- Atul Gawande – “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”
- Barbara Ehrenreich – “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America”
- Ben Goldacre – “Bad Science”
- Bill Bryson – “A Short History of Nearly Everything”
- Bill Gates – “The Road Ahead”
- Brené Brown – “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”
- Carl Sagan – “Cosmos”
- Cheryl Strayed – “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail”
- Chris Anderson – “The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More”
- Chris Hadfield – “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth”
- Christopher Hitchens – “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything”
- Daniel Kahneman – “Thinking, Fast and Slow”
- Daniel Pink – “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”
- Dave Eggers – “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”
- David Foster Wallace – “Infinite Jest”
- David McCullough – “The Wright Brothers”
- Deepak Chopra – “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success”
- Douglas Hofstadter – “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid”
- Eckhart Tolle – “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”
- Elizabeth Gilbert – “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia”
- Eric Ries – “The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”
- Esther Perel – “Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence”
- Fareed Zakaria – “The Post-American World”
- Gay Talese – “The Voyeur’s Motel”
- Gretchen Rubin – “The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”
- H.G. Wells – “The Time Machine”
- Hanya Yanagihara – “A Little Life”
- Harold McGee – “On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen”
- Helen Macdonald – “H Is for Hawk”
- J.D. Vance – “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis”
- Jack Kerouac – “On the Road”
- James Gleick – “The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood”
- Jane Jacobs – “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”
- Jared Diamond – “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”
- Jay Asher – “Thirteen Reasons Why”
- Jean-Paul Sartre – “Being and Nothingness”
- Jon Krakauer – “Into the Wild”
- Jonah Berger – “Contagious: How to Build Word of Mouth in the Digital Age”
- Joseph Campbell – “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”
- Malcolm Gladwell – “The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference”
- Mary Roach – “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”
- Michael Lewis – “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine”
- Michelle Alexander – “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”
- Michelle Obama – “Becoming”
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb – “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable”
- Neil deGrasse Tyson – “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry”
- Neil Gaiman – “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”
- Oliver Sacks – “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”
- Richard Dawkins – “The Selfish Gene”
- Robert Greene – “The 48 Laws of Power”
- Robert M. Pirsig – “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values”
- Sam Harris – “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”
- Sarah Vowell – “Assassination Vacation”
- Siddhartha Mukherjee – “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”
- Simon Sinek – “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”
- Søren Kierkegaard – “Fear and Trembling”
- Steven Pinker – “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”
- Susan Cain – “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking”
- Susan Sontag – “On Photography”
- Sylvia Nasar – “A Beautiful Mind”
- Tara Westover – “Educated: A Memoir”
- Temple Grandin – “Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism”
- Thomas Friedman – “The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century”
- Tom Wolfe – “The Right Stuff”
- Tony Robbins – “Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical, and Financial Destiny!”
- Trevor Noah – “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood”
- Umberto Eco – “The Name of the Rose”
- Viktor E. Frankl – “Man’s Search for Meaning”
- Virginia Woolf – “A Room of One’s Own”
- Voltaire – “Candide”
- Walter Isaacson – “Steve Jobs”
- Wendy Doniger – “The Hindus: An Alternative History”
- William Dalrymple – “City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi”
- Yuval Noah Harari – “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind”
- Zadie Smith – “White Teeth”
- Adam Grant – “Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World”
- Aldous Huxley – “Brave New World”
- Amy Poehler – “Yes Please”
- Anne Lamott – “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”
- Anthony Bourdain – “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly”
- Ashlee Vance – “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future”
- Barack Obama – “A Promised Land”
- Bell Hooks – “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”
- Bob Woodward – “Fear: Trump in the White House”
- Brian Greene – “The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory”
- Bryan Stevenson – “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption”
- Camille Paglia – “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”
- Carl Jung – “Man and His Symbols”
- Carol Dweck – “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”
- Charles Darwin – “On the Origin of Species”
- Charles Duhigg – “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business”
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – “We Should All Be Feminists”
- Christopher Hitchens – “Mortality”
- Cormac McCarthy – “The Road”
- Craig Childs – “The Secret Knowledge of Water”
- Dan Ariely – “Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions”
- Daniel Goleman – “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”
- Dave Eggers – “The Circle”
- David Foster Wallace – “Consider the Lobster and Other Essays”
- David Graeber – “Debt: The First 5,000 Years”
- David McCullough – “1776”
- Deborah Tannen – “You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”
- Desmond Tutu – “No Future Without Forgiveness”
- Diane Ackerman – “The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story”
- Dinesh D’Souza – “The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left”
- Eckhart Tolle – “A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose”
- Edmund Morris – “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt”
- Elaine Pagels – “The Gnostic Gospels”
- Elizabeth Gilbert – “Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear”
- Erik Larson – “The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America”
- Esther Perel – “The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity”
- Frans de Waal – “The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates”
- Gavin de Becker – “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence”
- George Orwell – “1984”
- Gloria Steinem – “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”
- Hanya Yanagihara – “The People in the Trees”
- Helen Macdonald – “Vesper Flights”
- Howard Zinn – “A People’s History of the United States”
- Isabel Wilkerson – “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration”
- J.D. Vance – “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis”
- James Clear – “Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones”
- James Gleick – “Chaos: Making a New Science”
- Jane Goodall – “In the Shadow of Man”
- Jared Diamond – “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed”
- Jean-Paul Sartre – “Existentialism Is a Humanism”
- Jill Lepore – “These Truths: A History of the United States”
- Johann Hari – “Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression—and the Unexpected Solutions”
- John Krakauer – “Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”
- Jon Meacham – “American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House”
- Joseph Campbell – “The Power of Myth”
- Joshua Foer – “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”
- Kathryn Stockett – “The Help”
- Khaled Hosseini – “The Kite Runner”
- Laura Hillenbrand – “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”
- Lawrence Wright – “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11”
- Malcolm Gladwell – “Outliers: The Story of Success”
- Margaret Atwood – “The Handmaid’s Tale”
- Maria Popova – “Figuring”
- Mark Manson – “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life”
- Mary Roach – “Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal”
- Michael Lewis – “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”
- Michelle McNamara – “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer”
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb – “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”
- Neil deGrasse Tyson – “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry”
- Nelson Mandela – “Long Walk to Freedom”
- Oliver Sacks – “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales”
- Paul Kalanithi – “When Breath Becomes Air”
- Rebecca Skloot – “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”
- Richard Dawkins – “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design”
- Robert Greene – “Mastery”
