• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
• Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks
  • Also a favourite of Warren Buffett
• Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• Epic Measures by Jeremy Smith
• How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region by Joe Studwell
• How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough
• How Not to be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
• How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
• Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
• Life Is What You Make It by Peter Buffett
• Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization by Vaclav Smil
• My Years with General Motors by Alfred Sloan
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
  • Also a favourite of Mark Zuckerberg
• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
• Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises by Tim Geithner
  • Also a favourite of Warren Buffett
• String Theory by David Foster Wallace
• Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik
• SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt
  • Also a favourite of Malcolm Gladwell and Daymond John
• Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012 by Carol Loomis
• The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Man Who Fed the World by Leon Hesser
• The Myth of the Strong Leader by Archie Brown
• The Power to Compete: An Economist and an Entrepreneur on Revitalizing Japan in the Global Economy by Ryoichi Mikitani and Hiroshi Mikitani
• The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
• The Ten Commandments for Business Failure by Donald R. Keough
  • Also a favourite of Warren Buffett
• The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it is? by Nick Lane
• What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe