Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert

How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

Jordan Ellenberg

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Nick Bostrom

We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a true story

Josh Sundquist

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Ashlee Vance

Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Randall Munroe

Reasons to Stay Alive

Matt Haig

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Geography of You and Me

Jennifer E Smith

Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner

Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

Tim Ferriss

Mosquitoland

David Arnold

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

Jenny Lawson

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Hans Rosling

The Signal and the Noise

Nate Silver

180 Seconds

Jessica Park

In cold blood

Truman Capote

The Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

George Orwell's Animal farm

edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

Brave New World Revisited

Aldous Huxley

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Matthew Walker PhD

the princess saves herself in this one

Amanda Lovelace

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

Mark Manson

The Fabric of the Cosmos

Brian Greene

Why Nations Fail

Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Daniel Goleman

Cosmos

Carl Sagan

The Lord of the Rings Vol 1: The Fellowship of the Ring

J R R Tolkien

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Cal Newport

1984

George Orwell

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

yuval noah harari

Gemina

Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

Never Always Sometimes

Adi Alsaid

Leah on the Offbeat

Becky Albertalli

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Charles Duhigg

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nevernight

Jay Kristoff

We Are Okay

Nina LaCour

The Rest of Us Just Live Here

Patrick Ness

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg

The World Without Us

Alan Weisman

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Normal People

Sally Rooney

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Jordan B Peterson