History
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky – Noam Chomsky
Tragedy and Hope – Carroll Quigley
Julius Caesar – Philip Freeman
Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilizations – Graham Hancock
Fingerprints of the Gods – Graham Hancock
Magicians of the Gods – Graham Hancock
Heaven’s Mirror: Quest for the Lost Civilization – Graham Hancock
The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids – Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies – Jared Diamond
The Hero with a Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined – Steven Pinker
The Great Pyramid Secret – Margaret Morris
The Pyramids: An Enigma Solved – Joseph Davidovits
Why the Pharaohs Built the Pyramids Out of Fake Stones – Joseph Davidovits
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed – Eric Cline
The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising – Patrick Cockburn
Hopes and Prospects – Noam Chomsky
When Google Met WikiLeaks – Julian Assange
Politics and Vision – Sheldon Wolin
Democracy Incorporated – Sheldon Wolin
The Great War for Civilisation – Robert Fisk
Biology
Origins of Order – Stuart Kauffman
Investigations – Stuart Kauffman
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed – Ray Kurzweil
Tree of Knowledge – Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela
Marijuana Reconsidered – Lester Grinspoon
The Natural Mind: An Investigation of Drugs and the Higher Consciousness – Andrew Weil, M.D.
The Machinery of Life – David S. Goodsell
The Diversity of Life – Edward O. Wilson
On Human Nature – Edward O. Wilson
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors – Carl Sagan
The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution – Richard Dawkins
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations – David Montgomery
Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin – William Bryant Logan
The Control of Nature – John McPhee
Bully for Brontosaurus – Stephen Jay Gould
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters – Matt Ridley
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes – Savnte Pääbo
p53: The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code – Sue Armstrong
DMT: The Spirit Molecule – Rick Strassman
Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge – Jeremy Narby
Astronomy
Observing the Universe: A Guide to Observational Astronomy and Planetary Science – Andrew Norton
Moon Hunters: NASA’s Remarkable Expeditions to the Ends of the Solar System – Jeffrey Kluger
Lost in Space: The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age – Greg Klerkx
The Red Limit – Timothy Ferris
Coming of Age in the Milky Way – Timothy Ferris
Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos – Alan Hirshfeld
Rocks from Space: Meteorites and Meteorite Hunters – O. Richard Norton
Biography
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Golden Boy: The Harold Simmons Story – John Nance
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life – Alice Schroeder
Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae – Gale Christianson
Miss Leavitt’s Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe
Killing Time – Paul Feyerabend
Ayahuasca Medicine – Alan Shoemaker
PiKHAL: A Chemical Love Story – Alex and Ann Shulgin
TiKHAL: The Continuation – Alex and Ann Shulgin
Math
The Music of the Primes – Marcus du Sautoy
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood – James Gleick
Elliott Wave Principle: Key to Market Behavior
Mathematics of Harmony – Alexey Stakhov
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software – Charles Petzold
Our Mathematical Universe – Max Tegmark
Science
The Biosphere – Vladimir Vernadsky
On the Shoulders of Giants – Steven Hawking
Why Stock Markets Crash – Didier Sornette
Realms of the Human Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research – Dr. Stanislav Grof
The Holographic Universe – Michael Talbot
Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science – Dorion Sagan
Socionomics: The Science of History and Social Prediction – Robert R. Prechter, Jr.
The God Particle – Leon Lederman
Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe – Leon Lederman
Chaos: Making a New Science – James Gleick
Phase Transitions and Signs of Life – Ricard Sole
The Road to Reality – Roger Penrose
The Evolution of Physics – Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld
Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy – Kip S. Thorne
Atomic Awakening: A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power – James Mahaffey
Herndon’s Earth and the Dark Side of Science – J. Marvin Herndon
Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World – Nick Lane
The End of Certainty – Ilya Prigogine
Wholeness and the Implicate Order – David Bohm
Spirituality
Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion – Alan Watts
Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine – Huston Smith
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are – Alan Watts
The Adventure of Self-Discovery – Stanislav Grof
Philosophy
Freedom from the Known – Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Wisdom of Insecurity – Alan Watts
Against Method – Paul Feyerabend
Servant Leadership – Robert K. Greenleaf
Conservation/Environmental
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? – Alan Weisman
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History – Elizabeth Kolbert
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World – Paul Stamets
Steps to an Ecology of Mind – Gregory Bateson
Consciousness
A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Everything (1997) – Jürgen Schmidhuber
Rechnender Raum (Calculating Space) – Konrad Zuse
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid – Douglas Hofstadter
Tibetan Book of Dead, Food of the Gods, DMT, Bicameral Mind
Breathe, You Are Alive: The Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing – Thich Nhat Hanh
The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation – Thich Nhat Hanh
Light on Yoga – B. K. S. Iyengar
The Tao Is Silent – Raymond Smullyan
Prometheus Rising – Robert Anton Wilson
The Holographic Universe – Michael Talbot
Finance / Economics
The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America – Warren Buffett
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits – Philip A. Fisher
John Bogle on Investing: The First 50 Years
Debt: The First 5,000 Years – David Graeber
Security Analysis – Benjamin Graham and David Dodd
The Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham
The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence – Benoit Mandelbrot
After Capitalism – David Schweickart
No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller – Harry Markopolos
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order – Noam Chomsky
Secular Cycles – Peter Turchin and Sergey A. Nefedov
Fiction