What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Black Box Thinking: Marginal Gains and the Secrets of High Performance

Matthew Syed

How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

Jordan Ellenberg

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Reasons to Stay Alive

Matt Haig

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Nick Bostrom

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

Jon Ronson

Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success

Matthew Syed

Year Zero

Rob Reid

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Angela Duckworth

Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

Philip E Tetlock, Dan Gardner

The Peripheral

William Gibson

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

Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

Richard H Thaler

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Art of Seduction

Robert Greene

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

yuval noah harari

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

Jenny Lawson

Antifragile

Nassim Nichol Taleb

The Signal and the Noise

Nate Silver

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

Leonard Mlodinow

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Matthew Walker PhD

Ego Is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday

Welcome to Night Vale

Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

The Fold

Peter Clines

Lock In

John Scalzi

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Cal Newport

The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Atul Gawande

Abaddon's Gate

James S A Corey

Off to Be the Wizard

Scott Meyer

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

George Orwell's Animal farm

edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

John Carreyrou

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Armada

Ernest Cline

Seveneves

Neal Stephenson

Danny the Champion of the World

Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas

John Scalzi

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Claire North

Artemis

Andy Weir

The Bone Clocks

David Mitchell

Reamde

Neal Stephenson

Golden Son: Book II of the Red Rising Trilogy

Pierce Brown

The Rook

Daniel O'Malley

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Richard H Thaler, Cass R Sunstein

The World Without Us

Alan Weisman