| Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed James C. Scott |
| | Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
| Dune (Dune, #1) Frank Herbert |
| | Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Patrick Radden Keefe |
| | On Human Nature Edward O. Wilson |
| Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine Norbert Wiener |
| | A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking |
| | The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2) Liu Cixin |
| A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles |
| Wittgenstein Anthony Kenny |
| | Greenlights Matthew McConaughey |
| The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers Ben Horowitz |
| | Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan & Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 Steve Coll |
| | The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) Liu Cixin |
| | The Dream Machine M. Mitchell Waldrop |
| | Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters Matt Ridley |
| Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman James Gleick |
| | Information, Mechanism and Meaning Donald M. MacKay |
| | 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy Hamilton Wright Helmer |
| The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size Tor Nørretranders |
| | The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation Jon Gertner |
| | On Writing Charles Bukowski |
| Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World René Girard |
| | The Lessons of History Will Durant |
| Simulacra and Simulation Jean Baudrillard |
| Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another Matt Taibbi |
| | 1984 George Orwell |
| | The Bhagavad Gita Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa |
| At the Mountains of Madness H.P. Lovecraft |
| On the Shortness of Life Seneca |
| | The Wisdom of Insecurity Alan W. Watts |
| | Zen in the Art of Archery Eugen Herrigel |
| On Emotional Intelligence (HBR's 10 Must Reads) Harvard Business Review |
| | Siddhartha Hermann Hesse |
| | The Essential Alan Watts Alan W. Watts |
| | Freedom from the Known Jiddu Krishnamurti |
| | The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood James Gleick |
| | The Autobiography of Gucci Mane Gucci Mane |
| | The Gene: An Intimate History Siddhartha Mukherjee |
| | Meditations Marcus Aurelius |
| | Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher Richard P. Feynman |
| | The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage Ryan Holiday |
| | Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
| | The Prophet Kahlil Gibran |
| | Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari |
| As a Man Thinketh James Allen |
| | Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business Paul Jarvis |
| | Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu |
| | The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5 Taylor Pearson |
| | Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Peter Thiel |
| So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love Cal Newport |
| The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Carl Sagan |
| The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason |
| | Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character Richard P. Feynman |
| | Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Atul Gawande |
| The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Eric Ries |
| Man's Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl |
| | American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Kai Bird |
| | Outliers: The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell |
| The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business Charles Duhigg |
| | You Don't Know JS: Up & Going Kyle Simpson |
| | You Don't Know JS: Scope and Closures (You Don't Know JS, #2) Kyle Simpson |
| | Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It Kamal Ravikant |
| | The Rats in the Walls H.P. Lovecraft |
| The Call of Cthulhu and Other Tales H.P. Lovecraft |
| The Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham |