Maps of meaning

The Arab Mind

Raphael Patai

Beyond good and evil

Friedrich Nietzsche; translated, with commentary, by Walter Kaufmann

A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945

Vasily Grossman

The Castle of the Carpathians

Jules Verne

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

Caroline Elkins

Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present

Michael B Oren

In the President's Secret Service

Ronald Kessler

The Master and His Emissary

Iain McGilchrist

The black swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

On the genealogy of morality

Friedrich Nietzsche; edited by Keith Ansell-Pearson; translated by Carol Diethe

The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion

Mircea Eliade

Big Machine

Victor LaValle

The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence

Martin Meredith

Modern Times Revised Edition: World from the Twenties to the Nineties, the

Paul Johnson

This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women

Jay Allison (Editor), Dan Gediman (Editor)

THE PAINTED BIRD

Jerzy Kozinski

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Ordinary men

Christopher R Browning

Stephen R Covey: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People : An article from: Thinkers

The Will to Power

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Julian Jaynes

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Eric Hoffer

The Descent of Man: Selection in Relation to Sex

Charles Darwin, Adrian Desmond, James Moore

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Anna Funder

The Art of Thinking Clearly: Better Thinking, Better Decisions

Rolf Dobelli

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Jonathan Haidt

The Information

James Gleick

A Clergyman's Daughter

George Orwell

The Moral Landscape

Sam Harris

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Ursula K Le Guin

The Future of Ideas

Lawrence Lessig

Maybe a Miracle

Brian Strause

Stalingrad

Anthony Beevor

Game Change

John Heilemann, Mark Halperin

Brave New World Revisited

Aldous Huxley

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

Vladimir Nabokov

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Ray Kurzweil

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Iris Chang

Tales from Earthsea

Ursula K Le Guin

Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

Thomas Sowell

The Way Of The Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Woman, Work, and Sexual Desire

David Deida

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E Frankl

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

Timothy Ferriss

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn

Lies My Teacher Told Me

J Loewen

The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell, Richard Hoggart, Peter Davison

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

James C Collins, Jerry I Porras, Jim Collins

The Long Goodbye

Raymond Chandler

Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Jared Diamond

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Carl Sagan