Books in Science
Death by Black Hole by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard Feynman
The Little Book on String Theory by Steven Gubser
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
What If the Earth Had Two Moons? by Neil F Comins
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Complications by Atul Gawande
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Books in Economics
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Pickety
Game Theory by Rosenthal
Freakonomics by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Books in Literature and Philosophy
1066: The Year of the Conquest by David Armine Howarth
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Captains of the Sand by Jorge Amado
Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
Down & Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy (short story)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Euginedes
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan
The Order of Things by Michel Foucault
The Prince by Nicollo Machiavelli
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Republic by Plato
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
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