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Oct 03, 2024
Fiction / Fantasy
Name: And the Mountains Echoed
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Goodreads Rating: 4.26
Year Published: 2013
Oct 11, 2023
Education
Name: Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life
Author: Jim Kwik
Goodreads Rating: 4.09
Year Published: 2020
Health / Miscellaneous
Name: Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power
Author: Lisa Mosconi
Goodreads Rating: 3.92
Year Published: 2018
Name: Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Forever
Author: Dave Asprey
Goodreads Rating: 3.86
Year Published: 2019
Sep 03, 2023
Autobiographies and Biographies
Name: A Sense of the World
Author: Jason Roberts
Goodreads Rating: 4.10
Year Published: 2005
Aug 29, 2023
Startups and Business
Name: The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime!
Author: M.J. DeMarco
Goodreads Rating: 4.28
Year Published: 2011
Name: Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Author: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
Goodreads Rating: 4.05
Year Published: 2002
Philosophy And Psychology
Name: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Author: Eric Jorgenson
Goodreads Rating: 4.64
Year Published: 2020
Name: The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Author: Ryan Holiday, Stephan Hanselman
Goodreads Rating: 4.34
Year Published: 2016
Name: The Magic of Thinking Big
Author: David J. Schwartz
Goodreads Rating: 4.23
Year Published: 1959
Name: The Way of the Monk
Author: Gaur Gopal Das
Goodreads Rating: 4.10
Year Published: 2020
Name: The Subtle Art Of Not Giving a F@ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Author: Mark Manson
Goodreads Rating: 3.91
Year Published: 2017
Name: The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth
Author: Robin Hanson
Goodreads Rating: 3.41
Year Published: 2016
Autobiographies and Biographies
Name: Man Without Fear
Author: Rajat Gupta
Goodreads Rating: 4.20
Year Published: 2019
History
Name: Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Author: Timothy Snyder
Goodreads Rating: 4.36
Year Published: 2010
Name: The Soul of a New Machine
Author: Tracy Kidder
Goodreads Rating: 4.12
Year Published: 1981
Logic and Problem Solving
Name: Thinking Forth: A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems
Author: Leo Brodie
Goodreads Rating: 3.96
Year Published: 1984
Politics
Name: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Author: Timothy Snyder
Goodreads Rating: 4.20
Year Published: 2017
Fiction / Fantasy
Name: The Stormlight Archive
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Goodreads Rating: 4.81
Year Published: 2007
Name: Of Fire and Stars Book
Author: Audrey Coulthurst
Goodreads Rating: 3.76
Year Published: 2016
Fiction / Mystery
Name: Angels & Demons
Author: Dan Brown
Goodreads Rating: 3.93
Year Published: 2000
Fiction / Science Fiction
Name: Project Hail Mary
Author: Andy Weir
Goodreads Rating: 4.52
Year Published: 2021
Name: Roadside Picnic
Author: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Goodreads Rating: 4.16
Year Published: 1972
Name: Contact
Author: Carl Sagan
Goodreads Rating: 4.14
Year Published: 1985
Fiction / Horror
Name: London (Surviving The Evacuation #1)
Author: Frank Tayell
Goodreads Rating: 3.86
Year Published: 2013
Health / Miscellaneous
Name: Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Author: James Nestor
Goodreads Rating: 4.15
Year Published: 2020
Design / Miscellaneous
Name: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
Author: Tim Brown
Goodreads Rating: 3.88
Year Published: 2009
Aug 28, 2023
History
Name: The UNIX-HATERS Handbook
Author: Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise, Steven Strassmann
Goodreads Rating: 3.78
Year Published: 1994
Mar 06, 2023
Startups and Business
Name: Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Author: Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
Goodreads Rating: 4.21
Year Published: 2014
Aug 07, 2022
Startups and Business
Name: Principles: Life and Work
Author: Ray Dalio
Goodreads Rating: 4.07
Year Published: 2017
Education
Name: The Little Prince
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Goodreads Rating: 4.31
Year Published: 1943
Jan 19, 2022
Fiction / Classics
Name: 1984
Author: George Orwell
Goodreads Rating: 4.17
Year Published: 1949
Name: The Giver
Author: Lois Lowry
Goodreads Rating: 4.13
Year Published: 1993
Fiction / Science Fiction
Name: Champion
Author: Marie Lu
Goodreads Rating: 4.32
Year Published: 2013
Name: 11/22/63
Author: Stephen King
Goodreads Rating: 4.31
Year Published: 2011
Name: Prodigy
Author: Marie Lu
Goodreads Rating: 4.24
Year Published: 2013
Health / Miscellaneous
Name: Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers
Author: David Perlmutter
Goodreads Rating: 3.89
Year Published: 2013
Aug 08, 2021
Philosophy And Psychology
Name: The Ascent of Humanity
Author: Charles Eisenstein
Goodreads Rating: 4.43
Year Published: 2007
Mar 18, 2021
Nature / Miscellaneous
Name: The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Author: David Wallace-Wells
Goodreads Rating: 4.06
Year Published: 2019
Feb 25, 2021
Startups and Business
Name: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Author: John Carreyrou
Goodreads Rating: 4.4
Year Published: 2018
Name: Never Split the Difference
Author: Chris Voss
Goodreads Rating: 4.39
Year Published: 2016
Dec 24, 2020
Education
Name: Educated: A Memoir
Author: Tara Westover
Goodreads Rating: 4.47
Year Published: 2018
Nov 05, 2020
Science and Medicine
Name: Asimov's New Guide to Science
Author: Isaac Asimov
Goodreads Rating: 4.36
Year Published: 1985
Name: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Author: Hans Rosling
Goodreads Rating: 4.36
Year Published: 2018
Fiction / Classics
Name: Slaughterhouse-Five
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Goodreads Rating: 4.08
Year Published: 1969
Nov 02, 2020
Race
Name: So You Want to Talk About Race
Author: Ijeoma Oluo
Goodreads Rating: 4.53
Year Published: 2018
Name: The Origin of Others
Author: Toni Morrison
Goodreads Rating: 4.22
Year Published: 2017
Oct 31, 2020
Startups and Business
Name: The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
Author: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
Goodreads Rating: 4.25
Year Published: 2020
Name: The Middle Finger Project
Author: Ash Ambirge
Goodreads Rating: 4.22
Year Published: 2020
History
Name: The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
Author: David Kahn
Goodreads Rating: 4.18
Year Published: 1996
Name: Blindness
Author: José Saramago
Goodreads Rating: 4.13
Year Published: 1995
Science and Medicine
Name: The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Author: Bill Bryson
Goodreads Rating: 4.31
Year Published: 2019
Nature / Miscellaneous
Name: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trai
Author: Bill Bryson
Goodreads Rating: 4.06
Year Published: 2006
Oct 30, 2020
Philosophy And Psychology
Name: Karma Yoga
Author: Swami Vivekanand
Goodreads Rating: 4.51
Year Published: 1999
Name: Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
Author: Joshua Greene
Goodreads Rating: 4.05
Year Published: 2013
Name: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Goodreads Rating: 4.05
Year Published: 1883
Science and Medicine
Name: The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Author: Sam Kean
Goodreads Rating: 3.91
Year Published: 2010
Nature / Miscellaneous
Name: The Wild Places
Author: Robert Macfarlane
Goodreads Rating: 4.27
Year Published: 2007
Oct 29, 2020
Fiction / Horror
Name: If it bleeds
Author: Stephen King
Goodreads Rating: 4.10
Year Published: 2020
Name: Rosemary's Baby
Author: Ira Levin
Goodreads Rating: 4.00
Year Published: 1967
Oct 28, 2020
Autobiographies and Biographies
Name: Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss
Author: Jenna Bush Hager
Goodreads Rating: 4.38
Year Published: 2020
Name: The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Author: Walter Isaacson
Goodreads Rating: 4.10
Year Published: 2014
Logic and Problem Solving
Name: Outnumbered: Exploring the Algorithms That Control Our Lives
Author: David Sumpter
Goodreads Rating: 3.99
Year Published: 2018
Economics
Name: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Author: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Goodreads Rating: 3.98
Year Published: 2006
Design / Miscellaneous
Name: Data visualization handbook
Author: Juuso Koponen, Jonatan Hildén
Goodreads Rating: 4.33
Year Published: 2019
Name: The Art of Looking Sideways
Author: Alan Fletcher
Goodreads Rating: 4.10
Year Published: 2001
Art / Miscellaneous
Name: The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Author: Betty Edwards
Goodreads Rating: 3.86
Year Published: 1989
Name: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Author: Austin Kleon
Goodreads Rating: 3.92
Year Published: 2012
Name: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Author: Austin Kleon
Goodreads Rating: 4.10
Year Published: 2014
Oct 27, 2020
Startups and Business
Name: AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Author: Kai-Fu Lee
Goodreads Rating: 4.16
Year Published: 2018
Name: Data Driven
Author: D.J. Patil
Goodreads Rating: 3.80
Year Published: 2015
Fiction / Historical Fiction
Name: Memoirs of a Geisha
Author: Arthur Golden
Goodreads Rating: 4.12
Year Published: 1997
Oct 26, 2020
Autobiographies and Biographies
Name: Madame Curie: A Biography
Author: Marie Curie
Goodreads Rating: 4.22
Year Published: 2001
Name: Autobiography of a Yogi
Author: Paramahansa Yogananda
Goodreads Rating: 4.21
Year Published: 1946
Science and Medicine
Name: Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Goodreads Rating: 3.94
Year Published: 1962
Name: Waters of the World: the story of the scientists who unravelled the mysteries of our seas, glaciers, and atmosphere and made the planet whole
Author: Sarah Dry
Goodreads Rating: 3.65
Year Published: 2019
Oct 25, 2020
Startups and Business
Name: Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Author: Phil Knight
Goodreads Rating: 4.46
Year Published: 2016
Name: The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Author: Robert Iger, Joel Lovell
Goodreads Rating: 4.44
Year Published: 2019
Name: Failing to Succeed: The Story of India's First E-Commerce Company
Author: K. Vaitheeswaran
Goodreads Rating: 4.39
Year Published: 2017
Name: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Author: Michael Lewis
Goodreads Rating: 4.26
Year Published: 2015
Philosophy And Psychology
Name: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Author: James Clear
Goodreads Rating: 4.32
Year Published: 2018
Name: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!
Author: Anthony Robbins
Goodreads Rating: 4.11
Year Published: 1991
Name: The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Author: David Deutsch
Goodreads Rating: 4.08
Year Published: 2011
Name: The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic
Author: Dan Ariely
Goodreads Rating: 4.00
Year Published: 2010
Name: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Author: Daniel H. Pink
Goodreads Rating: 3.95
Year Published: 2006
Name: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
Author: Rolf Potts
Goodreads Rating: 3.92
Year Published: 2002
Name: Prisoner's Dilemma
Author: William Poundstone
Goodreads Rating: 3.91
Year Published: 1993
Name: Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
Author: Geoffrey Miller
Goodreads Rating: 3.82
Year Published: 2009
Name: Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis
Author: Eric Berne.
Goodreads Rating: 3.81
Year Published: 1964
Name: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Author: Richard Bach
Goodreads Rating: 3.80
Year Published: 1970
Name: The Social Contract
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston
Goodreads Rating: 3.75
Year Published: 2009
Name: Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher
Author: Winifred Gallagher
Goodreads Rating: 3.54
Year Published: 2009
Name: Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You: Sam Gosling
Author: Sam Gosling
Goodreads Rating: 3.33
Year Published: 2001
Autobiographies and Biographies
Name: My Life and My Work
Author: Henry Ford
Goodreads Rating: 4.29
Year Published: 1922
Name: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Author: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
Goodreads Rating: 4.29
Year Published: 1965
History
Name: Discovery of India
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
Goodreads Rating: 3.98
Year Published: 1946
Name: The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Author: Steven Johnson
Goodreads Rating: 3.91
Year Published: 2006
Name: Spycraft
Author: Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, Henry R. Schlesinger
Goodreads Rating: 3.81
Year Published: 1987
Science and Medicine
Name: The Gene: An Intimate History
Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Goodreads Rating: 4.35
Year Published: 2016
Name: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Author: Bill Bryson
Goodreads Rating: 4.19
Year Published: 2003
Name: The Selfish Gene
Author: Richard Dawkins
Goodreads Rating: 4.11
Year Published: 1976
Name: Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Author: Daniel C. Dennett
Goodreads Rating: 4.03
Year Published: 1995
Name: The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
Author: Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending
Goodreads Rating: 3.91
Year Published: 2009
Name: The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
Author: Murray Gell-Mann
Goodreads Rating: 3.81
Year Published: 1994
Logic and Problem Solving
Name: How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
Author: George Polya
Goodreads Rating: 4.16
Year Published: 2015
Name: Guide to Competitive Programming: Learning and Improving Algorithms Through Contests
Author: Antti Laaksonen
Goodreads Rating: 4.15
Year Published: 2016
Politics
Name: Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict
Author: Michael Klare
Goodreads Rating: 3.73
Year Published: 2001
Economics
Name: 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Author: Ha-Joon Chang
Goodreads Rating: 3.97
Year Published: 2010
Name: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't
Author: Nate Silver
Goodreads Rating: 3.96
Year Published: 2012
Name: The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Author: Niall Ferguson
Goodreads Rating: 3.88
Year Published: 2008
Name: Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart
Author: Ian Ayres
Goodreads Rating: 3.70
Year Published: 2007
Gender
Name: Cemetary Boys
Author: Aiden Thomas
Goodreads Rating: 4.48
Year Published: 2020
Name: Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Author: Andrea Lawlor
Goodreads Rating: 4.00
Year Published: 2017
Name: Becoming A Man
Author: P. Carl
Goodreads Rating: 3.95
Year Published: 2020
Sexuality
Name: The Sex Myth
Author: Brooke Magnanti
Goodreads Rating: 3.50
Year Published: 2015
Education
Name: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Author: Cal Newport
Goodreads Rating: 4.20
Year Published: 2016
Writing
Name: Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics
Author: Stephen Sondheim
Goodreads Rating: 4.77
Year Published:
Fiction / Classics
Name: The Death of Ivan Ilych
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Goodreads Rating: 4.04
Year Published: 1886
Name: Siddhartha
Author: Hermann Hesse
Goodreads Rating: 4.03
Year Published: 1922
Name: Love in the Time of Cholera
Author: Gabriel García Marquéz
Goodreads Rating: 3.9
Year Published: 1985
Fiction / Fantasy
Name: The Last Wish
Author: Andrzej Sapkowski
Goodreads Rating: 4.2
Year Published: 1993
Fiction / Historical Fiction
Name: All the Light We Cannot See
Author: Anthony Doerr
Goodreads Rating: 4.31
Year Published: 2014
Name: The Kite Runner
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Goodreads Rating: 4.3
Year Published: 2003
Fiction / Mystery
Name: And Then There Were None
Author: Agatha Christie
Goodreads Rating: 4.26
Year Published: 1939
Name: The Eight
Author: Katherine Neville
Goodreads Rating: 4.17
Year Published:
Name: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Author: Stieg Larsson
Goodreads Rating: 4.14
Year Published: 2005
Name: Memory Man
Author: David Baldacci
Goodreads Rating: 4.05
Year Published: 2015
Name: The Turn of the Key
Author: Ruth Ware
Goodreads Rating: 3.94
Year Published: 2019
Fiction / Science Fiction
Name: Brave New World
Author: Aldous Huxley
Goodreads Rating: 3.99
Year Published: 1932
Health / Miscellaneous
Name: Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength (2nd edition)
Author: Steven Low
Goodreads Rating: 4.3
Year Published: 2016
Nature / Miscellaneous
Name: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Author: Elizabeth Kolbert
Goodreads Rating: 4.13
Year Published: 2014
Oct 22, 2020
Philosophy And Psychology
Name: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Author: Eckhart Tolle
Goodreads Rating: 4.11
Year Published: 1997
Name: Tuesdays with Morrie
Author: Mitch Albom
Goodreads Rating: 4.11
Year Published: 1997
Oct 21, 2020
Startups and Business
Name: Nail it then Scale it: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough
Author: Nathan Furr
Goodreads Rating: 4.13
Year Published: 2011
Fiction / Classics
Name: The Master and Margarita
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov
Goodreads Rating: 4.32
Year Published: 1966
Name: Infinite Jest
Author: David Foster Wallace
Goodreads Rating: 4.31
Year Published: 1996
Name: The Brothers Karamazov
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
Goodreads Rating: 4.30
Year Published: 1880
Name: Pride And Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Goodreads Rating: 4.24
Year Published: 1813
Name: A Prayer for Owen Meany
Author: John Irving
Goodreads Rating: 4.22
Year Published: 1989
Name: Letters From The Earth
Author: Mark Twain
Goodreads Rating: 4.22
Year Published: 1962
Name: Crime and Punishment
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Goodreads Rating: 4.18
Year Published: 1866
Name: Steppenwolf: A Novel
Author: Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton
Goodreads Rating: 4.11
Year Published: 1927
Name: The Glass Bead Game
Author: Hermann Hesse, Richard and Clara Winston
Goodreads Rating: 4.11
Year Published: 1943
Name: War and Peace
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Goodreads Rating: 4.11
Year Published: 1867
Name: Germinal
Author: Emile Zola
Goodreads Rating: 4.10
Year Published: 1885
Name: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Author: Italo Calvino and William Weaver
Goodreads Rating: 4.08
Year Published: 1979
Name: The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander
Goodreads Rating: 4.07
Year Published: 1948
Name: Sense and Sensibility
Author: Jane Austen
Goodreads Rating: 4.06
Year Published: 1811
Name: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Oscar Wilde
Goodreads Rating: 4.06
Year Published: 1890
Name: Watership Down: A Novel
Author: Richard Adams
Goodreads Rating: 4.05
Year Published: 1972
Name: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa
Goodreads Rating: 4.04
Year Published: 1967
Name: Anna Karenina
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Goodreads Rating: 4.02
Year Published: 1878
Name: Bleak House
Author: Charles Dickens
Goodreads Rating: 4.00
Year Published: 1853
Name: J'accuse
Author: Emile Zola
Goodreads Rating: 3.99
Year Published: 1898
Name: Catch 22
Author: Joseph Heller
Goodreads Rating: 3.98
Year Published: 1961
Name: The House of Mirth
Author: Edith Wharton
Goodreads Rating: 3.94
Year Published: 1905
Name: Confessions of a Mask
Author: Yukio Mishima
Goodreads Rating: 3.91
Year Published: 1949
Name: De L'esprit Des Lois
Author: Montesquieu
Goodreads Rating: 3.91
Year Published: 1748
Name: Don Quixote
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Goodreads Rating: 3.85
Year Published: 1605
Name: Mansfield Park
Author: Jane Austen
Goodreads Rating: 3.84
Year Published: 1814
Name: Wuthering Heights
Author: Emily Bronte
Goodreads Rating: 3.82
Year Published: 1847
Name: Père Goriot
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Goodreads Rating: 3.82
Year Published: 1834
Name: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Mark Twain
Goodreads Rating: 3.80
Year Published: 1884
Name: The Catcher in the Rye
Author: J.D. Salinger
Goodreads Rating: 3.79
Year Published: 1951
Name: Eugénie Grandet
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Goodreads Rating: 3.79
Year Published: 1833
Name: Candide
Author: Voltaire
Goodreads Rating: 3.76
Year Published: 1759
Name: Madame Bovary
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Goodreads Rating: 3.65
Year Published: 1856
Name: Confessions
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Goodreads Rating: 3.61
Year Published: 1782
Name: Lettres persanes
Author: Montesquieu
Goodreads Rating: 3.54
Year Published: 1721
Fiction / Fantasy
Name: The Dark Tower
Author: Stephen King
Goodreads Rating: 4.27
Year Published: 1982
Name: His Dark Materials
Author: Philip Pullman
Goodreads Rating: 4.25
Year Published: 1995
Fiction / Historical Fiction
Name: Lonesome Dove
Author: Larry McMurtry
Goodreads Rating: 4.47
Year Published: 1985
Name: The Pillars of the Earth
Author: Ken Follett
Goodreads Rating: 4.29
Year Published: 1989
Name: Kane and Abel
Author: Jeffrey Archer
Goodreads Rating: 4.27
Year Published: 1979
Name: Emma
Author: Jane Austen
Goodreads Rating: 3.99
Year Published: 1815
Name: Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
Author: Jostein Gaarder and Paulette Moller
Goodreads Rating: 3.88
Year Published: 1991
Fiction / Science Fiction
Name: The Time Machine
Author: H.G Wells
Goodreads Rating: 3.89
Year Published: 1895
Oct 20, 2020
Startups and Business
Name: How Google Works
Author: Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg
Goodreads Rating: 4.06
Year Published: 2014
Writing
Name: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Author: Stephen King
Goodreads Rating: 4.31
Year Published: 2002
Name: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Author: Anne Lamott
Goodreads Rating: 4.23
Year Published: 1995
Fiction / Historical Fiction
Name: The Help
Author: Kathryn Stockett
Goodreads Rating: 4.45
Year Published: 2009
Name: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Goodreads Rating: 4.4
Year Published: 2007
Name: The Book Thief
Author: Markus Zusak
Goodreads Rating: 4.36
Year Published: 2005
Name: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Goodreads Rating: 4
Year Published: 1962
Oct 19, 2020
Economics
Name: The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life
Author: J.L. Collins
Goodreads Rating: 4.47
Year Published: 2016
Oct 18, 2020
Autobiographies and Biographies
Name: Becoming
Author: Michelle Obama
Goodreads Rating: 4.53
Year Published: 2018
Oct 17, 2020
Philosophy And Psychology
Name: The Slight Edge - Secret to a Successful Life
Author: Jeff Olson
Goodreads Rating: 4.39
Year Published: 2005
Oct 15, 2020
Science and Medicine
Name: Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
Author: Matt Parker
Goodreads Rating: 4.19
Year Published: 2014
Logic and Problem Solving
Name: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Author: Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner
Goodreads Rating: 4.10
Year Published: 2015
Name: Problem Solving 101: A Simple Book
Author: Ken Watanabe
Goodreads Rating: 4.10
Year Published: 2009
Nature / Miscellaneous
Name: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Author: Annie Dillard
Goodreads Rating: 4.11
Year Published: 1974
Oct 14, 2020
Philosophy And Psychology
Name: Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions
Author: Robert H. Frank
Goodreads Rating: 4.34
Year Published: 1989
Name: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
Author: Gavin de Becker
Goodreads Rating: 4.18
Year Published: 2000
Name: The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
Author: Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson
Goodreads Rating: 4.05
Year Published: 2017
Autobiographies and Biographies
Name: My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
Author: Nikola Tesla
Goodreads Rating: 3.96
Year Published: 2006
Language / Miscellaneous
Name: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Author: Steven Pinker
Goodreads Rating: 4.02
Year Published: 2000
Oct 09, 2020
Fiction / Horror
Name: It
Author: Stephen King
Goodreads Rating: 4.24
Year Published: 1986
Sep 19, 2020
Philosophy And Psychology
Name: Utilitarianism
Author: Geoffrey Scarre
Goodreads Rating: 3.50
Year Published: 1996
Sep 17, 2020
Fiction / Science Fiction
Name: Dune Chronicles
Author: Frank Herbert
Goodreads Rating: 4.19
Year Published: 2006
Name: The Forever War
Author: Joe Haldemann
Goodreads Rating: 4.15
Year Published: 1974
Sep 16, 2020
Design / Miscellaneous
Name: Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design
Author: Kat Holmes, John Maeda
Goodreads Rating: 4.14
Year Published: 2018
Feb 24, 2020
Philosophy And Psychology
Name: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
Author: William Barrett
Goodreads Rating: 4.09
Year Published:
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Author: Derren Brown
Goodreads Rating: 4.08
Year Published: 2016
Jan 27, 2020
Fiction / Fantasy
Name: The Wheel of Time
Author: Robert Jordan
Goodreads Rating: 4.19
Year Published: 1990
Name: The City & The City
Author: China Mieville
Goodreads Rating: 3.91
Year Published: 2009
Name: The Broken Empire
Author: Mark Lawrence
Goodreads Rating: 3.87
Year Published: 2011
Jan 24, 2020
Science and Medicine
Name: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Author: Robert M. Sapolsky
Goodreads Rating: 4.42
Year Published: 2017
Dec 20, 2019
Autobiographies and Biographies
Name: Long Walk to Freedom
Author: Nelson Mandela
Goodreads Rating: 4.31
Year Published: 1995
Name: The Third Door:The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers
Author: Alex banayan
Goodreads Rating: 4.28
Year Published: 2018
Nov 03, 2019
History
Name: Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Goodreads Rating: 4.27
Year Published: 2017
Oct 18, 2019
Philosophy And Psychology
Name: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Author: Richard Bach
Goodreads Rating: 4.15
Year Published: 1977
Oct 13, 2019
History
Name: How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
Author: Brian McCullough
Goodreads Rating: 4.36
Year Published: 2018
Oct 09, 2019
Science and Medicine
Name: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Author: Oliver Sacks
Goodreads Rating: 4.05
Year Published: 1998
Logic and Problem Solving
Name: Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected
Author: Clifford A. Pickover
Goodreads Rating: 4.05
Year Published: 1992
Politics
Name: The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
Author: Kevin D. Mitnick
Goodreads Rating: 3.76
Year Published: 2003
Apr 10, 2019
Fiction / Science Fiction
Name: The Martian
Author: Andy Weir
Goodreads Rating: 4.40
Year Published: 2012
Name: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Author: Douglas Adams
Goodreads Rating: 4.38
Year Published: 1979
Mar 23, 2019
Fiction / Classics
Name: Atlas Shrugged
Author: Ayn Rand
Goodreads Rating: 3.68
Year Published: 1957
Mar 22, 2019
Startups and Business
Name: Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success
Author: Napoleon Hill
Goodreads Rating: 4.38
Year Published: 2011
Name: Think and Grow Rich
Author: Napoleon Hill
Goodreads Rating: 4.17
Year Published: 1937
Autobiographies and Biographies
Name: Einstein: His Life and Universe
Author: Walter Isaacson
Goodreads Rating: 4.09
Year Published: 2007
Jan 29, 2019
Science and Medicine
Name: Origins of Form: The Shape of Natural and Man-Made Things
Author: Christopher Williams
Goodreads Rating: 4.31
Year Published: 2013
Politics
Name: Bolo'bolo
Author: P.M.
Goodreads Rating: 4.05
Year Published: 1984
Fiction / Fantasy
Name: The Lord of the Rings
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Goodreads Rating: 4.47
Year Published: 1954
Fiction / Science Fiction
Name: Cosmicomics
Author: Italo Calvino
Goodreads Rating: 4.2
Year Published: 1965
Jan 28, 2019
Autobiographies and Biographies
Name: The Man Who Knew Infinity : A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Author: Robert Kanigel
Goodreads Rating: 4.15
Year Published: 1991
Name: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Author: Rebecca Skloot
Goodreads Rating: 4.05
Year Published: 2010
Science and Medicine
Name: Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
Author: David Sloan Wilson
Goodreads Rating: 3.90
Year Published: 2007
Name: Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
Author: J. Craig Venter
Goodreads Rating: 3.87
Year Published: 2013
Language / Miscellaneous
Name: Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Goodreads Rating: 4.22
Year Published: 1997
Jan 24, 2019
Design / Miscellaneous
Name: How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
Author: Stewart Brand
Goodreads Rating: 4.32
Year Published: 1995
Dec 04, 2018
Science and Medicine
Name: How to Find a Habitable Planet
Author: James Kasting
Goodreads Rating: 3.93
Year Published: 2010
Fiction / Classics
Name: Jane Eyre
Author: Charlotte Brontë
Goodreads Rating: 4.10
Year Published: 1847
Jun 12, 2018
History
Name: Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
Author: Ian Morris
Goodreads Rating: 4.09
Year Published: 2010
Mar 26, 2018
Fiction / Fantasy
Name: Mistborn
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Goodreads Rating: 4.43
Year Published: 2006
Mar 12, 2018
Startups and Business
Name: Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups Early Days
Author: Jessica Livingston
Goodreads Rating: 3.94
Year Published: 2007
Name: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable
Author: Seth Godin
Goodreads Rating: 3.87
Year Published: 2010
Name: Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business
Author: Jeff Howe
Goodreads Rating: 3.82
Year Published: 2008
Name: Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
Author: Clay Shirky
Goodreads Rating: 3.82
Year Published: 2010
Name: Zero to One
Author: Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
Goodreads Rating: 3.75
Year Published: 2014
Name: One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com
Author: Richard Brandt
Goodreads Rating: 3.75
Year Published: 2011
Philosophy And Psychology
Name: The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
Author: Eric Kandel
Goodreads Rating: 4.22
Year Published: 2012
Name: Meditations
Author: Marcus Aurelius
Goodreads Rating: 4.21
Year Published:
Name: Gifts of Imperfection
Author: Brene Brown
Goodreads Rating: 4.18
Year Published:
Feb 19, 2018
Health / Miscellaneous
Name: How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
Author: Michael Greger, M.D.
Goodreads Rating: 4.54
Year Published: 2015
Jan 14, 2018
Science and Medicine
Name: The Brain: The Story of You
Author: David Eagleman
Goodreads Rating: 4.20
Year Published: 2015
Education
Name: Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Author: Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel
Goodreads Rating: 4.20
Year Published: 2014
Nov 01, 2017
Politics
Name: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Author: Michelle Alexander
Goodreads Rating: 4.49
Year Published: 2010
Gender
Name: Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Author: Cordelia Fine
Goodreads Rating: 4.15
Year Published: 2010
Oct 29, 2017
Startups and Business
Name: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Author: Simon Sinek
Goodreads Rating: 4.07
Year Published: 2009
Fiction / Classics
Name: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
Goodreads Rating: 3.76
Year Published: 1974
Travel / Miscellaneous
Name: Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
Author: Joshua Foer
Goodreads Rating: 4.24
Year Published: 2016
Oct 21, 2017
Startups and Business
Name: The Compound Effect
Author: Darren Hardy
Goodreads Rating: 4.40
Year Published: 2010
Name: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25 Principles of Success
Author: Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer
Goodreads Rating: 4.26
Year Published: 2007
Name: Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
Author: John Wood
Goodreads Rating: 4.07
Year Published: 2006
Name: Where Good Ideas Come From
Author: Steven Johnson
Goodreads Rating: 4.03
Year Published: 2010
Name: The Innovator's Dilemma
Author: clayton m. christensen
Goodreads Rating: 4.00
Year Published: 1997
Name: Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change
Author: Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson
Goodreads Rating: 3.98
Year Published: 2007
Name: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Author: David Allen
Goodreads Rating: 3.98
Year Published: 2001
Name: Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
Author: Richard Branson
Goodreads Rating: 3.97
Year Published: 1998
Name: Rich Dad Poor Dad : What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That The Poor And Middle Class Don't
Author: Robert T. Kiyosaki
Goodreads Rating: 3.95
Year Published: 1997
Oct 13, 2017
Philosophy And Psychology
Name: Prometheus Rising
Author: Robert Anton Wilson
Goodreads Rating: 4.26
Year Published: 2010
Name: Mindset: The new psychology of success
Author: Carol S. Dweck,Ph.D.
Goodreads Rating: 4.04
Year Published: 2006
Name: Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence
Author: David Perkins
Goodreads Rating: 4.00
Year Published: 1995
Politics
Name: Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Author: Arlie Russell Hochschild
Goodreads Rating: 4.15
Year Published: 2016
Fiction / Classics
Name: The Director
Author: David Ignatius
Goodreads Rating: 3.43
Year Published: 2015
Fiction / Science Fiction
Name: Ready Player One
Author: Ernest Cline
Goodreads Rating: 4.31
Year Published: 2011
Name: The Fifth Sacred Thing
Author: Starhawk
Goodreads Rating: 4.25
Year Published: 1994
Name: Hyperion
Author: Dan Simmons
Goodreads Rating: 4.21
Year Published: 1989
Name: Little Brother
Author: Cory Doctorow
Goodreads Rating: 3.94
Year Published: 2008
Oct 09, 2017
Science and Medicine
Name: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Goodreads Rating: 4.30
Year Published: 1979
Oct 06, 2017
Startups and Business
Name: The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
Author: Timothy Ferriss
Goodreads Rating: 3.61
Year Published: 2012
Philosophy And Psychology
Name: Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
Author: Ron P. Baumeister, John Tierney
Goodreads Rating: 3.95
Year Published: 2011
Oct 03, 2017
Startups and Business
Name: High Output Management
Author: Andy Grove
Goodreads Rating: 4.38
Year Published: 1995
Name: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
Author: Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
Goodreads Rating: 4.21
Year Published: 2009
Name: The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Author: Ben Horowitz
Goodreads Rating: 4.20
Year Published: 2014
Name: Outliers: Story of Success
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Goodreads Rating: 4.11
Year Published: 2008
Name: The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable
Author: Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale
Goodreads Rating: 4.09
Year Published: 2005
Name: Hackers and Painters
Author: Paul Graham
Goodreads Rating: 4.06
Year Published: 2004
Name: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't
Author: Jim Collins
Goodreads Rating: 4.05
Year Published: 2001
Name: The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses
Author: Eric Ries
Goodreads Rating: 4.04
Year Published: 2011
Name: The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
Author: Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
Goodreads Rating: 4.03
Year Published: 2005
Name: The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right
Author: Atul Gawande
Goodreads Rating: 4.03
Year Published: 2009
Name: Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Author: Tony Hsieh
Goodreads Rating: 4.01
Year Published: 2010
Name: The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Author: Michael E. Gerber
Goodreads Rating: 3.98
Year Published: 1995
Name: SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Author: Steven D. Litt
Goodreads Rating: 3.96
Year Published: 2009
Name: The Ten Faces of Innovation
Author: Tom Kelley
Goodreads Rating: 3.96
Year Published: 2005
Name: The Paypal Wars
Author: Eric M. Jackson
Goodreads Rating: 3.94
Year Published: 2010
Name: Lean In : Women, Work and the Will to Lead
Author: Sheryl Sandberg
Goodreads Rating: 3.94
Year Published: 2013
Name: ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever
Author: David Heinemeier Hansson
Goodreads Rating: 3.93
Year Published: 2010
Name: The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding
Author: Laura Ries and Al Ries
Goodreads Rating: 3.93
Year Published: 1998
Name: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Author: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Goodreads Rating: 3.93
Year Published: 2006
Name: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Goodreads Rating: 3.92
Year Published: 2002
Name: The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Author: Steve Blank
Goodreads Rating: 3.92
Year Published: 2005
Name: The Curse of the Mogul
Author: Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave
Goodreads Rating: 3.91
Year Published: 2009
Name: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Goodreads Rating: 3.90
Year Published: 2013
Name: Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto
Author: Adam Werbach
Goodreads Rating: 3.89
Year Published: 2009
Name: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Goodreads Rating: 3.88
Year Published: 2007
Name: Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Author: Jonah Berger
Goodreads Rating: 3.88
Year Published: 2013
Name: Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change
Author: Louis V Gerstner, Jr
Goodreads Rating: 3.88
Year Published: 2003
Name: The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
Author: Chris Guillebeau
Goodreads Rating: 3.85
Year Published: 2012
Name: Too Big to Fail
Author: Andrew Ross Sorkin
Goodreads Rating: 3.85
Year Published: 2011
Name: The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
Author: Barry Shwartz
Goodreads Rating: 3.84
Year Published: 2005
Name: The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
Author: Guy Kawasaki
Goodreads Rating: 3.82
Year Published: 2004
Name: Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
Author: Kenneth Cukier
Goodreads Rating: 3.70
Year Published: 2013
Name: The Accidental Billionaires : The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
Author: Ben Mezrich
Goodreads Rating: 3.50
Year Published: 2009
Philosophy And Psychology
Name: Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Author: Gregory Boyle
Goodreads Rating: 4.41
Year Published: 2010
Name: Education and the Significance of Life
Author: Krishnamurti
Goodreads Rating: 4.38
Year Published: 2008
Name: Man's Search for Meaning
Author: Viktor E. Frankl
Goodreads Rating: 4.33
Year Published: 2006
Name: The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
Author: Tor Norretranders
Goodreads Rating: 4.30
Year Published: 1999
Name: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Author: Christopher McDougall
Goodreads Rating: 4.27
Year Published: 2009
Name: The Concise 48 Laws of Power
Author: Robert Greene
Goodreads Rating: 4.25
Year Published: 2011
Name: The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Author: Joseph Campbell
Goodreads Rating: 4.24
Year Published: 1972
Name: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Author: Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick
Goodreads Rating: 4.23
Year Published:
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Author: Robert B. Cialdini
Goodreads Rating: 4.18
Year Published: 2006
Name: Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern
Author: Douglas Hofstadter
Goodreads Rating: 4.16
Year Published: 1996
Name: The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations
Author: Matthew Stewart
Goodreads Rating: 4.15
Year Published: 1997
Name: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Author: Dale Carnegie
Goodreads Rating: 4.14
Year Published: 1998
Name: Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life
Author: Shakti Gawain
Goodreads Rating: 4.13
Year Published: 2002
Name: Bulfinch's Mythology
Author: Thomas Bulfinch
Goodreads Rating: 4.13
Year Published: 1998
Name: Ego Is the Enemy
Author: Ryan Holiday
Goodreads Rating: 4.12
Year Published: 2016
Name: Predictably Irrational
Author: Dan Ariely
Goodreads Rating: 4.10
Year Published: 2008
Name: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Goodreads Rating: 4.10
Year Published: 1990
Name: Thinking, Fast and Slow
Author: Daniel Kahneman
Goodreads Rating: 4.09
Year Published: 2011
Name: Metaphors We Live By
Author: George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
Goodreads Rating: 4.08
Year Published: 2003
Name: Grit
Author: Angela Duckworth
Goodreads Rating: 4.08
Year Published: 2016
Name: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Author: Michael Pollan
Goodreads Rating: 4.07
Year Published: 2008
Name: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Author: Steven Pinker
Goodreads Rating: 4.07
Year Published: 2003
Name: The History of Western Philosophy
Author: Bertrand Russell
Goodreads Rating: 4.06
Year Published: 2008
Name: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Author: Susan Cain
Goodreads Rating: 4.04
Year Published: 2012
Name: The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
Author: Michio Kaku
Goodreads Rating: 4.04
Year Published: 2014
Name: Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized
Author: James Ladyman, Don Ross, et al
Goodreads Rating: 4.04
Year Published: 2007
Name: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Goodreads Rating: 4.04
Year Published: 2012
Name: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business
Author: Charles Duhigg
Goodreads Rating: 4.03
Year Published: 2012
Name: The Art of War
Author: Sun Tzu
Goodreads Rating: 3.95
Year Published: 2005
Name: Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities
Author: Dean Radin
Goodreads Rating: 3.91
Year Published: 2013
Name: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Author: Steven Pinker
Goodreads Rating: 3.90
Year Published: 2007
Name: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Author: Edward O. Wilson
Goodreads Rating: 3.90
Year Published: 1999
Name: Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average
Author: Joseph T. Hallinan
Goodreads Rating: 3.87
Year Published: 2009
Name: You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
Author: Deborah Tannen
Goodreads Rating: 3.86
Year Published: 2007
Name: Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy
Author: Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone
Goodreads Rating: 3.85
Year Published: 2011
Name: What the Dog Saw: and other adventures
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Goodreads Rating: 3.82
Year Published: 2009
Name: This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
Author: John Brockman
Goodreads Rating: 3.81
Year Published: 2012
Name: Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
Author: Daniel C. Dennett
Goodreads Rating: 3.80
Year Published: 2014
Name: Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
Author: Jim Holt
Goodreads Rating: 3.77
Year Published: 2012
Name: The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas
Author: Michael S. Gazzaniga
Goodreads Rating: 3.70
Year Published: 2006
Name: Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid
Author: Robert J Sternberg
Goodreads Rating: 3.68
Year Published: 2003
Name: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Others
Author: Sherry Turkle
Goodreads Rating: 3.62
Year Published: 2011
Name: How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic
Author: Madsen Pirie
Goodreads Rating: 3.55
Year Published: 2006
Name: The Fine Art of Small Talk: How To Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills -- and Leave a Positive Impression
Author: Debra Fine
Goodreads Rating: 3.36
Year Published: 2005
Autobiographies and Biographies
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Author: Laura Hillenbrand
Goodreads Rating: 4.39
Year Published: 2010
Name: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Author: Richard Feynman
Goodreads Rating: 4.29
Year Published: 1997
Name: Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
Author: Ashlee Vance
Goodreads Rating: 4.25
Year Published: 2015
Name: The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
Goodreads Rating: 4.25
Year Published: 2008
Name: Freedom in Exile
Author: Dalai Lama XIV
Goodreads Rating: 4.24
Year Published: 1991
Name: Wings of Fire
Author: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Goodreads Rating: 4.20
Year Published: 2011
Name: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Author: Chris Hadfield
Goodreads Rating: 4.14
Year Published: 2013
Name: The Diary of a Young Girl
Author: Anne Frank
Goodreads Rating: 4.10
Year Published: 1993
Name: Steve Jobs
Author: Walter Issacson
Goodreads Rating: 4.09
Year Published: 2011
Name: My Experiments with Truth
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Goodreads Rating: 4.07
Year Published: 1993
Name: The Story of My Life
Author: Helen Keller
Goodreads Rating: 4.07
Year Published: 1990
Name: Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography
Author: Richard Branson
Goodreads Rating: 3.97
Year Published: 1999
Name: Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
Author: Kevin Mitnick
Goodreads Rating: 3.95
Year Published: 2011
Name: An Autobiography: Toward Freedom
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
Goodreads Rating: 3.85
Year Published: 1989
Name: iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
Author: Steve Wozniak
Goodreads Rating: 3.82
Year Published: 2007
History
Name: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Goodreads Rating: 4.42
Year Published: 2014
Name: The Discoverers
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
Goodreads Rating: 4.34
Year Published: 2012
Name: One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
Author: Michael Dobbs
Goodreads Rating: 4.20
Year Published: 2008
Name: From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present
Author: Jacques Barzun
Goodreads Rating: 4.12
Year Published: 2001
Name: The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
Author: Robert Jay Lifton
Goodreads Rating: 4.07
Year Published: 1986
Name: God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History
Author: Stephen Hawking
Goodreads Rating: 4.06
Year Published:
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Author: Madhusree Mukerjee
Goodreads Rating: 4.05
Year Published: 2010
Name: El Tiempo Entre Costuras
Author: María Dueñas
Goodreads Rating: 4.04
Year Published: 2009
Name: Guns, Germs, And Steel : The Fates Of Human Societies
Author: Jared M. Diamond
Goodreads Rating: 4.00
Year Published: 2005
Name: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)
Author: Matt Ridley
Goodreads Rating: 3.98
Year Published: 2010
Name: Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Author: Kevin Poulson
Goodreads Rating: 3.96
Year Published: 2011
Name: The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
Author: Lawrence James
Goodreads Rating: 3.89
Year Published: 1997
Name: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Author: Tim Wu
Goodreads Rating: 3.89
Year Published: 2010
Name: Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson
Author: Niall Ferguson
Goodreads Rating: 3.78
Year Published: 2011
Name: The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
Goodreads Rating: 3.68
Year Published: 2012
Name: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Goodreads Rating: 3.66
Year Published: 2006
Science and Medicine
Name: The Little Schemer
Author: Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman
Goodreads Rating: 4.27
Year Published: 1995
Name: Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science
Author: Dean Keith Simonton
Goodreads Rating: 4.25
Year Published: 1988
Name: Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
Author: Kevin Kelly
Goodreads Rating: 4.24
Year Published: 1995
Name: The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
Author: Terrence W. Deacon
Goodreads Rating: 4.17
Year Published: 1998
Name: A Brief History of Time
Author: Stephen Hawking
Goodreads Rating: 4.12
Year Published: 1998
Name: Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind
Author: Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
Goodreads Rating: 4.11
Year Published: 2009
Name: The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World
Author: Elkhonon Goldberg
Goodreads Rating: 4.07
Year Published:
Name: The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
Author: Richard Dawkins
Goodreads Rating: 4.07
Year Published: 1999
Name: Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe
Author: Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee
Goodreads Rating: 4.06
Year Published: 2003
Name: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Author: Mary Roach
Goodreads Rating: 4.05
Year Published: 2004
Name: The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Author: Kevin Kelly
Goodreads Rating: 4.02
Year Published: 2016
Name: The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
Author: Noson S. Yanofsky
Goodreads Rating: 4.00
Year Published: 2013
Name: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Goodreads Rating: 3.99
Year Published: 1996
Name: At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
Author: Stuart Kauffman
Goodreads Rating: 3.97
Year Published: 1996
Name: The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
Author: Yochai Benkler
Goodreads Rating: 3.95
Year Published: 2006
Name: Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence
Author: Hans Moravec.
Goodreads Rating: 3.95
Year Published: 1990
Name: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
Author: Nicholas Carr
Goodreads Rating: 3.85
Year Published: 2011
Name: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Author: Richard Wrangham
Goodreads Rating: 3.83
Year Published: 2009
Name: Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age
Author: Bart Kosko
Goodreads Rating: 3.82
Year Published: 2000
Name: Tomorrowland: Our Staggering Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact
Author: Steven Kotler
Goodreads Rating: 3.80
Year Published: 2015
Name: Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity
Author: Dean Keith
Goodreads Rating: 3.74
Year Published: 1999
Name: Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense
Author: Jonathan D. Moreno
Goodreads Rating: 3.45
Year Published: 2007
Logic and Problem Solving
Name: What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles
Author: Raymond M. Smullyan
Goodreads Rating: 4.24
Year Published: 2011
Name: A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science even If You Flunked Algebra
Author: Barbara Oakley
Goodreads Rating: 4.22
Year Published: 2014
Name: Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge
Author: William Poundstone
Goodreads Rating: 4.05
Year Published: 1989
Politics
Name: Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Author: Michael J. Sandel
Goodreads Rating: 4.25
Year Published:
Name: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Author: Jonathan Haidt
Goodreads Rating: 4.16
Year Published: 2012
Name: Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
Author: John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
Goodreads Rating: 4.10
Year Published: 2010
Name: The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
Author: Bryan Caplan
Goodreads Rating: 3.96
Year Published: 2007
Name: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Author: Barack Obama
Goodreads Rating: 3.70
Year Published: 2006
Economics
Name: Origin of Wealth
Author: Eric D. Beinhocker
Goodreads Rating: 4.23
Year Published: 2006
Name: Every Shot Counts: Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy
Author: Mark Broadie
Goodreads Rating: 4.23
Year Published: 2014
Name: Economic Facts and Fallacies
Author: Thomas Sowell
Goodreads Rating: 4.18
Year Published: 2008
Name: Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years
Author: David Graeber
Goodreads Rating: 4.17
Year Published: 2011
Name: Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Thomas Piketty
Goodreads Rating: 4.01
Year Published: 2014
Name: Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
Author: James Rickards
Goodreads Rating: 3.96
Year Published: 2011
Name: The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Author: Paul Collier
Goodreads Rating: 3.85
Year Published: 2007
Name: The Thank You Economy
Author: Gary Vaynerchuk
Goodreads Rating: 3.83
Year Published: 2011
Name: A Farewell to Alms : A Brief Economic History of the World
Author: Gregory Clark
Goodreads Rating: 3.67
Year Published: 2007
Sexuality
Name: Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern
Author: Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha
Goodreads Rating: 4.02
Year Published: 2010
Name: The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
Author: Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt.
Goodreads Rating: 3.83
Year Published: 2004
Education
Name: Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
Author: Seymour A. Papert
Goodreads Rating: 4.32
Year Published: 1993
Name: How Children Fail
Author: John Holt
Goodreads Rating: 4.22
Year Published: 1995
Name: Teaching as a Subversive Activity
Author: Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner
Goodreads Rating: 4.19
Year Published: 1971
Name: Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood
Author: A. S. Neill, Albert Lamb
Goodreads Rating: 4.09
Year Published: 1995
Name: The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
Author: Josh Waitzkin
Goodreads Rating: 4.08
Year Published: 2016
Name: Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture
Author: Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Parker J. Palmer
Goodreads Rating: 3.92
Year Published: 2009
Name: Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist
Author: John Brockman
Goodreads Rating: 3.72
Year Published: 2005
Writing
Name: Clear and Simple as the Truth
Author: Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner
Goodreads Rating: 4.06
Year Published: 1996
Name: The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Author: Steven Pinker
Goodreads Rating: 4.03
Year Published: 2014
Theater and Film
Name: Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh
Author: Mike Alfreds
Goodreads Rating: 4.69
Year Published: 2008
Name: Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
Author: Keith Johnstone
Goodreads Rating: 4.27
Year Published:
Name: The Actor and the Target
Author: Declan Donnellan
Goodreads Rating: 4.25
Year Published: 2006
Name: In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing
Author: Walter Murch
Goodreads Rating: 4.24
Year Published: 1995
Name: Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair
Author: Frank Hauser, Russell Reich
Goodreads Rating: 4.21
Year Published:
Name: How to Stop Acting
Author: Harold Guskin
Goodreads Rating: 4.17
Year Published: 2003
Name: A Practical Handbook for the Actor
Author: Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler, David Mamet
Goodreads Rating: 3.87
Year Published: 1986
Shakespeare
Name: Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard
Author: Barry Edelstein.
Goodreads Rating: 4.62
Year Published:
Name: Hamlet and Revenge
Author: Eleanor Prosser
Goodreads Rating: 4.50
Year Published: 1971
Name: Shakespeare's Metrical Art
Author: George T. Wright
Goodreads Rating: 4.39
Year Published: 1991
Name: Hamlet in Purgatory
Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Goodreads Rating: 3.98
Year Published: 2002
Fiction / Classics
Name: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Author: Ken Kesey
Goodreads Rating: 4.18
Year Published: 1963
Fiction / Fantasy
Name: The Kingkiller Chronicle
Author: Patrick Rothfuss
Goodreads Rating: 4.55
Year Published: 2007
Name: A Song of Ice and Fire
Author: George R.R. Martin
Goodreads Rating: 4.45
Year Published: 2005
Name: Harry Potter
Author: J.K. Rowling
Goodreads Rating: 4.44
Year Published: 1997
Name: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Author: Eliezer Yudkowsky
Goodreads Rating: 4.38
Year Published: 2015
Name: Discworld
Author: Terry Pratchett
Goodreads Rating: 4.32
Year Published: 2001
Name: The Chronicles of Narnia
Author: Clive Staples Lewis
Goodreads Rating: 4.24
Year Published: 2002
Fiction / Humor
Name: I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
Author: Tucker Max
Goodreads Rating: 3.51
Year Published: 2006
Fiction / Mystery
Name: Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Goodreads Rating: 4.30
Year Published: 1998
Name: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Author: Agatha Christie
Goodreads Rating: 4.20
Year Published: 2006
Name: The Girl on the Train
Author: Paula Hawkins
Goodreads Rating: 3.88
Year Published: 2015
Name: The Da Vinci Code
Author: Dan Brown
Goodreads Rating: 3.79
Year Published: 2006
Fiction / Science Fiction
Name: Ender's Game - Saga
Author: Orson Scott Card
Goodreads Rating: 4.30
Year Published: 1994
Name: The Player of Games
Author: Iain M. Banks
Goodreads Rating: 4.26
Year Published: 1997
Name: The Diamond Age
Author: Neal Stephenson
Goodreads Rating: 4.19
Year Published: 2000
Name: Foundation
Author: Isaac Asimov
Goodreads Rating: 4.13
Year Published: 2004
Name: Snow Crash
Author: Neal Stephenson
Goodreads Rating: 4.02
Year Published: 2000
Name: Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury
Goodreads Rating: 3.97
Year Published: 2006
Fiction / Horror
Name: House of Leaves
Author: Mark Z. Danielewski
Goodreads Rating: 4.13
Year Published: 2000
Name: Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker
Goodreads Rating: 3.98
Year Published: 1986
Name: Frankenstein
Author: Mary Shelley, Maurice Hindle
Goodreads Rating: 3.75
Year Published: 2003
Fiction / Miscellaneous
Name: The Queen's Gambit
Author: Walter Tevis
Goodreads Rating: 4.11
Year Published:
Name: The Bone People
Author: Keri Hulme
Goodreads Rating: 4.06
Year Published: 1986
Name: Cat's Eye
Author: Margaret Atwood
Goodreads Rating: 3.92
Year Published: 1998
Name: Xeelee Sequence
Author: Stephen Baxter
Goodreads Rating: 3.69
Year Published: 1992
Name: Ghost Fleet
Author: P.W. Singer and August Cole
Goodreads Rating: 3.62
Year Published: 2015
Name: Future Crimes
Author: Marc Goodman
Goodreads Rating: 3.42
Year Published: 1990
Health / Miscellaneous
Name: Convict Conditioning
Author: Paul Wade
Goodreads Rating: 4.13
Year Published: 2012
Name: Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
Author: Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman
Goodreads Rating: 3.95
Year Published: 2012
Name: 8 Weeks to Optimum Health
Author: Andrew Weil
Goodreads Rating: 3.86
Year Published:
Design / Miscellaneous
Name: Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Author: Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel
Goodreads Rating: 4.38
Year Published: 1977
Name: Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Author: Steve Krug
Goodreads Rating: 4.24
Year Published: 2014
Name: The Design of Everyday Things
Author: Donald Norman
Goodreads Rating: 4.18
Year Published: 2002