The Reading List

672 books across 252 subjects

Every book in the curriculum, grouped by subject. Many can be borrowed from a public library; there is no need to own them all, or to read them all. No publisher or bookseller pays us to list them, and there are no affiliate links on this site.

Contemporary Issues

A Field Guide to Lies

Daniel J. Levitin, 2019
Calling Bullshit

Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West, 2020
Foolproof

Sander van der Linden, 2023

Existential Risks Contemporary Issues

The Precipice

Toby Ord, 2020

Climate Collapse Contemporary Issues › Existential Risks

The Great Derangement

Amitav Ghosh, 2017
The Uninhabitable Earth

David Wallace-Wells, 2019
Not the End of the World

Hannah Ritchie, 2024

Nuclear Weapons Contemporary Issues › Existential Risks

Command and Control

Eric Schlosser, 2013
The Doomsday Machine

Daniel Ellsberg, 2017
Nuclear War

Annie Jacobsen, 2024

Pandemics Contemporary Issues › Existential Risks

The Great Influenza

John M. Barry, 2005
Stopping the Next Pandemic

Debora MacKenzie, 2020
The Big One

Michael T. Osterholm, Mark Olshaker, 2025

Uncontrolled AI Contemporary Issues › Existential Risks

The Alignment Problem

Brian Christian, 2020
Scary Smart

Mo Gawdat, 2021
The Coming Wave

Mustafa Suleyman, 2023

Financial & Human Development Contemporary Issues

Portfolios of the Poor

Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven, 2009
The Journey of Humanity

Oded Galor, 2022
Poor Economics

Abhijit V Banerjee, Esther Duflo, 2026

Debt Crisis Contemporary Issues › Financial & Human Development

This Time Is Different

Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff, 2009
House of Debt

Atif Mian, Amir Sufi, 2015
Crashed

Adam Tooze, 2018

Demographic Imbalances Contemporary Issues › Financial & Human Development

A Farewell to Alms

Gregory Clark, 2008
Empty Planet

Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson, 2019
The Human Tide

Paul Morland, 2019

Education Gaps Contemporary Issues › Financial & Human Development

The Shame of the Nation

Jonathan Kozol, 2006
Whatever it Takes

Paul Tough, 2009

Migration Contemporary Issues › Financial & Human Development

Refuge

Paul Collier, Alexander Betts, 2017
The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis

Patrick Kingsley, 2017

Geopolitical Conflict & Security Contemporary Issues

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

John J. Mearsheimer, 2001
The Future of Power

Joseph S Nye Jr, 2011
The World

Richard Haass, 2020
The End of the World is Just the Beginning

Peter Zeihan, 2022

Cyber Warfare Contemporary Issues › Geopolitical Conflict & Security

Countdown to Zero Day

Kim Zetter, 2014
The Perfect Weapon

David E. Sanger, 2018
Sandworm

Andy Greenberg, 2020

Great Power Rivalry Contemporary Issues › Geopolitical Conflict & Security

The Hundred-Year Marathon

Michael Pillsbury, 2015
Destined For War

Graham Allison, 2017
The Jungle Grows Back

Robert Kagan, 2018

Regional Wars Contemporary Issues › Geopolitical Conflict & Security

The Looming Tower

Lawrence Wright, 2007
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ishmael Beah, 2008
The Forever War

Dexter Filkins, 2009
No Good Men Among the Living

Anand Gopal, 2014

Governance & Social Cohesion Contemporary Issues

What You Should Know About Politics . . . But Don't, Fourth Edition

Jessamyn Conrad, 2016
On Tyranny

Timothy Snyder, 2017
How Democracies Die

Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt, 2019
Giving Up Is Unforgivable

Joyce Vance, 2025

Corruption Contemporary Issues › Governance & Social Cohesion

Thieves of State

Sarah Chayes, 2014
Red Notice

Bill Browder, 2015
Kleptopia

Tom Burgis, 2021

Democratic Backsliding Contemporary Issues › Governance & Social Cohesion

Democracy in Retreat

Joshua Kurlantzick, 2013
Political Order and Political Decay

Francis Fukuyama, 2014
Twilight of Democracy

Anne Applebaum, 2020
Autocracy, Inc.

Anne Applebaum, 2025

Disinformation Contemporary Issues › Governance & Social Cohesion

Likewar

Peter Warren Singer, Emerson T. Brooking, 2018
This Is Not Propaganda

Peter Pomerantsev, 2019
Active Measures

Thomas Rid, 2020

Inequality Contemporary Issues › Governance & Social Cohesion

The Spirit Level

Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett, 2009
The Price of Inequality

Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2013
Inequality

Anthony B. Atkinson, 2015
The Meritocracy Trap

Daniel Markovits, 2020
Invisible Child

Andrea Elliott, 2022

Weakened Global Institutions Contemporary Issues › Governance & Social Cohesion

World Order

Henry Kissinger, 2015
After Europe

Ivan Krastev, 2017
The Retreat of Western Liberalism

Edward Luce, 2017

Public Health & Well-Being Contemporary Issues

Chasing the Scream

Johann Hari, 2015
Deadliest Enemy

Mark Olshaker, Michael T. Osterholm, 2017
Upstream

Dan Heath, 2020

Aging Societies Contemporary Issues › Public Health & Well-Being

Being Mortal

Atul Gawande, 2014
The Longevity Economy

Joseph F. Coughlin, 2017
Extra Life

Steven Johnson, 2021

Global Health Crises Contemporary Issues › Public Health & Well-Being

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Tracy Kidder, 2004
The Healing of America

T. R. Reid, 2010

Healthcare Access & Equity Contemporary Issues › Public Health & Well-Being

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Anne Fadiman, 1998
Just Medicine

Dayna Bowen Matthew, 2016
An American Sickness

Elisabeth Rosenthal, 2017

Mental Health Systems Contemporary Issues › Public Health & Well-Being

Mad in America

Robert Whitaker, 2001
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Gabor Maté, MD, 2009
Anatomy of an Epidemic

Robert Whitaker, 2010
Lost Connections

Johann Hari, 2018

Substance Abuse & Addiction Contemporary Issues › Public Health & Well-Being

Beautiful Boy

David Sheff, 2009
Dreamland

Sam Quinones, 2015
Dopamine Nation

Anna Lembke, MD, 2023

Resource & Sustainability Crises Contemporary Issues

Limits to Growth

Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows, 2004
Drawdown

Paul Hawken, 2017
The Wizard and the Prophet

Charles C. Mann, 2018
The Fate of Food

Amanda Little, 2019
The Heat Will Kill You First

Jeff Goodell, 2023

Biodiversity Loss Contemporary Issues › Resource & Sustainability Crises

The Diversity of Life

Edward O. Wilson, 1999
Half-Earth

Edward O. Wilson, 2016
Fathoms

Rebecca Giggs, 2020

Circular Economy & Waste Contemporary Issues › Resource & Sustainability Crises

Cradle to Cradle

William McDonough, Michael Braungart, 2010
Waste Makers

Vance Packard, 2011
Junkyard Planet

Adam Minter, 2015
Doughnut Economics

Kate Raworth, 2017

Energy Transition Contemporary Issues › Resource & Sustainability Crises

Oil

Vaclav Smil, 2017
Energy

Richard Rhodes, 2019
The New Map

Daniel Yergin, 2020
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

Bill Gates, 2021

Food Security & Agriculture Contemporary Issues › Resource & Sustainability Crises

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Michael Pollan, 2007
The End of Food

Paul Roberts, 2008
Stuffed and Starved

Raj Patel, 2012

Water Scarcity Contemporary Issues › Resource & Sustainability Crises

Cadillac Desert

Marc Reisner, 1993
When the Rivers Run Dry

Fred Pearce, 2006
The Ripple Effect

Alex Prud'homme, 2011
Water

Giulio Boccaletti, 2021

Science, Technology & Society Contemporary Issues

Twitter and Tear Gas

Zeynep Tufekci, 2017
Automating Inequality

Virginia Eubanks, 2018
Race After Technology

Ruha Benjamin, 2019
The Chaos Machine

Max Fisher, 2022

AI Ethics & Governance Contemporary Issues › Science, Technology & Society

$Cover of Weapons of Math Destruction$

Weapons of Math Destruction

Cathy O'Neil, 2016
Human Compatible

Stuart Jonathan Russell, 2019
The Atlas of AI

Kate Crawford, 2021

Automation & Labor Contemporary Issues › Science, Technology & Society

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, 2014
Rise of the Robots

Martin Ford, 2015
The Technology Trap

Carl Benedikt Frey, 2019

Biotechnology Ethics Contemporary Issues › Science, Technology & Society

Regenesis

George M Church, Edward Regis, 2014
A Crack in Creation

Jennifer Doudna, Samuel Sternberg, 2017
The Code Breaker

Walter Isaacson, 2021

Data Privacy & Surveillance Contemporary Issues › Science, Technology & Society

No Place to Hide

Glenn Greenwald, 2014
Data and Goliath

Bruce Schneier, 2015
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Shoshana Zuboff, 2019
Privacy is Power

Carissa Veliz, 2021

Digital Divide Contemporary Issues › Science, Technology & Society

Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech

Sara Wachter-Boettcher, 2017
The Code Economy

Philip E. Auerswald, 2017
Broad Band

Claire L. Evans, 2018
Power and Progress

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, 2023

Platform Economics Contemporary Issues › Science, Technology & Society

Platform Revolution

Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary, 2016
The Attention Merchants

Tim Wu, 2016
The Curse of Bigness

Tim Wu, 2020

Social Media & Mental Health Contemporary Issues › Science, Technology & Society

Irresistible

Adam Alter, 2018
The Hacking of the American Mind

Robert H. Lustig, 2018
Stolen Focus

Johann Hari, 2022

Creative Arts

Art as Experience

John Dewey, 2005
Just Kids

Patti Smith, 2010
Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke, 2014
Get the Picture

Bianca Bosker, 2024
The Work of Art

Adam Moss, 2024
Point Blank

Bob Dylan, 2025

Applied & Interactive Arts Creative Arts

Masters of Doom

David Kushner, 2003
Change by Design

Tim Brown, 2009
The Substance of Style

Virginia Postrel, 2009

Architecture Creative Arts › Applied & Interactive Arts

A Pattern Language

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, 1977

Fashion & Textile Design Creative Arts › Applied & Interactive Arts

Deluxe

Dana Thomas, 2007
Overdressed

Elizabeth L. Cline, 2013

Game Design Creative Arts › Applied & Interactive Arts

Reality Is Broken

Jane McGonigal, 2011
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

Jason Schreier, 2017

Graphic Design Creative Arts › Applied & Interactive Arts

The elements of typographic style

Robert Bringhurst, Robert Bringhurst, 2004
Just My Type

Simon Garfield, 2011
Thinking with Type

Ellen Lupton, 2024

Industrial Design Creative Arts › Applied & Interactive Arts

Small Things Considered

Henry Petroski, 2004
Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible

Sophie Lovell, 2011
The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman, 2013

User Experience Design Creative Arts › Applied & Interactive Arts

About Face

Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin, Christopher Noessel, 2014
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited

Steve Krug, 2014
Hooked

Nir Eyal, 2014

User Interface Design Creative Arts › Applied & Interactive Arts

The Non-designer's Design Book

Robin Williams, 2015
Universal Principles of Design, Updated and Expanded Third Edition

William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler, 2023

Art History & Theory Creative Arts

The Shock of the new

Robert Hughes, 1981
The Story of Art

Ernst Hans Gombrich, 2006
A Little History of Art

Charlotte Mullins, 2022

Cultural Criticism Creative Arts › Art History & Theory

Illuminations

Walter Benjamin, 1986
The Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism

Daniel Bell, 1996
Status and Culture

W. David Marx, 2022

Curatorial Studies Creative Arts › Art History & Theory

Medici Money

Tim Parks, 2013
All the Beauty in the World

Patrick Bringley, 2023

Literary Arts Creative Arts

On Writing

Stephen King, 2002
Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott, 2007
The Art of Fiction

John Gardner, 2010

Creative Writing Creative Arts › Literary Arts

If You Want to Write

Brenda Ueland, 2013
The Art of the Novel

Milan Kundera, 2020
How to Write Like a Writer

Thomas C. Foster, 2022

Drama Creative Arts › Literary Arts

The Empty Space

Peter Brook, 1996
An Actor Prepares

Constantin Stanislavski, 2013
The Theatre and its Double

Antonin Artaud, 2024

Poetry Creative Arts › Literary Arts

The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing

Richard Hugo, 1992
How To Read A Poem

Edward Hirsch, 1999
The Sounds of Poetry

Robert Pinsky, 1999

Prose Creative Arts › Literary Arts

On Writing Well

William Knowlton Zinsser, 2006
Burning Down the House

Charles Baxter, 2008

Music Creative Arts

The Joy of Music

Unknown, 2004
The Music Lesson

Victor L. Wooten, 2008
The ^AHistory of Jazz

Ted Gioia, 2021

Composition Creative Arts › Music

On Creativity

David Bohm, 2004

Music History Creative Arts › Music

The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

Alex Ross, 2011

Music Theory Creative Arts › Music

Musicophilia

Oliver Sacks, 2008
This Is Your Brain On Music

Daniel J. Levitin, 2011
How Music Works

David Byrne, 2017

Performing Arts Creative Arts

Letters to a Young Artist

Anna Deavere Smith, 2006
Born Standing Up

Steve Martin, 2007
The Creative Habit

Twyla Tharp, 2009

Dance Creative Arts › Performing Arts

Dancing on my grave: an autobiography

Gelsey Kirkland, 1986
Last Night on Earth

Bill T. Jones, Peggy Gillespie, 1995
Apollo's Angels

Jennifer Homans, 2010

Music Perfomance Creative Arts › Performing Arts

Effortless Mastery -- 20th Anniversary Edition

Kenny Werner, 2016

Opera Creative Arts › Performing Arts

The Opera Lover's Companion

Charles Osborne, 2004
Opera 101

Fred Plotkin, 2013

Theatre Creative Arts › Performing Arts

Towards a Poor Theatre

Jerzy Grotowski, 2002
Respect for Acting

Uta Hagen, 2008

Visual Arts Creative Arts

Ways of Seeing

John Berger, 1977
Color

Victoria Finlay, 2003
How to Be an Artist

Jerry Saltz, 2020

Craft & Material Arts Creative Arts › Visual Arts

The Craftsman

Richard Sennett, 2008
Shop Class as Soulcraft

Matthew B. Crawford, 2009
Ingrained

Callum Robinson, 2024

Digital Arts Creative Arts › Visual Arts

The Language of New Media

Lev Manovich, 2002
Software Takes Command

Lev Manovich, 2013
Processing, second edition

Casey Reas, Ben Fry, 2014

Drawing Creative Arts › Visual Arts

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Betty Edwards, 2012

Film & Cinema Studies Creative Arts › Visual Arts

Easy Riders Raging Bulls

Peter Biskind, 2011

Painting Creative Arts › Visual Arts

From Giotto to Cézanne: a concise history of painting

Michael Levey, 1968

Photography Creative Arts › Visual Arts

Regarding the Pain of Others

Susan Sontag, 2003

Printmaking Creative Arts › Visual Arts

What is a Print?

Sarah J. S. Suzuki, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), 2011

Sculpture Creative Arts › Visual Arts

Giacometti

James Lord, 1997
The Sculptural Imagination

Alex Potts, 2000

Humanities

The Warmth of Other Suns

Isabel Wilkerson, 2010
The Silk Roads

Peter Frankopan, 2016
Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari, 2018
Caste

Isabel Wilkerson, 2020

History Humanities

In Defence of History

Richard J. Evans, 2012
Lies My Teacher Told Me

James W. Loewen, 2018
What is History?

E. H. Carr, 2018
A Little Book for New Historians

Robert Tracy McKenzie, 2019

Area Studies Humanities › History

Iron Curtain

Anne Applebaum, 2012
The Pentagon Papers

Neil Sheehan, Hedrick Smith, E. W. Kenworthy, Fox Butterfield, 2017
China in Ten Words

Yu Hua, 2023

Cultural History Humanities › History

Salt

Mark Kurlansky, 2003
The Great Transformation

Karen Armstrong, 2009
The Making of the English Working Class

E. P. Thompson, 2016

Economic History Humanities › History

The American People in the Great Depression: Freedom from Fear, Part One (The Oxford History of the United States, V. 9)

David M. Kennedy, 2003
The Ascent of Money

Niall Ferguson, 2008
Power and Plenty

Ronald Findlay, Kevin H. O'Rourke, 2009

Intellectual History Humanities › History

The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance

Anthony Gottlieb, 2002
The Swerve

Stephen Greenblatt, 2012
A Secular Age

Charles Taylor, 2018
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America

Jeffrey Rosen, 2023

Political History Humanities › History

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt, 1973
The Guns of August

Barbara W. Tuchman, 2004
1776

David McCullough, 2005

World History Humanities › History

The Human Web

John Robert McNeill, William Hardy McNeill, 2003
The Lessons of History

Will Durant, Ariel Durant, 2012
These Truths

Jill Lepore, 2018

Languages & Linguistics Humanities

The Language Instinct

Steven Pinker, 1995
The Power of Babel

John McWhorter, 2003
Empires of the Word

Nicholas Ostler, 2005
Through the Language Glass

Guy Deutscher, 2011

Classical Languages Humanities › Languages & Linguistics

Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin

Nicholas Ostler, 2007
Carpe Diem

Harry Mount, 2007
Greek to Me

Mary Norris, 2019

Language Acquisition Humanities › Languages & Linguistics

Dreaming In Hindi

Katherine Russell Rich, 2010
Babel No More

Michael Erard, 2012
Language

Daniel L. Everett, 2012

Linguistics Humanities › Languages & Linguistics

Proust and the Squid

Maryanne Wolf, 2008
Metaphors We Live By

George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, 2024
The Language Wars

Henry Hitchings, 2025

Modern Languages Humanities › Languages & Linguistics

The Mother Tongue

Bill Bryson, 2015
In Other Words

Jhumpa Lahiri, 2016
The Map of Knowledge

Violet Moller, 2019

Literature Humanities

How Fiction Works

James Wood, 2008
The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien, 2009
How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised

Thomas C. Foster, 2014

Canon Formation Humanities › Literature

Is literary history possible?

Perkins, David, 1993
Why Read?

Mark Edmundson, 2005
The Western Canon

Harold Bloom, 2014

Classics Humanities › Literature

Mimesis

Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said, 2013
SPQR

Mary Beard, 2015
Mythology

Edith Hamilton, 2017
Plutarch’s Lives

Plutarch, 2018

Comparative Literature Humanities › Literature

The Dialogic Imagination

M. M. Bakhtin, 1981
The Rise of the Novel, Updated Edition

Ian Watt, 2001
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

George Saunders, 2021

Literary Theory Humanities › Literature

Discipline and Punish

Michel Foucault, 1995
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

Jonathan Culler, 2011

World Literature Humanities › Literature

What is World Literature?

David Damrosch, 2003
The World Republic of Letters

Pascale Casanova, 2004
One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez, 2022

Philosophy Humanities

The Consolations of Philosophy

Alain De Botton, 2001
The Problems of Philosophy

Bertrand Russell, 2001
The Cave and the Light

Arthur Herman, 2014

Aesthetics Philosophy Humanities › Philosophy

The Birth of Tragedy

Friedrich Nietzsche, 1994
On Beauty and Being Just

Elaine Scarry, 2001
What is Art?

Leo Tolstoy, 2013

Epistemology Humanities › Philosophy

Examined Life

Robert Nozick, 1990
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn, 2012
The Knowledge Illusion

Steven Sloman, Philip Fernbach, 2017

Ethics Humanities › Philosophy

Reasons and Persons

Derek Parfit, 1987
Being Good

Simon Blackburn, 2002
Practical Ethics

Peter Singer, 2011

Metaphysics Humanities › Philosophy

Sophie's World

Jostein Gaarder, 2015
Reality+

David J. Chalmers, 2022
Being and Time

Martin Heidegger, 2025

Philosophical Logic Humanities › Philosophy

Godel's Proof

Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman, 2012
Logicomix

Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos Papadimitriou, 2015

Political Philosophy Humanities › Philosophy

Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

David Miller, 2003
The Open Society and Its Enemies

Karl Raimund Popper, 2011

Religious Studies Humanities

The World's Religions

Huston Smith, 1991
The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James, 1999
God Is Not One

Stephen Prothero, 2010
A History of God

Karen Armstrong, 2011
God

Reza Aslan, 2017

Comparative Religion Humanities › Religious Studies

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell, 1956
The Sacred and the Profane

Mircea Eliade, 1959
The Perennial Philosophy

Aldous Huxley, 2004

Mythology Humanities › Religious Studies

Hamlet's Mill

Giorgio De Santillana, Hertha von Dechend, 1969
The Power of Myth

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers, 2011
Mythos

Stephen Fry, 2018

Philosophy of Religion Humanities › Religious Studies

Religion and the Decline of Magic

Keith Thomas, 1991
The Language of God

Francis S. Collins, 2006
God and the New Atheism

John F. Haught, 2008
Why Religion?

Elaine Pagels, 2018

Theology Humanities › Religious Studies

Mere Christianity

C. S. Lewis, 2001
The Reason for God

Timothy Keller, 2008
The Cost of Discipleship

Bonhoeffer Dietrich, 2015
Quran in English

Talal Itani, 2017
ESV Church Bible (Hardcover, Black)

Esv Bibles, 2025

Rhetoric & Communication Humanities

Writing to Learn

William Zinsser, 2013
Talk Like TED

Carmine Gallo, 2014
Thank You for Arguing, Fourth Edition (Revised and Updated)

Jay Heinrichs, 2020
Win Every Argument

Mehdi Hasan, 2023

Communication Theory Humanities › Rhetoric & Communication

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Neil Postman, 2005

Intercultural Communication Humanities › Rhetoric & Communication

The Culture Map

Erin Meyer, 2014

Journalism Humanities › Rhetoric & Communication

The Elements of Journalism, Revised and Updated 4th Edition

Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel, 2021

Media Studies Humanities › Rhetoric & Communication

Understanding Media

Marshall McLuhan, 1964
Trust Me, I'm Lying

Ryan Holiday, 2013

Oratory Humanities › Rhetoric & Communication

The Art of Rhetoric

Aristotle, 2005
Confessions of a Public Speaker

Scott Berkun, 2009
The Elements of Eloquence

Mark Forsyth, 2014

Persuasion Humanities › Rhetoric & Communication

Rhetoric

Aristotle, 2012
Pre-Suasion

Robert Cialdini, 2016
Influence, New and Expanded

Robert B. Cialdini, PhD, 2021
How Minds Change

David McRaney, 2022

Mathematics & Formal Sciences

Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction

Timothy Gowers, 2002
The Joy of X

Steven Henry Strogatz, 2012
The Signal and the Noise

Nate Silver, 2015

Computer Science Mathematics & Formal Sciences

The Innovators

Walter Isaacson, 2014
The Pattern On The Stone

W. Daniel Hillis, 2014
Code

Charles Petzold, 2022

Algorithms and Data Structures Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Computer Science

The Art of Computer Programming

Donald Ervin Knuth, 2015
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Brian Christian, Griffiths, 2016
Hello World

Hannah Fry, 2018

Artificial Intelligence Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Computer Science

Life 3.0

Max Tegmark, 2018
Rebooting AI

Gary Marcus, Ernest Davis, 2019
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

Janelle Shane, 2019
A Brief History of Intelligence

Max S. Bennett, 2023

Machine Learning Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence

The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book

Unknown, 2019

Cybersecurity Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Computer Science

The Art of Intrusion

Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon, 2009
Ghost in the Wires

Kevin Mitnick, 2011
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

Nicole Perlroth, 2021

Human-Computer Interaction Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Computer Science

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

Cooper, Alan, 2008
Designing with the Mind in Mind

Jeff Johnson, 2020

Software Engineering Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Computer Science

The Mythical Man-Month

Frederick P. Brooks Jr., 1995
The Pragmatic Programmer

Andrew Hunt, David Thomas, 1999
The Phoenix Project

Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford, 2018

Data Science Mathematics & Formal Sciences

The Master Algorithm

Pedro Domingos, 2015
The Art of Statistics

David Spiegelhalter, 2019
Data Feminism

Catherine D'Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein, 2020

Applied Statistics Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Data Science

Statistics

David J. Hand, 2008

Data Analytics Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Data Science

Naked Statistics

Charles Wheelan, 2012

Data Visualization Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Data Science

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward R. Tufte, 2001

Statistical Computing Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Data Science

Mostly Harmless Econometrics

Joshua D. Angrist, Jörn-Steffen Pischke, 2009
The Data Detective

Tim Harford, 2021

Decision Sciences Mathematics & Formal Sciences

Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (Commemorative Edition)

John von Neumann, Oskar Morgenstern, 2007
The Art of Strategy

Avinash K. Dixit, Barry Nalebuff, 2008
Superforecasting

Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner, 2015
Thinking in Bets

Annie Duke, 2018
Noise

Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein, 2021

Behavioral Decision Theory Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Decision Sciences

Against the gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

Peter L. Bernstein, 1996

Game Theory Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Decision Sciences

A Beautiful Mind

Sylvia Nasar, 2011
Co-Opetition

Adam M. Brandenburger, Barry J. Nalebuff, 2011
Prisoner's Dilemma

William Poundstone, 2011

Operations Research Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Decision Sciences

In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman

William Cook, 2012
How to Measure Anything

Douglas W. Hubbard, 2014
Network Science

Albert-László Barabási, MÃ¡rton PÃ3sfai, 2016

Optimization Theory Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Decision Sciences

Chaos

James Gleick, 2008
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

Steven H. Strogatz, 2018
The Perfectionists

Simon Winchester, 2018

Rational Choice Theory Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Decision Sciences

The Logic of Collective Action

Mancur Olson, 1965
The Origins of Virtue

Matt Ridley, 1998
Freakonomics

Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, 2006

Information & Systems Theory Mathematics & Formal Sciences

The Quark and the Jaguar

Murray Gell-Mann, 1995
Complexity

Melanie Mitchell, 2009
The Information

James Gleick, 2011
The Systems Thinker: Essential Thinking Skills for Solving Problems, Managing Chaos, and Creating Lasting Solutions in a Complex World

Albert Rutherford, 2018

Complex Systems Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Information & Systems Theory

How Nature Works

Per Bak, 1996
The Web of Life

Fritjof Capra, 1997
Linked

Albert-Lszl Barabsi, 2002

Cybernetics Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Information & Systems Theory

The Human Use Of Human Beings

Norbert Wiener, 1988
The Cybernetics Group

Steve J. Heims, 1991
I Am a Strange Loop

Douglas R. Hofstadter, 2007

General Systems Theory Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Information & Systems Theory

An Introduction to General Systems Thinking

Gerald M. Weinberg, 2001
Thinking in Systems

Donella Meadows, 2008

Information Theory Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Information & Systems Theory

Programming the Universe

Seth Lloyd, 2006
Decoding the Universe

Charles Seife, 2007
A Mind at Play

Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman, 2017

Mathematical Logic & Formal Reasoning Mathematics & Formal Sciences

Being Logical

D.Q. McInerny, 2004
A Rulebook for Arguments

Anthony Weston, 2018
The Art of Logic in an Illogical World

Eugenia Cheng, 2018
Critical Thinking

Tom Chatfield, 2022

Analytical Reasoning Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Mathematical Logic & Formal Reasoning

The Demon-Haunted World

Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, 1997
Thinking and Reasoning (Psychology Revivals)

Jonathan St. B. T. Evans, 2013
The Intelligence Trap

David Robson, 2020

Formal Logic Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Mathematical Logic & Formal Reasoning

Logicomix: an epic search for truth

Apostolos K. Doxiadēs, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos, 2009
A Beginner's Guide to Mathematical Logic

Raymond M. Smullyan, 2014
Logic

Graham Priest, 2017

Informal Logic Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Mathematical Logic & Formal Reasoning

The Uses of Argument

Stephen E. Toulmin, 2003
The Art of Thinking Clearly

Rolf Dobelli, 2013
How to Think

Alan Jacobs, 2017

Mathematics Mathematics & Formal Sciences

$Cover of The Math Book$

The Math Book

Clifford A. Pickover, 2009
How Not to Be Wrong

Jordan Ellenberg, 2014
Fermat's Enigma

Simon Singh, 2017
Proofs from THE BOOK

Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler, 2018

Algebra Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Mathematics

The Equation that Couldn't Be Solved

Mario Livio, 2005
Unknown Quantity

John Derbyshire, 2007

Applied Mathematics Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Mathematics

Why Do Buses Come in Threes

Robert Eastaway, Jeremy Wyndham, 2000
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets

Simon Singh, 2013

Calculus Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Mathematics

The Calculus Gallery

William Dunham, 2018
Infinite Powers

Steven Strogatz, 2019

Geometry Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Mathematics

Visual Complex Analysis

Tristan Needham, 1997
The Shape of Space

Jeffrey R. Weeks, 2001
Euclid's Window

Leonard Mlodinow, 2010

Number Theory Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Mathematics

The Music of the Primes

Marcus du Sautoy, 2004
The Drunkard's Walk

Leonard Mlodinow, 2009

Pure Mathematics Mathematics & Formal Sciences › Mathematics

What Is Mathematics?

the late Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins, 1996

Natural Sciences

Science Matters

Robert M. Hazen, 1991
A short history of nearly everything

Bill Bryson, 2003
The Road to Reality

Roger Penrose, 2021
The Joy of Science

Jim Al-Khalili, 2022

Astronomy Natural Sciences

The Fabric of the Cosmos

Brian Greene, 2004
Cosmos

Carl Sagan, 2011

Astrophysics Natural Sciences › Astronomy

Black Holes and Time Warps

Kip S Thorne, 1994
Welcome to the Universe

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott, 2016
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2017

Cosmology Natural Sciences › Astronomy

Big Bang

Simon Singh, 2006
Our Mathematical Universe

Max Tegmark, 2015
Until the End of Time

Brian Greene, 2020

Observational Astronomy Natural Sciences › Astronomy

Measuring the Universe

Kitty Ferguson, 2013
Turn Left at Orion

Guy Consolmagno, Dan M. Davis, 2018

Planetary Science Natural Sciences › Astronomy

The Planets

Dava Sobel, 2006
Packing for Mars

Mary Roach, 2011
The Planet Factory

Elizabeth Tasker, 2017

Biology Natural Sciences

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot, 2010
The Vital Question

Nick Lane, 2016
The Biology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

Dorling Kindersley, 2021
The Hidden Life of Trees

Peter Wohlleben, 2024
Everything Is Tuberculosis

John Green, 2025

Botany Natural Sciences › Biology

Lab Girl

Hope Jahren, 2016
What a Plant Knows

Daniel Chamovitz, 2020
Planta Sapiens

Paco Calvo, 2023

Evolutionary Biology Natural Sciences › Biology

The Blind Watchmaker

Richard Dawkins, 1996
Your Inner Fish

Neil Shubin, 2008

Genetics Natural Sciences › Biology

Genome

Matt Ridley, 2013
The Gene

Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2016
The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins, 2016
She Has Her Mother's Laugh

Carl Zimmer, 2019

Microbiology Natural Sciences › Biology

Microcosm

Carl Zimmer, 2009
Missing Microbes

Martin J. Blaser, 2014
I Contain Multitudes

Ed Yong, 2016

Molecular & Cellular Biology Natural Sciences › Biology

The Eighth Day of Creation

Horace Freeland Judson, 1996
The Epigenetics Revolution

Nessa Carey, 2012
DNA

James D. Watson, Andrew Berry, Kevin Davies, 2017
The Tangled Tree

David Quammen, 2018

Neuroscience Natural Sciences › Biology

The Brain That Changes Itself

Norman Doidge, 2008
Incognito

David Eagleman, 2011
The Tell-tale Brain

V. S. Ramachandran, 2011

Systems & Ecology Natural Sciences › Biology

The Beak of the Finch

Jonathan Weiner, 1995
A Sand County Almanac

Aldo Leopold, 2001
Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Kimmerer, 2013
The Serengeti Rules

Sean B. Carroll, 2017

Zoology Natural Sciences › Biology

The Lives of a Cell

Lewis Thomas, 1978
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

Frans de Waal, 2016
The Soul of an Octopus

Sy Montgomery, 2016

Chemistry Natural Sciences

The Disappearing Spoon

Sam Kean, 2010
The Elements of Marie Curie

Dava Sobel, 2024

Analytical Chemistry Natural Sciences › Chemistry

The Alchemy of Air

Thomas Hager, 2008
Caesar's Last Breath

Sam Kean, 2017
The Chemical History of a Candle

Michael Faraday, 2020

Biochemistry Natural Sciences › Chemistry

The Billion-Dollar Molecule

Barry Werth, 1995
The Machinery of Life

David S. Goodsell, 2009
Power, Sex, Suicide

Nick Lane, 2018

Inorganic Chemistry Natural Sciences › Chemistry

The Periodic Table

Primo Levi, 1995
Periodic Tales

Hugh Aldersey-Williams, 2011
Elements

Theodore Gray, 2012
Stuff Matters

Mark Miodownik, 2014

Organic Chemistry Natural Sciences › Chemistry

Napoleon's Buttons

Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson, 2004
The Poisoner's Handbook

Deborah Blum, 2011
The Drug Hunters

Donald R. Kirsch, Ogi Ogas, 2016

Physical Chemistry Natural Sciences › Chemistry

Quantum Reality

Nick Herbert, 1987
Why Chemical Reactions Happen

James Keeler, Peter Wothers, 2003

Earth & Environmental Sciences Natural Sciences

The Control of Nature

John McPhee, 2011
The Sixth Extinction

Elizabeth Kolbert, 2014
Life on a Young Planet

Andrew H. Knoll, 2015
Earth System Science

Tim Lenton, 2016
The Ends of the World

Peter Brannen, 2017

Climatology Natural Sciences › Earth & Environmental Sciences

Global Warming Gridlock

David G. Victor, 2011
What We Know about Climate Change

Kerry A. Emanuel, 2012
The Climate Casino

William Nordhaus, 2013
Climate Shock

Gernot Wagner, Martin L. Weitzman, 2016
The Climate Book

Greta Thunberg, 2023

Environmental Science Natural Sciences › Earth & Environmental Sciences

The World Without Us

Alan Weisman, 2008
The Big Ratchet

Ruth DeFries, 2014
The End of Nature

Bill McKibben, 2014
Becoming Earth

Ferris Jabr, 2024

Geography Natural Sciences › Earth & Environmental Sciences

For Space

Doreen Massey, 2005
Maphead

Ken Jennings, 2011
Why Geography Matters

Harm de Blij, 2012

Global Information Systems & Cartography Natural Sciences › Earth & Environmental Sciences › Geography

The Power of Maps

Denis Wood, John Fels, 1992
The Mapmakers

John Noble Wilford, 2001
How to Lie with Maps

Mark Monmonier, 2018

Physical Geography Natural Sciences › Earth & Environmental Sciences › Geography

Earth's Climate

William F. Ruddiman, 2001
Earth

Richard Fortey, 2009
The Earth: An Intimate History (Text Only)

Richard Fortey, 2010

Geology Natural Sciences › Earth & Environmental Sciences

Basin and Range

John McPhee, 1981
The Story of Earth

Robert M. Hazen, 2012
The Rocks Don't Lie

David R Montgomery, 2013

Geophysics Natural Sciences › Earth & Environmental Sciences

Deep Down Things

Bruce A. Schumm, 2004
The Solid Earth

C. M. R. Fowler, 2005
Earthquake Storms

John Dvorak, 2021

Hydrology Natural Sciences › Earth & Environmental Sciences

Water 4.0

David Sedlak, 2014

Meteorology Natural Sciences › Earth & Environmental Sciences

The Weather Makers

Tim Fridtjof Flannery, 2006
Storm World

Chris Mooney, 2008

Oceanography Natural Sciences › Earth & Environmental Sciences

The Sea Around Us

Rachel Carson, Jeffrey S. Levinton, 1991
The World is Blue

Sylvia A. Earle, 2009
The Ocean of Life

Callum Roberts, 2012

Paleontology Natural Sciences › Earth & Environmental Sciences

Wonderful Life

Stephen Jay Gould, 2014
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

Steve Brusatte, 2018

Soil Science Natural Sciences › Earth & Environmental Sciences

Dirt

David R. Montgomery, 2007
Teaming with Microbes

Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis, 2014
The Soil Will Save Us

Kristin Ohlson, 2014

Engineering & Applied Sciences Natural Sciences

Engineering and the Mind's Eye

Eugene S. Ferguson, 1994
The Existential Pleasures of Engineering

Samuel C. Florman, 1996
How Big Things Get Done

Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner, 2023

Physics Natural Sciences

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Brian Greene, 2010
Six Easy Pieces

Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands, 2011
QED

Richard P. Feynman, 2014
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Carlo Rovelli, 2016
Reality Is Not What It Seems

Carlo Rovelli, 2017
The God Equation

Michio Kaku, 2021
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe

Sean Carroll, 2022

Classical Mechanics Natural Sciences › Physics

The Clockwork Universe

Edward Dolnick, 2011
The Character of Physical Law, with new foreword

Richard Feynman, 2017

Electromagnetism Natural Sciences › Physics

The Maxwellians

Bruce J. Hunt, 1994
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field

Nancy Forbes, Basil Mahon, 2014
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life

Helen Czerski, 2017

Nuclear Physics Natural Sciences › Physics

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes, 2012
Nuclear Physics: A Very Short Introduction

Frank Close, 2015

Optics Natural Sciences › Physics

Einstein's Mirror

Anthony J. G. Hey, Patrick Walters, 1997
The Age of Wonder

Richard Holmes, 2009

Quantum Mechanics Natural Sciences › Physics

What Is Real?

Adam Becker, 2019
Beyond Weird

Philip Ball, 2020

Relativity Natural Sciences › Physics

Why Does E=mc2?

Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw, 2009
Relativity

Albert Einstein, 2019

Thermodynamics Natural Sciences › Physics

From Eternity to Here

Sean Carroll, 2010
The Laws of Thermodynamics

Peter Atkins, 2010
Energy and Civilization

Vaclav Smil, 2017

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