A) Non-Fiction
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
The First World War by John Keegan (also WWII)
Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
On Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrum
Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull
Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrum
Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull
Peter the Great by Massie
Shakespeare, Sex and Love by Stanley Wells
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
Rabid by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
The Age of Em by Robin Hanson
Red Queen by Matt Ridley
Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
July 1914: Countdown to War by Sean McKeekin (revisionist)
Haunted Empire: Apple After Jobs by Yukari Kane
Secret History of the Mongol Queens by Jack Weatherford
Battle Cry of Freedom by James MacPherson
When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
War by Gwynne Dyer
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen
The Right Stuff by Thomas Wolff
Testaments Betrayed by Milan Kundera
B) Philosophy/Ideas
The Idea of Canada by David Johnston
Zealot by Reza Aslan
No God but God by Reza Aslan
Free to Choose by Milton Friedman
The Prince by Niccolo Macchiavelli
The Republic by Plato
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Republic by Plato
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Discourses by Epictetus
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Moral Animal (evolutionary morality)
God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The People’s Platform by Astra Taylor
The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
The Presentation of the Self by Erving Goffman
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
World on Fire by Amy Chua
The Witness Wore Red by Rebecca Musser (Mormon/LDS)
Freakonomics by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar by Thomas Cathcart
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
C) Modern Fiction - post-1900
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Shogun by James Clavell
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Madness by Marya Hornbacher
Kafka on the Shore by MurakamiThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Shogun by James Clavell
Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Flashman (series)
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Swastika Night by Katherine Burdekin
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard (or Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)
The Things We Carry by Tim O’Brien
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Who Do You Think You Are by Alice Munro
Ragtime by Cory Doctorow
Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip Dick
D) Current Fiction - post-2000
The Girls by Emma Cline
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
Curious Case of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman
Black Hole by Charles Burns (graphic novel)
E) Reach Reading List
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
