By Author | By Title
A
- Acemoglu, Daron and Robinson, James A.: Why Nations Fail (2012)
- Albright, Madeleine: Fascism: A Warning (2018)
- Alexander, Amir: Infinitesimal (2014)
- Ambrose, Stephen E.: Undaunted Courage (1996)
- Appiah, Kwame Anthony: Cosmopolitanism (2006)
- Attenborough, David: A Life on Our Planet (2020)
- Aurelius, Marcus: Meditations (circa 170-179)
B
- Baab-Muguira, Catherine: Poe for Your Problems (2021)
- Bailey, Elisabeth Tova: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (2010)
- Bakke, Gretchen: The Grid (2016)
- Banerjee, Abhijit V. and Duflo, Esther: Good Economics for Hard Times (2019)
- Bergstrom, Carl T. and West, Jevin D.: Calling Bullshit (2020)
- Bogard, Paul: The End of Night (2013)
- Botsman, Rachel: Who Can You Trust? (2017)
- Breyer, Stephen: The Court and the World (2015)
- Brook, Daniel: A History of Future Cities (2013)
- Brown, Archie: The Myth of the Strong Leader (2014)
- Brown, Brené: Dare to Lead (2018)
- Brynjolfsson, Erik and McAfee, Andrew: The Second Machine Age (2014)
- Brynjolfsson, Erik and McAfee, Andrew: Machine, Platform, Crowd (2017}
- Bungay Stanier, Michael: The Advice Trap (2020)
- Burke Harris, Nadine: The Deepest Well (2018)
- Burkeman, Oliver: Four Thousand Weeks (2021)
C
- Christensen, Clayton M.: How Will You Measure Your Life? (2012)
- Christian, David: Origin Story: A Big History of Everything (2018)
- Christie, Michael: Greenwood (2019)
- Cleese, John: So, Anyway … (2014)
- Cohen, Adam: Supreme Inequality (2020)
- Courtney, Hugh: 20/20 Foresight (2001)
- Cramer, Katherine J.: The Politics of Resentment (2016)
- Crawford, Kate: Atlas of AI (2021)
- Crowley, Chris and Lodge, Henry S.: Younger Next Year (2019)
- Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaily: Flow (1990)
D
- Dalio, Ray: Principles (2017)
- de Botton, Alain: Religion for Atheists (2012)
- Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee: The Palace of Illusions (2008)
- Doerr, Anthony: All the Light We Cannot See (2014)
- Doerr, John: Measure What Matters (2018)
- Drori, Jonathan: Around the World in 80 Trees (2018)
- Dubner, Stephen J. and Levitt, Steven D.: Freakonomics (2005)
- Duffy, Michael and Gibbs, Nancy: The Presidents Club (2012)
- Dunbar, Robin: Friends (2021)
- Dweck, Carol S.: Mindset (2006)
E
- Eagleman, David: Livewired (2020)
- Epstein, David: Range (2019)
- Essinger, James: Ada’s Algorithm (2014)
F
- Flanagan, Richard: The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2014)
- François, Bill: Eloquence of the Sardine (2021)
- Frenkel, Edward: Love and Math (2013)
- Frey, William H.: Diversity Explosion (2018)
- Friedman, George: The Storm Before the Calm (2020)
- Friedman, Thomas L.: Thank You for Being Late (2016)
G
- Galef, Julia: The Scout Mindset (2021)
- Gates, Bill: How To Avoid A Climate Disaster (02021)
- Gawande, Atul: The Checklist Manifesto (2009)
- Gessen, Masha: Surviving Autocracy (2020)
- Ginsburg, Ruth Bader: My Own Words (2016)
- Gladwell, Malcolm: Outliers (2008)
- Gladwell, Malcolm: David and Goliath (2013)
- Gladwell, Malcolm: Talking to Strangers (2019)
- Graeber, David and Wengrow, David: The Dawn of Everything (2021)
- Grant, Adam: Think Again (2021)
- Greenberg, Paul: The Climate Diet (2021)
- Greene, Jamal: How Rights Went Wrong (2021)
- Grove, Andrew S.: High Output Management (1983)
H
- Hamid, Mohsin: Exit West (2017)
- Hamid, Mohsin: The Last White Man (2022)
- Hannah-Jones, Nikole: The 1619 Project (2021)
- Hanson, Thor: Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid (2021)
- Harari, Yuval Noah: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018)
- Harari, Yuval Noah: Sapiens (2015)
- Hatfield, Chris: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth (2013)
- Haupt, Lyanda Lynn: Mozart’s Starling (2017)
- Havel, Václav: To the Castle and Back (2007)
- Hazleton, Lesley: After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split (2009)
- Hazelton, Lesley: Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto (2016)
I
- Isaacson, Walter: Leonardo da Vinci (2017)
- Isaacson, Walter: The Code Breaker (2021)
J
- Jepson, Paul and Blythe, Cain: Rewilding (2020)
- Johnson, Steven: How We Got to Now (2014)
K
- Kantrowitz, Alex: Always Day One (2020)
- Kauffman, Stuart A.: Reinventing the Sacred (2008)
- Kendi, Ibram X.: How To Be An Antiracist (2019)
- Kidder, Tracy: Good Prose (2013)
- King, Stephen: On Writing (2000)
- Klare, Michael T.: All Hell Breaking Loose (2019)
- Klein, Ezra: Why We’re Polarized (2020)
- Krznaric, Roman: The Good Ancestor (02020)
L
- Labatut, Benjamin: When We Cease to Understand the World (2020)
- LeGuin, Ursula K.: The Left Hand of Darkness (1963)
M
- MacAskill, William: What We Owe The Future (2022)
- Majumdar, Megha: A Burning (2020)
- Mandelbaum, Michael: The Ideas that Conquered the World (2002)
- Manne, Kate: Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (2018)
- Mask, Deirdre: The Address Book (2020)
- McAfee, Andrew: More From Less (2019)
- McFadden, Johnjoe: Life Is Simple (2021)
- McGhee, Heather: The Sum of Us (2021)
- Meacham, Jon: Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (2013)
- Mele, Nicco: The End of Big (2013)
- Metzl, Jonathan: Dying of Whiteness (2019)
- Miller, Sam J.: Blackfish City (2018)
- Mitchell, David: The Bone Clocks (2014)
- Moyo, Dambisa: Winner Take All (2012)
- Munroe, Randall: What If (2014)
- Moore, Peter: Endeavour (2018)
- Mulder, Nicholas: The Economic Weapon (2022)
- Murthy, Vivek H.: Together (2020)
N
- Naim, Moisés: The End of Power (2013)
- Neuwirth, Robert: Stealth of Nations (2011)
- Nisbett, Richard E.: The Geography of Thought (2003)
O
- Obama, Barack: A Promised Land (2020)
- Oluo, Ijeoma: So you want to talk about race (2018)
- Owens, Delia: Where the Crawdads Sing (2018)
P
- Patterson, Kerry: Crucial Conversations (2012)
- Perez, Caroline Criado: Invisible Women (2019)
- Pinker, Steven: Enlightenment Now (2018)
- Pinker, Steven: Rationality (2021)
- Pomerantsev, Peter: Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible (2014)
- Postrel, Virginia: The Fabric of Civilization (2020)
- Powers, Richard: Bewilderment (2021)
- Powers, Richard: The Overstory (2018)
- Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda: The Disordered Cosmos (2021)
- Prose, Francine: Reading Like a Writer (2006)
R
- Raworth, Kate: Doughnut Economics (2017)
- Reid, John W. and Lovejoy, Thomas E.: Ever Green (2022)
- Rich, Nathaniel: Losing Earth (2019)
- Rockström, Johan and Klum, Mattias: Big World Small Planet (2015)
- Robinson, Kim Stanley: The Ministry for the Future (2020)
- Rosling, Hans: Factfulness (2018)
- Roy, Sumana: How I Became a Tree (2017)
- Rutt, Stephen: Wintering: A Season With Geese (2019)
S
- Schneier, Bruce: Data and Goliath (2015)
- Scott, Kim: Radical Candor (2017)
- Seierstad, Ǻsne: The Bookseller of Kabul (2003)
- Setiya, Kieran: Life Is Hard (2022)
- Sheldrake, Merlin: Entangled Life (2021)
- Simard, Suzanne: Finding the Mother Tree (2021)
- Smil, Vaclav: Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities (2019)
- Smil, Vaclav: How the World Really Works (2022)
- Snyder, Timothy: On Tyranny (2017)
- Snyder, Timothy: The Road to Unfreedom (2018)
- Stewart, Ian: In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World (2012)
- Strogatz, Steven: Infinite Powers (2019)
T
- Taleb, Nassim Nicholas: The Black Swan (2007)
- ter Kuile, Casper: The Power of Ritual (2020)
- Tufekci, Zeynep: Twitter and Tear Gas (2017)
V
- Vance, J. D.: Hillbilly Elegy (2016)
- Venkataraman, Bina: The Optimist’s Telescope, (2019)
W
- Weidensaul, Scott: A World on the Wing (2021)
- Weiner, Eric: The Socrates Express (2020)
- Wilkerson, Isabel: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020)
- Wright, Craig: The Hidden Habits of Genius (2020)
Z
- Zakaria, Fareed: The Post-American World (2008)
By Title | By Author
#
- 20/20 Foresight, Hugh Courtney (2001)
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari (2018)
A
- A Burning, Megha Majumdar (2020)
- A History of Future Cities, Daniel Brook (2013)
- A Life on Our Planet, David Attenborough (2020)
- A Promised Land, Barack Obama (2020)
- A World on the Wing, Scott Weidensaul (2021)
- Ada’s Algorithm, James Essinger (2014)
- After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split, Lesley Hazleton (2009)
- Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto, Lesley Hazelton (2016)
- All Hell Breaking Loose, Michael T, Klare (2019)
- All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr (2014)
- Always Day One, Alex Kantrowitz (2020)
- An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, Chris Hatfield (2013)
- Around the World in 80 Trees, Jonathan Drori (2018)
- Atlas of AI, Kate Crawford (2021)
B
- Bewilderment, Richard Powers (2021)
- Big World Small Planet, Johan Rockström and Mattias Klum (2015)
- Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller (2018)
C
- Calling Bullshit, Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West (2020)
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson (2020)
- Cosmopolitanism, Kwame Anthony Appiah (2006)
- Crucial Conversations, Kerry Patterson (2012)
D
- Dare to Lead, Brené Brown (2018)
- Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier (2015)
- David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell (2013)
- Diversity Explosion, William H. Frey (2018)
- Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, Kate Manne (2018)
- Doughnut Economics, Kate Raworth (2017)
- Dying of Whiteness, Jonathan Metzl (2019)
E
- Eloquence of the Sardine, Bill François (2021)
- Endeavour, Peter Moore (2018)
- Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker (2018)
- Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake (2021)
- Ever Green, John W. Reid and Thomas E. Lovejoy (2022)
- Exit West, Mohsin Hamid (2017)
F
- Fascism: A Warning, Madeleine Albright (2018)
- Factfulness, Hans Rosling (2018)
- Finding the Mother Tree, Suzanne Simard (2021)
- Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1990)
- Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkeman (2021)
- Freakonomics, Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt (2005)
- Friends, Robin Dunbar (2021)
G
- Good Economics for Hard Times, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo (2019)
- Good Prose, Tracy Kidder (2013)
- Greenwood, Michael Christie (2019)
- Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities, Vaclav Smil (2019)
H
- High Output Management, Andrew S. Grove (1983)
- Hillbilly Elegy, J. D. Vance (2016)
- How I Became a Tree, Sumana Roy (2017)
- How Rights Went Wrong, Jamal Greene (2021)
- How the World Really Works, Vaclav Smil (2022)
- How To Avoid A Climate Disaster, Bill Gates (02021)
- How To Be An Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi (2019)
- How We Got to Now, Steven Johnson (2014)
- How Will You Measure Your Life?, Clayton M. Christensen (2012)
- Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid, Thor Hanson (2021)
I
- In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World, Ian Stewart (2012)
- Infinite Powers, Steven Strogatz (2019)
- Infinitesimal, Amir Alexander (2014)
- Invisible Women, Caroline Criado Perez (2019)
L
- Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson (2017)
- Life Is Hard, Kieran Setiya (2022)
- Life Is Simple, Johnjoe McFadden (2021)
- Livewired, David Eagleman (2020)
- Losing Earth, Nathaniel Rich (2019)
- Love and Math, Edward Frenkel (2013)
M
- Machine, Platform, Crowd, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee (2017}
- Measure What Matters, John Doerr (2018)
- Meditations, Marcus Aurelius (circa 170-179)
- Mindset, Carol S. Dweck (2006)
- More From Less, Andrew McAfee (2019)
- Mozart’s Starling, Lyanda Lynn Haupt (2017)
- My Own Words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2016)
N
- Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible, Peter Pomerantsev (2014)
O
- On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder (2017)
- On Writing, Stephen King (2000)
- Origin Story: A Big History of Everything, David Christian (2018)
- Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell (2008)
P
- Poe for Your Problems, Catherine Baab-Muguira (2021)
- Principles, Ray Dalio (2017)
R
- Radical Candor, Kim Scott (2017)
- Range, David Epstein (2019)
- Rationality, Steven Pinker (2021)
- Reading Like a Writer, Francine Prose (2006)
- Reinventing the Sacred, Stuart A. Kauffman (2008)
- Religion for Atheists, Alain de Botton (2012)
- Rewilding, Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe (2020)
S
- Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari (2015)
- So, Anyway …, John Cleese (2014)
- So you want to talk about race, Ijeoma Oluo (2018)
- Stealth of Nations, Robert Neuwirth (2011)
- Supreme Inequality, Adam Cohen (2020)
- Surviving Autocracy, Masha Gessen (2020)
T
- Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell (2019)
- Thank You for Being Late, Thomas L. Friedman (2016)
- The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones (2021)
- The Address Book, Deirdre Mask (2020)
- The Advice Trap, Micheal Bungay Stanier (2020)
- The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2007)
- The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (2014)
- The Bookseller of Kabul, Ǻsne Seierstad (2003)
- The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande (2009)
- The Climate Diet, Paul Greenberg (2021)
- The Code Breaker, Walter Isaacson (2021)
- The Court and the World, Stephen Breyer (2015)
- The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow (2021)
- The Deepest Well, Nadine Burke Harris (2018)
- The Disordered Cosmos, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (2021)
- The Economic Weapon, Nicholas Mulder (2022)
- The End of Big, Nicco Mele (2013)
- The End of Night, Paul Bogard (2013)
- The End of Power, Moisés Naim (2013)
- The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel (2020)
- The Geography of Thought, Richard E. Nisbett (2003)
- The Good Ancestor. Roman Krznaric (02020)
- The Grid, Gretchen Bakke (2016)
- The Hidden Habits of Genius, Craig Wright (2020)
- The Ideas that Conquered the World, Michael Mandelbaum (2002)
- The Last White Man, Mohsin Hamid (2022)
- The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin (1963)
- The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson (2020)
- The Myth of the Strong Leader, Archie Brown (2014)
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan (2014)
- The Optimist’s Telescope, Bina Venkataraman (2019)
- The Overstory, Richard Powers (2018)
- The Palace of Illusions, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2008)
- The Politics of Resentment, Katherine J. Cramer (2016)
- The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria (2008)
- The Power of Ritual, Casper ter Kuile (2020)
- The Presidents Club, Michael Duffy and Nancy Gibbs (2012)
- The Road to Unfreedom. Timothy Snyder (2018)
- The Scout Mindset, Julia Galef (2021)
- The Second Machine Age, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee (2014)
- The Socrates Express, Eric Weiner (2020)
- The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, Elisabeth Tova Bailey (2010)
- The Storm Before the Calm, George Friedman (2020)
- The Sum of Us, Heather McGhee (2021)
- Think Again, Adam Grant (2021)
- Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, Jon Meacham (2013)
- To the Castle and Back, Václav Havel (2007)
- Together, Vivek H. Murthy (2020)
- Twitter and Tear Gas, Zeynep Tufekci, (2017)
U
- Undaunted Courage, Stephen E. Ambrose (1996)
W
- What If, Randall Munroe (2014)
- What We Owe The Future, William MacAskill (2022)
- When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labatut (2020)
- Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens (2018)
- Who Can You Trust? Rachel Botsman (2017)
- Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (2012)
- Why We’re Polarized, Ezra Klein (2020)
- Winner Take All, Dambisa Moyo (2012)
- Wintering: A Season With Geese, Stephen Rutt (2019)
Y
- Younger Next Year, Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge (2019)