All Books Read
Here is the list of most of the books I’ve read, mostly since mid-2010. Possibly incomplete. Doesn’t include technical books, partially read books, articles, etc.
- Captain Scott by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
- What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
- The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality by Dalai Lama
- Einstein’s Unfinished Symphony: Listening to the Sounds of Space-Time by Marcia Bartusiak
- A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia Nasar
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
- God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
- The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever by Christopher Hitchens
- Why I Am Not A Christian And Other Essays On Religion And Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell
- Religion and Science by Bertrand Russell
- The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
- Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
- Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don’t Know About T by Bart D. Ehrman
- The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare, Russell A. Fraser
- Oliver Twist – Original Unabridged Version by Charles Dickens
- Jane Eyre – Original Unabridged Version by Charlotte Brontë
- My Fair Lady: (Pygmalion) by George Bernard Shaw
- ABC’s of Quantum Mechanics by V. Rydnik
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
- Hearts In Atlantis by Stephen King
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen William Hawking
- Stupid White Men: …And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore
- A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition by Bill Bryson
- 9-11 by Noam Chomsky
- Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion by Feng-Hsiung Hsu
- Dude, Where’s My Country by Michael Moore
- Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
- My Life by Bill Clinton
- Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays by Stephen W. Hawking
- Twelfth Planet: Book I of the Earth Chronicles (The Earth Chronicles) by Zecharia Sitchin
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion by Robert Spencer
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
- The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time by Douglas Adams
- The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence M. Krauss
- Almost Everyone’s Guide to Science: The Universe, Life and Everything (Yale Nota Bene) by Dr. John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin
- The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
- Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan
- The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Edward Craig
- The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Dialogs Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
- Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track: The Letters Of Richard P. Feynman by Richard Phillips Feynman, Michelle Feynman
- The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense by Michael Shermer
- God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question–Why We Suffer by Bart D. Ehrman
- A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
- Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
- The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
- How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
- Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem by Simon Singh
- Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade
- The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
- History: A Very Short Introduction by John H. Arnold
- Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Telepor by Michio Kaku
- The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain
- Last Words: A Memoir by George Carlin
- How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
- Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) French language edition (French Edition) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Flynn
- How to Argue by Gerry Spence
- River Out Of Eden: A Darwinian View Of Life (Science Masters Series) by Richard Dawkins
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman (Helix Books) by Richard P. Feynman
- The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
- Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist’s Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature by Steven Weinberg
- Kinds Of Minds: Toward An Understanding Of Consciousness (Science Masters Series) by Daniel C. Dennett
- Richard Feynman: A Life in Science by John R. Gribbin, Mary Gribbin
- T.rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez
- The Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universe by Timothy Ferris
- The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins
- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
- Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne
- Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (P.S.) by Robert M. Pirsig
- The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
- Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
- Age Of Reason by Thomas Paine
- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
- The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
- Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
- Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Frans De Waal
- Evolution by Stephen Jay Gould
- Islam: A Very Short Introduction by Malise Ruthven
- Natural Selections: Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and Other Realities of Evolution by David P. Barash
- Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction by Mark Maslin
- The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind
- African History: A Very Short Introduction by John Parker, Richard Rathbone
- I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley
- Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All by David Fitzgerald
- God According to God: A Scientist Discovers We’ve Been Wrong About God All Along by Gerald Schroeder
- The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
- The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi: The Ten Greatest Math Puzzles of All Time by Marcel Danesi
- The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction by Robert J. McMahon
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear by Frank I. Luntz
- Moses and Monotheism by Sigmund Freud
- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?: 200 Curious Questions and Intriguing Answers by Andrew Thompson
- Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk by Massimo Pigliucci
- Freud: A Very Short Introduction by Anthony Storr
- Biblical Nonsense: A Review of the Bible for Doubting Christians by Jason Long
- The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica
- The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule by Michael Shermer
- Candide by Voltaire
- Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
- When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin
- Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction by Eleanor Nesbitt
- Hinduism : A Very Short Introduction by Kim Knott
- The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens
- The Apocryphal Gospels: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Foster
- The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy Lim
- Kepler’s Conjecture: How Some of the Greatest Minds in History Helped Solve One of the Oldest Math by George G. Szpiro
- Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
- Dialogues about God (New Dialogues in Philosophy) by Charles Taliaferro
- Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Nomad: From Islam to America by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
- Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape The Universe by Martin Rees
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Superstition of Divorce by G. K. Chesterton
- The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True by Richard Dawkins
- Forged: Writing in the Name of God — Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are by Bart D. Ehrman
- Memory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan K. Foster
- Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
- Forensic Science: A Very Short Introduction by Jim Fraser
- Forensic Psychology: A Very Short Introduction by David Canter
- The History of Life: A Very Short Introduction by Michael J. Benton
- The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction by Leofranc Holford-Strevens
- Myth: A Very Short Introduction by Robert A. Segal
- The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
- Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
- Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction by Ian Shaw
- Why I Am Not a Muslim by Ibn Warraq
- Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction by Harry Sidebottom
- The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report by Timothy Ferris
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- The Black Death: A Personal History (Abridged) by John Hatcher
- The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran by Robert Spencer
- The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass by Bill Maher
- The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World by Jacques Cousteau, Susan Schiefelbein
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
- Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall (War Memoirs Vol. 1) by Spike Milligan
- Superconductivity: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen J. Blundell
- Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life by Michael Moore
- The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by Gil Troy
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Character of Physical Law (Messenger Lectures, 1964) by Richard Feynman
- Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson
- Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life by Daniel C. Dennett
- A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
- An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming by Al Gore
- Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victor by Ben Macintyre
- The Quest of the Historical Jesus by Albert Schweitzer
- One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow
- Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo by Sean B. Carroll
- The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography by Stephen Fry
- The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson
- Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing by Philip C. Plait
- D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
- Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
- The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition by Richard Dawkins
- The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry
- Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben
- Druids: A Very Short Introduction by Barry Cunliffe
- Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Dick Winters, Cole C. Kingseed
- E=mc2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis
- The Voyage of the Beagle: Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countrie by Charles Darwin
- The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction by Terryl L. Givens
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Not the Impossible Faith by Richard Carrier
- Conservatives Without Conscience by John W. Dean
- My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
- The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
- Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction by Charles Townshend
- Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?: And Other Reflections on Being Human by Jesse Bering
- Socrates : A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Taylor
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli
- Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions about the World’s Fastest-Growing Faith by Robert Spencer
- Your Inner Fish: The Amazing Discovery of Our 375-Million-Year-Old Ancestor by Neil Shubin
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t by Nate Silver
- Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
- A History of Greece by Cyril Edward Robinson
- Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick Lane
- Long Walk to Freedom: With Connections by Nelson Mandela
- Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction by Malcolm Gaskill
- The New Testament as Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Kyle Keefer
- The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
- I, Partridge: We Need to Talk about Alan by Steve Coogan
- The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
- Natural Experiments of History by Jared Diamond and J. A. Robinson
- The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction by Jerry Brotton
- The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition by Charles Darwin
- North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction by Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green
- The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
- The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen
- 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True by Guy P. Harrison
- Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude by Robert Baer
- Every Day is an Atheist Holiday!: More Magical Tales from the Author of God, No! by Penn Jillette
- A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response by Peter Balakian
- Attack of the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All—and What We Can Do About It by Sean Faircloth
- Leadership: A Very Short Introduction by Keith Grint
- Autism: A Very Short Introduction by Uta Frith
- Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens by Christopher Hitchens
- The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture by Darrel Ray
- Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett
- How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too) by David Goldman
- The Language God Talks: On Science and Religion by Herman Wouk
- The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing by David Morley
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- Atheism: A Very Short Introduction by Julian Baggini
- Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
- A Man by Oriana fallaci
- Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
- The Trouble with Islam: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change by Irshad Manji
- After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam by Lesley Hazleton
- The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human by V. S. Ramachandran
- True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society by Farhad Manjoo
- The Republic by Plato
- The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction by Terry Eagleton
- The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Carroll
- Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
- Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction by David DeGrazia
- Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction by J. Allan Hobson
- The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil
- The Mind of the Market: How Biology and Psychology Shape Our Economic Lives by Michael Shermer
- Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness by A. C. Grayling
- Darwin’s Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution by Rebecca Stott
- The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future by Mark Bauerlein
- Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
- Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche’s Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony by Ben Macintyre
- Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic lllusion of an Islamic State by Tarek Fatah
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Egyptian Myth: A Very Short Introduction by Geraldine Pinch
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
- And Man Created God: A History of the World at the Time of Jesus by Selina O’Grady
- No Gods, No Guilt by Dr. Stephen Frederick Uhl
- A History of the Middle Ages by Crane Brinton, John Christopher, Robert Wolff
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible by Robert J. Hutchinson
- A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
- Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Mode by Lisa Randall
- How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil
- Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch
- The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup by Noam Wasserman
- The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond
- Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word by Toni Morrison
- The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning by Daniel Bor
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas by Robin Harvie, Stephanie Meyers
- The World Trade Organization: A Very Short Introduction by Amrita Narlikar
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
- A God Who Hates: The Courageous Woman Who Inflamed the Muslim World Speaks Out Against the Evils of by Wafa Sultan
- Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith by Richard Carrier
- A History of Rome by Cyril Edward Robinson
- Sexuality: A Very Short Introduction by Veronique Mottier
- What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
- Lucky Man: A Memoir by Michael J. Fox
- Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction by A. C. Grayling
- The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
- Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Frans de Waal
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
- The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life by A. C. Grayling
- The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone–Especially Ourselves by Dan Ariely
- The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead by David Shields
- The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
- Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
- Fables of the Ancients?: Folklore in the Qur’an by Alan Dundes
- The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed by Bart D. Ehrman
- Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett
- On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
- The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind’s Greatest Invention by Guy Deutscher
- The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp Through Civilization’s Best Bits by Erik Sass, Steve Wiegand, Editors of Mental Floss
- Getting Even by Woody Allen
- Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Inwood
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought by Pascal Boyer
- The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Themes in Islamic History) by Jonathan P. Berkey
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays by Marilynne Robinson
- How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough
- The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
- Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
- Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson
- Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
- I Don’t Believe in Atheists by Chris Hedges
- Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles by Ruchir Sharma
- A Manual for Creating Atheists by Peter Boghossian
- Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt
- Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception by Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, Susan Carnicero, Don Tennant
- Justinian’s Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire by William Rosen
- The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success by Kevin Dutton
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science- and Reality by Chris Mooney
- SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life In by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us by Duncan J. Watts
- God Bless America: Strange and Unusual Religious Beliefs and Practices in the United States by Karen Stollznow
- Proving History: Bayes’s Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus by Richard Carrier
- Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
- The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
- An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera
- The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest by Yochai Benkler
- How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
- Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow
- An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas by Stephen Jay Gould
- Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman, Rom Brafman
- What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis
- Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can’t Ignore by Jay Sekulow
- Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin
- The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke
- Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges
- Without Honour by Rob Tripp
- The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks
- The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymus & Andrew George
- 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
- Did Muhammad Exist?: An Inquiry into Islam’s Obscure Origins by Robert Spencer
- Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory by Edward J. Larson
- How We Die: Reflections of Life’s Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
- The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson
- The Story Of The Renaissance by William Henry Hudson
- Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society by David Sloan Wilson
- The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie
- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
- Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction by Rodolfo Saracci
- Connections by James Burke
- Full Circle: One Man’s Journey by Air, Train, Boat and Occasionally Very Sore Feet by Michael Palin
- Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is by Friedrich Nietzsche
- L’étranger by Albert Camus
- Waiting for Godot (Eng rev): A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
- Ethics: A Very Short Introduction by Simon Blackburn
- Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to by Ken Jennings
- The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson
- The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
- Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
- Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
- The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
- It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past by David Satter
- Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution Of Human Sexuality by Jared Diamond
- The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Jonathan Schneer
- Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
- Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation by Jennifer Michael Hecht
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
- The Rage and the Pride by Oriana Fallaci
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation by Bill Nye
- The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant
- Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible by Jerry A. Coyne
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
- Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian by Bernard Lewis
- Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris
- Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman by Michael Dobbs
- Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil by Paul Bloom
- A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich
- On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Atkins
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
- Economics by Unknown
- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
- The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe by Steven Novella
- The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World’s Greatest Philosophers by Will Durant
- Hitler by Unknown
- The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll
- God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist by Victor J. Stenger
- Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
- Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante Pääbo
- Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World by Tim Whitmarsh
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
- The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane
- Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction by Colin Ward
- Inequality by Unknown
- Emotion: A Very Short Introduction by Dylan Evans
- The Art Of War by Sun Tzu
- The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
- The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides by Aeschylus
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
- Egyptian Book of the Dead by Unknown
- Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction by Steven Grosby
- The Earth: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Redfern
- Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction by James Fulcher
- Communism: A Very Short Introduction by Leslie Holmes
- Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World by David Silverman
- Modern China: A Very Short Introduction by Rana Mitter
- How to Speak How to Listen by Mortimer J. Adler
- Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
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