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| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike | Phil Knight | 4.46 | 2016 |
| The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company | Robert Iger, Joel Lovell | 4.44 | 2019 |
| Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup | John Carreyrou | 4.4 | 2018 |
| The Compound Effect | Darren Hardy | 4.40 | 2010 |
| Never Split the Difference | Chris Voss | 4.39 | 2016 |
| Failing to Succeed: The Story of India's First E-Commerce Company | K. Vaitheeswaran | 4.39 | 2017 |
| High Output Management | Andy Grove | 4.38 | 1995 |
| Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success | Napoleon Hill | 4.38 | 2011 |
| The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime! | M.J. DeMarco | 4.28 | 2011 |
| How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25 Principles of Success | Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer | 4.26 | 2007 |
| The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine | Michael Lewis | 4.26 | 2015 |
| The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives | Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler | 4.25 | 2020 |
| The Middle Finger Project | Ash Ambirge | 4.22 | 2020 |
| Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration | Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace | 4.21 | 2014 |
| The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership | Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh | 4.21 | 2009 |
| The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers | Ben Horowitz | 4.20 | 2014 |
| Think and Grow Rich | Napoleon Hill | 4.17 | 1937 |
| AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order | Kai-Fu Lee | 4.16 | 2018 |
| Nail it then Scale it: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough | Nathan Furr | 4.13 | 2011 |
| Outliers: Story of Success | Malcolm Gladwell | 4.11 | 2008 |
| The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable | Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale | 4.09 | 2005 |
| Principles: Life and Work | Ray Dalio | 4.07 | 2017 |
| Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action | Simon Sinek | 4.07 | 2009 |
| Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children | John Wood | 4.07 | 2006 |
| Hackers and Painters | Paul Graham | 4.06 | 2004 |
| How Google Works | Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg | 4.06 | 2014 |
| Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High | Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler | 4.05 | 2002 |
| Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't | Jim Collins | 4.05 | 2001 |
| The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses | Eric Ries | 4.04 | 2011 |
| The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal | Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz | 4.03 | 2005 |
| The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right | Atul Gawande | 4.03 | 2009 |
| Where Good Ideas Come From | Steven Johnson | 4.03 | 2010 |
| Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose | Tony Hsieh | 4.01 | 2010 |
| The Innovator's Dilemma | clayton m. christensen | 4.00 | 1997 |
| Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change | Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson | 3.98 | 2007 |
| The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It | Michael E. Gerber | 3.98 | 1995 |
| Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity | David Allen | 3.98 | 2001 |
| Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way | Richard Branson | 3.97 | 1998 |
| SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance | Steven D. Litt | 3.96 | 2009 |
| The Ten Faces of Innovation | Tom Kelley | 3.96 | 2005 |
| Rich Dad Poor Dad : What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That The Poor And Middle Class Don't | Robert T. Kiyosaki | 3.95 | 1997 |
| Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups Early Days | Jessica Livingston | 3.94 | 2007 |
| The Paypal Wars | Eric M. Jackson | 3.94 | 2010 |
| Lean In : Women, Work and the Will to Lead | Sheryl Sandberg | 3.94 | 2013 |
| ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever | David Heinemeier Hansson | 3.93 | 2010 |
| The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding | Laura Ries and Al Ries | 3.93 | 1998 |
| Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything | Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner | 3.93 | 2006 |
| The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference | Malcolm Gladwell | 3.92 | 2002 |
| The Four Steps to the Epiphany | Steve Blank | 3.92 | 2005 |
| The Curse of the Mogul | Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave | 3.91 | 2009 |
| David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants | Malcolm Gladwell | 3.90 | 2013 |
| Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto | Adam Werbach | 3.89 | 2009 |
| The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 3.88 | 2007 |
| Contagious: Why Things Catch On | Jonah Berger | 3.88 | 2013 |
| Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change | Louis V Gerstner, Jr | 3.88 | 2003 |
| Linchpin: Are You Indispensable | Seth Godin | 3.87 | 2010 |
| The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future | Chris Guillebeau | 3.85 | 2012 |
| Too Big to Fail | Andrew Ross Sorkin | 3.85 | 2011 |
| The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less | Barry Shwartz | 3.84 | 2005 |
| The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything | Guy Kawasaki | 3.82 | 2004 |
| Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business | Jeff Howe | 3.82 | 2008 |
| Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age | Clay Shirky | 3.82 | 2010 |
| Data Driven | D.J. Patil | 3.80 | 2015 |
| Zero to One | Peter Thiel, Blake Masters | 3.75 | 2014 |
| One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com | Richard Brandt | 3.75 | 2011 |
| Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think | Kenneth Cukier | 3.70 | 2013 |
| The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich | Timothy Ferriss | 3.61 | 2012 |
| The Accidental Billionaires : The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal | Ben Mezrich | 3.50 | 2009 |
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| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness | Eric Jorgenson | 4.64 | 2020 |
| Karma Yoga | Swami Vivekanand | 4.51 | 1999 |
| The Ascent of Humanity | Charles Eisenstein | 4.43 | 2007 |
| Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion | Gregory Boyle | 4.41 | 2010 |
| The Slight Edge - Secret to a Successful Life | Jeff Olson | 4.39 | 2005 |
| Education and the Significance of Life | Krishnamurti | 4.38 | 2008 |
| Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions | Robert H. Frank | 4.34 | 1989 |
| The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living | Ryan Holiday, Stephan Hanselman | 4.34 | 2016 |
| Man's Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | 4.33 | 2006 |
| Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear | 4.32 | 2018 |
| The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size | Tor Norretranders | 4.30 | 1999 |
| Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen | Christopher McDougall | 4.27 | 2009 |
| Prometheus Rising | Robert Anton Wilson | 4.26 | 2010 |
| The Concise 48 Laws of Power | Robert Greene | 4.25 | 2011 |
| The Hero with a Thousand Faces | Joseph Campbell | 4.24 | 1972 |
| The Magic of Thinking Big | David J. Schwartz | 4.23 | 1959 |
| Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick | 4.23 | |
| The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present | Eric Kandel | 4.22 | 2012 |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | 4.21 | |
| Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion | Robert B. Cialdini | 4.18 | 2006 |
| The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence | Gavin de Becker | 4.18 | 2000 |
| Gifts of Imperfection | Brene Brown | 4.18 | |
| Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern | Douglas Hofstadter | 4.16 | 1996 |
| The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations | Matthew Stewart | 4.15 | 1997 |
| Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah | Richard Bach | 4.15 | 1977 |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | 4.14 | 1998 |
| Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life | Shakti Gawain | 4.13 | 2002 |
| Bulfinch's Mythology | Thomas Bulfinch | 4.13 | 1998 |
| Ego Is the Enemy | Ryan Holiday | 4.12 | 2016 |
| Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny! | Anthony Robbins | 4.11 | 1991 |
| The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment | Eckhart Tolle | 4.11 | 1997 |
| Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom | 4.11 | 1997 |
| The Way of the Monk | Gaur Gopal Das | 4.10 | 2020 |
| Predictably Irrational | Dan Ariely | 4.10 | 2008 |
| Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | 4.10 | 1990 |
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | 4.09 | 2011 |
| Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy | William Barrett | 4.09 | |
| Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine | Derren Brown | 4.08 | 2016 |
| The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World | David Deutsch | 4.08 | 2011 |
| Metaphors We Live By | George Lakoff, Mark Johnson | 4.08 | 2003 |
| Grit | Angela Duckworth | 4.08 | 2016 |
| In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto | Michael Pollan | 4.07 | 2008 |
| The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature | Steven Pinker | 4.07 | 2003 |
| The History of Western Philosophy | Bertrand Russell | 4.06 | 2008 |
| Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them | Joshua Greene | 4.05 | 2013 |
| Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Friedrich Nietzsche | 4.05 | 1883 |
| The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life | Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson | 4.05 | 2017 |
| Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking | Susan Cain | 4.04 | 2012 |
| The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind | Michio Kaku | 4.04 | 2014 |
| Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized | James Ladyman, Don Ross, et al | 4.04 | 2007 |
| Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 4.04 | 2012 |
| Mindset: The new psychology of success | Carol S. Dweck,Ph.D. | 4.04 | 2006 |
| The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business | Charles Duhigg | 4.03 | 2012 |
| The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic | Dan Ariely | 4.00 | 2010 |
| Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence | David Perkins | 4.00 | 1995 |
| The Art of War | Sun Tzu | 3.95 | 2005 |
| Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength | Ron P. Baumeister, John Tierney | 3.95 | 2011 |
| A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future | Daniel H. Pink | 3.95 | 2006 |
| Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel | Rolf Potts | 3.92 | 2002 |
| Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities | Dean Radin | 3.91 | 2013 |
| Prisoner's Dilemma | William Poundstone | 3.91 | 1993 |
| The Subtle Art Of Not Giving a F@ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life | Mark Manson | 3.91 | 2017 |
| The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature | Steven Pinker | 3.90 | 2007 |
| Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge | Edward O. Wilson | 3.90 | 1999 |
| Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average | Joseph T. Hallinan | 3.87 | 2009 |
| You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation | Deborah Tannen | 3.86 | 2007 |
| Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy | Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone | 3.85 | 2011 |
| What the Dog Saw: and other adventures | Malcolm Gladwell | 3.82 | 2009 |
| Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior | Geoffrey Miller | 3.82 | 2009 |
| Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis | Eric Berne. | 3.81 | 1964 |
| This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking | John Brockman | 3.81 | 2012 |
| Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking | Daniel C. Dennett | 3.80 | 2014 |
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Richard Bach | 3.80 | 1970 |
| Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story | Jim Holt | 3.77 | 2012 |
| The Social Contract | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston | 3.75 | 2009 |
| The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas | Michael S. Gazzaniga | 3.70 | 2006 |
| Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid | Robert J Sternberg | 3.68 | 2003 |
| Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Others | Sherry Turkle | 3.62 | 2011 |
| How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic | Madsen Pirie | 3.55 | 2006 |
| Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher | Winifred Gallagher | 3.54 | 2009 |
| Utilitarianism | Geoffrey Scarre | 3.50 | 1996 |
| The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth | Robin Hanson | 3.41 | 2016 |
| The Fine Art of Small Talk: How To Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills -- and Leave a Positive Impression | Debra Fine | 3.36 | 2005 |
| Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You: Sam Gosling | Sam Gosling | 3.33 | 2001 |
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Becoming | Michelle Obama | 4.53 | 2018 |
| Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | Laura Hillenbrand | 4.39 | 2010 |
| Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss | Jenna Bush Hager | 4.38 | 2020 |
| Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela | 4.31 | 1995 |
| My Life and My Work | Henry Ford | 4.29 | 1922 |
| Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character | Richard Feynman | 4.29 | 1997 |
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Malcolm X, Alex Haley | 4.29 | 1965 |
| The Third Door:The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers | Alex banayan | 4.28 | 2018 |
| Elon Musk: Inventing the Future | Ashlee Vance | 4.25 | 2015 |
| The Last Lecture | Randy Pausch | 4.25 | 2008 |
| Freedom in Exile | Dalai Lama XIV | 4.24 | 1991 |
| Madame Curie: A Biography | Marie Curie | 4.22 | 2001 |
| Autobiography of a Yogi | Paramahansa Yogananda | 4.21 | 1946 |
| Wings of Fire | A.P.J. Abdul Kalam | 4.20 | 2011 |
| Man Without Fear | Rajat Gupta | 4.20 | 2019 |
| The Man Who Knew Infinity : A Life of the Genius Ramanujan | Robert Kanigel | 4.15 | 1991 |
| An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth | Chris Hadfield | 4.14 | 2013 |
| The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | 4.10 | 1993 |
| The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution | Walter Isaacson | 4.10 | 2014 |
| A Sense of the World | Jason Roberts | 4.10 | 2005 |
| Einstein: His Life and Universe | Walter Isaacson | 4.09 | 2007 |
| Steve Jobs | Walter Issacson | 4.09 | 2011 |
| My Experiments with Truth | Mahatma Gandhi | 4.07 | 1993 |
| The Story of My Life | Helen Keller | 4.07 | 1990 |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot | 4.05 | 2010 |
| Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography | Richard Branson | 3.97 | 1999 |
| My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla | Nikola Tesla | 3.96 | 2006 |
| Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker | Kevin Mitnick | 3.95 | 2011 |
| An Autobiography: Toward Freedom | Jawaharlal Nehru | 3.85 | 1989 |
| iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It | Steve Wozniak | 3.82 | 2007 |
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah Harari | 4.42 | 2014 |
| Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin | Timothy Snyder | 4.36 | 2010 |
| How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone | Brian McCullough | 4.36 | 2018 |
| The Discoverers | Daniel J. Boorstin | 4.34 | 2012 |
| Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow | Yuval Noah Harari | 4.27 | 2017 |
| One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War | Michael Dobbs | 4.20 | 2008 |
| The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet | David Kahn | 4.18 | 1996 |
| Blindness | José Saramago | 4.13 | 1995 |
| From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present | Jacques Barzun | 4.12 | 2001 |
| The Soul of a New Machine | Tracy Kidder | 4.12 | 1981 |
| Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future | Ian Morris | 4.09 | 2010 |
| The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide | Robert Jay Lifton | 4.07 | 1986 |
| God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History | Stephen Hawking | 4.06 | |
| Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II | Madhusree Mukerjee | 4.05 | 2010 |
| El Tiempo Entre Costuras | María Dueñas | 4.04 | 2009 |
| Guns, Germs, And Steel : The Fates Of Human Societies | Jared M. Diamond | 4.00 | 2005 |
| Discovery of India | Jawaharlal Nehru | 3.98 | 1946 |
| The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.) | Matt Ridley | 3.98 | 2010 |
| Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground | Kevin Poulson | 3.96 | 2011 |
| The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World | Steven Johnson | 3.91 | 2006 |
| The Rise and Fall of the British Empire | Lawrence James | 3.89 | 1997 |
| The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires | Tim Wu | 3.89 | 2010 |
| Spycraft | Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, Henry R. Schlesinger | 3.81 | 1987 |
| Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson | Niall Ferguson | 3.78 | 2011 |
| The UNIX-HATERS Handbook | Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise, Steven Strassmann | 3.78 | 1994 |
| The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate | Robert D. Kaplan | 3.68 | 2012 |
| The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century | Thomas L. Friedman | 3.66 | 2006 |
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst | Robert M. Sapolsky | 4.42 | 2017 |
| Asimov's New Guide to Science | Isaac Asimov | 4.36 | 1985 |
| Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think | Hans Rosling | 4.36 | 2018 |
| The Gene: An Intimate History | Siddhartha Mukherjee | 4.35 | 2016 |
| Origins of Form: The Shape of Natural and Man-Made Things | Christopher Williams | 4.31 | 2013 |
| The Body: A Guide for Occupants | Bill Bryson | 4.31 | 2019 |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas R. Hofstadter | 4.30 | 1979 |
| The Little Schemer | Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman | 4.27 | 1995 |
| Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science | Dean Keith Simonton | 4.25 | 1988 |
| Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World | Kevin Kelly | 4.24 | 1995 |
| The Brain: The Story of You | David Eagleman | 4.20 | 2015 |
| A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | 4.19 | 2003 |
| Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension | Matt Parker | 4.19 | 2014 |
| The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain | Terrence W. Deacon | 4.17 | 1998 |
| A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | 4.12 | 1998 |
| The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins | 4.11 | 1976 |
| Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind | Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen | 4.11 | 2009 |
| The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World | Elkhonon Goldberg | 4.07 | |
| The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene | Richard Dawkins | 4.07 | 1999 |
| Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe | Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee | 4.06 | 2003 |
| Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers | Mary Roach | 4.05 | 2004 |
| The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat and Other Clinical Tales | Oliver Sacks | 4.05 | 1998 |
| Darwin's Dangerous Idea | Daniel C. Dennett | 4.03 | 1995 |
| The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future | Kevin Kelly | 4.02 | 2016 |
| The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us | Noson S. Yanofsky | 4.00 | 2013 |
| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition | Thomas S. Kuhn | 3.99 | 1996 |
| At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity | Stuart Kauffman | 3.97 | 1996 |
| The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom | Yochai Benkler | 3.95 | 2006 |
| Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence | Hans Moravec. | 3.95 | 1990 |
| Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible | Arthur C. Clarke | 3.94 | 1962 |
| How to Find a Habitable Planet | James Kasting | 3.93 | 2010 |
| The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution | Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending | 3.91 | 2009 |
| The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements | Sam Kean | 3.91 | 2010 |
| Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives | David Sloan Wilson | 3.90 | 2007 |
| Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life | J. Craig Venter | 3.87 | 2013 |
| The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains | Nicholas Carr | 3.85 | 2011 |
| Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human | Richard Wrangham | 3.83 | 2009 |
| Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age | Bart Kosko | 3.82 | 2000 |
| The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex | Murray Gell-Mann | 3.81 | 1994 |
| Tomorrowland: Our Staggering Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact | Steven Kotler | 3.80 | 2015 |
| Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity | Dean Keith | 3.74 | 1999 |
| Waters of the World: the story of the scientists who unravelled the mysteries of our seas, glaciers, and atmosphere and made the planet whole | Sarah Dry | 3.65 | 2019 |
| Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense | Jonathan D. Moreno | 3.45 | 2007 |
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles | Raymond M. Smullyan | 4.24 | 2011 |
| A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science even If You Flunked Algebra | Barbara Oakley | 4.22 | 2014 |
| How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method | George Polya | 4.16 | 2015 |
| Guide to Competitive Programming: Learning and Improving Algorithms Through Contests | Antti Laaksonen | 4.15 | 2016 |
| Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction | Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner | 4.10 | 2015 |
| Problem Solving 101: A Simple Book | Ken Watanabe | 4.10 | 2009 |
| Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge | William Poundstone | 4.05 | 1989 |
| Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected | Clifford A. Pickover | 4.05 | 1992 |
| Outnumbered: Exploring the Algorithms That Control Our Lives | David Sumpter | 3.99 | 2018 |
| Thinking Forth: A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems | Leo Brodie | 3.96 | 1984 |
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | Michelle Alexander | 4.49 | 2010 |
| Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? | Michael J. Sandel | 4.25 | |
| On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century | Timothy Snyder | 4.20 | 2017 |
| The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion | Jonathan Haidt | 4.16 | 2012 |
| Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right | Arlie Russell Hochschild | 4.15 | 2016 |
| Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime | John Heilemann, Mark Halperin | 4.10 | 2010 |
| Bolo'bolo | P.M. | 4.05 | 1984 |
| The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies | Bryan Caplan | 3.96 | 2007 |
| The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security | Kevin D. Mitnick | 3.76 | 2003 |
| Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict | Michael Klare | 3.73 | 2001 |
| The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream | Barack Obama | 3.70 | 2006 |
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life | J.L. Collins | 4.47 | 2016 |
| Origin of Wealth | Eric D. Beinhocker | 4.23 | 2006 |
| Every Shot Counts: Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy | Mark Broadie | 4.23 | 2014 |
| Economic Facts and Fallacies | Thomas Sowell | 4.18 | 2008 |
| Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years | David Graeber | 4.17 | 2011 |
| Capital in the Twenty-First Century | Thomas Piketty | 4.01 | 2014 |
| Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything | Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner | 3.98 | 2006 |
| 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism | Ha-Joon Chang | 3.97 | 2010 |
| The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't | Nate Silver | 3.96 | 2012 |
| Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis | James Rickards | 3.96 | 2011 |
| The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World | Niall Ferguson | 3.88 | 2008 |
| The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It | Paul Collier | 3.85 | 2007 |
| The Thank You Economy | Gary Vaynerchuk | 3.83 | 2011 |
| Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart | Ian Ayres | 3.70 | 2007 |
| A Farewell to Alms : A Brief Economic History of the World | Gregory Clark | 3.67 | 2007 |
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cemetary Boys | Aiden Thomas | 4.48 | 2020 |
| Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference | Cordelia Fine | 4.15 | 2010 |
| Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl | Andrea Lawlor | 4.00 | 2017 |
| Becoming A Man | P. Carl | 3.95 | 2020 |
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern | Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha | 4.02 | 2010 |
| The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities | Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt. | 3.83 | 2004 |
| The Sex Myth | Brooke Magnanti | 3.50 | 2015 |
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| So You Want to Talk About Race | Ijeoma Oluo | 4.53 | 2018 |
| The Origin of Others | Toni Morrison | 4.22 | 2017 |
| Name | Author | Goodreads Rating | Year Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Educated: A Memoir | Tara Westover | 4.47 | 2018 |
| Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas | Seymour A. Papert | 4.32 | 1993 |
| The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 4.31 | 1943 |
| How Children Fail | John Holt | 4.22 | 1995 |
| Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World | Cal Newport | 4.20 | 2016 |
| Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning | Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel |