1. ​1984 George Orwell
2. 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism
3. A History of the World in 100 Objects Neil MacGregor
4. A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson
5. A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
6. A Theory of Justice John Rawls
7. A World History William H. McNeill
8. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
9. An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn’t
10. Anarchy, State, and Utopia Robert Nozick
11. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
12. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
13. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man John Perkins
14. Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
16. Eureka Street: A Novel of Ireland Like No Other
17. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
18. Godel, Esher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
19. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
20. How To Lie With Statistics
21. How to Read a Book Charles Van Doren
22. How to Win Friends and Influence People
23. IDEAS: A HISTORY, From Wittgenstein to the World Wide Web, Two Volumes in Slipcase
24. Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization
25. Letters From A Self-made Merchant To His Son
26. Letters From A Stoic Seneca
27. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
28. Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
29. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
30. Meditations Marcus Aurelius
31. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
32. Negotiating Your Salary: How To Make $1000 a Minute
33. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny Robert Wright
34. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
35. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
36. Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition
37. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
38. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
39. Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger
40. Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
41. The 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene
42. The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
43. The Art of War: The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Life
44. The Art of Worldly Wisdom Balthasar Gracian
45. The Arthashastra Kautilya
46. The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
47. The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
48. The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life
49. The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination
50. The Denial of Death Becker
51. The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence
52. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King
53. The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
54. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
55. The Lessons of History Will Durant
56. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
57. The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society
58. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
59. The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527)
60. The Razor’s Edge W. Somerset Maugham
61. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
62. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
63. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
64. The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
65. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
66. Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
67. Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman
68. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
69. War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
70. What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
71. World Order Henry Kissinger
72. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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