| Independent People | Halldór Laxness |
| Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah Harari |
| 21 Lessons for the 21st Century | Yuval Noah Harari |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | Jared Diamond |
| A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking |
| Cosmos | Carl Sagan |
| The Body: A Guide for Occupants | Bill Bryson |
| A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy | Musashi Miyamoto |
| Homage to Catalonia | George Orwell |
| Tao Te Ching | Lau Tzu |
| Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution | Steven Levy |
| Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker | Kevin D. Mitnick |
| Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know | Malcolm Gladwell |
| Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail | Cheryl Strayed |
| Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl |
| The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business | Charles Duhigg |
| Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation | Lynne Truss |
| The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History | Elizabeth Kolbert |
| Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams | Matthew Wallker |
| How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Travel | Ryan North |
| Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors | Matt Parker |
| What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions | Randall Munroe |
| How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real World Problems | Randall Munroe |
| Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms | Hannah Fry |
| Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow | Yuval Noah Harari |
| The Anthropocene Reviewed | John Green |
| The Book of Tea | Kakuzō Okakura |
| The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware | Andrew “bunnie” Huang |
| Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon | Kim Zetter |
| Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States | James C. Scott |
| The World Without Us | Alan Weisman |
| Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America | Thomas L. Friedman |
| Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change | Elizabeth Kolbert |
| Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures | Merlin Sheldrake |
| Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses | Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity | Christopher Ryan |
| The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self | Michael Easter |
| From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death | Caitlin Doughty |
| The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origin of Knowledge | Jeremy Narby |
| The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity | David Graeber |
| Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time | Jeff Speck |
| Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design | Charles Montgomery |
| Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World | Jason Hickel |
| The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work | David Frayne |
| Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World | Rutger Bregman |
| Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think | Hans Rosling |
| Einstein: His Life and Universe | Walter Isaacson |
| Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything | Joshua Foer |
| Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words | Randall Munroe |
| Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power Prosperity and Poverty | Daron Acemoğlu |
| The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language | Steven Pinker |
| Turtles All the Way Down | John Green |
| How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region | Joe Studwell |
| Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst | Robert M. Sapolsky |
| How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need | Bill Gates |
| The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language | John McWhorter |
| The Language Hoax | John McWhorter |
| Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything | Kelly Weinersmith |
| Spacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond | Christopher Wanjek |
| The Zoologist’s Guide to The Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens - and Ourselves | Arik Kershenbaum |
| Breath: the New Science of a Lost Art | James Nestor |
| Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind | Peter Godfrey-Smith |
| Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding | Daniel E. Lieberman |
| Tales from the Ant World | Edward Wilson |
| Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars | Lee Billings |
| The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct | Bert Hölldobler |
| The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses | Jesse Schell |
| Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made | Jason Schreier |
| Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture | David Kushner |
| Consol Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation | Blake J. Harris |
| Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World | Jane McGonigal |
| Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World | David Sheff |
| Significant Zero: Heroes, Villains, and the Fight for Art and Soul in Video Games | Walt Williams |
| The Design of Everyday Things | Donald A. Norman |
| Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals | Katie Salen Tekinbaş |
| Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience | Mihály Csíkszentmihályi |
| Challenges for Game Designers | Brenda Brathwaite |
| Game Feel | Steve Swink |
| The Image of the City | Kevin Lynch |
| Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games and Their Impact on the People who Play Them | Jamie Madigan |
| Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture | Johan Huizinga |
| Educational Game Design Fundamentals: A Journey to Creating Intrinsically Motivating Learning Experiences | George Kalmpourtzis |
| Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams | Tom DeMarco |
| Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration | Ed Catmull |
| Game Programming Patterns | Robert Nystrom |
| Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea | Barbara Demick |
| Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything | Steven D. Levitt |
| The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus | Richard Preston |
| Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software | Charles Petzold |
| How Smart Machines Think | Sean Gerrish |
| Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education | Michael Pollan |
| The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography | Simon Singh |
| Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World | Paul Stamets |
| Fantastic Fungi: Expanding Consciousness, Alternative Healing, Environmental Impact | Paul Stamets |
| Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers | Robert M. Sapolsky |
| Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character | Richard Feynman |
| Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher | Richard Feynman |
| Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein’s Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time | Richard Feynman |
| The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins |
| Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed | Jared Diamond |
| The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology | Simon Winchester |
| The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works Of Richard Feynman | Jeffrey Robbins |
| The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality | Brian Greene |
| An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth | Chris Hadfield |
| The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet | Kristin Ohlson |
| Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity | Lawrence Lessig |
| How China Escaped the Poverty Trap | Yuen Yuen Ang |
| The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe | Roger Penrose |
| The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World | David Deutsch |
| Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies | Geoffrey Brian West |
| Why Evolution Is True | Jerry A. Coyne |
| The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes–and Its Implications | David Deutsch |
| Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer | Novella Carpenter |
| The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World | Andrea Wulf |
| Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration | Sara Dykman |
| Crying in H Mart | Michelle Zauner |
| The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal | Jared Diamond |
| The End of Everything | Katie Mack |
| Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality | Max Tegmark |
| Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime | Sean Carroll |
| The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics (Theoretical Minimum, #1) | Leonard Susskind |
| The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory | Brian Greene |
| Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans | Melanie Mitchell |
| Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA | Neil Shubin |
| Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World | Carl T. Bergstrom |
| The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous | Joseph Henrich |
| The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy | Michael E. Mann |
| The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming | David Wallace-Wells |
| Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World | Zak Dychtwald |
| The Brilliant Abyss | Helen Scales |
| Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers | Mary Roach |
| Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law | Mary Roach |
| The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity | Robin Ince |
| Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear | Michael Bazzell |
| This Land Is Our Land: How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back | Ken Ilgunas |
| Work: A History of How we spend our Time | James Suzman |
| Does It Fart?: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence | Nick Caruso |
| Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics | Tim Marshall |
| Alex’s Adventures in Numberland | Alex Bellos |
| Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality | Manjit Kumar |
| In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality | John Gribbin |
| The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines | Michael E. Mann |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot |
| Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming | Naomi Oreskes |
| Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming | Paul Hawken |
| Jet Stream: A Journey Through our Changing Climate | Tim Woollings |
| This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society | Kathleen McAuliffe |
| What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches | Erwin Schrödinger |
| Mistakes Were Made, but Not by Me: Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts | Carol Tavris |
| Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life | Lulu Miller |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas R. Hofstadter |