Debt

David Graeber

Orality and Literacy

Walter Ong

Understanding Media

Marshall McLuhan

The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

Origins of Human Communication

Michael Tomasello

The Printing Press as an Agent of Change

Elizabeth Eisenstein

Mindstorms

Seymour Papert

The Elephant in the Brain

Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson

The Dream Machine

M. Mitchell Waldrop

The Molecule of More

Daniel Z. Lieberman and Mike Long

The Courage to be Disliked

Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi

Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

Reamde

Neal Stephenson

The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin

The Dark Forest

Liu Cixin

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Lifespan

David Sinclair

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

Homo Deus

Yuval Noah Harari

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

The Network State

Balaji Srinivasan

The Sovereign Individual

James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg

On the Genealogy of Morality

Friedrich Nietzsche

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Aniela Jaffé and Carl Jung

Swann's Way

Marcel Proust

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming

Howard Rheingold

Blue Ocean Strategy

Renée Mauborgne and W. Chan Kim

The Victorian Internet

Tom Standage

Blitzscaling

Chris Yeh and Reid Hoffman

Masters of Scale

Deron Triff, June Cohen, and Reid Hoffman

Skin in the Game

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Bed of Procrustes

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I Am a Strange Loop

Douglas Hofstadter

Principles

Ray Dalio

Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Open Society and Its Enemies

Karl Popper

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

The Great CEO Within

Alex MacCaw, Matt Mochary, and Misha Talavera

Invention

James Dyson

Poor Charlie's Almanack

Charlie Munger

I, Robot

Isaac Asimov

Critical Path

Buckminster Fuller

True Hallucinations

Terence McKenna

Ball Lightning

Liu Cixin

Foundation

Isaac Asimov

The Meaning of It All

Richard Feynman

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

The Fabric of Reality

David Deutsch

Guns, Germs and Steel

Jared Diamond

Greenlights

Matthew McConaughey

Sandworm

Andy Greenberg

What Is Life?

Erwin Schrödinger

Life 3.0

Max Tegmark

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Richard Feynman

The Righteous Mind

Jonathan Haidt

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Richard Feynman

Genome

Matt Ridley

Ulysses

James Joyce

Complexity

M. Mitchell Waldrop

The Code Breaker

Walter Isaacson

Behave

Robert Sapolsky

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Chris Hadfield

Talking to Strangers

Malcolm Gladwell

Deep Work

Cal Newport

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

The Founder's Dilemmas

Noam T. Wasserman

Zero to One

Blake Masters and Peter Thiel

The Human Use of Human Beings

Norbert Wiener

An Elegant Defense

Matt Richtel

The Tangled Web

Michał Zalewski

The Bias of Communication

Harold Innis

Here Comes Everybody

Clay Shirky

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

Neurosphere

Donald P. Dulchinos

Start-up Nation

Dan Senor and Saul Singer

The Square and the Tower

Niall Ferguson

The City In History

Lewis Mumford

René Girard's Mimetic Theory

Wolfgang Palaver

Life on the Edge

Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden

Scale

Geoffrey West

Hood

Luke Timmerman

Unauthorized Bread

Cory Doctorow

Thinking in Systems

Donella Meadows

Understanding Computers and Cognition

Terry Winograd

Age of Invisible Machines

Robb Wilson

The Gutenberg Galaxy

Marshall McLuhan

New Science

Giambattista Vico

Design For Community

Derek Powazek

The Second Self

Sherry Turkle

Media: The Second God

Tony Schwartz

The Wealth of Networks

Yochai Benkler

The Virtual Community

Howard Rheingold

On Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee

New New Media

Paul Levinson

A History of Communications

Marshall Poe

The Origins of Virtue

Matt Ridley

Trust: A History

Geoffrey Hosking

Cognition in the Wild

Edwin Hutchins

Time Travel: A History

James Gleick

Matchmakers

David S. Evans and Richard L. Schmalensee

Noise

Cass R. Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, and Olivier Sibony

Nexus

Ramez Naam

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

John Maynard Keynes

Empire of the Summer Moon

S. C. Gwynne

The Collapse of Complex Societies

Joseph Tainter

Permutation City

Greg Egan

Dune

Frank Herbert

Six Easy Pieces

Richard Feynman

Six Not-So-Easy Pieces

Richard Feynman

The Art of Invisibility

Kevin Mitnick

Permanent Record

Edward Snowden

The Man from the Future

Ananyo Bhattacharya

The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Song of the Cell

Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Double Helix

James D. Watson

Wonderful Life

Stephen Jay Gould

On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

A Passage to India

E. M. Forster

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

Why Nations Fail

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

Finnegans Wake

James Joyce

The Beginning of Infinity

David Deutsch

Determined

Robert Sapolsky

Surfaces and Essences

Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander

The Dawn of Everything

David Graeber and David Wengrow

Influence

Robert Cialdini

Future Shock

Alvin Toffler

The Third Wave

Alvin Toffler

Revolutionary Wealth

Alvin Toffler

A Brief History of Everything

Ken Wilber

Embodiments of Mind

Warren McCulloch

Beyond AI

J. Storrs Hall