• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
• Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie
• Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
  • Also a favourite of Charlie Munger
• Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness by Donald L. Barlett
• Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John D. Clark
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
• Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down by J.E. Gordon
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
• Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by B. Carlson
• The Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
  • Also a favourite of Max Levchin