
<li>
<a href="">Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story</a> by Jim Holt</li>
<li>
<a href="">Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Others</a> by Sherry Turkle</li>
<li>
<a href="www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694125-alone-together">Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities</a> by Dean Radin</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83321.Irrational_Man">Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy</a> by William Barrett</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12609433-the-power-of-habit">The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business</a> by Charles Duhigg</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18224060-the-concise-48-laws-of-power">The Concise 48 Laws of Power</a> by Robert Greene</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29506.Prisoner_s_Dilemma">Prisoner's Dilemma</a> by William Poundstone</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328734.The_Ethical_Brain">The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas</a> by Michael S. Gazzaniga</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1581330.Snoop">Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You: Sam Gosling</a> by Sam Gosling</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373969.The_Stuff_of_Thought">The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature</a> by Steven Pinker</li>
<li>
<a href="">The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by</a> Steven Pinker</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5752.The_Blank_Slate">Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion</a> by Robert B. Cialdini</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12263681-the-age-of-insight">The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present</a> by Eric Kandel</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99315.A_Whole_New_Mind">A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by</a> by Daniel H. Pink</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49176.Games_People_Play">Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis</a> by Eric Berne.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112731.How_to_Win_Every_Argument">How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic</a> by Madsen Pirie</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402843.Zen_Mind_Beginner_s_Mind">Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind</a> by Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10483171-the-beginning-of-infinity">The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World</a> by David Deutsch</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13035774-this-will-make-you-smarter">This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking</a> by John Brockman</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18378002-intuition-pumps-and-other-tools-for-thinking">Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking</a> by Daniel C. Dennett</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12838972-just-the-arguments">Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy</a> by Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243685.A_History_of_Western_Philosophy">The History of Western Philosophy</a> by Bertrand Russell</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18528861-the-truth-about-everything">The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations</a> by Matthew Stewart</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588147.Bulfinch_s_Mythology">Bulfinch's Mythology</a>by Thomas Bulfinch</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55981.Consilience">Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge</a> by Edward O. Wilson</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/757403.Every_Thing_Must_Go">Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized</a> by James Ladyman, Don Ross, et al</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530973-antifragile">Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)</a> by Nassim Nicholas Taleb</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181239.Metamagical_Themas">Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern</a> by Douglas Hofstadter</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/353435.Education_and_the_Significance_of_Life">Education and the Significance of Life</a> by Krishnamurti</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34459.Metaphors_We_Live_By">Metaphors We Live By</a> by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588138.The_Hero_With_a_Thousand_Faces">The Hero with a Thousand Faces</a> Joseph Campbell</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106732.The_User_Illusion">The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size</a> by Tor Norretranders</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1008488.Outsmarting_Iq">Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence</a> by David Perkins</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6283340-spent">Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior</a> by Geoffrey Miller</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12651.The_Social_Contract">The Social Contract</a> by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100247.Vagabonding">Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel</a> by Rolf Potts</li>
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<h3>
<a id="history" class="anchor" href="#history" aria-hidden="true"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>History</h3>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143980.The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_British_Empire">The Rise and Fall of the British Empire</a> by Lawrence James</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2714607-the-ascent-of-money">The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World</a> by Niall Ferguson</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29608.The_Codebreakers">The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet</a> by David Kahn</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7776209-the-rational-optimist">The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)</a> by Matt Ridley</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2606779-one-minute-to-midnight">One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War</a> by Michael Dobbs</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/173187.The_Nazi_Doctors">The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide</a> by Robert Jay Lifton</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10475421-civilization">Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson</a> by Niall Ferguson</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714380.The_Discoverers">The Discoverers</a> by Daniel J. Boorstin</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58233.From_Dawn_to_Decadence">From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present by</a> Jacques Barzun</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8201080-the-master-switch">The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires</a> by Tim Wu</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6617037-debt">Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years</a> by David Graeber</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map">The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World</a> by Steven Johnson</li>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1842.Guns_Germs_and_Steel">Guns, Germs, And Steel : The Fates Of Human Societies</a> by Jared M. Diamond</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9491855-why-the-west-rules-for-now">Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future</a> by Ian Morrisage</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10799.A_Farewell_to_Arms">A Farewell to Alms : A Brief Economic History of the World: A Brief Economic History of the World</a> by Gregory Clark</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8890989-churchill-s-secret-war">Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II</a> by Madhusree Mukerjee</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330422-the-revenge-of-geography">The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate</a> by Robert D. Kaplan</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2096.God_Created_The_Integers">God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History</a> by Stephen Hawking</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/%3C1911%20class=%22The_World_Is_Flat%22%3E%3C/1911">The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century</a> by Thomas L. Friedman</li>
</ul>
<h3>
<a id="science-and-medicine" class="anchor" href="#science-and-medicine" aria-hidden="true"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Science and Medicine</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61539.The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions">The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition</a> by Thomas S. Kuhn</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24113.G_del_Escher_Bach">Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid</a> by Douglas R. Hofstadter</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9778945-the-shallows">The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains</a> by Nicholas Carr</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3869.A_Brief_History_of_Time">A Brief History of Time</a> by Stephen Hawking</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21.A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything">A Short History of Nearly Everything</a> by Bill Bryson</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32145.Stiff">Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers</a> by Mary Roach</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/977262.Asimov_s_New_Guide_To_Science">Asimov's New Guide to Science</a> by Isaac Asimov</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/733691.The_Symbolic_Species">The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain</a> by Terrence W. Deacon</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6033964-the-10-000-year-explosion">The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution</a> by Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254489.Origins_of_Genius">Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity</a> by Dean Keith</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/319006.At_Home_in_the_Universe">At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity</a> by Stuart Kauffman</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14721.The_Wealth_of_Networks">The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom</a> by Yochai Benkler</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172645.Heaven_in_a_Chip">Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age</a> by Bart Kosko</li>
<li>
<a href="">The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us</a> by Noson S. Yanofsky</li>
<li>
<a href="">The Selfish Gene</a> by Richard Dawkins</li>
<li>
<a href="">Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense</a> by Jonathan D. Moreno</li>
<li>
<a href="">Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives</a> by David Sloan Wilson</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2068.Darwin_s_Dangerous_Idea">Darwin's Dangerous Idea</a> Daniel C. Dennett</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6745893-the-new-executive-brain">The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World</a> by Elkhonon Goldberg</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11148989-catching-fire">Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human</a> by Richard Wrangham</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270881.The_Quark_and_the_Jaguar">The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex</a> by Murray Gell-Mann</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164560.Figments_of_Reality">Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind</a> by Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7551498-how-to-find-a-habitable-planet">How to Find a Habitable Planet</a> by James kasting</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1752295.Scientific_Genius">Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science</a> Dean Keith Simonton</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61538.The_Extended_Phenotype">The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene</a> Richard Dawkins</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88552.Rare_Earth">Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe</a> Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/648195.Mind_Children">Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence</a> by Hans Moravec.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/548914.The_Little_Schemer">The Little Schemer</a> by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16080353-out-of-control">Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World</a> by Kevin Kelly</li>
</ul>
<h3>
<a id="logic-and-problem-solving" class="anchor" href="#logic-and-problem-solving" aria-hidden="true"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Logic and Problem Solving</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493576.What_Is_the_Name_of_This_Book_">What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles</a> by Raymond M. Smullyan</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192221.How_to_Solve_It">How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method</a> by George Polya</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55436.Labyrinths_of_Reason">Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge</a> by William Poundstone</li>
</ul>
<h3>
<a id="politics" class="anchor" href="#politics" aria-hidden="true"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Politics</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149206.Resource_Wars">Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict</a> by Michael Klare</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493371.The_Bottom_Billion">The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It</a> by Paul Collier</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698866.The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter">The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies</a> by Bryan Caplan</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452731-justice">Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?</a> by Michael J. Sandel</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6694937-game-change">Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime</a> by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11515298-currency-wars">Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis</a> by James Rickards</li>
<li>
<a href="www.goodreads.com/book/show/9742.The_Audacity_of_Hope">The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream</a> by Barack Obama</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind">The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion</a> by Jonathan Haidt</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2064279.Economic_Facts_and_Fallacies">Economic Facts and Fallacies</a> by Thomas Sowell</li>
</ul>
<h3>
<a id="sexuality" class="anchor" href="#sexuality" aria-hidden="true"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Sexuality</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7640261-sex-at-dawn">Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern</a> by Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13569582-the-sex-myth">The Sex Myth</a> by Brooke Magnanti</li>
</ul>
<h3>
<a id="education" class="anchor" href="#education" aria-hidden="true"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Education</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/857333.The_Art_of_Learning">The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance</a> by Josh Waitzkin</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/573009.How_Children_Fail">How Children Fail</a> by John Holt</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6425208-wounded-by-school">Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture</a> by Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Parker J. Palmer</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178734.Summerhill">Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood</a> by A. S. Neill, Albert Lamb</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703532.Mindstorms">Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas</a> by Seymour A. Papert</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/409588.Curious_Minds">Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist</a> by John Brockman</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79681.Teaching_as_a_Subversive_Activity">Teaching as a Subversive Activity</a> by Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner </li>
</ul>
<h3>
<a id="writing" class="anchor" href="#writing" aria-hidden="true"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Writing</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12909101-hat-box">Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim</a> by Stephen Sondheim</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/120549.Clear_and_Simple_as_the_Truth">Clear and Simple as the Truth</a> by Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner </li>
</ul>
<h3>
<a id="theater-and-film" class="anchor" href="#theater-and-film" aria-hidden="true"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Theater and Film</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2141.In_the_Blink_of_an_Eye">In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing</a> by Walter Murch</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/306940.Impro">Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre</a> by Keith Johnstone</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166207.A_Practical_Handbook_for_the_Actor">A Practical Handbook for the Actor</a> by Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler, David Mamet</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/611466.The_Actor_and_the_Target">The Actor and the Target</a> by Declan Donnellan</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/808735.How_to_Stop_Acting">How to Stop Acting</a> by Harold Guskin</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3493241-different-every-night">Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh</a> by Mike Alfreds</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254808.Notes_on_Directing">Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair</a> by Frank Hauser, Russell Reich</li>
</ul>
<h3>
<a id="shakespeare" class="anchor" href="#shakespeare" aria-hidden="true"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Shakespeare</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1334872.Thinking_Shakespeare">Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard</a> by Barry Edelstein.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33179.Hamlet_in_Purgatory">Hamlet in Purgatory</a> by Stephen Greenblatt</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/625956.Hamlet_Revenge_">Hamlet and Revenge</a> by Eleanor Prosser</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428615.Shakespeare_s_Metrical_Art">Shakespeare's Metrical Art</a> George T. Wright</li>
</ul>
<h3>
<a id="humor" class="anchor" href="#humor" aria-hidden="true"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Humor</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9010.I_Hope_They_Serve_Beer_in_Hell">I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>
<a id="fiction" class="anchor" href="#fiction" aria-hidden="true"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Fiction</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19063.The_Book_Thief">The Book Thief</a> by Markus Zusak</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4473.A_Prayer_for_Owen_Meany">A Prayer for Owen Meany</a> by John Irving</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4667024-the-help">The Help</a> by Kathryn Stockett</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10959.Sophie_s_World">Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy</a> by Jostein Gaarder and Paulette Moller</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143977-all-the-light-we-cannot-see">All the Light We Cannot See</a> by Anthony Doerr</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374233.If_on_a_Winter_s_Night_a_Traveler">If on a Winter's Night a Traveler</a> by Italo Calvino and William Weaver</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113310.The_Eight">The Eight</a> by Katherine Neville</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830.Snow_Crash">Snow Crash</a> by Neal Stephenson</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14935.Sense_and_Sensibility">Sense and Sensibility</a> by Jane Austen</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5107.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye">The Catcher in the Rye</a> by J.D. Salinger</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16631.Steppenwolf">Steppenwolf: A Novel</a> by Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16634.The_Glass_Bead_Game">The Glass Bead Game</a> by Hermann Hesse, Richard and Clara Winston</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10031.The_Wall">The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories</a> by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4934.The_Brothers_Karamazov">The Brothers Karamazov</a> Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1885.Pride_and_Prejudice">Pride And Prejudice</a> by Jane Austen</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6969.Emma">Emma</a> by Jane Austen</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6185.Wuthering_Heights">Wuthering Heights</a> by Emily Bronte</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17728.The_House_of_Mirth">The House of Mirth</a> by Edith Wharton</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80689.The_Fifth_Sacred_Thing">The Fifth Sacred Thing</a> by Starhawk</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/460635.The_Bone_People">The Bone People</a> by Keri Hulme</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62794.Confessions_of_a_Mask">Confessions of a Mask</a> by Yukio Mishima</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4703581-the-city-the-city">The City &amp; The City</a> by China Mieville</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37813.Letters_from_the_Earth">Letters From The Earth</a> by Mark Twain</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320.One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude">One Hundred Years of Solitude</a> byGabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/332613.One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo_s_Nest">One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest</a> by Ken Kesey</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76620.Watership_Down">Watership Down: A Novel</a> by Richard Adams</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51019.Cat_s_Eye">Cat's Eye</a> by Margaret Atwood</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31242.Bleak_House">Bleak House</a> by Charles Dickens</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256008.Lonesome_Dove">Lonesome Dove</a> by Larry McMurtry</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62022.The_Queen_s_Gambit">The Queen's Gambit</a> by Walter Tevis</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/656.War_and_Peace">War and Peace</a> by Leo Tolstoy</li>
</ul>
<h3>
<a id="health" class="anchor" href="#health" aria-hidden="true"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Health</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37124.8_Weeks_to_Optimum_Health">8 Weeks to Optimum Health</a> by Andrew Weil</li>
</ul>
<h3>
<a id="design" class="anchor" href="#design" aria-hidden="true"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Design</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79766.A_Pattern_Language">Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction</a> by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18197267-don-t-make-me-think-revisited">Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability</a> by Steve Krug</li>
</ul>
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