Learning

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Biology and medicine

• On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin, 1859
• What Is Life? Erwin Schrödinger, 1944
• The Strategy of the Genes C.H. Waddington, 1957
• The Genetic Code Isaac Asimov, 1962
• The Eighth Day of Creation Horace Freeland Judson, 1979
• Medicine, Science, and Merck P. Roy Vagelos and Louis Galambos, 2004
• Intelligence in Nature Jeremy Narby, 2005
• Females Are Mosaics Barbara Migeon, 2007
• DNA: The Secret of Life James D. Watson, 2003
• A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived Adam Rutherford, 2016
• Metazoa Peter Godfrey-Smith, 2020
• Breath James Nestor, 2020
• Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World Paul Stamets, 1996
• Le Meraviglie del Nostro Corpo Italian

Neuroscience and the mind

• Broca's Brain Carl Sagan, 1979
• Synaptic Self Joseph LeDoux, 2002
• The Tell-Tale Brain V.S. Ramachandran, 2010
• Behave Robert Sapolsky, 2017

Physics, mathematics, and cosmology

• The Feynman Lectures on Physics Richard Feynman, 1964
• Cosmos Carl Sagan, 1980
• The Very First Light John Mather and John Boslough, 1996
• What If? Randall Munroe, 2014

How science gets done

• Life Itself Francis Crick, 1981
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Richard Feynman, 1985
• What Do You Care What Other People Think? Richard Feynman, 1988
• What Mad Pursuit Francis Crick, 1988
• Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman James Gleick, 1992
• Pasteur's Quadrant Donald Stokes, 1997
• Dancing Naked in the Mind Field Kary Mullis, 1998
• Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track Richard Feynman, 2005
• Avoid Boring People James D. Watson, 2007
• Brilliant Blunders Mario Livio, 2013

Technology, business, and investing

• The Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham, 1949
• The Goal Eliyahu Goldratt, 1984
• Liar's Poker Michael Lewis, 1989
• Skunk Works Ben Rich and Leo Janos, 1994
• Rich Dad Poor Dad Robert Kiyosaki, 1997
• Losing My Virginity Richard Branson, 1998
• Who Geoff Smart and Randy Street, 2008
• Zero to One Peter Thiel and Blake Masters, 2014
• Money: Master the Game Tony Robbins, 2014
• Enzo Ferrari Luca Dal Monte, 2016
• For Blood and Money Nathan Vardi, 2023
• Renditi Utile Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2023 — Italian edition of Be Useful
• The Technological Republic Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas Zamiska, 2025

Systems, networks, and statistics

• How to Lie with Statistics Darrell Huff, 1954
• Linked Albert-László Barabási, 2002
• Thinking in Systems Donella Meadows, 2008
• The Signal and the Noise Nate Silver, 2012

History, power, and society

• Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness Ibn Fadlan, c. 921
• The Power Broker Robert Caro, 1974
• A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn, 1980
• Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare CIA, 1983
• The Art of Seduction Robert Greene, 2001
• Kingdom of Fear Hunter S. Thompson, 2003
• Legacy of Ashes: The Secret History of the CIA Tim Weiner, 2007
• Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari, 2011
• Season of the Witch David Talbot, 2012
• Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon David McGowan, 2014
• The Devil's Chessboard David Talbot, 2015
• Scalia Speaks Antonin Scalia, 2017
• Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties Tom O'Neill, 2019
• Talking to Strangers Malcolm Gladwell, 2019

Religion, consciousness, and the unexplained

• Shamanism Mircea Eliade, 1951
• The Phenomenon of Man Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1955
• The Way of Zen Alan Watts, 1957
• Meditations Marcus Aurelius, c. 180
• Secrets of Voodoo Milo Rigaud, 1969
• Condensed Chaos Phil Hine, 1995
• The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga C.G. Jung, 1996
• The Cosmic Serpent Jeremy Narby, 1998
• Psychic Sexuality Ingo Swann, 1999
• The Secret History of the World Mark Booth, 2008
• The Fairy Bible Teresa Moorey, 2008
• American Cosmic D.W. Pasulka, 2019
• Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology Ed Simon, 2022
• Encounters D.W. Pasulka, 2023
• UFO Garrett M. Graff, 2023

Fiction

• Don Quijote de la Mancha Miguel de Cervantes, 1605 and 1615 — Spanish
• The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling, 1894
• Siddhartha Hermann Hesse, 1922
• The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
• The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway, 1926
• The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger, 1951
• Casino Royale and the James Bond novels Ian Fleming, 1953–1965
• Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand, 1957
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey, 1962
• Il Partigiano Johnny Beppe Fenoglio, 1968 — Italian
• Post Office Charles Bukowski, 1971
• Il Nome della Rosa Umberto Eco, 1980 — Italian
• Jurassic Park Michael Crichton, 1990
• Permutation City Greg Egan, 1994
• The Lost World Michael Crichton, 1995
• His Dark Materials Philip Pullman, 1995–2000
• Coraline Neil Gaiman, 2002
• Accelerando Charles Stross, 2005
• Daemon Daniel Suarez, 2006
• The Three-Body Problem trilogy Liu Cixin, 2008–2010
• How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia Mohsin Hamid, 2013
• Dark Matter Blake Crouch, 2016
• Project Hail Mary Andy Weir, 2021
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Quentin Tarantino, 2021
• The MANIAC Benjamín Labatut, 2023

Poetry and lyrics

• Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman, 1855
• The Waste Land and Other Poems T.S. Eliot, 1922
• The Captain's Verses Pablo Neruda, 1952
• The Poetry of Robert Frost Robert Frost, 1969
• Roman Poems Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1986
• Vintage Hughes Langston Hughes, 2004
• Selected Poems E.E. Cummings
• Lyrics Bob Dylan

Food and the senses

• La Technique Jacques Pépin, 1976
• Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain, 2000
• The Emperor of Scent Chandler Burr, 2002
• Essential Pépin Jacques Pépin, 2011

Ocean, diving, and the outdoors

• Diving for Sunken Treasure Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Philippe Diolé, 1971
• Coral Seas Roger Steene, 1998
• 100 Dives of a Lifetime Carrie Miller, 2019
• Epic Journeys: 245 Life-Changing Adventures National Geographic, 2019
• 52 Weekend Adventures in Northern California
• Complete Flags of the World DK

Art, design, film, and reference

• Il Cinema Secondo Hitchcock François Truffaut, 1966 — Italian edition of Hitchcock/Truffaut
• Figure Drawing: For All It's Worth Andrew Loomis, 1943
• Led Zeppelin: Anni di Fuoco Dave Lewis — Italian
• The Rolling Stones: 50 Years Bob Spitz, 2012
• Auto Erotica Jason Barlow, 2019
• All-American Ads Jim Heimann, editor, Taschen
• Bali Mystique Assouline
• Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary, Unabridged

Film, television, and audio

• C'était un rendez-vous Claude Lelouch, 1976 — short film
• Fun to Imagine Richard Feynman, BBC, 1983
• Cosmos: A Personal Voyage Carl Sagan, 1980 — television
• Tom Lehrer
• Ten Craziest Things That Cells Do Wallace Marshall, iBiology
• iBiology short lecture collections
• Wendover Productions
• Acquired
• Conversations with Tyler Tyler Cowen
• Marginal Revolution Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok